PH Cooking competition 12.

[madbadger]

After much deliberation and to stretch our skills I think we need to go the other way from traditional British pie, but I think a theme is working better than a single ingedient.

So this month the theme is Asian

Specifically Thai / Vietnamese / Cambodian, but otherwise open to interpretation. Any meat / veggie as you wish.

Two weekends to cook, so entries in by Monday the 29th. Poll will run a week so will close on the 4th September.

I will be on honeymoon so someone else will have to set up the poll.

Good luck.

[Pixel-Snapper]

oooooow good theme, dont think we have had that one before.


Thinking caps on folks.

[captainzep]

Great stuff Badger.

Enjoy the honeymoon. Be sure to overdo it.

[captainzep]

Meant to add, are we cooking a dish or a meal?

With an Asian meal I'm inclined to fill the table with lots of different little dishes, -but are we after a single plate of food?

[calibrax]

I actually share an office with a Vietnamese chap, so I will definitely be tapping him up for ideas. Hoping to do something unusual!

[Cotty]

captainzep said:

With an Asian meal I'm inclined to fill the table with lots of different little dishes, -but are we after a single plate of food?

I think the unofficial rule is one dish/plate.

Now im going to struggle to find something to cook without coconut milk in it. I know Jungle Curry is out as its too bloody hot.

[Council Baby]

I like this one.

Why no coconut milk Cotty?

[madbadger]

I think one dish will do. Don't want people to be put off thinking they need to spend hours preparing a banquet.

[Cotty]

Council Baby said:

I like this one.

Are you going to enter this one?

Council Baby said:

Why no coconut milk Cotty?

Most Thai dishes contain the stuff and to my eyes coconut belongs in a pudding not a main meal.

[Council Baby]

Cotty said:

Most Thai dishes contain the stuff and to my eyes coconut belongs in a pudding not a main meal.

I'll enter. I've not been at home enough to bother cooking recently, this will be a return to (bad??) form.

I'll be using coconut milk, to my eyes if the Thais use it, and it's their food, they must be right

[captainzep]

madbadger said:

I think one dish will do. Don't want people to be put off thinking they need to spend hours preparing a banquet.

My waistline says thank you.

[OdramaSwimLaden]

[ali_kat]

Council Baby said:

I'll enter. I've not been at home enough to bother cooking recently, this will be a return to (bad??) form.

Can I bet on what you'll be cooking?

I'll be doing this one too

I'll remember to up my presntation skills & to take a photo before I eat it this time!

[Council Baby]

ali_kat said:

Can I bet on what you'll be cooking?

I'll be doing this one too

I'll remember to up my presntation skills & to take a photo before I eat it this time!

You can if you like, but I'm going for the "surprise myself" approach with something I've not cooked before, so spend your bet on a nice bottle of Sancerre instead mate

[Pixel-Snapper]

OdramaSwimLaden said:

WTF!

[Shaw Tarse]

Pixel-Snapper said:

OdramaSwimLaden said:

WTF!

I'd try it!

[Mobile Chicane]

Cotty said:

Most Thai dishes contain the stuff and to my eyes coconut belongs in a pudding not a main meal.

Coconut milk is used instead of eg. cream to enrich sauces since south-east asian cuisine evolved without access to dairy products.

[Cotty]

Mobile Chicane said:

Coconut milk is used instead of eg. cream to enrich sauces since south-east asian cuisine evolved without access to dairy products.

I realise its a historic thing. I think most people know my stance by now, if you can pour custard over it and serve it as a pudding then it has no place in a main dish. Like the spiced peaches on the gammon steaks being served im my companies resturant tomorrow

I still await the pork chop trifle, don't tell me I didn't warn you

[calibrax]

Cotty said:

I realise its a historic thing. I think most people know my stance by now, if you can pour custard over it and serve it as a pudding then it has no place in a main dish. Like the spiced peaches on the gammon steaks being served im my companies resturant tomorrow

I still await the pork chop trifle, don't tell me I didn't warn you

I'm with you on this one. My particular loathing is for fruit & meat combos. Duck/orange, pork/apple, gammon/pineapple, turkey/cranberry, raisins in a curry, all banned in my house!

The only fruits I will accept with meat are tomatoes, lemons and limes.

People go on about the enzymes from the fruit tenderising the meat, but there are other ways to do that without making a fruit salad...

EDIT: just to add, that on the other side of the equation - carrot cake is VERY VERY WRONG. Vegetable made into a dessert, whatever next?

[ali_kat]

calibrax said:

I'm with you on this one. My particular loathing is for fruit & meat combos. Duck/orange, pork/apple, gammon/pineapple, turkey/cranberry, raisins in a curry, all banned in my house!

The only fruits I will accept with meat are tomatoes, lemons and limes.

With you both - pineapple on pizza, banana in curry Don't get me started on cranberry/apple sauces!

Only thing I will concede to that is Mango in condiments

Coconut however, to me is a cooking ingredient. Especially milk as it doesn't taste 'that' coconuty

It's not something I would pour custard over either