BiG TeA PaRtY’s
SugarHouse Casino
Combining the best of GAMBLING and the DESSERT BUFFET was a huge success!
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I know everyone who tasted the mystery ingredient is wondering, what the heck was it? The mystery ingredient was (drum roll please)…. Dried, salted and sweetened papaya. No one guessed it, but some came close with guesses of dried plum, ginger, coconut and the funniest guess of all, shredded eraser.
How I found the mystery ingredient: Each time I shop at the giant Asian supermarket in my hood I try to purchase an ingredient I’ve never used before. When I saw the test tube shaped package that contained the dried papaya I knew I had to give it a try. The taste was not at all what I expected. Dried, salty and sweet yes, but the papaya threw such a twist to it, it really became unrecognizable as a flavor. Experimenting and learning new things is a great road to happiness and fun times! Why don’t you give it a try?
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What type of cake did your luck win for you at BiG TeA PaRtY’s SugarHouse Casino? Did you score chocolate chip cake with whipped cream and chocolate jimmies; a glazed donut with orange marshmallow frosting and sliced almonds? What, what? Tell us about your win (or did you lose?!?) Click ‘comments’ at end of post.
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BiG TeA PaRtY’s SugarHouse Casino is part of: NEXUS/Foundation for Today’s Art YUMMY: a celebration of craving, compulsion and culture where the delicious, the fanciful and the abundant are made manifest in artwork by 30 plus individual artists from all over the nation. The celebration runs two months and includes a gallery exhibition featuring artwork in many mediums such as sculpture, photography, ceramics and silkscreen, painting, performance and video as well as two evenings of music and dance performance; a hands-on cake making workshop with Philadelphia’s own Elizabeth Fiend and Big Tea Party; a screening of a documentary produced by the Hunger Coalition; and a potluck dinner. YUMMY opens December 13, 2007 and runs through February 1, 2008.
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Besides discovering that cheese doodles make a great cake topping, we learned a few more things. 1. Wasabi peas do not go well with cake! 2. If people have a choice, they will pick ‘tiger’ more often than monkey or alligator. 3. Girls with hats have good luck. 4. And, well, not sure what the BiG TeA PaRtY Crew (Gretjen, Allen, Elizabeth, Valerie) is discussing in that last photo…
Thanx to Mira Gohel, Anne Cecil, and Devi Gohel-Majesky for taking photos.
What type of cake did your luck bring? Tell us about your win (or did you lose?!?) Click ‘comments.’
January 10th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
While you’re here telling us about your cake: What is your favorite vegetable?
My cake was pound cake with whipped cream and the ginger/raisin/walnut mincemeat. It was good luck for sure!
In the winter my favorite vegetable is Savoy cabbage. So versatile, so cheap, so tasty!
Love,
Elizabeth Fiend
January 11th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Hmmm, favorite vegetable, so hard to choose. I’ll go with corn, it adds to so many dishes. Its juicy sweetness works with salty or sweet, and if you can count popcorn then it’s the best of all…. wait, is corn a vegetable? Hmmm?
My cake was chocolate (mmmm) with the orange icing (MMMMM) with banana chips (eeaanh). I didn’t like the combo, though each element was tasty. Didn’t work together though.
Thanks for a fun game of chance!
xo,
victor
January 12th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Well, favorite vegetable, that’s a tough one. I pick lima beans, their squishy insides delight my tongue, and their strange bland goodness makes me smile. My cake was a donut with choc cool whip… yummy so far… but then I got candied yams. Not a good combo for me. I wanted cheese crunches so bad. Oh well, now I know what to get from the super market.
January 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hello Big Tea Party people!
My cake was chocolate marble with orange marshmallow frosting sprinkled with wasabi peas - it was actually very delicious. The whole sweet-and-spicey mix worked very well!
As for my favorite vegetable - I don’t think I could pick just one. I love them all together in salad. Maybe the next Sugarhouse casino event should have people gamble what will be in their tossed salad!
Loved the event - please keep me posted for more.
January 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Que madness!
Un pedasito of pound-cake with a rather pedestrian Cool-whip had me pensando what culinary twilight zone I had stumbled upon cuando fate stepped forward with a roll of the dice. They shook and turned and rolled from lado a lado, till finally–in a stroke of cosmic gastronomicality, East met West in a cascade of verdant, one might decir emerald, wasabi peas…embedded and coddled in cloud of dulce Americano. Something within me shook…Ahoy!, cryed my tummy, and my whiskers twitched, for I knew esto, a priori and unprecendetally to be correct y bueno! Damn your eyes! for the stomach knows…
I shall never be the same, and for the rest of mi vida, the joining of picante y dulce will live in mi alma…