+- Cuisine at home Forums (https://forums.cuisineathome.com)
+-- Thread: Mystery Box Dinner - Review Monday, June 13th (/showthread.php?tid=120529)
Mystery Box Dinner - Review Monday, June 13th - labradors - 04-21-2011
Finally found a way to watch Chopped: All Stars, and that brought to mind that we haven't done a mystery-box dinner, here, for a while.
We already have a current birthday meal on the calendar, and May has a lot of potential birthday meals, but there are only a few June entries in the birthday list, so would any of you be interested in planning a mystery box for June? We could start taking ingredient submissions now and start planning how we'll use them.
Any takers yet?
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - cjs - 04-21-2011
YES! will check back in.
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - Gourmet_Mom - 04-21-2011
It was fun last time!
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - Mare749 - 04-21-2011
Yes, I would like to do this again. It really was fun the last time I participated. My suggestion would be to let Labs pick some of the ingredients though, since he doesn't have access to the type of supermarkets we do here in the US. Another option might be to let Labs pick the main ingredient and we all go from there to come up with an original recipe. Just a thought...
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - Harborwitch - 04-22-2011
Funny this thought has been running through my head too. These were always so much fun.
I agree Daphne - let Labs pick some first!
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - labradors - 04-22-2011
If I really wanted to make it interesting, I'd make tamarind one of the ingredients, but then I don't know how accessible that is in the States. I know there are pastes and concentrates available for those who can't get the fresh (just the opposite of here), but I don't know how well you all could get those, either.
I think that allowing some liberties with the secondary ingredients (as we have done in the past), rather than absolutely requiring all of them (as on chopped) should be fine.
Even apart from the mystery-ox challenges, I'll do some substituting, from time to time. For the current birthday menu, for example, I plan to use fish, instead of scallops since I can't get scallops, here, and don't like them, anyway.
Even if people decide to make something like mussels the main ingredient, I'm okay with sitting out the challenge to let everyone else participate.
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - karyn - 04-22-2011
That sounds fun, and tamarind has my vote! I've never cooked with it but have seen it around here somewhere...
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - cjs - 04-22-2011
Go for it, Labs - we can all find most everything - so start things off anytime AND choose a review date for us.
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - Harborwitch - 04-22-2011
This sounds like so much fun - again. But Labs, please no gummy worms!!! LOL
Re: Time to plan ahead for another mystery box? - Gourmet_Mom - 04-22-2011
I have to sub a lot of times, also. But the longer I have to come up with some of the ingredients, the better my chances are of finding them...or ordering it, in the event it's something I've been wanting to try anyway. Tamarind would fall in the latter category. I say, "Go for it!" I DO like being able to use other things than what's in the basket. They get to do that on Chopped. The one we did where we could only use what was in the basket was tough!