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    "Odin is serving a signature curry (Odin's Zantetsuken), made primarily of spinach and chickpeas along with a menagerie of mixed spices"


    Ingredients List

    Serves 2!



    • 1 Clove of Garlic
    • 1 Onion
    • 1 tbsp Turmeric
    • 1 tbsp Cumin
    • ½ tbsp Ginger
    • ¾ tbsp Paprika
    • 1 tbsp Chilli Paste
    • 1 tbsp Tomato Puree
    • 1 Dollop of Butter
    • 1 Can of Chopped Tomatoes
    • 4 Sticks of Celery
    • 1 Can of Chickpeas
    • Handful of Spinach
    • 2 tbsp Natural Yoghurt
    • Rice and Poppadums (optional)



    The Recipe

    Firstly you want to chop up the onion. Now, I would chop it in quite big chunks to soak up those flavours and give the curry a truly hearty appearance. Chop or crush your garlic and add it with the onion into a large frying pan. Don’t put the heat on yet though, we still have more to add. Sprinkle your spices over the onion and garlic, and top them with a generous dollop of butter. Now you want to squeeze out your chilli and tomato puree over what is in the pan. Splash in a little water just to cover the ingredients – don’t drown them! Turn on the heat and stir the mixture up, let the butter melt and look at that wonderful colour. Can you smell how good it is too?

    Once it’s sufficiently mixed and appears to be boiling, tip in the can of chopped tomatoes and stir that through, allowing the two to combine. You’ll notice a change in colour and texture here, it might look very watery, but don’t worry, that water will cook off. Next add the chickpeas and celery. Allow to cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Mostly just allow it to simmer. This is a good time to do a taste test. The thing about curry is, I could recommend a specific measure of spice, and you know what, you might not like it. It might be too bland for you. So have a taste and see if you need to add in more chilli or tomato. If it’s tasting rather spicy, don’t worry just yet.
    Once the curry is looking like it is almost done and everything in it so far has cooked, add in your spinach. You can chop it in or just put it in whole. I tore mine up because I’m a beast and don’t you forget it. Alternatively, wait until right at the end to add it so that it has more of a crunch to it.

    Now, let it just soak in for a couple of minutes and get your next ingredient ready. The yoghurt. This is the hard part, you need to take it off the heat. Maybe take this opportunity to get your plates ready, arrange your rice or something. But allow it to cool just slightly. The last thing you want is for your yoghurt to hit the curry when it’s too hot and ‘split’. Add it in spoonful at a time, and stir slowly, it’s quite a delicate process. Adding the yoghurt will create a new depth to the flavour, change the colour and cream it up a little, toning down any chilli that might be poking through the other spices too much.

    And that is it! You’re ready to plate it up! Any true curry connoisseur will know that the only way to eat a curry is not with a knife and fork, but scooped up in lavish amounts on poppadums’. So dig in and enjoy! The best thing about a curry is how versatile it is, if you don’t like celery – don’t add celery, throw a carrot in there, some squash, anything. This is also vegetarian friendly, and as well as that it just happens to be wheat and gluten free. It’s completely tasty, cheap, impressive, and filling. Go on, have some of Odin’s Curry for dinner.



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    Poppadum is gross.

    This looks really good, though! I might have to try making this, since my mom and I both eat gluten free.
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    I forgot to check my facebook. Here comes a new challenger!!


    Gilgamesh Logo.pngGilgamesh


    "Gilgamesh is serving a cannelloni, with thick tomato/pasta sauce, chopped mushrooms and spinach and topped with a sprig of basil"


    Ingredients List

    Serves: 4!
    Prep time: 30 minutes!
    Cooking time: 40 minutes!



    • 250g ricotta
    • Basil (pinch)
    • 1 red onion (/Spanish onion)
    • 400g chopped mushroom
    • 400g spinach chopped
    • 2 chicken breasts
    • Grated cheese (as much as required)
    • Cannelloni tubes (approx 5 per person)
    • Tomato/pasta sauce



    The Recipe


    *A very no-nonsense recipe here compared to the others! F.

