Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Mystery Dinner (prep)

Luigi and Carlo had a great idea of having a mystery dinner - everyone brings a completely random ingredient and I prepare a feast with it.

Most of the ingredients were given to me the night before or this morning. I can use whatever else I have laying around in the fridge and/or get extra garnish/condiments (but no major proteins/vegetables, etc).

For this dinner, I was given:

Rutabaga
Coconut milk
Fake crab
Squash
Sanma fish
Oyster mushrooms
Edamame
Lamb shoulder
Linguica
Strawberries


FUN FUN FUN
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And some prep work...
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Sanma fish
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Made a rather large pot of stock from the bones leftover from the lamb shoulder. Only to reduce to a little tiny ramekin of sauce for the mushrooms.
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To be continued...

5 comments:

Acadaemia Nut said...

Cool! What ingredient did Carlo bring? My guess is either the squash or the fishies.

D said...

Hurry up.. I want to see the finished masterpiece!!

Joan P. said...

Carlo got me the rutabaga, coconut milk, and fake crab. haha

Acadaemia Nut said...

Oh man. I failed! He brought Krab?! For shame! But I'm sure you made something delicious with it :)

Kristina said...

That is such a cool idea. Who's turn will it be to cook next time? Jaime used to make soup(aka put random ingredients in a pot full of water) when it was his turn to cook dinner - granted he was probably 7 when our parents tried to institute this 'chore'.