Galatian Thanksgivin'

[Titus]

Cook and Kelly are graciously hosting this year. The secret ingredient for the cook off is chocolate/cocoa, but no deserts. If you want to bring a desert it is okay, but it will not be apart of the Iron Chef Off.

Date is the day after Thanksgiving.

[Rayne]

THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

Next summer, I'm hosting the first annual Galatian Cupcake War.

[Thomas Fitzcharles]

Good Day, All.

I can't make it. I'll be at my Mom's.

Sincerely

Thomas

[boagrius]

There have never been rules against desserts, the first ingredent was pumkin and had both desserts and meals(pasta I believe), so I say desserts are permitted.

[boagrius]

Not pumpkin I meant to say sweet potatoes ( and someone made cookies).

[Nighean Donn]

Is it any "type" of chocolate? In other words does white chocolate count? I would think it's not the same because it's not real chocolate, but you might want to specify only dark and milk etc..

[Titus]

@Boag, Brian won last year, and that is the ingredient he chose with the stipulation. Chocolate dessert is kind of a cop out to me.

[MorGrendel]

At Mission, I believe Brian stated it must contain "cocoa powder". I don't believe white chocolate counts as it's the fats pulled off in the process of making cocoa powder. That said, that should not stop you, you just might not get my vote. I believe Brian liked the challenge of no desserts, but did not exclude them. Personally, I'd rather have, than have not, so I side with Chris and says desserts are open. Moreover, with a bitter ingredient like cocoa, it takes a great deal of fat and sugar to counteract the flavor, so dessert-like entries may be more common. The line on what is a dessert might be a bit fuzzy, and so I hate to see someone lose because of it.

I say go nuts and make whatever killer recipe you have.

BTW, I don't have a sweet tooth so I probably won'r pick a dessert, just saying.

[boagrius]

Everything should be open as I hate to see challenges pigeon-holed.
Chocolate has great diversity, but can be very tricky if you remove the deserts. While choco- veggies,meats,fish, sound intresting, it could be disasterous.

Plus if you can come up with something out of the area of desert it just lends more towards your creativity. I say bring it on in all its forms, white, dark, milk, bittersweet, powder, or even bean

[MorGrendel]

No joke. Cocoa beans are poisionous. They actually have to be boiled and then left to ferment to neutralize the toxins. How do I know that? Maybe I should look that up.

[boagrius]

Damn you jeff you ruined my suprise. just kidding. anyway,

heres whats on the menu for Galatian thanksgiving,

Lots of turkey (of course)
sweet potatoe casserole
greenbean casserole
rolls
gravy
garlic mashed potatoes
cranberry sauce
stuffing

and items with the secret ingredient

Feel free to bring any other dishes you would like and of course they will be appreciated. I will have drinks but not alcohol so byob.

Can't wait to see everybody.

[Berserker]

Sweet!! I look forward to this! This should be awesome!

[boagrius]

Forgot to say the time but I figured around 5ish

[Nighean Donn]

We will be there, but it doesn't look like I will have time to make a dish for competition. I gotta work on this project for Business Mngt class because we present next week and 2 people have dropped off the face of the earth... yay more research for me.

[Nighean Donn]

But, please let me know if you need anything... we can stop and pick it up.