The CookingBites Recipe Challenge: Nov 2015-June 2017

I have been deliberating over all your delicious recipes for the last five hours! My mouth was watering so much, I had to go into the kitchen half way through and make myself a sandwich :D but now a decision has been made. It was a very close call, but the winner of this CookingBites Recipe Challenge is @morning glory for her Prosciutto, Watermelon and Hearts of Palm Salad. Congratulations! Can't wait to see the next ingredient!
 
Oh wow! Thank you so much.:D It was another learning curve for me as I honestly hadn't ever eaten watermelon before. But that's the great thing about the challenge; it gets us to explore ingredients in ways we might not have considered.

I'd like to say well done to @Elawin for choosing the ingredient. After a bit of a slow start we had a fantastic response to the melon challenge. Maybe even the record number of entries? Lets hope I can come up with an ingredient which will equal that.
 
morning glory said:
The next ingredient is chicken, inspired by the Unofficial Poll by @kgord. I was quite surprised by how often people here were eating chicken so I thought that it would be interesting to explore new ways of cooking it. :happy: Deadline is Tuesday 17th May, midday UK time (BST).
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Can I please request that the deadline is changed. I leave the UK that day and will be unavailable all day from Tuesday 17th through to at least Friday 20th. We land in Canberra on the Thursday morning, but I will not be in any fit state to do anything by then. I may have internet on the plane because I have had to upgrade my seat to Business Class because of my back and my issues needing to lie down most of the time, certainly not the sitting up that economy or even premium economy seats allow but I can't make any promises so either the Monday or the Saturday please?
 
https://www.cookingbites.com/threads/chicken-chowmein.7274/

Chicken Chowmein

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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Can I please request that the deadline is changed. I leave the UK that day and will be unavailable all day from Tuesday 17th through to at least Friday 20th. We land in Canberra on the Thursday morning, but I will not be in any fit state to do anything by then. I may have internet on the plane because I have had to upgrade my seat to Business Class because of my back and my issues needing to lie down most of the time, certainly not the sitting up that economy or even premium economy seats allow but I can't make any promises so either the Monday or the Saturday please?
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OK - Monday 16th May?
 
morning glory said:
OK - Monday 16th May?
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That's fine. I'll be at my inlaws by then and can use their internet access. Hoping for a quiet day but somehow I doubt it will happen!

Also will you accept chicken alternatives (such as chicken flavoured quorn ( :sick: personal feeling about it but some may like it)) for those of us who don't eat meat? Or just straight TVP or tofu please? I know there are a number of us (@Duck59 and myself plus possibly @vegan93 and a couple of others who might actually participate if we were included in the ingredient choice?
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
That's fine. I'll be at my inlaws by then and can use their internet access. Hoping for a quiet day but somehow I doubt it will happen!

Also will you accept chicken alternatives (such as chicken flavoured quorn ( :sick: personal feeling about it but some may like it)) for those of us who don't eat meat? Or just straight TVP or tofu please? I know there are a number of us (@Duck59 and myself plus possibly @vegan93 and a couple of others who might actually participate if we were included in the ingredient choice?
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Ha ha... I think @classic33 might have something to say about that after the debate about types of Squash!

Seriously though, its a difficult one... I mean, the substitutes are just not chicken. And will we be setting a precedent? Do you think that we should always allow Quorn, tofu or TVP if people choose a meat? We have had ham and minced beef and not had substitutions. I'm inclined to say that the recipe should be a chicken recipe - but if people want to be inventive and cook it using a vegetarian substitute, then it would be considered. I mean that the basic original recipe should work for chicken as well.

Sorry. I'm not trying to be difficult - just discussing. I mean, are we going to say that whenever a meat is chosen we should allow vegetarian substitutes? What do we do about fish as an ingredient? What would the substitute be...?
 
morning glory said:
Ha ha... I think @classic33 might have something to say about that after the debate about types of Squash!

