Happy Birthday Cher!!!!

In past years, in celebration of all things Cher, I cher’d (yes, you can smack me later) her Hawaiian Meatballs.

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But first, let’s just turn back time (yeah, I went there) 2 years ago and relive my mother losing her goddamned mind when we saw “Classic Cher” at the MGM Grand in National Harbor:

This recipe comes from The Celebrity Cookbook Volume II (1978)

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I need a copy of this one, yinz guys.

But anyhoo, let’s get cooking!

I cut the recipe in half because I was only cooking for Claire and myself. So, 1.25 pounds of beef and then half of everything else. But egg. How am I supposed to cut an egg in half? Whatever, it worked.

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hawaiian sauce

 

To accompany the meatballs, I made some fried rice from Gloria Bley Miller’s The Thousand Recipe Cookbook (1977 edition).

It was simple: just onion, canned carrot and peas, and egg.

It got the job done.

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And the meatballs were pretty good. A sweet and sour meatball. Just what I expected them to be.

Although I’m still confused as to how a Hawaiian Meatball needed to be “American Style” considering that Hawaii became a state in 1959. Was it because these were all beef and no pork?

I dunno.

Happy birthday, Cher! Shine on, you Bob Mackey-clad, ass-baring, half-breed, gypsy, dark lady diva. You are the Goddess of Pop and you are FABULOUS!

I’m going to put this here, because I think a lot of us forget that these two were once an item:

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What do you think it was like between these 2?

And now, here’s a Cher MEGAMIX.

Just because.

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3 thoughts on “Happy Birthday Cher!!!!

  1. I see above the PLAYBOY Cookbook has Bill Cosby as one of its featured celebrity’s recipes. I am guessing Cosby’s recipe is JELLO pudding with a tablespoon of his knock out drug added for ‘flavor’ cause he likes to “be puddin’ his dik where it don’t belong”

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