Ninth Post: Christmas Party Food Special

I have decided to do a Christmas party food special today. This is due to the fact that today is the last day of term, which means only two more weeks of unrelenting work for me. Why just now I am being hassled to do more work. Not right now, Professor...it's 'Adventures in Depressing Food for One' time.

 ♫ On the twelfth day of Christmas, my diet gave to me, ♫
♫ Twelve extra kilos, ♫
♫ Eleven new wrinkles... ♫

In keeping with the twelve days of Christmas, I have chosen for tonight's dinner to have 12 pigs in blankets. In order to balance the meal out I have also added 3 jalepeno poppers.

♫ Ten greasy face spots, ♫
♫ Nine lost years.... ♫

For a beverage I wanted to get some eggnog, but in spite of us adopting all the worst parts of American Christmas traditions (the excessive consumerism, the receiving rather than the giving, the Christmas album and of course the sitcom Christmas special) we have yet to reach a point where this nectar of the gods is readily available in the UK.

♫ Eight dry heaves, ♫
♫ Seven caffeine shakes... ♫

Therefore I have prepared a snowball - Advocaat and lemonade. For dipping condiments I have chosen dipping mustard and chilli mayo. I guess the former is for the sausages and the latter for the jalepenos, but I won't be too frightened to let them mix. I do so love to experiment.

♫ Six hours sleep, ♫
♫ DIAAAAARHEAAAAA... ♫

The concept of pigs in blankets has always somewhat concerned me. What other food do we take one part of an animal and wrap it in another? Then again, I had pigeon with pigeon in pigeon sauce once, which was nice. I think that the main problem with pigs in blankets as a concept is that the awesomeness of bacon can easily mask the flavour of a mediocre sausage. I fear this is what is happening right now. The delicious, crispy, smokey bacon is wrapped around a flaccid, pallid and flavourless wretch of a banger.

♫ Four cavities, ♫
♫ Three mouth Ulcers... ♫

I feel that I should say that I am not eating party food just for the benefit of this blog. This is not a regular occurrence, but I couldn't say that this is the first time. Neither can I say that this would be the first time I have eaten Christmas novelty food. Last time was at The Nightmare Before Christmas Music Festival, and all we had to cook with was a kettle. That meant lots of Pot Noodles, and given the time of year, that meant trying the Christmas Pot Noodle. It was weird. It was pretty much just a chicken soup pot noodle with a few cranberries and flecks of what was meant to be meat. It tasted bad. It tasted wrong. It tasted like the perrenial uptick in suicide rates around the holidays.

♫ Two wheezing lungs, ♫
♫ And a Vitamin deficiency... ♫

The meal tonight was pretty enjoyable actually. The mix of flavours was unusual but quite complimentary. If you haven't tried party food for dinner you really should. There's nothing like a plate of bhajis.

THE ROUNDUP!

Number of ingredients in what is essentially pig in pig: 23
Sleeps until Christmas: 19
Minutes spent making a bad version of the 12 days of Christmas: 18
Rating: 10/10, bacon cures many sins.