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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Battle Lemon: May 15, 2010 at casa Schwall-Weigand

Battle Lemon was a memorable Iron Chef gathering! The outstanding quality of the dishes and the wonderfully deep field of competition would have made sure of this in any event, but I'm sure none of us will soon forget the experience of "flavor-tripping" on Keith's miracle berry tablets. Anything that can turn a lemon into a complete dessert is surely a blessing, but I'm not sure I'd drink a miracle berry beer again.

'Nuff said. On to the photos.

1st Place: Lisa's Lemon Icebox Pie
Not pictured: whipped cream; people eating the crumbs.

2nd Place: Max and Elizabeth and Amy's Lemon-Cream, Pea and Langostino Pizza

3rd Place Tie: Derek's Hummus

3rd Place Tie: Jon M.'s Flatbread

Jessica's Greek Soup

César and Rachelle's Mint-Lemon Chicken

Kindall's Lemon Curry Potato Salad

Keith and Sarah's Miracle Lemon Cheesecake

Erika and Josh's Lemon Fried Rice

Meeting and greeting in the kitchen

Enjoying the fruits of our labors

We're all looking forward to the next event!

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Well met, fellow guerriers of goulash! This blog is a simple companion to our ongoing culinary competition, meant to catalogue the lovely dishes and to provide something in the way of digital laurel for our champions.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Battle Pumpkin con Masson and Grace

It took a little while to work it out, but on October 18 met for Battle Pumpkin at Sam and Guille and JP's house. People came with deliciousness whose names I have forgotten, but the flavors remain etched in my memory.

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From Nikos is disappointed that the food was eaten so quickly

In the end, it was a split decision because everything was so out of control tasty, but the winner was Keith and Sarah with the pumpkin thing I can't remember the name of but was salty and sweet and crunchy and on a toothpick - what WAS that thing called?

Oh yeah! Pumpkin Rumaki! And he totally posted the recipe over on his own blog: http://chefkeifus.blogspot.com/2009/10/pumpkin-rumaki-recipe.html

Dude, we should totally institute the posting of winning recipes on this blog. What do y'all thing?

Friday, September 4, 2009

Battle Beer chez Knight & Lieberman

The first time I (Sam) went to Iron Chef was Battle Beer at Elizabeth and Max's swanky new spot. It was September 4, 2009 and followed a crazy sounding Bacon Battle. Immediately, awesome people started arriving with awesome food.

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Guille made his there. It was a lambic sambayon (sp?).

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And then we ate. And it was awesome.

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And then Max and Elizabeth announced that all the food was awesome. Which we already knew. They also announced that next month would be at our place, just in time for Thanksgiving.