Re: [CH] "Eat The Heat" Reunion - NJ Hotluck yesterday, March 27
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:43:09 -0400
There used to be a semi-annual hotluck/BBQ in Concord, Mass.
There's a list of some of them (as well as the "Eat the Heat*" one) here:
http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/hotlinks.shtml#hotlucks
* Man, that was 10 years ago?
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:17:04 -0400, Terence Shuart wrote
> Sounds like great fun. My folks are from Bergen County . I live up
> in Western Massachusetts. I'd be interested in the next one. On Mar
> 28, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Karen Elizabeth Stober wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
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=Mark
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