Ingredients Please....

Paper Chef #49 is just around the corner, and we need some suggestions for ingredients. Feel free to add to the list so far:

orange, cloves, figs, dried dates, raisins, anchovies, Prawns, cream, cranberries, salmon, cherries, salsicce, Savoy cabbage, Brussels sprouts, ricotta, apples, ginger, white fish, kale, honey, fennel, duck, meatballs, rosemary, thyme, fennel seeds, Apricots, Green Beans, Sweet Pepper, Cherries, Aubergines(Eggplant), Nectarines, Passionfruit, Peaches, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Zucchini(Courgette), Chicken, Quail, Lobster, Yabbies & Marrons (Crayfish), pork shoulder, pigeon peas, taro root, sweet potato, dill, carrots, couscous, ginger,.......

The Winner is...

I promised you a winner for today and you will have it but first I have to say that it wasn't easy to decide, not easy at all because I liked all entries a lot. I actually don't like being the Judge because choosing one winner means that I disappoint the other participants. But I have to do my duty.
In order to decide I had to enter into the details of each dish and it was a detail that made me decide January's Paper Chef winner who is.....

























...Cathy of SlowFood Chef with Rosemary Tuna Sliders with Pickled Red Cabbage on a Homemade Mini-Roll! It was her pickled red cabbage who did it in the end and let's be happy for that because otherwise I would still be here undecided between all the deliciousness you served us!
Congratulations Cathy and a sincere Thank You to the rest of the participants for their creative entries, I hope to see you all next month when Mike is the host!

Paper Chef #48 - The Roundup

It is time for the roundup!

The four ingredients for this PC edition was tuna, red cabbage, rosemary and something new and we have got some stunning entries here so keep on reading:

Karen of Prospect: The Pantry was the first to send in her entry, a surprising and enticing Tuna Burger With Red Cabbage Slaw where you find all the first three ingredients plus some other interesting ones, the new element being the techique she used for the bread rolls and that she got from Jim Lahey's (Sullivan Street Bakery) new book.

My fellow PC host Mike who has the blog Spikey Mikeys made this interesting and tasty looking Caramelised Onion & Red Cabbage Pizza with Tuna that he had to make with canned tuna because he couldn't find any that was fresh enough.

I was delighted to see that one of our more faithful Bread Baking Buddies, Astrid of Paulchen's Food Blog?!, have made an entry for this month's PC, she made a lovely Red Cabbage Salad With White Beans and Tuna & Rosemary-Onion Bread! Her

Kizzy from Culinary Annotations was so inspired that she made two entries, the first is a very good-looking Seared Tuna Niçoise Salad with Soft-Boiled Eggs served with Oven-Roasted Potatoes with Garlic and Rosemary where the new is the new take on a traditional salad,

the second is Tuna and Pineapple Skewers with Shredded Salad. Good job, keep all these entries coming!

And to finish we have Cathy of ShowFood Chef who made the prettiest Rosemary Tuna Sliders with Pickled Red Cabbage on Homemade Butter Buns you can imagine!

Thank you all and if I made any mistakes, please tell me and I will make amends! Come back tomorrow when I will announce The Winner and next month's PC Judge!

Curious about this month's ingredients?

Then click here!

Time for a new year ofPaper Chef, let's begin with the ingredient list!

It' s time again, on Wednesday the first Paper Chef of 2010 starts and I hope you will make it a glorious start by participating en masse! This is the ingredient list so far, please add on your suggestions!

orange, cloves, figs, dried dates, raisins, red cabbage, anchovies, Prawns, cream, cranberries, salmon, cherries, salsicce, Savoy cabbage, Brussels sprouts, ricotta, apples, ginger, white fish, kale, honey, fennel, duck, meatballs, rosemary, thyme, fennel seeds, Apricots, Green Beans, Sweet Pepper, Cherries, Aubergines(Eggplant), Nectarines, Passionfruit, Peaches, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Zucchini(Courgette), Anchovies, Chicken, Quail, Lobster, Tuna, Yabbies & Marrons (Crayfish), pork shoulder, pigeon peas, taro root, green bananas, plantains

We have a Winner!!!

Yes our judge for this month's Paper Chef, Jenny from I could even eat a baby deer! has selected a winner.
Click here to find out who that is.

