Friday, April 07, 2006

Hippity Hoppity


I got really nervous last night.

We were planning next week's menu and discussing "the game plan" relative to various Holy Week services and The Spouse said, "And we need to call Don & Joe's to order the ham". Then he stopped, looked at me very seriously and said, "Or do we want to do something different this year?"

Had he lost his mind? No ham at Easter?

There is a far amount of flexibility in our party menus. Why, Christmas is a different culinary theme every year. But some things are sacred. Leg of Lamb at Carnevale, Ham at Easter. And besides that, how would we make split pea soup at Pentecost if we didn't have a ham bone?

The Spouse's glazed ham is one of the reasons people keep accepting our Easter invitations. It is, for some, their raison d'etre. If we didn't have ham then the molasses biscuits would be demoted from Ambrosial Complement to lowly Starch Unit. We can fool around with side dishes, experiment with desserts (two this year? one lemon, one chocolate?). We can anguish once again over the semi-eternal puzzle of what wine goes with ham. (Really dry pinks and/or champagne in my opinion, but it always comes up). But there must be ham.

I will order it today.

7 Comments:

Blogger Eric opined...

No its "I'm Pink therefore I'm Spam"

April 07, 2006 10:11 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous opined...

you tart, why have I never tasted that ham? Nicole

April 07, 2006 11:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous opined...

oh yes and by the way I'm just loving living in France right now.

April 07, 2006 11:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous opined...

I shall bring the appropriate champagne for the ham festivities. And thank you for keeping up the hammy tradition - split pea soup wouldn't be the same with salmon bones...

April 07, 2006 1:11 PM  
Blogger Iwanski opined...

Ham is what special occasions are all about.

At our wedding, we gave away hams.

I was running around the reception hall giving out hams while crazy music played, and the bridesmaids were chanting into the microphones, "HAM! HAM! HAM!..."

April 07, 2006 3:26 PM  
Blogger Lorraine opined...

Charlie & Eric: You're both full of pork.

Nicole: Sorry about the student unrest and strikes. Trade you our criminal president? As for the ham, come home at Easter sometime...

Iwanski: Why am I not surprised?

Neighb: Cocktails? Tonight?

April 07, 2006 3:46 PM  
Blogger Amy opined...

stop the madness while there's still time lorraine - get on the horn and get the ham!!

April 07, 2006 8:47 PM  

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