Menu Ideas
Happy Leap Day!
We admit it: we're inexplicably giddy about the fact that this is a leap year. February 29th is a bonus day -- but what, we wondered, can we do about it?
And then Tina Fey, as she so often does, swept in and saved the day. Last week's episode of 30 Rock was entirely devoted to Leap Day. And if Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin say Leap Day is a thing worth celebrating, then who are we to disagree? A lot of crazy Leap Day "traditions" are touched on in the episode, such as the wearing of blue and yellow and something to do with rhubarb, but the big takeaway for us was the assertion that nothing counts on Leap Day.
Nothing counts, huh? No hangovers, no tummy aches. Well, what would you eat if it didn't count? Our menu would look a little something like this:
Gin Rickey (Is it a sin to drink gin before noon?) by Giulia Melucci
Southern Sherried Shrimp by EBeier
Beauty School Knockout (Peppermint Hot Fudge Sundae) by Sydney
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Tags: Leap Day, fried foods, indulgence, holiday, desserts
Miranda Rake
I love Champagne and cheese and potato chips. In fact, that would be the most dreamtastic dinner. I have two cats and I am a proud Portlander-by-birth currently residing on Manhattan's rich and wonderful Lower East Side in a closet that has no closets. In May I finished up a masters degree in Food Studies at NYU and now I am trying to figure out exactly why I did that and what that all means. It is very fun and scary but mostly fun. I like to cook and I love to bake.
Comments (4)
about 1 year ago Helen's All Night Diner
Oh yum! These look great. Thanks for the inspiration!
about 1 year ago Fairmount_market
We had a pirate-inspired dinner (sausages and ale) in honor of the Pirates of Penzance, a classic leap year tale.
about 1 year ago Waverly
Strip steak with pan sauce, green beans with pancetta, risotto
Milanese and chocolate chocolate chip ice cream
about 1 year ago Kristen Miglore
Kristen is the Senior Editor of Food52
OK, I'll start: my grandmother's biscuits and egg gravy (with fried "fresh side" on the side, as she calls it -- that's slices of pork belly with the rind), a boozy ice cream float, and also creme puffs.