Not invited to the inaugural luncheon? We've got the menu

[OmahaBlueDog]

First course:

•Steamed Lobster with New England Clam Chowder Sauce
•Sautéed Spinach
•Sweet Potato Hay

Second course:
•Hickory-Grilled Bison with Red Potato Horseradish Cake and Wild Huckleberry Reduction
•Butternut Squash Purée
•Baby Golden Beets and Green Beans
•Strawberry Preserve and Red Cabbage

Third course:
•Hudson Valley Apple Pie with Sour Cream Ice Cream, Aged Cheese and Honey Maple Caramel Sauce
•Artisan Cheeses


http://bites.today.com/_news/2013/01/18/16588932-not-invited-to-the-inaugural-luncheon-weve-got-the-menu?lite

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. yummers!

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. The thing is the first course would be enough for lunch for 99% of us.

It sounds like a ton of food.

Personally, I'd just tell them to bring the bison/horseradish/huckleberry dish, the sweet potato hay, and the green bean/beet dish. Then I'll go for the apple pie ala mode and the cheeses.

[harmonicon]

2. What is Sweet Potato Hay?

Apart from the lobster, it all sounds delicious (though I'm suspicious of eating hay, even if you add sweet potatoes to it).

Since I can't be in the country, think they'd overnight me a to-go box of the other things to me?

[GoCubsGo]

3. I'm betting it's a hash brown type of dish.

The whole meal sounds yummy! Wish I was going.

[hopemountain]

4. per google...there is no recipe for sweet potato hay

but i have had potato stacks - crispy julien potatoes arranged in stack served with a sauce/gravy.

[SEMOVoter]

7. Contraire Mon Ami

http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/luncheon/recipe/sweet-potato-hay

It's basically sweet 'tater fries -

"Sweet Potato Hay
Served at the Inaugural Luncheon, 2013
Ingredients
1 each sweet potato, peeled, sliced thin, cut fine strips, place in cold water
1 quart canola oil, for frying
Preparation
Heat oil to 350º F in a 1 gallon heavy bottom pot.

Drain sweet potato and pat dry with paper towels.

Carefully drop a small handful of sweet potato strings in the fryer and allow to crisp and turn golden brown. Remove with a strainer and place on clean paper towels to absorb excess oil."

[hopemountain]

14. why, thank ye!

...i confess to only scanning page one of my google.

[SEMOVoter]

15. lol as we all do - I glanced through those recipes

I think it would be hard to serve a lot people within the window of deliciousness timeframe.

If by some strange twist of fate I ever become leader of the free world, we're having soup beans and cornbread, with onion slices. But that won't ever happen.

[hopemountain]

16. i'll bring the

cast iron griddle baked cornbread & some roasted chile salsa to contribute to your feast

[OmahaBlueDog]

24. After the speech, he ought to turn to the assembled dignitaries and say:

"Whose up for Ben's Chili Bowl!! I'm buying!"

http://www.benschilibowl.com/ordereze/default.aspx

[HipChick]

28. I've eaten at Ben's several times..

It just does not do it for me..

[mokawanis]

5. Fuck it, I'm not going

I hate lobster.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Wait wut?? I was counting on the crab soup! I had plans to eat along with the Obamas! Crab soup!

Damn those fuckers changing the menu at the last minute


http://www.democraticunderground.com/115719857. I was reliably informed by DU that the menu was Crab Soup!




(rider stomps off in mock indignation in search of whatever the fuck Sweet Potato Hay is, I trust me I know hay and you don't want to eat that shit. Can't trust anyone these days...).

[jmowreader]

9. That's the meal for people on our side

It's more like two days' food, but that's okay.

The Fox News staff, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck will be treated to a luncheon of boiled crow, shit sandwiches with the crusts cut off and iced tea made from marijuana leaves. The entertainment will be a continuous loop of the Lawrence Welk version of "One Toke Over The Line."

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. +1

Not that we're spiteful, or anything....

[Arugula Latte]

18. I have to post the "One Toke" video

Because of Teh Awesomeness.

[datasuspect]

19. i think you are my soulmate

[Arugula Latte]

21. ...

[DFW]

10. Well, hell, if I had seen that earlier.....

I might have accepted after all!

(J/K--day job about 4000 miles away, so couldn't make it either way).

[OmahaBlueDog]

12. Serious question: Do they have "alternative dishes"

I'm guessing that not much of this is Kosher. The Bison - yes, but the horseradsh/red potato cake has dairy (eavy cream) so you'd have to skip that; The Lobster - no.

Mrs. OBD wouldn't eat a thing on this menu. I'd have to run down the street for her and get take out.

[monmouth3]

13. I think they raided Michelle's garden on this one. Lots of veggies..n/t

[progressoid]

17. no pasketti and meatballs?

[datasuspect]

20. i find it hard to celebrate the menus of the wealthy

when children are starving in your very own town tonight.

[OmahaBlueDog]

22. I celebrate it as a victory for the Barack Obama

The menu is overkill -- I'd agree with you there

I like the choice of Bison. It's a meat animal whose time nearly ended, and that is coming back again. Easier to raise with less disease. It's naturally suited to the upper midwest climate.

[datasuspect]

23. still, the menu porn of the 1% rubs me the wrong way

i'm just one of those extremist left wing populist types though.

[grasswire]

26. it's akin to what is known as "aspirational eating" nt

[pa28]

25. Not to worry. The menu has been themed as "faith in America's future".

Yes, Chuck Schumer took the trouble to theme the menu just in case anybody thought it sounded a little too extravagant.

Sounds delicious and, yes, I have a similar reaction when reading another one of these lovely menus from a state function.

[HipChick]

27. I was snubbed by the Obama's this year..

they know my fav is French Onion soup..