I just watched an episode of Iron Chef for the first time, and I am intrigued. My first reaction was, “I want to do that! I want to go on Iron Chef and have this pantry full of fancy ingredients to pull from and making amazingly creative food based on weird ingredients.”
And then I decided I do not want to be on Iron Chef. Do I know how to cook with exotic ingredients? Not really. Does my food look remotely that pretty plated up? No. Can I make an orange chiffon cake without looking up a recipe? Ha!
On the other hand, I know what competition I would love to see. I want the Iron Chef competitors in my kitchen going up against me. Take the leftovers from my fridge, giving priority to the older ones so nothing goes bad and has to be thrown out. Create a meal using only those leftovers and whatever happens to be in my pantry at the moment. (This may mostly consist of whatever’s been on sale in the past three weeks, but will always have a few weird options thrown in, like the canned beets I’m still convinced I’m going to use in something.) This meal should be relatively healthy (in a natural, high fat, low processed food sort of way) but primarily be something Colton will eat and like (NO cilantro!).
Bonus points if you use the leftovers in a creative, interesting way. Soup is acceptable, but not usually interesting.
Extra bonus points if the cost for the whole meal comes to significantly under $2 for two people.
Somehow, I have a feeling I could win this particular competition. I wonder if I can get the Food Network to sign on for this…
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