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Hello – My Name is Inigo Montoya

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Right before Christmas I discovered that there were two Princess Bride cookbooks.  Who knew?  You all know me well enough to know that I couldn’t stay away from this.  The first one came to the library yesterday… I was outside the library door when they opened.

It’s a fabulous book… lots and lots of glossy stills from the movie and a lot of chat about the filming, in front of and behind the camera.  Even without the recipes it’s a fun read.

The recipes themselves are nothing out of the ordinary but the NAMES of the recipes are a hoot.  Here are a few:

  • Hash You Wish
  • Buttercup Buttermilk Scones
  • Chips of Insanity
  • Mostly Dead
  • Bonetti’s Defense
  • Anybody Want a Peanut
  • Bread Pirate Roberts

Normally I like to make one or two recipes from a cookbook like this… just for fun.  I’m thinking the Bread Pirate Roberts and the Chips of Insanity are on my list.

Maybe we should have a Princess Bride theme party.  The Lightning Sand pudding cookie cups look fun too!

Have you ever been to a fun theme party?

18 thoughts on “Hello – My Name is Inigo Montoya”

  1. Many years ago now–could it be as much as 30??–a group of us threw a “Gaudy Party” at WisCon. We had gotten thrift store ties, feed caps and a couple of suit vests, a lot of fabric paint, glitter, and weird objects from Oriental Trading (gold coins, plastic dinosaurs, funky swizzle sticks, etc). We then had our own parties decorating the hats and ties as wildly as possible (and if you knew some of these folks, you’d know how wild that was!!). At the con the decorated items of clothing were “sold”, that is to say we took donations for them, and gave the money to the Tiptree Award. Our room party netted the most donations of any unofficial event that year, and we even received volunteer pins at the awards ceremony. We did the party again the next year, and then the hotel asked very nicely that we stop, because glitter is a beast to get out of carpet. We had a wonderful time; I really miss those days…

    –Crow Girl

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  2. At my old job, my boss loved the idea of group Halloween costumes. The one I remember the most clearly was when we all came to work as airline employees. I knew someone with one of those flourescent vests so I came as one of the folks who guide the planes into their gates. Another year we all dressed up as Mad Men characters… this was a challenge for me because that was a show I never watched.

    I invited folks over once to watch Northern Exposure – several folks brought funny food s that we thought went along with the tv show. (This was before the N.E. cookbook came out.)

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  4. My dear friends who live way over southwest of Mankato, on a high hill with a half-mile long driveway, used to have themed parties. I’ve never really gotten into it, but I did enjoy them. We had New Year’s Eve parties for many years, and sometimes Michelle would declare a theme. We would try to come up with an appropriate costume, even just a mask. It was hard for me to do it all because I usually had a LOT of stuff to bring and their driveway was a half-mile long and uphill on December 31. It was often cold, but sometimes there was a lot of snow and I drove a Honda Civic for many of those years. So I had a dish to pass, a guitar, a mandolin, a huge book of songs, warm clothes with boots, slippers for inside, and extra clothes if Michelle declared a theme. I always enjoyed every party she threw, but sometimes it really took a lot of effort for me.

    She also threw St. Patrick’s Day dinner parties for which we would all bring an Irish dish to share. I’m not a good cook so I just brought potatoes. Michelle would make corned beef and cabbage, and another friend who is an excellent cook would make Irish soda bread. We’d play and sing Irish folk songs. It was fun.

    My Faribault friends and I used to have Grateful Dead themed parties very often. You can just guess what we did at those!

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    1. We got to attend a couple in the 80s-90s. One was a birthday party given by my boss at the time, theme was “Come as You Aren’t” – basically a cross-dressing affair. So I wore a tux, Husband wore (I kid you not) a strapless formal, with a shawl, and we curled his longish hair. THERE ARE PHOTOS…

      A friend hosted one that we bought at a fundraiser auction – She’d bought a How to Host a Murder kit, and her dining room was draped somehow in sheets so it resembled a 1930 dining car on a train. We dressed 1930s styles… It was great fun!

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  5. Rise and Pick a Theme, Baboons,

    If you have a Princess Bride party I will have to watch the movie again. I have only seen it once so I must remind myself about all the deets. But all attendees must be required to speak in a lithp, as in “Ath you With.” And I will not eat an MLT.

    Nurse Phoebe has resigned from her nurse mode now that I am recovered from recent surgery. The extreme cold also seemed to thwart her energy. But today is warmish and she is BACK, Lord help me. She just destroyed a toy and there is white fuzz all over the living room.

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  6. OT: I will likely not be on much in the next few days – Husband has a minor Thurgery in LaCrosse tomorrow… I’ll have my iPad, which doesn’t recognize me on the Trail and it’s just too frustrating to comment, but I can read yours.

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        1. Most days it doesn’t matter whether or not I can like something, but sometimes it’s really irritating. This is one of those times.

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  8. Every now and then we rent a porta potty and we have ‘Porta Potty Parties’.
    There isn’t a theme for how you dress, but there is a guestbook in the porta potty.

    For a few years, a local girl would bring her band in to perform. Once even driving down from Duluth for a half hour gig in exchange for a 12 pack of beer.

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