Thomas Wolfe: "There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."
Tonight we went on to the second best picture movie of all time, The Broadway Melody, 1929. Musicals definitely aren't Damon's thing but there are quite a few that I enjoy. I'm not sure I will add this movie to that list but it wasn't horrible. It seemed like all the actors were over-acting but overall it wasn't that bad.
Anyway, It's Friday Night in Winslow and time for our tenth Mystery Bag Challenge! It's Damon's turn to pick the mandatory ingredients and my turn to cook. Damon thought it was his turn to cook up until last night so he hadn't thought about it and he confessed when I got home tonight that he still had not decided on the ingredients. I think I might be in for some trouble tonight!
Recap: The rules are simple; whoever is cooking has to make dinner using each of the mystery food items that the other has put into the mystery bag. We can also use other items that we have in the fridge and pantry, but MUST use some of each item from the mystery bag, and MUST be ready to plate-up dinner before 1 hour has passed after seeing the ingredients for the first time.
And here's what I ended up with for tonight!
Okay so he gave me a pound of ground beef, shredded cheese, a red onion, and yeah, a yellow onion too!
Funny enough, During the movie, Damon had handed me a 1950-1960 New York Times Cookbook he had been thumbing through, and said maybe I should read this before my challenge, just to be funny. I was like, really you found something out of here to inspire you? He said he didn't he was just being funny, but I began thumbing through it and found all kinds of crazy recipes that called for bone marrow, or ox tail, or calf shins and I was really thinking Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot, nasty! Because who the hell has this kind of shit in their house??? Anyway after about thirty minutes, I found something that I thought would be interesting and I kept that in my pocket thinking I might could use it on Damon on a future challenge. Sure as shit, he gives me things that I could totally use to make the dish..... Hamburger Potato Roll.... Seriously, and the book said it was the most frequently asked for recipe by the New York Times from that time period?
I didn't remember the exact recipe from the cookbook or all the details but I did remember that it said it should bake for an hour. Well, I only have an hour so I jump right on it, hoping I maybe could bake at a higher temp and get it done in time. Potatoes go in to boil and I start cutting onion, I'm going to put the red in the roll and use the yellow with some green beans as a side dish.
I have about twenty minutes left, so I mix the ground beef with bread cut into chunks, thyme, oregano, sage, salt, pepper, crushed red pepper flake, onion, garlic, and one egg. Next, I spread out some bread crumbs on some wax paper and put my meat mixture on top of it and flattened it out. Check me out, I'm out of time and no room for being a sissy here, no gloves and I always use gloves to touch raw meat!!
Next, I spread a layer of the mashed potatoes on top of the meat and begin to roll.
Okay I'm just under 20 minutes and I finally get my roll into the oven and again, I am so not going to get this cooked on time!!! At any rate, Damon and I are both convinced this is going to be a pretty bad ass dish!
So, now I have nothing to do but clean up my mess while the roll bakes, so Damon helps me with clean up and we just wait. The timer goes off and my hour has passed...... DAMNNNNNNN!!!! Oh well, I knew I wasn't going to make it but it's looking pretty good in the oven!
I ended up being over by thirty minutes which sucks but it was inevitable. The roll was close to being done so I cooked up some green beans with minced onion, garlic, butter, and salt and pepper. Nothing left to do but plate up.
A reminder of our scoring system...
being done on time = 0-1 point
dish presentation = 0-2 points
dish creativity / originality = 0-3 points
dish flavor = 0-3 points
portion size = 0-1 point.
We did our scoring and in the end, I ended up with an average of 8.5 points!
Damon = 41.5, Christina = 42, and that puts me back in the lead but not by much!!
Next week is Damon's turn to cook and my turn to turn up the heat on this challenge!
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