Food Adventures

After Diane, Grandma and I all read The Last Chinese Chef, Grandma thought it would be a good idea to do a food competition of our own.

Here was the official invitation:

"On Saturday afternoon the Shrimp Fairy will deliver a 2 pound bag of medium sized frozen shrimp (very meaty) to the Clint household, the Diane household, and the Barbara household. It is up to each household to come up with a Super Shrimp Dish to be served during family dinner time on Sunday. The dishes can be hot or cold - any type of dish will do such as shrimp bisque, shrimp and rice, shrimp and spaghetti, shrimp and vegetables - just whatever whatever strikes the culinary imagination. A green salad and artisan bread will also be served.

Households may not reveal to each other what they are going to serve.

The Shrimp Fairy"

Then there was some "friendly" words of competition:

"Hark ye of little faith, the Goddess of Shrimp will lay waste the shallow artifices offered by the clumsy and the inept with a dish of such exquisite delicacy and divine perfection that the Heavens will open and pour forth the blessings of butter and wine upon all mankind forever and ever."


"Competitors,
I intend to take those shrimp and produce a thermonuclear level of destruction that I will rain down upon your heads. The fierceness of my cooking prowess will create such intimidation that none will be willing to compare their shrimp to mine. For in so doing they would experience so much shame at their own unworthiness that they would disembowel themselves on the spot. I intend to dominate this challenge and nobody is capable of resisting."

"The hour of your culinary destruction is nigh at hand. REPENT!"

Can you tell who wrote each quote?

And here was the feast:



We had everything from Coconut shrimp, shrimp scampi, a lemon garlic shrimp, shrimp/corn chowder and shrimp aspeck (spelling?). Jack, Clark and I were suppose to be the judges. Unfortunately everything tasted so good, that we couldn't pick just one winner.

The other food adventure that Clark and I experienced was going to the Orange County Fair grounds and eating from the food trucks. Many of the trucks were from the Great Food Truck race that was on foodnetwork tv.

The two that I recognized were the Seabirds truck and the Lime truck. They were two of the competitors that were on the episode that was in Manhattan, Kansas.






Neither of these trucks were my favorites. The Seabirds were Vegans and I was disappointed that they won a challenge giving them sol access to Aggieville (the big bar/restaurant area in downtown Manhattan). Kansas is cow land, not vegan land.

As for the Lime truck, one of the guys made a comment about having to dumb down their menu. I was very insulted. Even though I'm not a native Kansan, I'm still proud of the state and the many friends I made while we lived there.

Unfortunately while there, I didn't remember that the Lime Truck guy made that comment and because the Lime truck had the best menu, and the guy taking the orders was kind of cute, I order this:


Ahi Tuna "Poke" nachos. It was really good. Between me, my brother and my dad we managed to get food from pretty much all the trucks.

We plan on heading back when Clint gets back because he missed out due to having to work late that day. :( We want to wear our purple proudly and tell the Lime Truck guys how it really is, but we might have to dumb down our sentences for them.