Auntie B's Wax

Since switching my blog to this new platform I haven’t had any real Dive Night posts.  If you were a follower of my last blog you might be familiar with the monthly Dive Night adventure Husby and I partake in with our friends Ruthie and Ray.  If not, you can find the history of Dive Night here.

As has become tradition the four of us celebrate Dive Night in December in our homes, alternating each year.  No, neither home is a dive, but it’s a good time to put our own culinary talents to work and to try new and exciting things.  This year the evening was at the Auntie B’s Wax World Headquarters.

When we have our yearly Dive Night at home it consists of hors d’oeuvres only.  Some pretty heavy, but small food nonetheless, and we all contribute something.  Because we were not being served in restaurant I was somewhat remiss in taking pictures of every food we had.  I had to broil the English muffin crab things for cryin out loud.

Here’s a rundown of what we had:  Ruthie brought/made shrimp and cocktail sauce, stuffed mushrooms (al a Pioneer Woman) and bacon bites.  Ray brought smoked oysters, pickled herring and crackers.  Husby contributed a most unusual treat of head cheese.  I made some Pepsi beef sandwiches, English muffin crab things, a yummy little chipotle dip with bagel chips and pretzels and sweet after-dinner cookies/candies.

Shrimp and cocktail sauce. Did you know you can eat as much shrimp as you want and never feel full? It's true.

Pretzel "Snaps" with chipotle dip.

Smoked oysters. Half of them have been eaten. Ruthie didn't have any because they make her gag. Silly Ruthie.

Pickled herring, a holiday must. Ruthie doesn't eat this either. She's got a neurotic fear of slippery fish things I guess.

A very bad picture of some really good stuffed mushrooms. Guyere cheese, man. Fab!

Mini Pepsi beef sandwiches and English muffin crab things.

Ruthie's famous bacon bites.

Little Clementines are always a nice winter treat. So easy to peel!

I’m really sorry I didn’t get a picture of the head cheese.  I’m also sorry I completely overlooked it while filling my plate and didn’t try it.  No worries, there are leftovers in the fridge.  Guess what?  I had no idea head cheese isn’t cheese at all.  It’s meat!

After filling up with all of the delicious food we exchanged gifts and had a lovely evening chatting and laughing quite a bit.  We rounded out another year of Dive Nights with the glory of Christmas cheer and look forward to another year of discovering the great food served by the city’s “dives.”

Merry Christmas, all you foodies!