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Paper Chef #18
Paper Chef #18
It’s time to start nominating ingredients for Paper Chef #18. Paper Chef is a monthly online event inspired by Iron Chef that challenges cooks to create a dish over the weekend using four arbitrary ingredients. Participants suggest possible ingredients and three are randomly chosen from the current nominations and previous, unselected items. The host (moi) specifies a fourth ingredient.
The event is judged by the winner of the previous month’s Paper Chef, in this case Haalo of Cook Almost Anything with her Miso Marinated Kangaroo. Last month the ingredients were lavender, chickpeas, miso, and anything raised locally. Eliminating last month’s ingredients, we are left with:
Something derived from a goat (meat, milk, cheese, yoghurt, butter, etc)
Rocket (arugula)
Macadamia nuts
Pomegranate molasses
Hot bean paste
Chestnuts
Grits
Ham
Simple syrup
Veal scallopine
Chocolate
Lemon
Pomegranates
Flowers
Cinnamon
Broccoli raab
Lemongrass
Coffee
Ground coriander
A spikey plant like cactus (nopales!) or nettles
Post your ingredient nominations below, check back here Friday afternoon (06/03), and spread the word.
To learn more about Paper Chef and past winners, click here.
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ooh so many yummy ingredients.Pomegranate MolassesGround CorianderGoat something
Gabriella,Those are already on the list. You need to suggest one new ingredient and the final ingredients are chosen at random.
You are correct, I’ve never played. I’m usually too intimidated by ingredients I can’t get (like pomegranate molasses). But I’ll take a gander this time, and suggest: watermelons (or melons).
S’kat,Substitutions are always allowed.And melons are now on the list.
okay. Duh. That is what I get for staying up way too late.guava
Gabriella,Done!
dragonfruit
what is dragonfruit? Off to do a search.
Turmeric!
Andouille Sausage
How about berries?
Egg
Hi Kevin – thanks for holding down the fort, keeping the ship afloat, minding the store, etc etc.I’m still really swamped but I made time to stop by and nominate and maybe with my sister in town for a week the two of us can cook something up (ha!)I nominate cherries – it is that time out here in California and one of the potential trips with sister is out to Brentwood to the pick-your-own cherry places – last time we got about eight pounds of morellos and four of rainier and ate about that much again while picking! And I discovered that if you are going to cook the cherries anyway if you freeze and then thaw them, the pits just pop out with a push of the fingers!
I humbly nominate:Daikon RadishBittermelonEggplantAnchoviesOctopusSabaKaboch SquashGarlic Scapes or Rat Tail Chives (See Post @ http://www.obsessionwithfood.com)I like the diversity…Can’t wait for challenge…Tootles,Anni
Dragonfruit is the fruit off the cactus plant. A native of Southeast Asia. It is closely related to the Prickly Pear Cactus fruit, which is well known to Southwest, USA. Now commercially grown in California and Arizona deserts, the fruit can be found in many products such as, purees, jams, marmalades, marinades, margaritas at Chevy’s! It has a fig-melon flavor profile and holds either a beautiful fuschia or sunny yellow color. It also has many seeds that will need to be stained and removed. The prickly pear cactus fruit is a native of Southern Italy (Sicily) and is a popular dessert on any Souther Italian tavola. Many plants are now cultivated in the African desert for commercial food usage. Hope this helps….Anni :-)
ooh Anni. Your description is perfect. I did a little hunting late last night. Too late for me to concentrate.
How about vinegar? any variety (I particularly love raspberry vinegar).
Dragon Fruit, tumeric, andouille, berries, eggs, cherries, and vinegar all added.Anni,Would mind picking just one of your suggestions? Thanks.Owen,I hope you can participate — hell, I hope I can participate, but my weekend is really packed at the moment. It isn’t cooking time that’s hard to find, it’s thinking time.
Oooh! OOooh! I have a nomination! Sundried tomatoes.S
Sarah,Done!
I’d like to nominate…giblets!
I’d like to nominate, Peanut Butter!