To celebrate the occasion, and to welcome in the Year of the Pig an an appropriate and honorable manner, we've put together a vice-presidential New Years Day menu specifically with Dick Cheney in mind.

Hors d'ourves:
Pork rinds with bacon buttermilk ranch dipping sauce

Appetizer
Pork Rhumaki (bacon wrapped liver with water chestnuts, pan fried in bacon grease)

Entree
5 pounds of pork butt
1 lb pork sausage
1 lb bacon
1 lb colby cheese (shredded)
hollandaise sauce

Slice open pork but and stuff with sausage. Wrap the whole thing in bacon. Deep fry in lard. Smother with hollandaise sauce and top with cheese.
Serve with french fries (deep fried in lard, of course) smothered in sausage gravy.

Dessert
Torte Varazdin

1 cup butter (room temperature)
1 cup sugar
7 ounces semi sweet chocolate (melted)
6 eggs (separated)
1 cup flour sifted
chocolate curls to decorate

for the filling
1 cup heavy cream, lightly whipped
1 3/4 cups canned chestnut puree
1/2 cup sugar

for the topping
10 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups confectioners sugar, sifted
4 ounces semi=sweet chocolate, melted

1) Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and line the bottom and sides of an 8-9 inch round cake pan. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Stir in the melted chocolate and egg yolks. Fold the flour carefully into the chocolate mixture.

2) In a greasefree bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff. Add a spoonful of the egg white to the chocolate mixture to loosen it, then carefully fold in the remainder. Spoon the cake mixture into the prepared pan.

3) Bake the cake for 45-50 minutes or until firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. When cold, peel off the lining paper and slice the cake in half horizontally.

4) Meanwhile, gently combine the filling ingredients in a bowl. Sandwich the two cake halves together firmly with the chestnut filling.

5) In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar for the topping before stirring in the melted chocolate. Using a dampened knife, spread the chocolate topping on the sides and top of the cake. Decorate with chocolate curls before serving.

Beverage
Pour him a Red Bull and Vodka to wash it all down with. And maybe a Shot of Wild Turkey as an apertif.

On Edit
Now that I look at that dessert, it looks mighty tasty. Fat filled and heart attack inducing or not, that looks way too good for the evil one. Keep the dessert to enjoy yourself, and toss Cheney some bacon strips and pork rinds.

And don't forget to hide the defibrillator.



Special thanks to Mrs. Wally and Chescher (my chef friend) for help with the "cardiac special" recipes.

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