Paper Chef #47

For this month's challenge we started off with a totally empty pantry - just a theme of Christmas.
We asked for ingredients to stock our pantry and the suggestions flowed in.. From this newly stocked pantry last month's winner, Jenny from I could even eat a baby deer! , rummaged around and came out with the 3 random ingredients of mustard, thyme, & saffron, and then selected the fourth ingredient of her own choosing - ham.
Those that took up the Challenge were:

Pauline with her Ham and cheese croquetas with salad and mustard dip

Ilva, of Lucullian delights created a Saffron Breaded Ham with a Mustard seed, Thyme & Pecorino filling



From Bron Marshall we have Bron's Little Ham, Cranberry and Saffron Rice Stuffing Cakes


And Karen from Prospect: The Pantry with a mouth watering assortment of appetisers

The task is now upto Jenny to select a winner, and from this selection it will be hard!!

Pauline's entry for Paper Chef #47

Ham and cheese croquetas with salad and mustard dip

Ham and cheese croquetas (6 pieces)
Ingredients:
100 gram of ham, cut into small screds
50 grams of cheese, cut into small cubes
1 egg
a few threads of saffron
flour and bread crumbs for coating the croquetas
4 tablespoons of flour
2 tablespoons of melted butter
1 cup of milk
pinch of nutmeg
pinch of salt
pinch of ground black pepper
oil for frying

Make a roux by heating butter and adding flour. While stirring,
slowly add milk to make a bechamel sauce.
Add salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add cheese and let it melt
into the roux. Mix ham through the mixture. Let it cool off
in the fridge. Roll the dough into 6 croquettas, and put
them back into the fridge. In the meantime, add saffron and
egg into a small bowl, stir well. Cover a dish with flour.
Take the croquetas from the fridge, cover them with the egg
mixture and roll them through the flour. Put them back in the
fridge. In the meantime, cover a dish with bread crumbs
and add a big layer of oil to a small frying pan. Heat the oil.
Dip the croquettas in the egg mixture for the second time,
and coat them with bread crumbs. Put them back into the fridge.
When the oil is heated enough (you can carefully test with a
drop of water) add the croquettas to the pan. Fry croquetas
for 3 minutes. You can use the saffron egg mixture to
make an omelette.

Serve with salad with thyme dressing and use mustard for dipping.

Enjoy!

Ingredients are up!!!

The lovely Jenny from I could even eat a baby deer! has selected the ingredients for the December challenge.
You can find them here
Post your recipe on your blog (or if you don't have a blog, send recipe and photos so we can post it here on the PC blog) and send the link to paperchef AT gmail DOT com before midnight on Tuesday December the 8th.

Paper Chef #47

Last chance to nominate ingredients for this month's challenge! 

So far we have:

orange, cloves, ham, figs, dried dates, mustard, raisins, red cabbage, anchovies, saffron, Prawns, cream, cranberries, salmon, cherries, salsicce, Savoy cabbage, Brussels sprouts, ricotta, apples, saffron, ginger, white fish, kale, honey, fennel, duck, meatballs, rosemary, thyme, fennel seeds, Apricots, Green Beans, Sweet Pepper, Cherries, Aubergines(Eggplant), Nectarines, Passionfruit, Peaches, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Zucchini(Courgette), Anchovies, Chicken, Quail, Lobster, Tuna, Yabbies & Marrons (Crayfish),

JENNY from I could even eat a baby deer! will be posting the final selection on the 2nd so like I said, last chance.....

The next Challenge - #47

Well the next Paper Chef Challenge is still awhile away and for the next challenge we have decided to go with a theme. Being December the theme is pretty obvious: Christmas!

And so far on our list of ingredients we have:

Nothing. A blank sheet. 

Christmas means different things to different people in different parts of the world and what we would like is for everyone to list a few ingredients they would be using for this occasion. The start date for the December challenge is the 2nd and last month's winner JENNY from I could even eat a baby deer! will select from the final list of ingredients.

Leave your list of ingredients either as a comment to this post or email to: paperchef AT gmail DOT com

Your list can be as long or as short as you wish & don't worry about duplicated ingredients, it will all be tidied up in the final list.

The winner is ...

... found here! Congratulations!