The same to you, Joe, and the rest of our friends here!
Every year we get together with some friends and their two daughters (same age as our middle two kids) for New Year's Eve, alternating yearly back and forth between their house and ours. They're both tremendous cooks and we usually pick a different theme for the menu and try to stick with it from the appetizers to the meal to the booze but the common thread is the other husband and I kicking the wives' collective @$$e$ in Trivial Pursuit usually with some last minute rallying (I know, sounds exciting as hell
but it keeps us off the roads with the other drunk nuts and we really have a good time).
Well this year, it's our turn to host and after throwing a few different ideas around I said, why not a White Trash New Years? I figured it would be perfect since we're hosting this year.
Our friends, who are from Iowa, have really run with the idea.
On the menu we've got:
Apps
Canned squirt cheese and crackers
Pickles with cream cheese
Li'l Smokies in BBQ sauce
Pigs in a Blanket
Frito Pie
Velveeta Dip
Dinner
Maid Rite sammiches
Biscuits and Gravy
TaterTot casserole
Desert
Frozen Ring Ding and ice cream cake
Beverages
The only thing that won't be too far from the everyday is the beverage selection, some Pabst Blue Ribbons and Buds, but I will throw some Schlitz and Milwaukee's Best in the cooler. Not being a mixed drink guy, got any ideas for a good white trash alcohol punch or mixed drink? If nothing else I'm thinking Mountain Dew and cheap vodka.
While the theme usually sticks to the menu only, I might just go buy me a ***** Beater t-shirt and see if I can get a few cinder blocks to throw an old door on for a table.
The rest of the decor is already in place.
