Friends of ours invited us over for setsubun this year again and set out the challenge to make the potluck a 'regrettable food concoction' evening. Many of these wonderful ladies pulled out the ladies home journal cookbooks and rose to the challenge admirably. Sausage cake, sandwich cake, and these strange wieght watchers balogny & mayo stacks were some of the most memorable for me.
I myself could not find a recipe that would be regrettable yet edible, so i decided to do an homage to the earth rat (this years chinese year symbol). I carefully crafted an earth rat out of mashed potatos (something that cannot be done when the potatoes are hot...at all...as my burns would attest). I then used raisins for the nose and eyes and grape rope licorace for the wiskers and tail (an interesting side note...i found that even when cool the mashed potatoes actually dissolve the licorace...creeepy).
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