[CH] "Eat The Heat" Reunion - NJ Hotluck yesterday, March 27

Karen Elizabeth Stober (kstober@skywebusa.net)
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:23:35 -0400 

Greetings from NJ!  Wish you all were here.

Yesterday it was a tenth anniversary of the "Eat The Heat" Food 
Network program reunion at my home in Warren, NJ. The show was filmed 
in October 2000 and aired in March 2001.   Risa G. and Alex Soltow, 
my Dad, sister Nancy and cat Spanky were present from the original 
group ten years ago.  Andy Barhhardt & friends, and Doug Barnhardt 
were no-shows.  We watched the video of the show and all cheered when 
we got to MY hotluck segment and Risa's recipes in her kitchen 
segment at her former home in Woodbridge, NJ.  No, for the umpteenth 
time, we did not NOT meet Tyler Florence.  However, when I took out 
the video I found that I had kept all correspondence from the couple 
that were over our homes filming.  Maybe we can see about a tenth 
anniversary edition of ETH - Where are they now?  Eating more heat, 
of course, and, sometimes a bit too much...

Easy to do - here's why:

I made a guava scotch bonnet chocolate chip cake sculpture.  It was a 
Mexican lady, sitting upright, in a frilly skirted dress.  Green, 
yellow and red bands in the skirt, and the top was yellow.  Little 
yellow shoes feet sticking out from the under the skirt.  She wore a 
ristra of chiles around her neck.  The piped ristra didn't work out 
but I had tiny round dried chile petines so I stuck those on the 
royal icing and added green stems.

To top it off, I served chilled "Hot Sun" tomato with chiles wine 
from the winery in Naples, Fl.  It was just ok and not hot.

I put out a selection of hot sauces from my collection that had the 
wildest labels and names of all, such as Poots Peppa Sauce, The cat's 
ME- OWWW!   Spanky and Inky were wearing their best chile pepper 
bling-bling.  Sammie doesn't have any yet.

Alex came with DEVILED eggs.  No meat Hot Wing Salad with a spicy 
French style dressing.  I think the yellow sauce was scotch bonnet 
and something else.  She can tell you exactly what was in the 
marvelous sauces.  Wheat crackers with a delicious pumpkin seed 
dip.  Picosones flavored with chili and lemon.

Risa G.  came with loads of very spicy popcorn, almonds and 
pretzels.  The wonderful little sliders were served on rolls, with 
BBQ sauce, chutney, hab cheese and bacon on the side.  She also made 
jalapeno slivers, dipped in breadcrumbs baked and a lightly fried.

Did I miss anything?

Yours In Heat,

Karen E. Stober