I have a terrible sinus headache, my favorite pair of sunglasses broke, Milo behaved like a mad feral thing on his walk, and it turns out the new software on my boston.com blog doesn’t enable me to do the thing I thought it would.
It is, in short, one of those days, so I thought I would share a little faux pas story with you. As many of you know, Eddie Izzard is my favorite comedian. Our landlord and his girlfriend had extra tickets to the Izzard concert Tuesday night, and invited us to join them for that and a potluck dinner beforehand. To which I brought one of my brand-new vegetarian recipes … topped with pine nuts, to which our landlord’s girlfriend’s son has a near-fatal allergy.
Because that’s how Miss Conduct repays generosity and hospitality!
Oy.
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8 Comments to 'One of those days …'
January 14, 2010
I would love to hear about your new recipe – pine nuts and all. Hope your day gets better.
January 14, 2010
It’s a really good side dish, or even a main: you simply stuff bell peppers (whatever color you like) with diced potatoes. (I use the small red ones and scrub them instead of peeling.) I season the potatoes with olive oil, salt & pepper, dill, and a little paprika. Bake at 350 for about an hour. If you want to add DEADLY PINE NUTS, toast them on a cookie sheet while the oven is heating up and then put them on the peppers about five or ten minutes before you take them out of the oven.
These are best with Greek yogurt or tzatziki on the side. Or, you know, an epi pen, depending on your mileage.
January 14, 2010
Did you enjoy the Eddie Izzard show?
*insert raptor with bolo hat motion*
My fiance and I were in the audience as well, and 2 of my tweets appeared on the jumbotron. My jaw still hurts from all the laughing, but it’s worth it.
January 14, 2010
Deadly Pine Nuts would be a *fantastic* band name.
January 15, 2010
Had you been told that the boy couldn’t eat pine nuts? Because if you hadn’t then the faux pas is surely the landlord and girlfriend’s for holding an event that involves others bringing food and not saying something. I have an anaphylactic reaction to mackerel (yeah, I know, obscure) and I’ll always mention it if someone else is preparing food for me. After all adrenaline pens and mad dashes to hospital are something of a downer.
January 15, 2010
I don’t think I did know about it, Hazel, although I still should have asked. And the kid’s allergy, though serious, only meant that he couldn’t eat what I’d brought — it wasn’t one of those where he can’t even be in the same room.
January 15, 2010
I was at a potluck some years ago that actually had the epi-pen/911 disaster. Next time I’ll know that when a six-year-old asks the available grownups if she can eat this cookie, she might be assuming that all available grownups understand that she can’t eat nuts.
Holy cow, what a dangerous mistake! Ended fine, thank heaven.
January 16, 2010
I’m with Hazel on this one. Deadly-food-allergy really defaults to the party with the allergy (or their representative) volunteering that information along with the invitation. “Please join us for a potluck dinner” should actually be “Please join us for a potluck dinner, but little Willard is deathly allergic to pine nuts/mackerel/lemon oil/sea urchin/fried bees/wheat/sugar beets/anything with vegetable matter/the orange stuff on cheetos.”
Also, I believe that thrash-metal Killer Pine Nuts used to perform regularly at the old Rathskellar in Kenmore Square. Their bass player, Duncan Marmoset, has since gone acoustic, and now fronts for the space-art-neo-folk trio Galactose Intolerance, appearing next week at the Iron Horse in Northhampton.
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