Fifth Quarter: Chicken Littles
And by “chicken littles” we mean “chicken livers.” Wait, wait hear us out. This hors d’oeuvre is a great throwback snack and sure to please your guests (whether they know what they’re eating or not).
And by “chicken littles” we mean “chicken livers.” Wait, wait hear us out. This hors d’oeuvre is a great throwback snack and sure to please your guests (whether they know what they’re eating or not).
The fifth quarter, or butcher’s cut, is offal traditionally kept by the butcher for home cooking. Often inexpensive and always tasty, RVANews’s monthly column, Fifth Quarter, offers less-traveled recipes that are both good and offal.
Here is how to host a low-fuss cookie swap party for the holidays. Hold this gathering after Christmas/Chanukah to catch up with your friends and loved ones. Tacky holiday sweaters and R&B Christmas covers optional.
Looking for ways to make the most of the long holiday weekend? Keep your guests entertained with this throwback fete honoring one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors.
The belief behind this traditional Mexican fete is that Heaven opens up October 31st and allows the souls of children to reunite with their families for one day, November 1st. On November 2nd the souls of adults are allowed the same privilege. Fast becoming an “American” tradition, this party memorializing the departed by celebrating their lives is dead-easy to do at home.
When the topic of Germany comes up, a few ideas oompapa to mind: beer, sausage, jack boots, and the polka, pretty much in that order. Put all of those thoughts together, add 10+ million people, four million quarts of beer, a million sausages, 400,000 roast chickens, and 50 tons of fish, and you’ve got Oktoberfest in Munich.
Overworked, underworked, empty wallets or not, we still want to party, and to eat and drink well. Potlucks are the answer. This month’s party theme is a “Mad Men” inspired potluck, a la Betty Draper’s attempt at an around-the-world dinner party.
There are two kinds of people that will need to hide a little picnic hooch: parents, who don’t want their children to know they are breaking the law by drinking in public and picnickers under the age of 30 still enjoying the police magnet years. Please allow me to show you the way.
Skoal-ling is a Scandinavian toast to health, life and aquavit (or vodka). It also involves shots. Lots of them.
Get yourself ready for the unofficial start of summer with these tips for grilling and imbibing.