This Year's Squidmas Table

If you're fresh out of Eels ready for jellying, look in the pantry or freezer for some Pilchards or Sardines you can bake up into this lovely "Stargazey Pie," a Cornwall invention that NEEDS POPULARIZING here in the USA.  A pie made from scratch out of whole fish, hard-boiled eggs, mustardy bacon, and fish-scented custard that looks like SWAMPWATER might be a stretch for a people who live primarily on cola, cellophane-wrapped snack cakes and bacon cheeseburgers, but DON'T GIVE UP HOPE, MY SARDINE SISTERS.  Many North Americans struggle with a terror of any sort of food.  They end up locking themselves in the bathroom with a juicer, a bushel of homegrown organic beets and a gallon of spring water so nothing contaminated ever touches their snowflake palates.  Others fed up with restricting themselves are UP FOR A DARE.  And this party dish certainly qualifies.

GET READY TO PAR-TAY, LADIES!