It’s an age old question: can you make an edible – or even craveable – holiday meal using only ingredients purchased from convenience stores? This week, Seattle’s The Stranger decided to find out, challenging four chefs and one bartender to make meals that included ingredients like melon-flavored breath strips, red hot Corn Nuts or a carb-free candy bar.
I only wish they’d filmed this, because it would make a killer Food Network program. (And I’d have stuck this tread in Cafe, but the article doesn’t include recipes.)
A tv show here did something similar a while back. Two chefs had to each spend less than, say 1000 yen (about 8$), and cook a whole meal with that. Where it got weird and fun was that they had to have ingredients from all food groups, and each chef could give the other an ingredient that he had to use. This is where all the fun came from. Just when they thought they had their menu right, they were given a chocolate bar that screwed everything up.