SC - Stone Soup Contest

[Sharon Gordon]

I thought the Siege Cookery Contest was a great idea.  I enjoyed
looking at the list when it was posted and coming up with a
long list of dishes that could be prepared from the ingredients.

For the Stone Soup sort of situation, I was thinking it would be
a fun dinner among friends for a person who likes interesting
cooking challenges.  Each person would contribute a portion of
the food and then the cook would design something interesting
from the combination.  Then everyone who contributed an ingredient would
sit down to a nice meal.   One of the things I was trying to figure
out was what would be fair portions of food items to ask for so
that the minimums would be more or less even and that overall, there would
be a well balanced meal with plenty of food.

It would be like the siege cookery contest in that it would be a
challenge, but different in that the result would be a meal for
many rather than just enough for tastes for judges.

I did a modern version of this for a few years for 6 friends.  I
cooked two nights a week for the group.  Once was a planned meal and on
the last night of the food-week I made something interesting out of 
whatever was left.  This consisted of typical leftovers plus
uncooked extras from ingredients from the other 5 meals.  Since
we purchased everything together from our planned menus, there
was very little of any one thing left over.
It was always fun to see what I could come up with.

A newspaper recently did a sort of takeoff on this idea and the
cooking show idea.  They got shoppers in a Kroger grocery store
to agree to let local master chefs go home with them, a reporter,
and a photographer and the current contents of their shopping
basket.  The chef could use anything from the basket and I think
from their cabinets to create the dinner.  The baskets of people 
they picked (or maybe just the people who would agree to this)
tended to have rather unhealthy-oriented type food pushing the
junk food category.  So it was quite amazing to see the
wonderful things the chefs came up with.

Sharon
gordonse at one.net

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