PH Cooking Competition #31 - Rich Man, Poor Man

[Gruffy]

*THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT ARE AS FOLLOWS*

• One entry per person, which must be cooked within competition time frame.
• No more than 3 photos to be entered unless stated by the theme setter.
• Food must be prepared by yourself as much as possible (IE not putting a pre packed goat curry in the microwave).
• The competition will run until the last Sunday of the month, once the new theme has been set by the last winner.
• The poll will commence ASAP preferably the Monday and voting will last for a week.

The theme for this month is Rich Man, Poor Man. The challenge is to create a dish where the key ingredients are one luxury ingredient and one 'poor man's' ingredient. This could be a starter, main or dessert.

The closing date for entries is Sunday 28th April
The subsequent poll will run until Sunday 5th May

Edited by Gruffy on Tuesday 26th March 12:18

[Pixel-Snapper]

Interesting theme Gruffy I like it.

Doffs ones thinking cap.

[Melman Giraffe]

Maybe....

Poached duck egg with black truffle shavings on top

[yorky500]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Thick steak & chips?

[Gruffy]

I may not find enough time to enter this month but if I do I will probably look to do something with black pudding, matching it with either king scallops or foie gras.

I guess the competition is all about how we each interpret the challenge and I'm quite interested to see how everybody approaches it. When I think of poor mans' ingredients I think of things like pig trotters, pork/beef/fish cheeks, offal, black pudding, fish like pollack, carbs like polenta and so on, but please don't be limited to my interpretation.

[Pixel-Snapper]

Right got a couple of ideas on the boil at the moment, however I'm discounting one on the fact that said ingredient cost £24.50 per 500g!!!!!!

[Dan_1981]

Damn it - should have saved the saffron from last month.

[anonymous-user]

fugu and chips it is..

[Gruffy]

Please post again tomorrow so that we know not to worry. Good luck

[Slink]

curry lobster?

or

chocolate covered lobster?

or,or, or.....

century egg on toast ......

[calibrax]

Good chance for me to use the foie gras I brought back from France... just got to decide on a poor man's ingredient!

[Gruffy]

Reminder that the closing date is this Sunday. I hope I haven't nerfed the new momentum with an unpopular theme

[Pixel-Snapper]

crabsticks forgot it was this sunday.

[poprock]

I just haven’t had time for this one. Looking forward to seeing what others come up with though, it’s really interesting theme.

[SVX]

I also will have to duck out of this one; simply haven't had time as am travelling a lot with work.

My suggestion would be to cook up a biriyani with saffron as the luxury ingredient and mutton or hogget on the bone as the cheap component.

Good luck to everyone who enters.

[Pixel-Snapper]

Well I didn't make it in the end, I've had too much on my plate so too speak to get round to it.

My plan was the do "Fish n Chips" Pollock in a champaign batter with thick cut tripe cooked chips and pea pure.

[Gruffy]

Who was the runner up last month? Perhaps they'd offer a theme for April?

[jogon]

Ive got an idea but before I embark on it would you consider beef short ribs to be 'poor man's' or not?? Pretty cheap cut in the butchers..

Thanks

[Pixel-Snapper]

Gruffy said:

Who was the runner up last month? Perhaps they'd offer a theme for April?

Just looked at the survey results and it was a tie between Dozygit and SVX I think.

Maybe they would like to set one between them?

[jogon]

oops, see its finished...