July Birthdays!
For those of us with July birthdays and those of us who cook for July birthdays: What's your signature birthday food? Cake, main dish, whole meal, your choice.
Certainly related to growing up in a very small town in Missouri, mine is blackberry cobbler, the way the women in my family have always made it, with both a top and bottom pastry crust. Other things are swell, but that's the real deal for me.
Yours?
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9 Comments:
i like to bake it myself.
it's normally been apricot tart or a new york style cheesecake with raspberry coulis, but i'm planning a banana cake this year.
my old SO used to request a chocolate layer cake with raspberry jam for his birthday, so i made plenty of those.
cybercita at 11:18PM on 07/13/08
I'm not much into cake ... but I'm probably going to order lobsters from Legal Seafood for my birthday dinner :D
joyyy at 12:00AM on 07/14/08
My fondest birthday dinner was at Wellfleet in Cape Cod, with all the boys big enough to behave at a fairly nice restaurant for long enough. The menu: champagne followed by rose, raw oysters with plenty of lemon, piled high on ice, ice, ice.....a gorgeous mesclun salad with some sort of dressing that I can't remember, lobster cakes and a potato gratin. OMG, were those lobster cakes wonderful. For dessert, a chocolate ganache cake.
And all the while salt breezes wafted in off the inlet, and the linen tablecloths felt like luxury, and the setting sun was pouring its colors over the bay...
This year DH and boys made a box cake and mixed fresh black raspberries into canned frosting. Gotta tell ya, it was something to see. Actually, if you didn't look at it, it was palatable in a strange way. And this was the year I turned 50.... (sigh)
Some years your dream comes true, some years it doesn't! I'm not very good about asking for what I want, though.
moibec at 12:28AM on 07/14/08
My sons all have summer b'days, including one in July, and their favorite cake requests are:
The chocolate cake on the back of the Hershey's Cocoa can, with chocolate frosting
A banana cake with caramel praline frosting
And this year for the son who's turning 21, we're doing a Nutella cake with rum-chocolate-hazelnut ganache.
I'm just glad they've outgrown ice cream cakes.
moibec at 12:48AM on 07/14/08
my SO's mother's birthday is july 4th so they always had a big family cookout or other type of family dinner. This year I made dinner, lasagna and garlic bread, mesculin salad, and a huge selection of desserts. I even tried fondant for the first time(aaack) now his mom has requested that i make dinner every year (i've created a monster) lol Of course this is a woman that's specialty is "goop" that's her name for anything she makes, and its quite descriptive too ;-)
huneybumper at 8:47AM on 07/14/08
July 1 is the best birthday, IMHO. All the laws go into effect, people are gettting into a party mood before the 4th, I was born, etc. HA!
I have two favorite meals. I can't seem to pick one over the other. The first, my mom says she ate at least three times a week when she was carrying me:
Fried pork chops, candied sweet potatoes, black-eyed peas and rice, cabbage, and cornbread.
The second seems a little more celebratory:
Grilled ribeye topped with gorgonzola butter, baked sweet potato, pan-seared asparagus with garlic and crusty French bread.
I love all desserts, so I'm happy with whatever. Favorites are dark chocolate cake, creme brulee, Bananas Foster, dewberry cobbler and the yummy chocolate tarts my maw-maw used to make.
Editmom at 10:16AM on 07/14/08
For most of my young life, we spent our Julys (plural of July??) at our house on the Vineyard, so we were always in the process of moving back home on my birthday (the 31st). Therefore, we always had corn and tomatoes for my b-day (quickest, most convenient) and a cake my mom made in advance and took home in a big Tupperware cake-taker. The advantage of this was that I often got two or three cakes - one on the Vineyard, usually angel food, one when we got home, usually chocolate, and one when I had a party with my friends, always a Mickey Mouse ice cream cake from Carvel.
Since then my birthday dinners haven't really varied, I'm a huge fan of birthday bbq's - hamburgers, beer and chocolate cake is usually all I need!
embolini9 at 11:01AM on 07/14/08
My daughter's is 29 JUL and she loves pineapple upside down cake. Seems wierd but that is what she asks for. As for the dinner, its usually a hot dog and hamburger affair. Since this is her Sixteenth B-day, I might do something a little more memorable for dinner, but she has told me there will be pineapple upside down cake.
nhfoodie at 11:13AM on 07/14/08
My aunt's birthday is in July. She loves carrot cake but is allergic to nuts, so I ususally bake her a nut-free version.
SSMom at 5:34PM on 07/14/08