THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL CAME TO DINNER

DINNER AND THE END OF SEASON TWO

This is what happens when television becomes so good your social life becomes an extension and therefore a reality of the fiction that's happening on the screen. Ever since the second season began, Rick, Emmy and now my sister have held "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" viewing parties with plenty of takeout until we had devoured way too many calories and the entire season one of "MMM" and season two up to the final episode of the last season available on Amazon.

To make that final episode special we came up with a plan and a party.
"Lets do a fifties dinner" and we did with a menu that was just a little better than shit on a shingle or marshmallow sweet potato casserole.

We decided to take the whole thing to another level by not only dressing the table in fifties attire but by putting on our own versions of the fifties, greased back hair and poodle skirts included.

Appetizers were a definite must beginning with a relish dish just like June Cleaver would have laid out on her table. Carrots, celery sticks and radishes shaped like roses plated in a circle around a bowl of dip made from Lipton Onion Soup & Dip Mix, sour cream and Hellman's Real Mayonnaise. The only thing missing was a lazy Susan so we could spin the veggies to get just the one we wanted.

No proper 1950's appetizer spread would have been without a dish of pimento stuffed olives and a bunch of swirled stabbing forks to protect the ladies gloved hands from getting stained.

And how could you call yourself a true hostess without a plate of Ritz Crackers and pimento cheese spread.
Being on the cutting edge of fifties technology meant we had to have at least one dish served in a crockpot, Ebby's Velveeta Cheese and chicken dip finished off our array of appetizers. Yum!

It was then on to the main course before we actually sat down to devour that last episode of Midge and Joel and their unattended kids.
What better choice than fish sticks and a tart tarter sauce with a side of lemon jello made with pineapple juice and stuffed with shredded carrots and pineapple pieces.

As a surprise for everyone else but me I pulled out a recipe of my mom's that was certainly meant to either make your mouth water or your stomach do flip-flops. I diced a whole yellow onion and then ran a pound of sharp cheddar cheese and two cans of original Spam through a grinder. I mixed the concoction together then spread it on open face hamburger buns and sthen I put them under the broiler until the cheese melted and the edges of the buns began to brown. No one got sick and I may have converted on guest to Spam side.

Spoiler alert we held off on dessert until after Midge and Joel decided to do it one more time. With tears in our eyes at the prospect of no more episodes until season three comes we brought out Rick's Pineapple upside down cake. There's nothing like the sugar shock of fifties dessert to bring you up from a downer as big as the one we were facing.

















THE GALLERY

A 50's Cocktail Party
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