NYE dinner - Song and dish

This year, for our New Year's Eve potluck, each person was required to bring a dish to match a song. Beyond that, there were no requirements - e.g. no one was assigned a specific course or anything like that. Prior to serving each dish, the appropriate song was pulled up on YouTube. The list of songs and dishes were as follows:

- Broiled shrimp and pineapple skewers with Thai peanut sauce: "Eating Goober Peas", Johnny Cash and Burl Ives, from Cash's TV show

- Steak Tartare: the theme from Rawhide (Blues Brothers version)

- Guacamole and tortilla chips: "Guacamole", by the Texas Tornadoes

- Spam Musubi: The Spam sketch, from Monty Python's Flying Circus

- Quiche Lorraine: "Quiche Lorraine" by the B-52s, live version from 1980.

- Mushroom Lasagna: "Lasagna", by Weird Al Yankovich (a parody of "La Bamba")

Dessert was a thin almond cake topped with a thick layer of something (whipped white ganache?) mixed with tart cherries and streusel crumpled over the top. It was accompanied by Neil Diamond's "Cherry, cherry", from a 1976 concert.

This made for a really fun evening. Next year's theme is The Sound of Music, due to the "16 going on 17" tie-in.

[Robin Garr]

What a great idea, Mike! Sounds like fun!

[Jenise]

I'm drooling with envy over the theme, Mike, and the cleverness of your friends. Sounds like something I need to do!

It really was a kick and it's a nice way to get people thinking about their dishes for a potluck. We didn't assign course and it worked out fine, but there's no reason you couldn't.

What a great theme so much fun to be had with that.
16 going on 17 sounds fun and a challenge.
The young man who sold our home last year has a group of friends and they, in turn, draw a letter and devise a dinner around a country beginning with that letter, which also struck me as a great idea.

We did an alphabet-based one a few years back. You used the first letter of the state you were born in (a number of us aren't from California). That was fun!
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[Jenise]

We did an alphabet-based one a few years back. You used the first letter of the state you were born in (a number of us aren't from California). That was fun!
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So the letter then has to be in the name of the dish, or the prime ingredient?

We did an alphabet-based one a few years back. You used the first letter of the state you were born in (a number of us aren't from California). That was fun!
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So the letter then has to be in the name of the dish, or the prime ingredient?

Every course was alphabet soup so it wasn't as interesting as all that....