To get the ball rolling, there are Beverages ~ mulled wine, a few punches, Irish cream and Maui iced tea (lime, pineapple, guava & orange juices), followed by Hors d'ouvres which consist of dips (onion cheese, chili con queso, crab meat, hot lobster, curried sour cream or Polynesian ginger), an Indian curry spread, artichoke nibbles, teriyaki roll-ups, pate (black olive, mushroom or liver), crab puffs, stuffed lychee and shrimp cakes.
Soups offer a meatball vegetable soup, Portuguese bean, lentil soup, clam vichyssoise, Borscht, winter melon and a tomato/clam bisque, with Salads dishing out a few dressings (chili sauce, green goddess, tomato soup or celery seed) plus a carrot, pineapple & apple ring, cucumbers & olives, coleslaw, orange pico, 3 bean salad, cucumber souffle and shrimp mousse.
Moving on, we encounter Vegetables which include green beans in coconut, baked asparagus, sesame broccoli, beets & mandarin oranges, eggplant fingers, coconut spinach, German red cabbage, leeks in white wine, apple yams, caviar stuffed potatoes and brown rice burgers, while Casseroles entice with a calico bean bake, cauliflower almondine, a sauerkraut casserole, a cottage cheese loaf, enchiladas, chiles rellenos, a noodle ring, a lemon chicken casserole and a golden shrimp casserole.
In Quiches and Souffles, a few of the options are a creamy zucchini, tomato chicken, hot crab meat or New England clam for the quiche with cheese & rice, fresh fruit, coffee nut, pineapple, chocolate or blintz among the choices for souffles. The chapter on Italian Cuisine doles out a few sauces (garden, clam, Bolognese or bechamel), green noddles with fennel sauce, lasagna, spaghetti pie, calzone, spinach gnocchi and veal scallopini Marsala.
Of course there are Island Recipes ~ miso soup, cucumber namasu, shrimp tempura, shabu shabu, alu lau, lomi salmon. fish teriyaki, kal bi ribs, pork adobo, kalua pig, Chinese pork ginger balls, mahogany chicken wings, pressed duck with a sweet-sour plum sauce, eggplant with garlic sauce, malasadas (Portuguese doughnuts), haupia (coconut dessert), coconut mochi and bandiay bandiay (banana fritters - a favorite of mine while growing up - it's a Filipino treat).
As we head towards the entrees, we begin with Poultry which encompasses chicken adobo, baked guava chicken, tandoori chicken, BBQ chicken, turkey aspic, squab a l'orange, chicken with oyster sauce, chicken stroganoff, turkey potato pancakes, duck with apricots and chicken Kiev with macadamias, followed by a few Meat selections ~ mushroom meatballs, meatloaf Wellington, caraway beef stew, corn beef baked in potatoes, cherried pork chops, sweet & sour ribs, lamb curry or stew, ham mousse, dilled veal roast and a few sauces (sour cream mint, a peachy ham glaze, bourbon marinade and BBQ).
Fish is the last of the entree chapters and offers lobster Cantonese, sweet & sour fish, shrimp rosemary, ginger shrimp, crab Rangoon, curried seafood crepes, angels on horseback, a salmon loaf and crab cheese sandwiches. In Breads we are treated to stollen, Swedish rye, cornbread, a prune nut loaf, Parker house rolls, poi nut bread, gingerbread, mango bread, popovers, plum donuts, almond bread and anise toast.
We begin the sweets sections with Cookies ~ spritz, shortbread, Swedish honey cookies, ginger snaps, rocky road fudge bars, Mexican mocha bars, pumpkin pistachio macaroons, passion fruit bars, date bars am almond roca cookies, followed by Cakes and Pies which doles out a guava cheesecake, strawberry meringue pie, a Kona coffee spice cake, passion fruit chiffon pie, fruit cocktail cake, a glazed mango pie, Hawaiian pineapple cake, lime rum pie, chocolate coffee pie, an apricot cherry upside down cake, orange peel cake, gumdrop fruitcake and an eggnog loaf.
There are quite a few Desserts ~ mousse (coconut pistachio, maple, mango or Kahlua), suet pudding, a poppy seed torte, persimmon pudding, steamed cranberry pudding, baked papayas, mango cobbler, raisin, rice & rum pudding, passion-fruit ice cream, cream puffs and a pineapple parfait.
We end the recipes with Relishes which consist of chutney (mango, green pear, tomato apple, date & lemon or green tomato), guava catsup, cucumber onion pickles, corn relish, kim chee and a few jellies (hot pepper, coffee or passion fruit).
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