dedmiston wrote: I was hoping to see some more interesting entries here. Anyone else have anything to share?
We have Burns night coming up on Wednesday. The group has grown in number and so we have more adventurous cooks to bring the victuals.
The Full Burns Night Table will be set with the traditional Chieftain of the Pudding Race (Haggis) piped in on the pipes. Other delectables for the supper table:
Soups (Cullen Skink and C-o-c-k-a-leekie)
Neeps
Tatties
Desserts (Cranachan, Shortbread and Tipsy Laird)
Oat cakes
Cheese Board
Whisky will flow of course with designated drivers having non-alcoholic beverages.
"Selkirk Grace" and "Address to a Haggis" will be recited at the beginning. Robbie Burns' poetry will be recited by the sober throughout the night. It all starts at 6 pm and usually ends a little after midnight.
I am supplying 3 Haggis (with the help of the club footing the bill, thankfully). I ordered them last Autumn from Scottish Gourmet USA. They have an excellent USA-made Haggis.
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dedmiston wrote: I was hoping to see some more interesting entries here. Anyone else have anything to share?
We have Burns night coming up on Wednesday. The group has grown in number and so we have more adventurous cooks to bring the victuals.
The Full Burns Night Table will be set with the traditional Chieftain of the Pudding Race (Haggis) piped in on the pipes. Other delectables for the supper table:
Soups (Cullen Skink and C-o-c-k-a-leekie)
Neeps
Tatties
Desserts (Cranachan, Shortbread and Tipsy Laird)
Oat cakes
Cheese Board
Whisky will flow of course with designated drivers having non-alcoholic beverages.
"Selkirk Grace" and "Address to a Haggis" will be recited at the beginning. Robbie Burns' poetry will be recited by the sober throughout the night. It all starts at 6 pm and usually ends a little after midnight.
I am supplying 3 Haggis (with the help of the club footing the bill, thankfully). I ordered them last Autumn from Scottish Gourmet USA. They have an excellent USA-made Haggis.
Bobby Burns' birthday was my parents anniversary. We used to celebrate at a famous L.A. restaurant called the Tam O'Shanter. They put on a great evening there.
Bobby Burns' birthday was my parents anniversary. We used to celebrate at a famous L.A. restaurant called the Tam O'Shanter. They put on a great evening there.
That sounds like it was double the fun being your parents' anniversary. Did they "pipe in the piston"?
dedmiston wrote: LOL. I'm afraid I don't even know what that means.
LOL. It's Scottish slang for playing the bagpipes (piping) while bringing in the haggis (piston) to the table.
Just what is it about the pipes anyway?
I attended a memorial flag ceremony for one of my Dad's old coworkers at Dad's old fire station a few weeks ago and they had a piper just like they did for Dad's service. There's something about having a piper there. As horrible as the squeal of the pipes is, it's just so doggone solemn. You can't help but get choked up once the piper begins.
The piper at Dad's ceremony almost twenty years ago was a grizzled old guy, but the recent piper was an adorable young woman probably in her early 30s. It was a little off-putting at first to see someone cute playing the pipes instead of an old dude, but she was tremendous. She did a great job. Not a dry eye in the place. It was pouring rain so we had to hold the service inside the engine room where the acoustics are enclosed, and her pipes absolutely rocked the station off its foundation.
Someone please talk about food before my eyes do that thing again.
The bag pipes are loud and use a lot of the high frequency spectrum so that the sound will carry across the mountains and countryside. They didn’t have cell phones in the old days. LOL. They sound solemn and sad which is great for solemn occasions. Other parts of Europe also had bagpipes but the Scots will tell you they perfected them. LOL
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