This year, I decided that I should make lunch for the Spider Monkey Lunch Forum. I decided this so long ago, I actually had time to order an electric skillet for the office with an old gift card.
Here's the menu: Spinach Salad with Hot Pepper Jelly Vinaigrette, Shrimp Creole with Rice, and King Cake. ESK is making the salad and going to pick up rice from a local chinese place. The vinaigrette is a recipe I learned at a cooking school in NOLA . . . it's spicy and sweet and utterly addictive. Here's a picture of the Creole Sauce:
I might have made too much. Maybe. It is a monkey army we're feeding, so maybe not.
And, for dessert, a King Cake:
Also traditional is to insert a small baby (representing the savior) inside the cake. The person who finds the baby in their slice is responsible for bringing the king cake the next year. In honor of my Spider Monkeys, I have inserted a wee baby monkey. And, since I know where it is, I could insure the appropriate monkey get it. (i.e. . . . the monkey most likely to actually bring the king cake next year.)
And, of course, there will be appropriate party favors. ooooh, shiny.
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