Addendum: #nerd

[bironic]

My birthday is in a couple of days, so after a small group of us went to see Star Trek: Beyond yesterday, we came back to my apartment for a Star Trek-themed party. Wish I could have invited more friends, but things are limited by the size of my apartment, and the timing conflicted with Boston Fangirl Brunch anyway. Instead, please consider yourselves part of the extended virtual celebration.



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DRINKS

Klingon Bloodwine
Cherry juice with pulped fruit

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. Cold.
Orange-Earl Grey iced tea

MAINS

Scotty's Lemon Chicken
She cannae handle much more flavor

Ferengi Spore Pie
Mushroom-swiss quiche

Terran Salad
Mixed greens with vinaigrette

DESSERT

Cellular Peptide Cake
With mint frosting

We played a couple of card-based games, including Slash, which was fun. In the background we put on some TOS episodes, "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "The Gamesters of Triskelion" -- one iconic, one kinky/hilarious -- and then the Deep Space Nine revisit, "Trials and Tribble-ations." Also I found the scene from the TNG ep "Phantasms" where Data dreams that Troi has been turned into a cake (TW: strong noncon overtones), because that was the inspiration for the cake I made for the party.



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I'd been looking for an excuse to make more recipes out of the Star Trek Cookbook for a while. This made me happy. Even if it involved turning on the oven on two 95-degree days! The trials of a summer birthday.

Comments

[giandujakiss]

This menu is marvelous. I especially love the cellular peptide cake.

[bironic]

Thank you! The name has such a nice ring to it, doesn't it? The cookbook has a from-scratch recipe but with everything happening lately I just used a box mix + canned icing + food coloring & mint extract.

[serrico]

Cellular peptide cake (with mint frosting)!!! This whole menu looks delicious, but that's the perfect finishing touch. :D

Also, happy pre-birthday!

[bironic]

Thank you! The cake was a lot of fun to make, hee. Hopefully my coworkers will enjoy the leftovers tomorrow, a.k.a. most of the torso.

[yhlee]

Happy birthday-in-advance! :D

That cake looks great!

[bironic]

Thank you! Lessons learned include that putting black food dye in bright red icing doesn't make dark red but instead a sort of mauve. Oh, well.

[topaz_eyes]

Happy (early) Birthday! Your Star Trek party sounds like fun. :-D

[bironic]

Thank you! Maybe next time we can rig up some sort of virtual potluck. :)

[kass]

That is fabulous!

[bironic]

<3

[zulu]

MINT FROSTING. So so so perfect. Happy year!

[bironic]

Thanks!

[grammarwoman]

Huzzah to your fantastic menu and party, and a pre-emptively happy birthday to you! :)

[bironic]

Thank you! Glad to share some of it here. <3