PH Cooking Competition 20 - A Contradiction

[oilydan]

A double challenge this month...

Cook us up a quintessential 'PH' dish. We want to see pies, meat, chips, butter - the lot. A dish representing the soul of Pistonheads.

But....


We are going to calorie-count.

You can either list your ingredients (with weights) and someone will do it for you or go to http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calorie-chart-nut... and find your ingredients.

We want the usual pictures and also the total calorific content of your portion of home-cooked food.

Final rankings will be based on your votes minus a percentage based on your dish's contribution to the total entry calorie count.

You could go for a huge pie that looks great but loses a big % of your votes for being too calorific, or make a salad and keep all of your (very few!) votes.

Entries here by 21st, giving 2 week-ends, poll will run until 29th to make way for new comp in March.

Good luck!

[Pixel-Snapper]

Crikey this is going to be a tuff.... never one for restraint on the calorie front.

[croakey]

Good Morning Gentlemen!

Apologies for my somewhat extended absense, its fair to say work has been tough the past couple of months, and inbetween extended hours and some serious stress i've not had time to indulge.

But i'm back and loving the idea of this challenge.... Cotty needs to get about 5billion votes by my reckoning to get even half a chance lol

[Pixel-Snapper]

Wouldn't be so sure croakey, Cottys albeit substantial portion size dont tend to be heavy on the calories.

[Cotty]

oilydan said:

A dish representing the soul of Pistonheads.

oilydan said:

You could go for a huge pie that looks great but loses a big % of your votes for being too calorific, or make a salad and keep all of your (very few!) votes.

Since when is a salad the soul of Pistonheads

[madbadger]

So much conflict......

Will have to play with Macro mode on my camera.

[Cotty]

Pixel-Snapper said:

Wouldn't be so sure croakey, Cottys albeit substantial portion size dont tend to be heavy on the calories.

But if a roast potato has X amount of calories, its not going to swing in my favour if I have 20 of them

I suppose I could just chuck a few on a side plate and photo that.

[Bob the Planner]

Are we going to work it on calories per regular portion size ? If I make a meal for 4 and only eat 1 portion, do I get penalised ?

[calibrax]

calories per 100 gram would be the fairest way to calculate.

[croakey]

So are we going with calories per 100g?

I'm going to whack out some ultra healthy curries this weekend me thinks...

[madbadger]

croakey said:

So are we going with calories per 100g?

Sounds a good idea.

Have my recipe ready, but I think it might take longer weighing and calculating than the actual cooking.

[condor]

Just to start the ball rolling

I thought I'd just go with a slab of meat as rump steak was 150calories per 100g



Then thought I ought to add a few more ingredients to it




Then decided I'd just have a very small portion

Steak and chips approx 300 calories

[Pixel-Snapper]

Ive been so busy researching something to do that I appear to be running out of time to enter.......Bugger!

I see that the closing date is 21st so that make it a Monday right?

Looks like I might have to sneak a monday night one in if so.

[madbadger]

My entry.

Pinto Bean Burrito.

Ingredients:



First up Hugh Fearnley Barstools Pinto Bean Chilli.



Which ended up making far more than I needed.

Calories on the Chilli. (With working!) Total weight is the weighed finished food. Total Calories is individual cals added up. Cal/100g is calculated from the above two figures.

Ingredient	Weight (g)	cal/100g	Cals
Pinto Beans	200	140	280
Onions	165	30	50
Garlic	6	149	9
Peppers	280	27	76
Courgettes	436	18	78
Kidney Beans	400	105	420
Tomatos	400	23	92
Total	2527	40	1005

Not bad. A 2.5 kg Chilli with 1000 cal works out at 40 cal/100g. Needs tweaking though.

I made my Chapati dough then tried an experiment and put it through a pasta roller. After a few runs through it was spot on. Square Chapatis are easier to fill, too.

Add 100g of low fat cheese and some parsley.




20 minutes at 160C.

Ingredient	Weight (g)	cal/100g	Cals
Chilli	1000	40	400
Flour	250	320	800
Cheese	100	302	302
Total	1380	108	1502

Final calories per 100g 108. One portion was 1/4 of the finished dish so 375 cal. Positively healthy.





