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On Saturday, my home state New South Wales went to the polls. Because Andy and I are To get people in the mood, we decided to theme our food to the occasion by referencing some of the campaign issues and personalities. Hence, the menu was: Entree Cross city tunnel tarts* Mains Mushroom Morrisotto topped with with baked pear and goat’s cheese* Dessert (Still criminalised) ice with raspberries and rockmelon. Unfortunately we were too busy watching the results and debating the quality of Asian versus Europeans beers to take photos but I did take one of the leftover dessert on Sunday:
This was actually a Rose Elliot recipe from her fantastic cook book Veggie Chic. It’s called pink champagne granita with raspberries and is simple to make: Ingredients 200 ml of water 225g, plus 2 tablespoons, of caster sugar 1 bottle of pink champagne 375g raspberries Method Gently dissolve the 225g of sugar in a saucepan with the water. Bring to the boil, then remove from the heat and let the mixture cool. Mix the syrup with the pink champagne and pour it into a shallow container so it’s about 1cm thick. Because of the alcohol in the champagne it takes a long time to freeze (especially if you try to double the recipe to cater for all of your guests. Then it takes forever). Good idea to make it the day before if possible to avoid tears and / or a slushy mess. To serve, you’re meant to swish the raspberries in sugar then top with the granita. I forgot the sugar swishing bit, but it tasted fine anyway. * For non New South Welsh people, the cross city tunnel is a beleagured toll road that opened in late 2005 and was immediately mired in controversy. To be fair, it’s blaring headline quota has dipped in the last couple of months, thanks partly to a series of public transport issues. However, “city rail” was harder to work into the name of a dinner party dish. *Morris Iemma is the NSW premier.
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4 Comments posted on "NSW election dinner"
Cindy on March 26th, 2007 at 9:41 pm #
Great idea! Will have to get plotting for the federal election…
kpounder on March 27th, 2007 at 8:50 pm #
Hmmm. Something with coconut perhaps?
Jackie on March 28th, 2007 at 9:38 pm #
Dessicated - hopefully in the cooking and in the election. The NSW election dinner was superb and cleverly themed - my favourite was the dessert, with those shards of ice. V. stylish. And I felt right at home with a roomful of other “civic-minded people.”
kpounder on March 28th, 2007 at 9:55 pm #
The entree and dessert were easy to come up with but we spent ages trying to think of a main course that was also a lame political pun. Post a comment
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