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To Chopped’s Ted Allen

Baskets, strange items

Lactose, pork, monkey brains and Twix

Glad I’m not on stage

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I made those up but you could have reindeer, coffee beans, jujubees and cement. Or chicken feet, lime jello mix, pummelo and glasswort. All in 20 minutes.

Or carve out a beef heart from the live animal and mix it with a part of beef it came from, duck beaks, nopales and live sea urchin. That’s thirty minutes.

Perhaps paper dirty baby diapers, Cheerios, rice baby cereal and bottled baby apricots.

How about purposefully overcooked Bistecca Fiorentina, overcooked and grey asparagus in spring, gooey overcooked risotto and a curdled panna cotta.

Now these can be new contests! Cheers, Dee

Ted May Be Back

Ted Allen is a haiku guy. He’s on multiple shows on TV but I first saw him as the cooking guy on Queer Eye. Early in this blog we had a haiku competition and challenged Ted to judge it. Of course he was too busy but before he was The Man, he had time to converse with me via email.

I’m smart enough not to do another blog contest even though Michelle loved her trip to Hawaii and Pam her family rafting trip down the Colorado with their winnings. Oh when I lie I do it well.

They did receive kudos and check out the Haiku section of the blog and write one. Five syllables, seven, then five. Concise. We’ll amass them and send them to Ted.

Ted, stop being The Man for a moment and remember regular folks like one who has a boutique cooking blog with over 14,000 hits. Talk to Carson, it’s quality you want, not quantity.

Cheers, Dee

Ted and Haiku?

Just saw we got a hit on Beat Ted, do you think it’s Ted Allen’s people? I’m sure he’s important enough to have “people” now. What happened to his show? Surely he’s more intelligent and food savvy than most of the “food personalities” on TV these days.

This blog was started beginning of June and we had a haiku contest and challenged Ted. No response. I’m not ready to go through that again but especially thank the winners, pdxknitterati and Pam for writing in.

Oh, well, Ted, you can always submit a haiku and the blog readership can judge it. Dee

Ike

Ike is coming to
Punish us yet again for
Being arrogant