This weekend my friend Eric from work and I are going head to head in a mini Iron Chef event, sort of the suburban Denver version. While he has dubbed it "Iron Chef Highlands Ranch" because he is a city boy from the trendy Highlands neighborhood and he thinks anything out south is in the HR sprawl. I'll call it Iron Chef Denver for the moment, maybe Iron Chef Suburbia would be more appropriate, but we're definitely not in highlands ranch. While the people at food network probably never intended this to happen, I think of events like this as the male equivalent of a cooking club. Guys don't join cooking clubs really, but guys can get away with doing the same thing you do in cooking clubs as long as there is some competitive element. Eric is looking forward to kicking my butt I'm sure, in any case it will be fun and hopefully we'll get some good food out of it for my wife and her girlfriend who will be the judges.
Rules still have to be worked out, but so far we've settled on a list of "secret ingredients" from which my wife (the chairwoman) can choose. Here's the list ...
fennel
shrimp
winter squash
rosemary
corn
garlic
bell peppers
More on this sometime this weekend, we'll see who can stand the heat in the kitchen, and if we both fold, there's always the pizza place down the street.
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