Prerogative Of The Bitter Loser
So my housemate and I had a cook-off against those bastards at the Spanish House last night. Well, technically, it was just one of those bastards at the Spanish House + her boyfriend. And, actually, they're not bastards. I love them. So the rules were that it was a two on two competition that began at 5pm and ended at 8pm. A neutral party served our three judges at 8:15 so it wouldn't be clear who cooked what. Each team prepared an appetizer, an entrée, and a desert. The weird thing was that we didn't talk to each other about what we were making and ended up cooking very similar meals:
Spanish House
Appetizer: Stuffed mushrooms
Entrée: Pork ribs (marinated in apple cider, hot chili powder, and other stuff) with homemade coleslaw
Dessert: Chocolate Soufflé with ice cream and walnuts.
Pan-Asian House
Appetizer: Stuffed mushrooms
Entrée: Pork chops sautéed in a cranberry-orange sauce with garlic mashed potatoes and lemon roasted asparagus
Dessert: French chocolate almond torte garnished with frozen raspberries.
I also want to mention that we put effort into plating our food so it looked good. Especially the torte. Oh yeah, and we had never cooked pork or asparagus before so we gambled and it almost paid off. We were robbed.
On the upside, I called my mom to tell her about it and she said "You did a good job, son." I don't think she's said that before. We decided that, as soon as I stop being a listless college student and she gets pissed off and leaves the ministry, we're opening a restaurant together.
If I can track down pictures of what we made, I will post them.
-gf
Spanish House
Appetizer: Stuffed mushrooms
Entrée: Pork ribs (marinated in apple cider, hot chili powder, and other stuff) with homemade coleslaw
Dessert: Chocolate Soufflé with ice cream and walnuts.
Pan-Asian House
Appetizer: Stuffed mushrooms
Entrée: Pork chops sautéed in a cranberry-orange sauce with garlic mashed potatoes and lemon roasted asparagus
Dessert: French chocolate almond torte garnished with frozen raspberries.
I also want to mention that we put effort into plating our food so it looked good. Especially the torte. Oh yeah, and we had never cooked pork or asparagus before so we gambled and it almost paid off. We were robbed.
On the upside, I called my mom to tell her about it and she said "You did a good job, son." I don't think she's said that before. We decided that, as soon as I stop being a listless college student and she gets pissed off and leaves the ministry, we're opening a restaurant together.
If I can track down pictures of what we made, I will post them.
-gf