Iron Chef Part Wu

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In our last installment of Iron Chef, our beloved Chairman Fenris removed his sparkly jacket, left behind on a chair, highlighted by a lone spotlight. It begged to be picked up and lovingly worn yet once again.

Although there is no way I could ever fill ** Chairman Fenris’** shoes, I picked up that jacket, had it tailored, and am arriving to Kitchen Stadium as we speak. With this, I open:

Iron Chef, Part Wu*

[Start Backdraft theme]

A pair of highly polished black patent leather stiletto click upon the floor of Kitchen Stadium, panning up to reveal the famous glittering jacket tailored to fit the feminine curves of our newest host for the SDMB Iron Chef battles, Chairman Java.

“It has been too long since we have had an Iron Chef battle here in our beautiful SDMB Kitchen Stadium, and it is time yet again to revive our favorite chefs of our esteemed message board and bring them to battle for the honor of being an Iron Chef.”

To refresh your memory, please see our previous Iron Chef Threads:

The First Iron Chef

Iron Chef Part Two

Iron Chef Part Three

Iron Chef Part Four

I will be keeping the same rules developed by Chairman Fenris in the last Iron Chef Threads.

I am selecting an Iron Chef to start off this battle, and should he accept, I will start the battle as soon as we have our judges and challengers. As per our previous rules, if you wish to be a challenger, you will be also put into our pool of judges and will be expected to take part in judging other battles to make sure we have at least 4 judges for each battle (as we have had several problems with keeping judges or having judges vote in a timely manner).

Once the theme ingredient(s) are revealed, our Iron Chef and challenger will have 48 hours to develop a menu and accompanying recipes. In turn, judges will be given 48 hours to comment on menus and vote.

Judges are to vote on a twenty-point scale, and are expected to make some commentary on our chef’s menus in the thread (we chefs do thrive on feedback).

I have selected Scylla to be my new Iron Chef, as he has been the only challenger to have bested me in previous battles. Once he has accepted, and once we have our challengers and judges, we shall begin.

Whose cuisine will reign supreme?
*[sub]Wu is “five” in Chinese, not for Wooo! Another Iron Chef thread![/sub]

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Chef Troy enters the stadium, followed by his gang of wily cajun sous-chefs, who examine the cookware and equipment with thoughtful and discerning eyes. Cheffie strides up to Chairperson Java and smooches her on the hand, grinning languidly.

I’d like to be the first to sign up for the new competition. I’m not anxious to compete with Scylla but if chosen I will acquit myself with honor. Just please please please don’t have another leftovers battle.

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Wooooo Woooo Woooo!!

Oh, pullleeeeeze lemme be a judge again, oh pulleeeeze let mebe a judge again, grovel, grovel grovel,

and, as an added incentive, this may be sufficient cause to lure my SO into posting here. He got interested in the very last Iron Chef contest, and I suspect that he’d have signed up to post his own comments should the thread have kept going.

ppppppppullllleeeeeze???

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Ah, my dear Cheffie, I knew I could count on you to be a challenger. Don’t worry, no leftovers this time, I promise.

wring, you and your SO are both welcome to be a part of this thread, and I am always happy to have such an enthusiastic judge.

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Once I am back from my week in Williamsburg you’ve got me as a judge. Glad to see this start up again.

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I’m game to judge again. I have more sure-thing computer time now, so I should be a little more reliable in showing up to judge. I’ll post and say whether I’ll be too busy to handle a battle if I think there’ll be a problem.

Yay! I get to imagine yummy meals again!

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OOh gooody goody gooooody, Juniper is here, too, this is gonna be sooooo much fun. come on over here :: pat pat pat pat:: we’ll wait for Fenris and maybe my Snookie will show up, too. I emailed him the thread. So, if a ‘newbie’ shows up and is instantly rude to me, you’ll know who he is, right?? :smiley:
gotta warn ya though, he’s (grudgingly) slightly, really hardly noticably it’s so slight, [sub][sup]better[/sub][/sup] at making puns than I am, and has been quite the chef (just ask him) himself. Makes a stellar cheesecake (or so I’ve been told, you’d think after 15 years, I’d have personal experience in that…)

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Sugar plum left her password in my computer, tsk.