    1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Smurf your Fahrenheit!
    2. Dice onion and chicken and cook in frying pan until chicken is done.
    3. Add diced mushroom and spinach to pan until spinach is at desired consistency.
    4. Put ingredients from pan into a bowl and add ricotta. Mix in together.
    5. Add basil.
    6. Stuff cannelloni tubes with this mixture and place tubes on a cooking tray.
    7. Pour pasta sauce over stuffed cannelloni tubes until fully covered (any extra stuffing mixture can go on top also).
    8. Cover tubes with alfoil/baking paper and put in oven to cook for 30 minutes, take out and put grated cheese on top and then cook for another 10 minutes.
    9. Feast my pretties, feast!


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    So exciting

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    Mmm, that one sounds pretty yummy, too!
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    250g ≈ 1 cup (8 oz)
    400g ≈ 14 oz (7/8 of a pound)
    180 C = 356 F

    just in case any other americans don't have metric cooking devices
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    Man, these look so good. Prepare a feast for me, all you guardians things!

    Signature by rubah. I think.

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    I've got two more recipes for you guys as it right up to the end of the cooking phase. There's still 5 recipes outstanding, and I'll be sending urgent PMs to those contestants shortly (I.E, after these posts). Should any contestant not meet the Sunday deadline, I do have a plan for such a situation, but bear in mind - you won't like it. I'm not disqualifying anyone, so don't worry, but you still won't like it. With that veiled warning out of the way, let's see Siren and Hecatoncheir's dishes!


    Siren Logo.png Siren


    "Siren is serving a 'Hippopie', a meat pie using the meat of your choosing blended with minced meat and Grillkorv"


    Ingredients List

    Pie Dough


    • 1dl flour
    • 80g butter
    • 5 ml milk


    Filling


    • Grillkorv (a sausage meat)
    • Minced meat
    • A meat of choice (I don't remember what i used at that moment, probably some regular cow meat)
    • Minced meat sauce
    • Some cheese


    Egg Sauce


    • 1 egg
    • 1dl milk
    • Some salt



    The Recipe


    • Take 1dl of flour and mix it with the butter (margarine) till it gets all kinda dried up mixed
    • Then add the water and beat it into a dough
    • Take the dough and fill up a pie form, puncture the filled up dough with a fork
    • Leave it for 10-15 mins while preapering the filling
    • turn the oven to 200 C
    • Take 1 eggs and 1dl of milk and mix it up with some salt (egg mix)
    • slice the meat into little pieces and mix it together with some seasoning (filling)
    • put the filling in the pie dough evenly, then pour the egg mix on it
    • put it in the lower half of the oven for about 45 minutes


    Siren forgot to add this: "use the remaining dough to seal the top!"


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    "Meat pie. It does what it says in the tin really"

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    "Hecatoncheir is serving a plate of chicken parmesan meatballs, marinated with a coating of olive oil and tomato sauce"


    Ingredients List

    • 1 1/4 pounds minced chicken
    • 2 tablespoons onion, chopped
    • 1/2 cup Parmesan
    • 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
    • Zest of 1/2 lemon
    • 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
    • 1 minced clove garlic
    • 1 egg, whisked
    • Salt & Pepper to taste
    • 1 14-oz canned tomato sauce
    • 3 tablespoons olive oil
    • 4 oz fresh mozzarella



    The Recipe

    1. Preheat oven to 400 Degrees
    2. Put all the ingredients together in a bowl besides the last 3. Mix Well!
    3. Make meat balls! Spread them out on a sheet of foil or a flat pan.


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    "Mix well!"


    4. Using a seperate bowl, put a spoonful or so of the tomato sauce and mix with 3 tsps of olive oil.
    5. Using a brush or even just a spoon, brush the mixture onto the meatballs
    6. Bake for 15 mins!


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    "Brush the mixture on the meatballs"


    7. When the timer goes off, brush more sauce mixture on top again and then put the mozzarella on top of that!
    8. Put meatballs back in for 3-5 mins (or until cheese is melted)
    9. Serve with sauce and a salad! Or use the sauce to make some noodles and have some spaghetti!


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    "All served up. Delicious!"


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    "Leviathan is serving a Broccoli Cheddar soup with marbled cheddar cheese, whole milk and a dashing of salt and pepper"


    Ingredients List


    • ½ cup butter
    • 1 yellow onion, finely chopped
    • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
    • 4 cups whole milk
    • 2 cups half-and-half
    • 4 heads broccoli, stems removed and discarded, and florets cut into bite-size pieces
    • 3 cups of marble cheddar cheese, shredded
    • Salt and pepper
    • 2 cups vegetable broth



    The Recipe

    1. In a large pot melt butter over medium heat. Add the onions and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until they begin to soften. Sprinkle the flour over the onions and stir to combine, cooking for about 1 minute. Slowly whisk in the milk and half-and-half.

