We have been playing host. Last Sunday, I prepared BBQ ribs (ok, heated up pre-made ribs, but it looked like I did it.), made home made mashed potatoes, and some brocolli. The wife made some cake stuffed oranges (which are prepared just like the name implies...or maybe orange baked cakes...) which she drew faces on and iced to make them look like little pumpkins (sorry, no pics). We drug punk boy over and enjoyed the feast while watching really bad flash animations.
On a side note, Tuesday, I pulled the meat off of the left over ribs, added chopped green peppers, tomatoes, pineapple, and chicken as well as some salt, pepper, crushed mint, and bbq seasoning and prepared and served as stir fry over rice. Awesome.
Back to hosting. Today, we had my parents over, and we enjoyed some of my famous-to-me chili in my also famous-to-me breadbowls (which turned out bigger and slightly better than normal). Then we enjoyed some, you guessed it, stuffed oranges, with grated chocolate (dark and milk), and unthawed whipped cream (I think I like it better frozen). The parents seemed to enjoy, which was cool. Later, Damien came over because he had only had my bread bowls once, and they sucked then. So he got to experience the bread bowl awesomeness.
Now the stuffed oranges thing: I think the wife saw this on the Food Network, but whereever it was, they gave no directions, so we are kinda playing with the idea. Take however many oranges as you have people eating, slice off the top, and pull out all the orange pulp inside. We want the shell, screw the healthy orange insides. Mix up some white cake mix. Now, fill that orange shell about half way (or less) with white cake mix, wrap the oranges in foil, and bake as per directions for the cake mix. You will have to probably double the time since the moisture from the orange peel. That is fine, the cool thing about this is since you are cooking in the peel, it pulls quite a bit of orange flavor into the cake...very cool.
