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I had Adrian's extended family over for dinner tonight for his father's birthday (Yes I threw two parties in two days, Its almost the same amount of work.) I cooked one things because I had a fresh pineapple lying around and it was AWESOME! I'm going to try it with bananas tomorrow. I didn't serve it as desert though, I served it as an appetizer without the icecream. The recipe...

Grilled Pineapple

1 medium pineapple
1 TBS butter, melted
1 TBS packed brown sugar
1/8 tsp ground ginger (optional)
Splash of rum (optional)
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
2 TBS toasted coconut

Cut pineapple crosswise into six 3/4-inch-thick slices. Stir together butter, brown sugar, ginger and rum. Grill pineapple slices on an uncovered grill directly over medium coals for 6 to 8 minutes or until heated through, turning once and brushing once or twice with butter mixture. To serve, cut pineapple slices in half. Serve warm with ice cream, top with toasted coconut and additional rum if desired.

Yield: 6 servings.

In other news. The engagement announcement was in the newspaper today. Its kind of cool that it was in the newspaper on January 1st.

Happy New Year!