Right! That play Station Cake was wow!
Generally hubby dear is very unaffected by any thing sweet and his appreciation of my frosting or baking,but when he saw the cake...it was like that "Things that make you go hmm!",that aha moment...being dumbfounded...but just a small wow!
Knowing my man..that "wow" spelt a gazillion words of appreciation.
Party food for children...not difficult is it? Lots of white flour, lots of processed cheese, and lots of oil to deep fat fry food and lots of KETCHUP!
I had always been indifferent to ketchup, our love story only changed with the bun in the oven. All the time I was carrying sweet child, all protected under my magnanimous heart, I used to get the strangest cravings …for ketchup! I used to go through a bottle of ketchup in a couple of days…when all the while hubby dear was trying to force glasses of orange juice down my throat. Much to his horror I poured ketchup over all that was edible…little did I know that I was directing sweet child’s food preferences for life.
Totally loved the part when Bella Swan…Cullen was drinking human blood (mums are dictated by their children’s choices….at least the while that we are carrying them!)I must have had many, many liters of ketchup! Only sweet child is not as pretty as Renesmee!
Well, the way the tide is flowing today…pretty boys are not a pretty thing-as long as he has a following of pretty women, I’ll have no worries.
I searched and searched for the vid. of bella drinking blood...but nada!Sweet sister found that bit disgusting...well her babe is thankfully not (yet) addicted to ketchup!
Back to the party food, along with the noodles and the Manchurian, and the Samosas and the Pizzas and the Veggie Burgers, I plated sandwiches….slathered with butter and you guessed it KETCHUP!
They are called tricolored sandwiches, but then we had to have them “hatke”…
Ergo, we made ribbon sandwiches.
For the
Ribbon Sandwiches-Happy Birthday Upamanyu
You need
2 loaves of bread-400 Gms (sliced the wrong way)
½ cup green chutney…even a pesto will do
½ cup ketchup
100 Gms butter
100 Gms cheese spread
Salt and seasoning to taste
Friendly Neighborhood baker to the rescue again-If you get Spidey like images, I’ll drop down dead! The baker is old, skinny and ugly –thank you! But as a belief that I must be stark, raving mad he slices the bread the wrong way for me…same way as the Masala pops.
For the green color I used regular mint coriander (dhania-pudina) chutney. ET voila...
Blend the cheese spread and the chutney, if you don’t have the much loved tub of amul cheese spread, use butter...cream cheese just does not have the bit of the cheese spread.
Whip up the butter well and then add the ketchup and blend it all in!
You will need to taste it; generally it doesn’t need anything else, but just a whiz of seasoning does the magic.
The first thing...removes the crusts from the bread.
Spread the chutney spread on alternate slices…
Next day….slice it open and yay…pretty ribbons…not the easiest things to eat but they are yum! They have to be when you slather white bread with butter and ketchup…what choice does the poor bread have but to be sooooo tasty!
You can make your own bread and then make these ribbon sandwiches…or roll them like the Masala pops without baking them…
Well that’s another story.
Best kept for another post.
In linefor the next few posts , Vegetable CUT”LACE”… the way they are sold on trains and I hate to say it…an absolutely smashing Carrot cake!
So what are you baking today???
