Tag: finger food

  • Odd Prompts: Beware the Pink

    Odd Prompts: Beware the Pink

    “How was it?”  Having a seven-foot-tall octopoid hovering while you ate was a bit weird. Having him wringing a pair of tentacles while he watched you consume food he’d prepared was  a whole other level of strange. Steven didn’t think he’d ever get used to this. He put his spoon down, and contemplated his bowl…

  • Eat This While You Read That: Dorothy Grant

    Eat This While You Read That: Dorothy Grant

    As I was gearing back up into the series, I realized I hadn’t yet featured Dorothy’s books. Since we swap recipes fairly often, I wasn’t sure what I’d get when I asked her for a dish to go along with her latest book, Between Two Graves. She neatly tied the recipe to the theme of…

  • Travel Food

    Travel Food

    Growing up, we did a lot of traveling. As a military brat of parents with itchy feet, I had about 19 addresses by the time I left home for college at 18 years of age. We also did a lot of travel on the cheap for vacations. I’d been in 42 states until I finally…

  • Angeled Eggs

    Angeled Eggs

    Deviling is a food process, a snarky reference to the fires of hell and the spices people added to things like deviled eggs that made them seem hot to taste.  Devilled eggs are a traditional picnic and party food, only my dear First Reader’s mother made them differently, and when he discovered that people didn’t…

  • Empanadas and Bunuelos

    Empanadas and Bunuelos

    When I did the speech for Central American Food, I took treats in for my classmates. A sweet and a savoury, both were things that could easily be street fare, and could be eaten out of hand. They went over very well, and I thought it was worth the effort in making them. Left to…