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My response to Gordon Ramsay's 30 minutes to 'Use Your Noodle' challenge on Next Level Chef ....
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UPGRADE FROM THE EVEN SIMPLIER FARE OF LAST THURSDAY NIGHT........
Sliced sirloin with grilled corn.....avocados, cherry tomatoes and cilantro creme sauce over a bed of mixed greens.....
WITH ONLY 15 MINUTES TO PREPARE A LIGHT 'WOODEN BOWL' DINNER......THIS OPUS WAS COMPLETED IN 12.......LEAVING ME 3 MINUTES TO 'GET DRESSED' FOR THE CONCERT AT 8.
Last minute pre-symphony 'light dinner' a tasty slaw with vegan 'meat'balls, dried fruits, nuts and seeds and avocado ......'dressed' with a hoisin/red curry paste and plum sauce mix.....to alert the senses for Giancarlo Guerrero's animated conducting of the ASO's performance of fandangos, tangos and blaring trumpets.....
'DON'T GET ANY ON YOU'..........EVEN WHEN SANDWICHED BETWEEN BUN HALVES, THIS IS A MESSY PROSPECTIVE......
A 'FULLY EQUIPPED' HAMBURGER........MEDIUM-RARE AND JUICY...... Another 'don't get any on you' challenge......the Pita Gyro Wrap, with a 'napkin in one's lap'....
A CRABCAKE, DELIVERED TO MY DOOR, FROM A GOOD FRIEND....AND CHEF.....
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TO WHICH I ADDED A GLOB OF FANCY, PIQUANT SAUCE AND SOME SALTY CAPERS, AFTER PLACING THE 'CAKE' UPON A DECORATIVE PLATE.......
"POT O' BEANS".......updated from the simple childhood bowl of 'beans and rice' to urbane fare....
after 12 hours of cooling down.......a pot of pinto beans, cooked for a couple of hours, with green chilis, chopped oil-cured tomatoes..as well as diced, varying-colored, cherry tomatoes, Mole sauce with powdered, unsweetened Ghirardelli cocoa, salsa verde, crushed garlic, and vegetable stock......served over long grain basmati rice, cooked in chicken stock with a copious amount of powdered tumeric, spoonfuls of yellow curry powder, harissa and red chili powders, grated scallion bulbs, chopped cilantro & parsley, and thin-sliced scallion greens, then 'topped' with old-fashioned pickle relish.......Still, perhaps, one of my favorite 'dishes' since boyhood........best, served with a crunchy iron-skillet cornbread stick that's light and airy....and fresh from the oven....
