Ok, she won!!

[Gob]

2010 Cooking Competition

After the introduction and success of the High School Cooking Competition we have decided to continue it in 2010!

The competition is open to all grade 9 and 10 students in Canberra. Schools register for the competition in Term 1 and enter their recipes by the end of Term 1. Two schools are chosen as finalists to compete in a live cook-off at the Belconnen Markets in Term 2. Schools must create two original recipes that adhere to the criteria.

Criteria:***

Must use 2 vegetables - potato & mushroom

Must use 2 fruits - berries & banana

Time frame - 1 hour to cook both dishes

Entries will be judged on: Team work, Originiality, Creativity, Technical Skills, Presentation, Taste.

When sending in your 2 original recipe creations, be sure to make sure that your school stands out. It is a requirement that each school send in a 'Chef Profile' This profile is a booklet introducing your Chefs and your recipes. (note: you Chefs are the students that will partake in the live cook off) Your Chef Profile should include but is not limited to:

- Name, age, photo of Chefs,

- Details such as favourite chef, favourite food - anything to give the judges a good understanding of your team

- Recipes including method, ingredients and photos

- Explanation of how and why you came to create these recipes



Please note that there is no limit to the number of people that can partake in creation of the 2 original recipes, however during the finals, a maximum of 4 students can partake in the live cook-off. (so make sure your recipes can be cooked by no more than 4 people, within 1 hour)


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Hen just called me from the kitchen stadium, Hatch's team, "Team TimTam" won the "live cook off" finals of the competition...

Hatch was cooking the dish she did for mother's day, one she created for the finals;

[Sue U]

Beautiful! And looks delicious, too, clever girl. Congratulations to Hatch and her team!

[Sean]

Congratulations to Hatch!

...and now we know who'll be doing the cooking when you guys come to visit...

[SisterMaryFellatio]

Congrats to The Hatch......If she has any ideas about becoming a chef talk her out of it now!

[The Hen]

I would love to be talking her out of being a chef, but I am having no luck in talking her out of being a vet.

[Guinevere]

Congrats Hatch!

As someone who has taken all the prereqs for U.S. vet school and still sometimes wishes I had gone --- don't talk her out of it --- just make sure she loves science enough and is ready for the commitment. Oh and better make sure she reads all the James Herriott books, too

[kristina]

Congratulations!

And speaking as a former prep chef and short order cook, I'd rather be a vet!

[tyro]

Must use 2 vegetables - potato & mushroom

They think mushrooms are a vegetable?

But the important question (no doubt answered in the Mother’s Day thread that I’m not going to research) was it a vegetarian dish?

(all the more of an accomplishment if it was)

[Big RR]

What would you classify mushrooms as Tyro?

And congrats to Hatch--the dish looks delicious.

[Crackpot]

fungus

[tyro]

Crackpot nailed it.

Mold in any form is still mold. They tell us not to inhale the stuff (or is it the spores) from dingy basements and old ventilation systems and yet we eat it.

I have a sound book that points out that soft food that shows signs of mild growth should be thrown out, just carve away mold on hard foods, and cook mushrooms. Do not eat any form of mold that is raw.

[Crackpot]

what about cheese?

[Big RR]

Crackpot--mushrooms are indeed, fungi, but they are commonly classed as vegetables, and are a good part of many vegetarian diets. You wouldn't call them meat or animal products, would you?

Tyro--it is tasty many times (look a blue cheese), and some of it makes a pretty potent antibiotic (one of the first, actually). All mols is not the same.

[Crackpot]

I wouldn't call apples, potatoes, or almonds vegetables and they're not meat or animal products either.

[Big RR]

My understanding is that, as commonly used, vegetables ar eplants that are cultivated for eating at least part of the plant, stem, leaves, or roots. I think potatoes clearly fall into that definition and most people would consider them vegetables. Fruits (like apples) and nuts (like almonds) are edible seed or seed bearing pods,etc. of plants. I think there would be some dispute as to whether fruits are vegetables or not, but one defintion of vegetable defines it as all plant life (as in the question "Animal, vegetable, or mineral"), so they may be.

[Gob]

But the important question (no doubt answered in the Mother’s Day thread that I’m not going to research) was it a vegetarian dish?

(all the more of an accomplishment if it was)

Not with them big fucking prawns on it it wasn't!

But, if you do not add the prawns, it was certainly a vege dish, and wonderful in it's own right...

[Crackpot]

You must eat seafood!

[Gob]

Not since 1980 I haven't, why start now?

[tyro]

but one defintion of vegetable defines it as all plant life

Ok, how do you define “plant life”?

If it is growing between your toes, is it plant life?

Tyro--it is tasty many times (look a blue cheese), and some of it makes a pretty potent antibiotic (one of the first, actually). All mols is not the same.

The antibiotic part about mold is their little tiny feces. Mold poop.

Which is the very part that actually stops them (molds) in their tracks and gave birth to penicillin.

Still, molds are not good for you.

As for blue cheese, just look what it did to the French.


For what it is worth, I do NOT like blue cheese. I suspect that my better sense is at play here. But I do like mushrooms in a pizza or a tomato sauce (both cooked).

Otherwise, fungi are a known carcinogenic.

[Gob]

Please don't talk about blue cheese.

My ultra low fat diet has excluded cheese of all sorts from my diet for six weeks now.

Blue cheese is to me an oral orgasm...