Yes, America, I can cook!
This weekend Matt and I participated in Iron Chef Bethany. For those of you who don’t know a lot about Iron Chef, it is a Food Network TV show where two chefs (an Iron Chef and a competitor) compete to cook six dishes in an hour using a secret ingredient. Each dish is judged on plating, taste, and originality and an overall winner is determined by three celebrity judges.
Obviously, Iron Chef Bethany had to be slightly different, but we had a blast anyway. There were three teams, four judges, and one very orange secret ingredient — CARROTS. Matt, Karen and Travis Poling, Chris Hardie, and myself formed the Fairview Five and made 6 carroty dishes:
- Carrot jello jigglers
- Carrot, cabbage, broccoli, and bean sprout spring rolls
- Homemade carrot pasta with carrot marinara sauce
- Spicy peanut carrot soup
- Carrot ginger sorbet
- Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
All the dishes turned out great, and I even helped cook. I didn’t burn anything, break any dishes, set anything on fire, leave out any ingredients, or cause anything to fall on my head. All in all it was a very successful day in the kitchen.
Unfortunately our team only received the “most creative use of the secret ingredient” award, but there were lots of great carrot dishes, and everyone had a wonderful time.
If you want to see some more photos, checkout my Facebook photo album or, if you don’t use Facebook, my Picasa Web Album.
