Marmite Bites and Curry Cusses

Last week, right before the new year, the hubby and I hosted a "British Night" at our home and Megawatt invited some of her friends over...well, who am I kidding?  These kids are here all the time and at this point, I could probably declare them as dependents on our tax return.  Anyhow Megawatt had been asking me to make curry again and I decided I'd plan an entire menu around common food you'd find around the table in England.

And yes, I planned on making a fairly HOT curry.  A Vindaloo.  I also had the hubby go down to the local British shoppe and get some other little odds and ends to complete the evening...like British candies, biscuits (cookies) and some Ribena which I promptly forgot about.  Oh well.  At least the little packages of Minstrels made it to the table.

I made little place cards for each setting and even put something else on the table which I thought was kind of funny!

Yes m'dears, that is a fire extinguisher in the background.

The evening wouldn't have been complete without appetizers consisting of this stuff on toast points...

I made sure we had plenty of this stuff as well!

In the interest of full disclosure I think I should mention that I abhor both curries and marmite.  But far be it from me to enjoy watching others eat it.  And enjoy it I did!

Here's the video of the kids trying the Marmite.  Please excuse the shakiness of the video.  I was laughing so hard that it made it damn near impossible to keep my hands still.  And the laughing...good Lord I had no idea what a horrible sound that is...COMING FROM ME!   Just the same, it's pretty hilarious!

Zack post-marmite

Abby - trying to be brave post-marmite

Megawatt about to barf, post-marmite

Paul was trying to man-up after eating the toast point! Yeah, I know what you REALLY thought!

Sadly, all I have as far as the curry goes is this lovely picture of it bubbling away on the stove.  I don't know what I did to the video I uploaded, but I managed to screw it up.  You're not surpised are you?

Surpisingly, the kids loved it.  I broke out some chocolate milk and pineapple to cool off burning tongues but whether they were being nice or not, they all said they'd come over and eat if I made it again. 

Desert consisted of a fresh raspberry crumble that I threw together at the last minute, served with hot English custard (another British shoppe fav of ours that we always have tons of, in the house!) that the kids devoured!

For the most part, I pulled this recipe out of my ass and it turned out awesome!  Nothing more to it than three bags of frozen raspberries covered in 4 tablespoons of sugar with 2 teaspoons of cornstarch.  The topping is 1 cup flour, 2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 sticks of butter and 1 tablespoon white sugar.  Bake at 400 for 45 minutes.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy!