SF, I'm not going to respond to your post in this thread. I think your response is better suited for the thread my post was stated in. I'll respond to it in that thread, so we don't threadjack this thread.

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If you don't want to be involved in the thread, that's fine, I was just offering you a chance to join back in.

Did some people get skeered?


Its okay... the Brits have never been known for their food. I, for one, was not looking forward to piles of overcooked groundbeef drowning in greasy brownish-flavored sauce. Even Jamie Oliver craves a good Chipped-Beef three times a week. Can't beat a Southern Boy and an Italian when it comes to food.

I find it kinda ironic that Americans are taking the high ground on cuisine...

and before you ask - I can follow a recipe (most of the time), but I'm next to useless in cooking 'something new'. The above was a passing comment, rather than a threat :)

bu..bu..but WK is italian.

America is finally getting it's head out of it's ass when it comes to food. It's a hard process that is a difficult thing to break in most people's minds/stomachs. In some areas of the US there is some great bastard breeds of cooking that turn out some great food. French/Spanish influences turned into Cajun/Creole cooking in the south, there is a lot of french influence in the east coast (they are faint, but still there) and the tex/mex border food that can sometimes turn out great meals.

It all depends on where you eat and what you eat. Now, if only our street food would catch up.

Lots of the street food is great. Just don't confuse it with fast food. But even that is getting better if you look at the rise of chains like Chipotle and Potbelly's.

I'm watching this thread waiting for folks to get their act together to do something - or not. I'm still offering to help organize.

Yeah, there are some great street food venders, but not like you would see in other countries. Around here, the best you get is the Mexican food stands near the factories and they give me really funny/bad looks when I order from them.

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I want to do something (other than embarrass WK at cooking), but SF has now changed his tune and no one else is stepping up.

huh? theres 3 challengers, plus you LE

post 62 - willravel

post 64 - WK

post 71 - charlatan

can we have a Cook off? .......in a best of 3 series?

match 1) 1 vs 2

match 2) 3 vs 4

winner of match 1 takes on winner of match 2

Since there's no women that have stepped forward, the winner is crowned TFP Cock-off Champion.

I thought you were the cock champion around these parts? That mean you are giving up your title?

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I know those guys threw their hats in, but not much happened after that.

I like your idea dlish. I'd love to see if anyone else would be up for it, make it a longer contest.

It's not that I don't want to be a part of this, it's just that I'm limited by what I can cook in my household. Meat is pretty much out of the question here.

And LE, in Portland the street food is amazing. Food carts FTW.

yes thats correct..im relegated to 2nd once of you boys wins. untill then, i still have the title. TFP Cock-Off Champion 2010.

the way this works, you'll be cooking 6 meals if you make the final since this is a best of 3 series. i thought we were going to keep things short because of affordability. we could cater for more challengers if there is more interest and make it a round robbin if need be.

can we get all the interested people to raise their hand? id really like to see this take shape and take off.

Snowy, I don't think your diet should be a reason you can't do this. I'm sure we could figure something out. (Look at me! Playing nice with the veggies! COOKIE ME! COOKIE, COOKIE, COOKIE, COOKIE, COOOOOKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!)

I've heard that the food carts there are awesome, another reason for me to get my ass to portland.

Dlishy: I didn't know it was a best of 3. I thought it was one meal, one chance.

Organize it and they will cook.

Nothing's going to happen until someone organizes something. We're almost at 100 posts already and no one has even made a fucking grocery list.

if we get more people interested we could do it best-of-1 match per cook-off. but for the time being lets keep it at best-of-3 for now.

i agree with BG..lets get it rolling.. we need some ideas people!

type of food?
culture?
Ingredients?

Competitors:

• LordEden
• Willravel
• World's King
• Charlatan

I think we have some heavyweights here. Why don't each of you state your "specialty" cuisine/dish and we can build challenges around that? Once we nail down the food types, maybe one or two of us as organizers will come up with challenges for some or all of you to participate in.

My specialty would be "stuff that's been on Good Eats". :expressionless:

I'm pretty good with the barbecue and the non-stick pan. I'm a big fan of lamb, white fish, and small game, peppers, onions and eggplant, oh, and tomatoes. I adore olive oil, lard, and duck fat. I've spent years on my pie and pizza crust, but they're not quite perfect yet. They're getting pretty good, though. I once accidentally put in a tablespoon of baking soda instead of a teaspoon to a batch of chocolate chip cookies and created what I call bittersweets, but that the guests called "oh, just go to Safeway and pick up some Tollhouse cookie dough." I don't own a tall hat, but I'm thinking of making one with old issues of The New Yorker.

That's my specialty.

I will take on any challenge but I am best at desserts.

Since people aren't going to be able to smell or taste the food I make, will this be strictly a visual competition? If so, I am going to lose. I suck at plating and often resort to family style.

I was more thinking it would be a battle of original or quasi-original recipes, and possibly accompanying images.

I never actually threw my chef hat into the circle.


I'll judge. But that's it. Think of me as that chef judge on every cooking show that is TOO famous to actually be on the show.

Like if George Clooney popped up on Iron Chef?

Meh... I was thinking more... Sean Connery...

I'd watch that. "Thish shimple shalmon with shalots ish shtrikingly shavory."

my vote is for a dinner that can be made in <30min, any culture, and it has to be a little spicy with meat being an ingredient that isnt essential to the dish (for the vegetarian TFPers out there)

you're just too scared of being beaten...and beaten by none other than LordEden himself.