Hooray for the first ever Foodie Fight!
332 people (plus 2 guest judges) voted for their favorite lemon and potato inspired dish. The winner was this potato wrapped cod. We tried making it too. We were concerned about slicing a hard, raw potato with our cheap cheese slicer, but it worked surprisingly well! We used tilapia instead of cod, and made a mustard sauce instead of an aioli (no mayo or olive oil). It was delicious! The instructions by http://www.peterandrewryan.com really helped us prepare it with confidence - especially the tip to leave the potato alone even if it means leaving the room.
You can read all the Foodie Fight rules here: http://www.foodiefights.com/rules/ Basically you get two featured ingredients. Then you make a course with those 2 ingredients and blog about it. An entree, appetizer, dessert - anything you want it to be! Just keep your entry to one course please.
Congrats to Pete! We hope you keep running, cooking and making art - hey, just like us!
No, I don’t mean one of those great people from the Food channel who knows everything about food - rather a movie star who gives yummy recipes!
Gwyneth Paltrow’s new website, GOOP, will be online soon. If you visit now you can sign up for her newsletter. The first issue was released yesterday and contains 2 recipes.
Gwyneth says she tries to eat “seasonally, locally, oragnically” with no red meat, no processed foods, and low sugar and dairy. Her weakness is cheese. And mine (MessyMom) is chocolate, so if I ever have her over to tea we’ll have to try a chocolate cheesecake together.
The recipes are for Turkey Ragu and Banana-Nut Muffins. But I won’t reprint them here. You can join her mail list for the turkey ragu recipe, and stay tuned here for Messy Chef Alice to show you OUR banana muffin recipe.
The MessyChefs cook all the time, even when we aren’t being recorded. This weekend we made…
1. A chocolate orange cake - Grandma’s recipe uses lots of yummy orange juice for flavor.
2. Dirt pudding cups -We were invited out, and brought 6 for the 6 kids at friday night dinner to share. Organic chocolate cupcakes made from a mix - but we added some whole wheat flour and a bit of chocolate rice milk to stretch the batter. They were topped with delicious vegan chocolate pudding made from corn starch, vanilla, chocolate rice milk, sugar and cocoa.
3. Wheatberry and sprouted bean salad. Half served warm right when it was made, flavored with jalapenos, sherry and worsterstechestershchester sauce (HA!) The other half refrigerated and served chilled with some edamame and Caesar dressing tossed in.
4. Homemade energy bars. MessyDad runs about 40-50 miles/week and was spending lots of money on those bars that start with a ‘C’. Now he makes his own. This week he made a batch of peanut chocolate chip and a batch of mango.
5. Chicken parmasean. The kids don’t like it for dinner, but MessyMom and MessyDad do!
6. Twice baked sweet potatoes - made in the toaster oven so the whole kitchen didn’t have to get hot. With a pat of butter, and dashes of cinnamon and chili powder.