Seriously though, its a difficult one... I mean, the substitutes are just not chicken. And will we be setting a precedent? Do you think that we should always allow Quorn, tofu or TVP if people choose a meat? We have had ham and minced beef and not had substitutions. I'm inclined to say that the recipe should be a chicken recipe - but if people want to be inventive and cook it using a vegetarian substitute, then it would be considered. I mean that the basic original recipe should work for chicken as well.

Sorry. I'm not trying to be difficult - just discussing. I mean, are we going to say that whenever a meat is chosen we should allow vegetarian substitutes? What do we do about fish as an ingredient? What would the substitute be...?
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I've stayed out of the meat options ones, but know it is hard and substitutes are not the same. However I was simply trying to include more members.

I guess we could have a vote on it and see what other members want. I guess you would have to include "yes, but I'm veggie/vegan", "yes, but I'm not veggie/vegan" and same for "no,..."

I have stayed away from the meat ones and watched them, nothing more. But the beef challenge has been a reason I have posted recipes for the challenge less and less even when it returned to something I ate. I would also stay away from fish ones and in all honesty, anything that was dairy based as well for obvious reasons. I was simply thinking that it may help to include more members.

But if we go back to my original posting regarding this challenge

SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I was wondering if anyone was interested in a competition whereby the winner selects an ingredient and those entering this competition have to post the recipe up on CookingBites that uses that ingredient. Obviously to include everyone (omnivores, vegetarian, flexitarian, pescetarians, vegans, raw foodies etc) we'll have to set loose boundaries on the 'have you actually made it' side of life but the rules would be... <now above>
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I guess if I see something interesting involving chicken, I may post it but then probably not. I know @Duck59 is now staying away because he likes to have actually tried the recipe and can't with recent challenge ingredients. I am beginning to feel the same tbh.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I've stayed out of the meat options ones, but know it is hard and substitutes are not the same. However I was simply trying to include more members.

I guess we could have a vote on it and see what other members want. I guess you would have to include "yes, but I'm veggie/vegan", "yes, but I'm not veggie/vegan" and same for "no,..."

I have stayed away from the meat ones and watched them, nothing more. But the beef challenge has been a reason I have posted recipes for the challenge less and less even when it returned to something I ate. I would also stay away from fish ones and in all honesty, anything that was dairy based as well for obvious reasons. I was simply thinking that it may help to include more members.

But if we go back to my original posting regarding this challenge



I guess if I see something interesting involving chicken, I may post it but then probably not. I know @Duck59 is now staying away because he likes to have actually tried the recipe and can't with recent challenge ingredients. I am beginning to feel the same tbh.
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Oh Gosh! Sorry, I had not taken your original post into account because I was going by the guidelines in the opening post to the thread. But I have been mindful of the need to be inclusive and have tried to encourage people to join in. Up until now I have always chosen ingredients which are vegetarian/vegan. Lentils was the last choice which unfortunately produced only a handful of recipes. I chose chicken because I thought we might get more people involved as people here seem to eat it a lot (not me)!

But to be fair, there have been 13 rounds of the challenge and only 3 (including the present challenge) have chosen a non vegetarian ingredient. I'd say that was a pretty good bias in the right direction. However, what to do now? I'm happy to add 'vegetarian substitutions for chicken are welcome' to the challenge ingredient of chicken. But I'll take your advice @SatNavSaysStraightOn, as you set up the challenge! :happy:
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Does anyone else have any thoughts on the matter please?
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It wouldn't bother me at all if people posted recipes with [whatever] substitutes but, if anyone doesn't like a particular food for any reason, they could always skip that particular challenge. I would skip any under the category "fish" because I am so horribly allergic to all seafood even reading a recipe makes me feel queasy, although I must admit that @morning glory 's recipe in my melon challenge didn't bother me too much because it wasn't obviously seafood. In fact, I've been racking my brains trying to think of a substitute that goes with the other ingredients and doesn't detract from the idea behind the recipe. It would be interesting, though, to see if anyone could come up with a fish substitute without resorting to an entirely different species. Having said that, I'm always "tinkering" with recipes and have been known to substitute chicken with potatoes (especially in spicy recipes) just for a change :D
 
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