with the Happy Hippy Helen ...
This blog explores the art of FINE DINING in the company of CREATIVE FRIENDS.
Each week I hold a dinner party themed on a letter of the alphabet - A to Z.
The menu follows the alphabet, and at each dinner I host a creative guest of honour whose name also corresponds with that letter of the alphabet.
Each guest and their work is featured on this blog - and there is also be A to Z etiquette tips for the guests at the end of each posting ...
slaving away in the kitchen ...
And finally at the end of the blogging ( November ) you will be able to purchase a creative book featuring the guests and the recipes.
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... enjoy dinner with Helen ( and other guests Barry and Fiona, Noela and Carolyn ) ...
but first ...
Hypochondriac's Grace by Fred Moore
Dear Lord, we ask you if you will,
put your blessing on this meal.
We ask you Father, if it pleases,
protect us from these new diseases.
Please bless the spinach, and the romaine.
And cleanse it of some lurking ptomaine.
God, bless our ice cream and our cola.
Pray it's not teaming with ebola.
And pray the deli didn't sell us
coleslaw ripe with salmonellus.
We also ask a special blessing;
no botulism in the dressing.
While we regard your higher power,
make sure the deviled eggs aren't sour.
And please Lord, bless our sirloin tip,
and purge it of E. Coli's grip.
A special blessing on the sherry,
oh Lord, we need no dysentery,
so it not poisons, nor impacts,
or liquefies our lower tracts.
And Lord, make sure no one is able
to get sick and die upon this table.
So bless, Lord, all this food we share.
Insure no deadly virus there.
And once we're full and satiated,
we pray we aren't all contaminated,
and wind up just another toll,
for the Center for Disease Control.
One last thing Lord, if it's OK,
Please hold this blessing that we pray.
For all this fear, and all this fright,
has made us lose our appetite.
***Amen***
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Guest of honour
Helen Almberg
Entree #1...
Halloumi cheese
with pea & avo salad
Entree #2...
Pickled Herring
with egg salad
Main Course...
Hot Dog !!!
with vegies
Dessert...
Hazelnut Flourless
Chocolate Cake
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Artist in Profile - Helen Almberg
I was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
After 3 years of textile, weaving and sowing studies and wanting to be a fashion/ costume designer I went on to do another 3 years at Beckman’s College of Design. I did get to work on a few film productions – none of which were very memorable, except for Ingmar Bergman’s version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”.
1978 - Stockholm
third from left ...
I ended up as a graphic artist working for advertising agencies in Stockholm. Then after 10 years of late nights and deadlines, decided that it was time for something totally different and migrated here to Australia – ending up on Magnetic Island.
After 12 years on the Island, which included being a founding member of the Magnetic Island Arts Coop, I moved to glorious Maleny in 2001.
So much of my inspiration comes from the love of typografi, symbols, colour and texture.
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Etiquette Tips from Madame de Plumes ...
Humour is an essential part of the Australian personality. Their humour is often aimed at themselves or their country, and is often self-deprecating.
If you are teased, you are expected to reply in kind, with good humour. Such self-confidence will increase an Australian's respect for you. They do not admire a subservient attitude.
But more than anything Australians enjoy baiting foreigners. It is their way of making you feel at home.
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The next posting will be 11 October - when you'll meet "I" - that's me !!! and dine heartily on the handmade healthy "I" menu.
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Cheers - Ken Munsie
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