Sunday Dinner, Sep-16-2001
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ralphmeltonThis dinner was a smaller event; we were only having a total of six people here, and we'd had a big weekend with fighting with taxes, visiting Deanna and Eli Saturday evening, and whatnot.
We made Smoky Barbecue Chili (which is vegetarian, so part of a dairy kosher meal) and cornbread sticks. For dessert, Lori tried another iteration of her brownie experiments, this time with cinnamon chips. I wasn't able to taste the cinnamon very well.
After dinner, we played Shipwrecked, which Deanna had left at our house a few weeks ago. It's an interesting bidding game--I haven't been able to suss out the strategy yet.
After Deanna and Mike arrived, we played Bounty, which Deanna had brought. Bounty is a game of merchanting and piracy on the high seas--but it left something to be desired. It was (IMO) too hard to set up an opportunity for the first piracy, but then it was too easy for things to degenerate into pirate-pirate brawls. There were some nice ideas there, but the whole wasn't a good game.
And of course, the other big entertainment of the evening was the new kittens. The kittens took a great interest in the game of Bounty, often leaping onto the board and scattering pieces everywhere.
We made Smoky Barbecue Chili (which is vegetarian, so part of a dairy kosher meal) and cornbread sticks. For dessert, Lori tried another iteration of her brownie experiments, this time with cinnamon chips. I wasn't able to taste the cinnamon very well.
After dinner, we played Shipwrecked, which Deanna had left at our house a few weeks ago. It's an interesting bidding game--I haven't been able to suss out the strategy yet.
After Deanna and Mike arrived, we played Bounty, which Deanna had brought. Bounty is a game of merchanting and piracy on the high seas--but it left something to be desired. It was (IMO) too hard to set up an opportunity for the first piracy, but then it was too easy for things to degenerate into pirate-pirate brawls. There were some nice ideas there, but the whole wasn't a good game.
And of course, the other big entertainment of the evening was the new kittens. The kittens took a great interest in the game of Bounty, often leaping onto the board and scattering pieces everywhere.
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Date: 2001-09-18 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-19 05:00 am (UTC)When my husband and I used to play Necromunda we had a rule - Any figure taken off the board by the cat was randomly 'snatched' by a unknown alian monster and was dead. It added a whole new level to the game.
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Date: 2001-09-19 11:53 am (UTC)I liked the brownies, though I agree that the cinnamon was hard to taste. Someone thought the orange was overpowering, but I liked it.
What is the source of the orange flavor? Juice? If it's something liquid, maybe mixing in some cinnamon powder -- in addition to using the chips -- would help bring out the cinnamon more. I think most powdered spices do better with a liquid carrier than with a drier carrier (like flour). It would be even better, in terms of bringing out the flavor, if you could boil cinnamon sticks in liqud, but I think I remember Lori saying that speed of preparation is a constraint for this contest, so that might not work. (Keep it in mind for non-contest applications, though.)
Is there a cinnamon liquer? (Shows how much I know about booze, that I'm asking this.)