Culture - food
Krewe of Broccoli
by JoAnne Prichard Morris
Photo by Sage Carter-Hooey
March 12, 2008
Can’t get enough of Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade? Continue the party at home, and have another Mal-athon on your dining room table. You need only to create a krewe of broccoli stalks marching on a street paved with split peas and red beans—and, presto, you’ve got a green parade. This year’s theme celebrates nutrition and health. (Stick the broccoli in candle holders or use pin frogs.)
Every St. Paddy’s party needs a pot of gold, and what could be more golden than the paté of the South—pimento cheese (potted on a bed of collard greens)? Spread it on potato rolls as a nod to the Irish.
Have guests make their own Mississippi Reubens with corned beef on little slices of rye bread, slaw (instead of sauerkraut), comeback dressing (instead of thousand island) and Swiss cheese—or more pimento cheese!
As Robert St. John says, “It ain’t a party until someone breaks out a block of cream cheese.” And any Mississippi woman knows that you need to slather the cream cheese with hot pepper jelly before it goes on your cracker. For St. Paddy’s Day, make sure the pepper jelly is green, and form the cream cheese into a shamrock. (Use your Valentine’s heart-shaped cutter cutters for the three clover leaves, with their points meeting.)
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J.T.: Amen to pushing a positive Jackson. And, yes, it is a movement. And, it is moving.
Aug 27, 2008 | 06:17 PM
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Aug 27, 2008 | 05:15 PM
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ladd: you mentioned people should try to find out what is really going on with this generation. Damn right I did. And any given day, you will find up to 20 young people in their teens and 20s in my offices, ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 05:12 PM
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Aug 27, 2008 | 04:49 PM
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Aug 27, 2008 | 04:41 PM
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baquan2000: Donna you did a good article a while back on this generation, where I think you mentioned people should try to find out what is really going on with this generation. Maybe what I said, was to ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:28 PM
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Aug 27, 2008 | 04:04 PM
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Aug 27, 2008 | 03:39 PM
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baquan2000: after reading all the posts above; whatever it is we are doing; it is not working? Discipline does not work any more on kids, whether it is beating them or putting them in time out. Young men do ...
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