    2. Add the broccoli, a pinch of salt, and ground black pepper. Cover and reduce the heat to low. Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes, or until the broccoli is tender. Add the cheese a handful at a time, stirring to melt the cheese after each addition.

    3. Finally, whisk in the vegetable broth, and re-warm over low heat if needed, and serve.




    "Looks...uh...delicious!"


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    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    hhhmm... they all look nice maybe i should write some down to make it myself

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    Hello all to the final day of cooking in the first round! I hope we are all well. Remember, the cooking phase ends essentially before I go bed, and to make sure that the remaining three contestants gets their dish done, will probably be later than usual. There's been a real surge of entries in lately and I've got exactly 8 entries, with 3 still to go. Should those 3 miss the deadline, there will be no disqualifications, but there will be penalties imposed, which I will reveal later if I have to. Anyway, I've got one new entry for you guys, so here it is!


    Yojimbo Logo.png Yojimbo


    "Yojimbo is serving a Swedish Mudcake, served with whipped cream and infused with vanilla essence and finally dusted with a sprinkling of icing sugar"


    Ingredients List



    • 2 eggs
    • 100g of butter
    • 130 ml plain flour
    • 240 ml brown sugar
    • 1 tsp vanilla essence
    • 3 1/2 tbs cocoa
    • Pinch of salt


    Garnish:

    • Icing sugar for dusting the cake with


    Serve with:

    • Whipped cream



    The Recipe

    Keep in mind everything will be mixed in one pot.

    x Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius.
    x Melt the butter in a pot and turn off the element and remove the pot from there.
    x Add brown sugar and vanilla essence to the melted butter and use a rubber spatula to thoroughly mix the ingredients together.
    x Add the flour and cocoa and mix again, and lastly add the eggs.
    x Mix very thoroughly, making sure to scrape everything off the sides of the pot as well.

    x Grease a round baking tin (preferably one where the bottom can come off once it's baked) with some butter.
    x Pour the mixture into the tin and bake in the oven for 15-20 min.
    x The center should wobble every so slightly if you carefully shake the tin, and the outer corners should be firm.
    x Wait 5-10 min before dusting with icing sugar.

    Serve warm with some whipped cream on the side.

    Enjoy~!

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    "Looks very festive!"


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    After some technical difficulties (which got the contestant slightly stressed, bless!) we now have this very interesting dish up next. I was looking forward to this one! I actually specifically asked for the actual name (not the translation), and it sounds like one of the locations from the Great Crystal from FFXII. Fitting then, I guess.


    Ultima Logo.png Ultima


    "Ultima is serving 'Kdeirat of im chumus velimon kavush'. This is a chicken stew served with chickpeas and pickled lemon"


    Ingredients List

    Group meal Indication: it feeds six so invite some friends if you want!
    Overnight Preparation: Begin the night before!


    • 2 cups of chickpeas
    • 1/2 cup of olive oil
    • 6 chicken legs
    • 2 onions, diced
    • 6 garlic cloves, diced
    • 1 hot pepper, diced
    • celery root, peeled and cut into small cubes
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
    • 1 teaspoon turmeric
    • 1 teaspoon paprika
    • 1 cup parsley, finely chopped
    • 4 pickled lemons, cubed (take care to remove the seeds, if any)



    The Recipe

    1. Soak the chickpeas in water overnight. Drain the water, put the chickpeas in a pot, cover them with fresh water and bring to a boil. Cook on low heat for 1 hour and 15 minutes, then drain.
    2. Heat up the olive oil in a large, heavy pot and fry the chicken legs on both sides until they turn golden. Take the legs out and put them on a plate.
    3. Add all the vegetables (onion, garlic, pepper, celery) to the pot and fry for 10 minutes. Return the chicken legs to the pot, and add all of the remaining ingredients along with one cup of water.
    4. Bring to a boil, cover the pot, lower the heat and cook for an hour and a half. Serve warm.

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    "Food for the soul this!"
    Last edited by Formalhaut; 05-06-2013 at 12:41 AM.


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