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Land-Baby Dinner
Air-Baby Dessert
Full disclosure: I haven't made this dessert, but I'm including it here in hopes that someone will. I love the idea...
Buy 6 baklava birds' nest pastries. Into them place tiny bird-shaped baked meringues, made according to the Joy of Cooking meringue recipe and shaped like chicks. Serve with whole mint leaves. I'd put a few Gummi worms around also, for color and sustenance... a cloud of whipped cream or vanilla pudding.
Serve with Grilled Marinated Lamb, Chickpea Mint Cilantro Salad, Baby Red Potatoes, and Patty-Pan Squash to create the complete Land-Baby dinner for 6.
Chapter Five
...Suddenly another plate appeared in front of Maxine, this one containing two grilled lamb chops, boiled new red potatoes, chickpea-mint salad, and steamed baby squash. The chickpeas looked like round infant heads with cowlicks. So whoever was masterminding this dinner was attempting nothing less than the recreation of the history of evolution of life on earth, from primordial soup to water babies to land babies. She supposed there would be meringue chicks in baklava nests for dessert. She could imagine the cook back there, his breast simultaneously puffed with pride and wracked with despair: no one would understand his brilliant work, no one would apprehend its true meaning, and then it would be gone...
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