Served with a nice Chillian Pinot Noir. No idea how many calories are in it and I don't really care!



Edit to correct the beans

Edited by madbadger on Saturday 18th February 09:24

[calibrax]

madbadger said:

Ingredient	Weight (g)	cal/100g	Cals
Pinto Beans	200	333	666

Ingredient	Weight (g)	cal/100g	Cals
Cheese	100	302	302

Pinto beans higher in calories than cheese? can't be right... your dish may be healthier than you think!

Looks scrummy by the way

[madbadger]

calibrax said:

madbadger said:

Ingredient	Weight (g)	cal/100g	Cals
Pinto Beans	200	333	666

Ingredient	Weight (g)	cal/100g	Cals
Cheese	100	302	302

Pinto beans higher in calories than cheese? can't be right... your dish may be healthier than you think!

Looks scrummy by the way

Hmmm. Good point. I was using this line "Serving Size: 1/4 cup (Dry) 36g, Calories: 120, Fat: 0g, Carbs: 22g, Protein: 7g" from the site linked to in the first post. I was just looking for one using grams rather than cups.

There is another suggestion that says 86g is 120cal (140cal/100g) which is closer to the kidney beans.

I'll edit my post.

[calibrax]

madbadger said:

Hmmm. Good point. I was using this line "Serving Size: 1/4 cup (Dry) 36g, Calories: 120, Fat: 0g, Carbs: 22g, Protein: 7g" from the site linked to in the first post. I was just looking for one using grams rather than cups.

There is another suggestion that says 86g is 120cal (140cal/100g) which is closer to the kidney beans.

I'll edit my post.

Actually thinking about it it may be the cheese that's too low... because the flour is higher than the cheese too. Which can't be right... or can it? I give up, getting confused now

[madbadger]

calibrax said:

Actually thinking about it it may be the cheese that's too low... because the flour is higher than the cheese too. Which can't be right... or can it? I give up, getting confused now

Cheese is pretty low, but it was taken from the packet. It is low fat cheese. Flour seemed high to me too, but again that was what the packet said.

I'm glad I don't do this for every meal!

[Bob the Planner]

Given that Summer is the season of the PH BBQ, whether it be at Pistonfest, Le Mans or in your own back yard, a BBQ has to be a PH favorite.

BBQ Pork Chop, Prawns and Home Made Burgers ready to go.


Cooking on the BBQ


Lobster and prawn sauce warming up too


Taste on a plate ! Served with a dressed rocket and watercress salad


Followed up by a Gin overlooking the Ocean (with the first home grown lime of the season)


I'll add ingredients and quantities when I'm sober.

Edit
and here they are

Ingredient	Qty	Weight	Calories
Pork BBQ Chop	265 g	265	374
Prawns - Large	6	300	231
Salad
Rocket & Watercress Salad Leaf	100 g	100	26
Tomato - Roma	1.5	222	53
Salad Onion	2	50	12
Black Pepper	2 g	2	1
Salt	2 g	2	0
Lemon	0.25	15	4
Olive Oil	2 tbsp	30	240
Burgers	Qty for 7	For 2	For 2
Minced Rump Steak	500g	143	116
Red Onion	1	33	13
Garlic Clove	1	2	6
Bread Crumbs	3 slices	24	60
Egg	2	33	40
Salt	2 g	1	0
Pepper	2g	1	0
Flour	3 tbsp	9	24
.
Bun	2	106	200
Canola Oil (for cooking)	2 tbsp	30	248

The burger qualitities made 7 1/4lb burgers so i have put the weight in for 2 and the associated calories.

Meal for 2 equates to 1646 calories for 1367g in 2 servings so in total a whopping 120 Cal / 100g

Edited to correct quantities and calories on burgers (forgot to multiply by 2)

Edited by Bob the Planner on Tuesday 21st February 20:57

[oilydan]

Mrs oilydan gave it a go...

Beer Braised Pork Knuckle.







Pork Knuckle 565
Bottle of Beer 220
Spuds 870
Carrots 110
Broccoli 25
Onion 70
Apple 75

Total 1935

Divided by 3 portions (2 adults and 2 kids) is a whopping 645 Cals per portion. But the crackle was worth it!