Friday, February 02, 2007

Alphabet dinner

Neither Darr nor myself were feeling particularly ambitious last night when it came to preparing dinner. As we reviewed the contents of our kitchen cupboards and refrigerator, we started to notice that our leftover options all started with the letter "B". And so alphabet dinners were born. Our first alphabet dinner included the following: bacon, buttermilk biscuits, and beets. It was, admittedly, a hodgepodge of food but everything turned out well - a little too well (i.e., burnt) in the case of the bacon - and we had fun musing over our new creation, which we figure we'll use on the kid(s) someday (as in "Hey kid(s), we're having chicken, cheese, and cereal for dinner tonight!" or "Come on kid(s), it's 'P' night and we're making pasta and having papaya dipped in peanut butter!"). Alphabet dinners require all food to start with the chosen letter, but does not require all sauces, condiments, and the like to start with the same letter.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm -- this could be a challenge with certain letters like Q or U.

Christie said...

I did some research (i.e., searched Google) and came up with the following:

quiche
quince
quail

ugly tomatoes (sort of cheating, eh?)
ugli fruit (Jamaican tangelo)

Anonymous said...

you guys are serious foodies! I'm not worthy.