I need some food ideas for a Beatles themed party. I'd like to have dishes inspired by songs- Strawberry Fields Forever is the easiest. Yellow Submarine, not so much. Any creative foodpicklers have ideas?
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I need some food ideas for a Beatles themed party. I'd like to have dishes inspired by songs- Strawberry Fields Forever is the easiest. Yellow Submarine, not so much. Any creative foodpicklers have ideas?
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Savoy Truffle alone yields much: you could do the whole candy box that's referenced.
Cream tangerine and montelimar,
A ginger sling with a pineapple heart,
A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news,
But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
Cool cherry cream and nice apple tart,
I feel your taste all the time we're apart,
Coconut fudge really blows down those blues,
But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
(is my beatle's geekiness showing?)
I was thinking about Lucy in the Sky high pie- using thirschfield's recently posted banana cream pie, with the toffee bits being diamonds.
She's So Heavy- chocolate pudding? Or some dessert that takes itself too seriously... must contemplate.
http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/08/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake/
I love the marshmallow cloud idea from luvcookbooks. You could make Deb's cake, then put some Marshmallow Fluff in a plastic bag with a hole cut in the corner and pipe some blobs to suggest billowy clouds.
I'm still working on "She's So Heavy."
John Paul George Wingo would have been the coolest kid on the block. Especially when the other kids were old enough to know about the Beatles. My in-laws are huge Beatles fans, and my FIL was even in a Beatles tribute band called Normandy and the Beach Heads. They did not go for Ringo either.
@Peter, the #eatthebeatles link was amazing.
I am the Walnut being my favorite.
So 43 years ago, for a high school art project, my sister took the label off an Ovaltine jar and designed, drew and inked her own label. Her product was called "Instant Karma" and underneath the logo she wrote, "It's gonna get ya!" You could do the same--use Word to design a label with rainbows and stars and such, then add the text, and slap it onto a bottle of something. Like absinthe.
In one of the Sesame Street counting books, a bunch of monsters are noshing on the tables and chairs of a restaurant. One monster says, "Isn't it good?" and another replies, "Norwegian wood." You could do a buche de noel.
(A couple weeks ago, I made a cake for someone with two friends from high school whose birthdays were the same day and who had the same initials. At her request, I wrote "Happy 64th Birthday J.T and J.T.," but--and I just have to pat myself on the back for this--I used food coloring and a stencil to paint "Will you still need me, will you still feed me. . ." in tiny letters and music notes all over the strip of fondant that I placed around the sides of the cake. From a distance, it looked like black lace. It was pretty neat, if I say so myself, and the customer gushed about it, and that was neat, too.)
(One of my daughters-in-law's maiden name is Wingo. Her brother had a son and they joked about naming him John Paul George. I thought they should, but no, they didn't. How cool would that have been?!)
But I digress.
A Taste of Honey/Kansas City (BBQ sauce)
Please Peas Me (oh, yeah. . .maybe a pea salad?)
She's So Heavy (give me a minute--I'll think of something eventually)
Something with Apple
This is more fun than I had deciding the menu for a Mad Men party.
Orange Fool (Fool on the Hill): http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Orange-Fools-14991
Clementine Cake (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds): http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/01/clementine-cake/
(Maybe add a marmalade sauce to the top?)
I can't wait to see your final menu.
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I was thinking about "Baby, You're a Rich Man" millionaire bars, short ribs with "Hey Bulldog" sauce, "Long, Tall Sally" Iced Tea, "Lovely Rita" margarita, "Moonlight Bay" oysters, "Strawberry Fields" salad (strawberry, basil, balsamic), "Piggies" pigs in a blanket...
and more. There are going to be about 65 guests to this party, so it will have lots of food...
-- Back in the U.S.S.R. Borscht (The White Album)
-- Devil(ed) in Her Heart Eggs (Devil in her Heart from With the Beatles)
-- Glass Onion Soup (Glass Onion from The Beatles)
-- Honey Pie! (Honey Pie on The White Album. There's also a song called Wild Honey Pie.)
-- Kansas City Ribs (Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey from Beatles for Sale)
-- Something with mustard (Mean Mr. Mustard on Abbey Road)
-- Pigs in a Blanket (Piggies on The White Album)
-- Something with truffles (Savoy Truffle on The White Album)
I'd skip anything involving "Blue Jay Way" from Magical Mystery Tour or "Dig a Pony" from Let It Be or "Rocky Raccoon" or "I Am The Walrus". ;-)
Poutine
Maple cookies, maple butter or maple souffle
For Rocky Racoon:
Rocky Road ice cream or brittle
1. Blackbird - Do chicken wings, or grilled chicken with any type of dark BBQ sauce, if you wish to truly go black, add a teaspoon of squid ink to add the color without the fishy taste.
2. Octopus's Garden - Octopus ceviche with fresh garden vegetable. Dice octopus with onion, pepper, cilantro, perhaps potato now that is it in season and marinate in red wine vinegar, lemon, and garlic!
3. Yellow Submarine - Do a simple Banana's Foster, to make it seem like little banana submarines!
Let me know what you end up cooking!
A Russian dish (borscht or blini?) for Back in the USSR; an onion tart for Glass Onion - maybe a pissaladiere http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/pissaladiere-provencal-onion-tart; Honey Pie - any pie sweetened with honey; for Mean Mr. Mustard...something in a mustard sauce...this is fun!
I'd probably do something like PaulJoseph's Honey Black Pepper Chicken Wings and call them Sgt. Pepper's Chicken Wings. http://www.food52.com/recipes/6814_honey_black_pepper_chicken_wings