So, Wring, you want to try to involve me in this latest fennel and goat cheese love fest, do you? More acorns in sparkling water? Prefer your cucumber bruised?

Hmmph. Bowl of Chili, bag of White Castles. Menu done.

On the other hand, I suppose I might be convinced to make some particularly insightful comments, just in the interests of domestic harmony.

WHere is Arugula anyway? Is that near Belize?

Oh, and by the way, everything you think is wrong…

As ever,
Your loving SO

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ummm. Oops. I’ll be emailing the mods and so on. I accidentally didn’t “log out” when I was on Snookie’s 'puter, and he obviously didn’t know how to do so and set up his own account. I’ll correct him.

Most sincerest apologies. (dammit Snookie, you’re getting me in trouble)

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We’ll just sit here and tide ourselves over with these Godivas while we wait for the competition to start and while you get schnookums in trouble. I call the ones with hazlenuts.

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I am honored to have been selected, and I accept but with one caveat. Real life has been placing a drag on my SDMB time, and I would request that we have longer than 24 hours to post completed recipes. I would need at least twice that to be able to promise that I would give my very best to an opponent. If such were the case, and I were to lose, I could hold my head high, with no excuses.

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Scylla, as per the OP, I will be giving 48 hours, but please email me if you have any time problems during a challenge (of course, this also does apply to the challenger, too). But, I will only allow up to an extra 24 hours, so if you can’t post everything, you’ll need to post what you have and be judged on that.

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I’m in as a judge, and might like to be a challenger. My on-line time may be severely limited for a while and until I see how things shake down, I don’t want to commit if I can’t do it…

Fenris, looking forward to judging.

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I could use one more judge before I start our next battle… any more volunteers?

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Ooh Ooh Ooh, can I be a judge? I’m new here and would be ever so excited to judge. I’ll giggle a lot and say things like “mmmmm this tastes good.”

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I’m filled with a yearning to destroy Fenris, my ancient enemy on this the ultimate field of battle.

On the other hand, I clench my knuckles and grit my teeth at my ignoble defeat at the hands of Chef Troy and my own Rosemary Porcupine Egg. He needs to be ground beneath my boot.

Most of all, I long to fight Zenster, long absent and sorely missed from this field of battle, and still recovering from his highly controversial losses (which culinary experts still debate vociferously.)

I know that he is tortured by these losses and I wish to end his anguish by either giving him victory, or crushing him completely and finally.

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I gather together my Iron Chef, Scylla and his challenger for this battle, Chef Troy.

"There is no month more lovely than October. The leaves upon the trees become turn from green to shades of gold and red; the mornings are crisp and cool and the sunlight of the afternoon slants casting long shadows in orange sunlight. It is the time of the end of the harvest.

"It is also the time of the popular American tradition of Halloween: a time of costumes, candy, and… jack o’lanterns.

“It is time to unveil the secret ingredient!”

:: amid a curl of smoke, what looks to be a giant orange globe rises from the stage::

“Winter Squash”

The giant orange globe is a 500-pound pumpkin, surrounded by: Sugar Pie Pumpkins, Kabocha Squash, Acorn Squash, Butternut Squash, Hubbard Squash, and Spaqhetti Squash.

Scylla and Chef Troy, you have until Sunday, 3 PM EST to turn in your menu and recipes.

Allez Cuisine!

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Squash?!?

why , that’s, that’s just perfect!!

Ohhhhh Snoookie - remember that squash you let go to seed on the back porch??? we’ll get some ideas for it!

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I can only blame that on bad dubbing.

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Cheffie hustles up to the ingredient table and starts grabbing all the best squashes…

Wheee! Now this is a contest I can really shine on.

shouts to sous-chefs to light the grill and preheat the oven

Now where’d I put that new hatchet?

Oh, and Scylla? I’ll concede that those are darling boots but the only thing that’s going to be ground in Kitchen Stadium today is spices.