A Cooking Challenge, The cook's 100
I'm proposing a cooking challenge, Cook 100 things on this list and blog about it. Make it from scratch, eat it and blog about it. That's all there is too it. Cook more, and write more!
Come join me!
The list is here along with the rules.
Cook's 100 Challenge
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14 Comments:
I'll do it! As I reviewed the list, I counted well over 30 items I've already made (got distracted and lost my train of thought to come up with a specific number). So, it's time for a new adventure! I'm starting a new online project maybe next week, so I'll include this ....
yentamary at 1:23PM on 07/02/09
I will do it in the fall and winter, it is too hot and humid to cook right now.
pjracz10 at 1:42PM on 07/02/09
I can't get the link to work...it shuts down the site...could someone post some of the dishes and I'll get to work! Thanks.
sammie at 3:23PM on 07/02/09
Posting the list here might have been more appropriate than linking to a personal blog since that could be seen as spamming.
The list is a bit weird. Or maybe I am. But things fall into two major categories. Either I've made it at some point, or I have no intention of ever making it. Like jello mold salad. No chance. Nope. Never.
And then we've got turducken. Okay, I've cooked a turducken, and once was enough. I doubt I'll ever want to make my own from scratch, partially because it feeds an army of people, and we don't serve those sorts of crowds most of the time. Same with turkey stuffed with a nontraditional stuffing. Okay, I make turkey about once a year, and I look forward to my traditional stuffing. I see no reason to do anything different next Thanksgiving, and I don't feed enough people other times to put a stuffed turkey on the menu. Stuffed chicken would make more sense, but I don't have a traditional stuffing that I'm tied to.
I think it would make more sense to come up with your own list of 100 things you want to cook (or maybe better, a list of 25 or 50 things you want to perfect) and go on your own personal journey.
dbcurrie at 4:22PM on 07/02/09
I can clear some things up. I thought that posting a list of 100 items was too much for a board post, thats why I linked to my blog. I tried to pick items many of which most people wouldn't cook, with out being prompted. Some of them are crazy, like the turduken. This is not a required list, it's just a challenge, no need to cook everything on it. Just like the listing of roadkill on the omnivores 100. I'm not too sure most people will be trying that.
@sammie: which site does it shut down? My blog?
I hope that clears up anyting, if the link still doesnt work please let me know, heres the regular link to my blog, http://theindecisiveeater.blogspot.com/
The Indecisive Eater at 5:56PM on 07/02/09
I think it's a cool idea. I can't do it due to diet and family, but it looks fun. Actually I'll attack a few of them as new dinner ideas.
Good luck with this and oh by the way - I like your blog.
Ribster at 10:20PM on 07/02/09
@Indecisive, you get 2000 characters in the body of the post, so it probably would have been a bit tight to fit the whole list along with your introduction. You could have put the list in the first comment, though.
We get a lot of people who post things just to drive traffic to their blogs and they never post anything else of value, and that gets a little tedious. If that's not your intention, then it's all good. I guess the test is whether the moderators let the thread stand. Sometimes things disappear.
I did go an look though, since you seemed somewhat sincere, and because I'm always looking for something new to make. My own list of challenges is getting pretty short.
dbcurrie at 11:02PM on 07/02/09
I love this idea! Maybe we can work this into a Weekend Cook and Tell.
Caroline Russock at 12:39AM on 07/03/09
How fun! Sounds like a Cliff's Notes version of The Julie/Julia Project.
therealchiffonade at 11:14AM on 07/03/09
I didn't see anything inappropriate in this post--it was not designed to sell a product, and announcing a 'cooking challenge' for yourself is common here--plus, there have been whole 'post a link to your blog' threads and people link to recipe suggestions on their blogs all the time.
That said...Beef Wellington....good luck, but you're on your own with that one, indecisive!
HeartofGlass at 11:59AM on 07/03/09
@Heart, I didn't think it was particularly inappropriate, but things very similar to this have been removed by the staff before. I'm not sure where they draw the line, though, because some things go and other similar things stay and I wasn't sure which way the coin would flip on this one.
Maybe it's just me getting lazy, too. I read some posts and there are links all over the place that I need to follow to get the context of what is being said, and I want to tell the person to just say what they want to say without sending me on a treasure hunt. Sometimes I go look and I feel like it was completely lazy of the poster to insert the links instead of quoting a sentence or two, and sometimes I find something that really draws me in and I end up spending a lot of time on some other site.
In this case, it was reasonable to post the link, but it also could have been posted here entirely, with a link in a signature. So again, it's a flip-the-coin thing.
dbcurrie at 1:54PM on 07/03/09
Thanks Everyone! No intentions of spamming! If any mods see this and think it is spamming please email before pulling it, so I know and let me know hoe to fix it.
Enough said about that. Let's talk about the cooking! Anybody ready to start this thing? What is everyone thinking about cooking first?
I just made a jar of infused garlic rosemary oil (with rosemary from my garden). I used it last night to make a chicken and broccoli pasta for dinner. Yum!
I think that I may make ice cream next. A few years ago I got a ice cream maker attachment for my kitchen aid which I have used once. There has been some very tasty recipes of Ice cream on simplyrecipes.com especially a blueberry frozen yogurt.
I've also been thinking about making my own sausage, but I think I need to wait till my summer classes are over, to do that. That will be an all day project.
So what about everyone else?
The Indecisive Eater at 8:43PM on 07/03/09
If it hasn't been removed yet, it's probably safe. They usually email you to let you know a post is being pulled and why.
Anyhoo, I hate to be a Negative Nancy, but you do know the dangers of garlic in oil, right? This was something you made and used the same day?
As for me, I made Gooey Butter Cake, which I'd never heard of before a few days ago. I'll count that as your #100.
For your sausage project, you might want to think about breaking that into a two or three day process, because the meat should be kept cold at each step. Depending on how much meat you're talking about and how you're going about it, it might make sense to let the meat chill overnight in between steps rather than barreling through and trying to get it all done in a day. And if you do it over a couple days, it actually seems like it takes less time, because you don't have that step where you're waiting for the meat to chill enough and it sucks two or three hours out of your schedule. If you want to make easy "sausage," make Italian sausage patties. All the flavor, less fuss with stuffing. And you can make small quanitites and make sure you have your spice mix exactly the way you want it. Then, when the spice mix is right, you can make and stuff sausages, and they'll be exactly what you want.
My next insane project might actually be corn flakes. No, not pouring them into a bowl, I'm talking about making the flakes. Like I said, I'm running out of challenges.
dbcurrie at 10:00PM on 07/03/09
Gooey Butter cake? sounds interesting. Where is that from?
I will probably end up waiting till the fall for the sausage making, it is waaay too hot out now.
I'll probably be pulling out the ice cream maker for the Kitchen aid and doing something with that.
Interestingly enough my In-laws are into making a turduken for thanksgiving this year. It started out as a joke last year, but now they're really into it. So that may be interesting.
The Indecisive Eater at 7:50PM on 07/06/09