Dana Edwards’ Blog

I was in the kitchen to see this and then hear someone ask “Where did all the egg nog go?”

- Dana

I’m pretty late with this update – oh well. The family had a blast hanging ornaments on our tree. Jill had to go buy extra lights before we could start because the tree is about a foot taller than we normally get – 9ft this year. Mom and I enjoyed egg nog as usual. Anyways, here are the tree pictures and thanks for reading.

- Dana

Last night, I posted on twitter that we were making frogmore stew and I was surprised at how many dm’s I received asking either what it was or how to make it.  I think it is super simple and I haven’t met anyone who didn’t like it.

The ingredients are simple and scalable:

• 12 c. water
• 1/4 c. Old Bay Seasoning – add more if you really like the taste
• 1 lb baby red potatoes
• 1 lb sausage
• 6 ears of corn
• 2 lb shrimp

First, bring the water and the Old Bay to a boil. While that is coming to a boil, quarter the new potatoes, slice the sausge into 1 inch pieces, shuck the corn, and break the corn into halves.  Once the water is boiling, add the potatoes to the boil and cook for 15 minutes.  Next add the sausage and boil for 5 minutes.  After the sausage, add the corn and boil for 5 minutes.  Finally, add the shrimp and boil for 5 minutes or until they turn orange / pink. Drain and serve. Note that if you dont want to read this paragraph, the ingredients are in order of the directions.

This goes really well with a beer like Natural Light or Firefly vodka. Hope you enjoy it.

-Dana

This past holiday season (2008), we had quite a problem coming up with a punch to serve our guests at a holiday party.  The good part about the search is that we sampled several.  The downside is that we almost didn’t have a punch to serve because we didn’t conjure this one until the very last minute.  In the end, we received glowing reviews for it and so we wanted to share it with everyone.  We call it Holiday Cranberry Cocktail Punch and to be fair it is a modified Cosmopolitan:

• 10 oz Absolut Vodka
• 5 oz  Triple Sec
• 5 oz Rose’s Lime Juice
• 1.5 L Cranberry Canada Dry Ginger Ale
• 1.5 L Cranberry Cocktail

For presentation we served this in a punch bowl that contained clementine slices and cranberries frozen in miniature bundt cake pans.

We offered this punch, wines, beers, and liquor drinks to our guests.  This was the clear winner and we ended up making a total of 4 bowls of this for about 30 people over the course of 3.5 hours.

Dana