Toasted Coconut Shrimp with Apricot/Horseradish Dipping Sauce
Tortilla Chips with Mango Salsa
Red Potato Salad (mounded in the shape of the Boone Hill Burial Ground), complete with grave markers--Mom please say you have a picture of this!
Fresh Tropical Fruit Platter
Testones (fried plantains with mojo sauce)
Key Lime Cookies
Crazy E-Claire Cake
Flan
Flan Cheesecake (because one flan dessert isn't enough)
For the jerk chicken, I marinated the cubed chicken pieces in a combination of brown sugar, scallions, 2 minced Scotch Bonnet peppers, allspice, and PickaPeppa sauce. I'll save you the trouble--PickaPeppa sauce is a relatively obscure item, found by the tabasco sauce and looks like this:
The coconut shrimp are super-duper easy and a real crowd pleaser (except for the cook, who stands there and prepares them one by one!) Just take out 3 bowls. Add plain flour to one, beaten eggs to the second and in the third, a small bag (around 7 oz) of sweetened coconut, a 1/2 t. of salt, and 2 T. allspice. You can make your own allspice if you need, just mix two parts cinnamon, 1 part nutmeg and 1 part ground ginger. Dip the peeled shrimp (leave the tails to give yourself something to grab on to) into the flour, then the egg, then the coconut mixture and fry in about an inch of canola oil over medium heat, turning once until they are golden brown. I just kept filling the serving tray as they came out of the oil and they kept disappearing!
I'm all about a good theme and the show LOST creates so many opportunities for fun! The costumes were great. We had a Kate, a Crazy Claire, a Polar Bear, an "Island", a Charlie, a Nikki/Paulo couple (that would be me and my husband) and lots of other Losties who brought items for the shrine.
The week leading up to this soiree was crazy with decorations and preparations. We borrowed a friend's awesome wrought iron tiki torches (Thanks, Blake!) and lined the walkway with them for the guest's arrival.
We had to assure our neighbors, who were mighty curious about the sign, that we weren't recruiting people into our Buddhist cult.
On to the fun little details......
To make wine tags for your theme, I took a Creative Memories round paper punch which has two circles, one slightly larger than the other. I used the small circle to punch the faces of the characters, which I got off of the ABC website. I used the larger circle to punch out a solid color cardstock for a mat. Adhere the two with a photo split or glue stick. Then take Self-Laminating sheets (mine were Scotch brand, found in the office supply section near the name badges). Follow the label directions to laminate. Then cut around the photo. I used a small hole punch and then used a grommet setter to add the grommet on the tag. Then I used Tim Holtz mini paperclips to attach the character tag to a binder ring (I got mine at the scrapbooking store, but they can be found at Staples where 3-ring binders are sold). I ended up with 13 of my favorite characters as wine tags.
The Driveshaft concert backstage passes were created with a logo found online, doctored up with Photo editing software. I use http://www.fotoflexer.com/. I love this site--you can really get creative with your photos, without purchasing an expensive edition of Photoshop.
Where there is good, there is evil, so an appearance by the Smoke Monster aka "Smokey" was necessary. A 50 ounce bag of Polyfil and 6 cans of black spray paint did the trick. Once it dried, it was pieced together on my sitting room wall to look as menacing as possible. Bwa ha ha.......
Although some of our questions were left unanswered (as all good literature does to their reader), I personally loved the ending. And as in every story worth their weight in paper and ink, this one leaves us wanting more, wanting to find other fans to discuss it with because these characters are real to us and they're worth keeping alive, even if they didn't get that luxury in the script :(
Thank you writers, cast and crew for a fantastic voyage. My Tuesday nights won't be the same without you.
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