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[Auntymimi]

If I stuff the pepper first then cut off rings the end of the jalapeno won't sit on a cracker and i was going to use it in my peanut dip. don't want meat in it.

Gotchya, the tips are going in the sauce, sorry I wasn't following.Does any one else have a plate for the Judges? Kookie, basilrock, kslink, fitzfood, a newby or a lurker?

[Kookie]

What do you plan to do w/crackers? I'm guessing a breading?

mixed with some chopped peanuts......not enough time to reconstruct a ritz into a new savory cracker crisp....lol

[BasilRock]

BasilRock, I appreciate that you are trying to play and take the game literally but none of us would ever know if you could imagine yourself making a dish out of the ingredients in the basket or actually broke out the pots and pans and spun through your kitchen at lightning speed, after all we are missing the judges and Ted Allen.(we are our own worst critic anyway) so if you would like to imagine a knock your socks off dessert a few cyber minutes after the buzzer feel free to bend the rules a little. The time issue is a little skewed anyway, since we actually get a few extra minutes/hours to think about it before we set to work, litterally or at the keyboard what ever the case might be. If you can try and prepare your Appetizer in 20min. and the Entree and Dessert each get 30min. You can preheat oven and boil water before hand but try and keep the rest of your prep and cooking within the "window" of time. Hopefully the dish turns out and the family acutally eats it, if you end up throwing it away or feeding it to the Dogs you can consider your self chopped but have some fun and play along anyway if you want.

I am not trying to play the game literally. That would be crazy. I just thought it would be fun to have a time period. I also realize that we all get on this site at different times and it would be fun to say make a dessert or whatever, in say, 20 minutes off the top of ones head with the ingredients that you give with what we have in our own kitchen. Sorry I guess I did not understand what you were trying to do. I was not planning on cooking the dishes, just trying to be a little creative with what I have on hand.

[Auntymimi]

Basilrock, sounds good to me. Now, if you could throw a few items in a basket I would love to get to work in the kitchen. with the foodnetwork chattering away in the back ground and my Husband would say a-oh, she's getting creative, then gobble it all up.

[BasilRock]

Basilrock, sounds good to me. Now, if you could throw a few items in a basket I would love to get to work in the kitchen. with the foodnetwork chattering away in the back ground and my Husband would say a-oh, she's getting creative, then gobble it all up.

O.K. Here goes. This should be easy for you. Bok Choy, pomegranate, eggs, maple syrup and pork tenderloin. You have 20 minutes.

[BasilRock]

O.K. Here goes. This should be easy for you. Bok Choy, pomegranate, eggs, maple syrup and pork tenderloin. You have 20 minutes.

I am going to sit this one out seeing that I picked the ingredients. I want to see something creative, so get your juices flowing. If we can be honest, you can wait until you get the ingredients, then start your 20 min. if you really want to cook for real. That would be fair don't you think?

[Auntymimi]

O.K. Here goes. This should be easy for you. Bok Choy, pomegranate, eggs, maple syrup and pork tenderloin. You have 20 minutes.

This is the appetizer? Do we have one to many ingrediants? Or am I having a chopped panic attack?

[Auntymimi]

I would like to say that making this basket was so much fun! I don't know how they do it so fast though.So today I made an appetizer, we have PHO' Soup w/pork Loin seasoned w/hoisin sauce and maple syrup, chow mein noodles, scallions and peppers. The broth had the large pieces of boc choy, cinn. anise, chicken broth maple syrup and pommagranite seeds which was strained and discarded.On the side to add in, you have leafy strips of boc choy, hard boiled egg, pomagranit seeds, bean sprouts, lime, mint and maple Hoisin sauce. You also have a cup of pomagranite infused green tea sweatened w/maple syrup.

[BasilRock]

I would like to say that making this basket was so much fun! I don't know how they do it so fast though.So today I made an appetizer, we have PHO' Soup w/pork Loin seasoned w/hoisin sauce and maple syrup, chow mein noodles, scallions and peppers. The broth had the large pieces of boc choy, cinn. anise, chicken broth maple syrup and pommagranite seeds which was strained and discarded.On the side to add in, you have leafy strips of boc choy, hard boiled egg, pomagranit seeds, bean sprouts, lime, mint and maple Hoisin sauce. You also have a cup of pomagranite infused green tea sweatened w/maple syrup.

I should have clarified what it should have been. You picked appetizer and that was fab. I like your choices. Very creative and I think it may work. I do not want to see you chopped. You must be exhausted. So glad that it was fun for you.

[Auntymimi]

We enjoyed our app/lunch but my husband wanted more meat and less of that "green stuff". I didn't care for the pom. Garnish it would have worked juiced into the maple/hoisin sauce.