5/19/2012
      So, we had fun today! All of us roommates plus one, had a cook off! (similar to the one they do on food network, Iron Chef) We even had a secret ingredient too!


Chantal was the "camera-[wo]man, filming running to our needs. (We were allowed up to two apartment helps. The apartment helps gave us the option to ask other apartments for ingredients we needed, but which we didnt have. She would run and get the ingredients for us.)


Group 1
Angie
April
Maddie


Group 2
Jennifer
Amy
Whitney (me)


It was a lot of fun! The secret ingredient was mung bean sprouts. (Mmmmm! :) I looooove bean sprouts!) We had ten minutes (after we found out what the secret ingredient was) to find two recipes on the Internet, to make for the judges (random ).
Group 1 Made an Indian stew, for their first dish. It was made with potatoes, carrots, celery, bean sprouts,Curry pepper and had a delicious tasting gravy/sauce that went with it. Their second dish, was a salad that Angie found. It was made with spinach, bean sprouts, Curry pepper and kyan pepper.
Group 2 Made a "Chinese" type food, for their first dish. It was ramen noodles mixed with grated carrot, egg, mung beans sprouts and peanuts. A peanuty sauce was added into the mix later on . Their second dish, was egg rolls.
Everybody tried everybodys food, and it was all terrific! My personal favorite was the egg rolls (and I am NOT an egg roll fan.) That's how good they were. The one I liked least, was the peanuty one that we (group 2) did. I'm just not a peanut fan, so I didn't like that one much. It was a huge favorite with everyone else though! At the end, Chantal took around samples of the food we had just made, to one or two random apartments (they were the judges). They said that they enjoyed it all, but their favorite dishes, were the potato dish (the Indian dish, made by group 1), and the peanuty sauce noodles (made by group 2). Overall they liked group 2's dishes best, but group 1's dishes were delicious too.
It was super fun! We hope to do another one of these roommate cook offs again soon!

--Whitney :)