Team Cook Idea

[SheilaAnn]

Hey y’all… the thread about the Paula Wolfert Book started by yakima and the “Guess What I’m Cooking” thread by hoovarmin got me to thinking…..

would anyone be game to pick a specific recipe (beyond pulled pork or a brisket), prepared it and share our results? We follow the recipe, not just us riffing it.
Maybe every other week or once a month? I dunno…. Just thinking…..

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

I like the idea, I'm just incapable of following most recipes. But I'm more prone to following a recipe if it's the first time trying it. I would suggest starting out once a month. Make a thread with the recipe title and people have the whole month to gather ingredients and then share their effort? If it's super popular then bi-weekly? I'd participate from time to time.

[Jerod Broussard]

yeah, but make sure it can be scaled for peeps who are only eating for one.....or leftovers can be easily edibalized.

[Duanessmokedmeats]

Vacuum sealer is my friend...

[yakima]

"edibalized". Now there's a word!

[RichieB]

If I can copy it, another words a web link to drop into Paprika I can easily scale. No more than 2 twice a month but more realistic to get maximum participants, one a month.

[DavidNorcross]

I am game. Like it when we do things like this. Sign me up.

[Duanessmokedmeats]

Count me in. Just no tofu.

[acorgihouse]

I like it, too. There are two ways to look at it. First could be one person, picking a recipe they have wanted to do, or get critiqued/assisted with, cook that straight from the recipe and present to the group. The other: pick a recipe and have whomever in the group, that wants to participate, cook and submit results. Either way could be a fun and useful endeavor.

[yakima]

Yeah. PW's Southwest France book has a stew we could do. Tripe and pig's feet. Don't want no routine recipes!

[klflowers]

I will pass on this one

[RichieB]

+1 big pass.. but have at it.

[Skip]

Sounds fun. I'd participate at least some of the time.

[HawkerXP]

[Mosca]

I’d participate, but we have some dietary limitations that would knock me out of almost everything. Once a recipe has onions or tomatoes Mrs Mosca can’t have it.

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

that's as simple as "due to dietary needs we substituted X with Y". Honestly participants like that could expose someone else to a pit qualified option they wouldna thought of otherwise.

[Mosca]

Yeah, I thought of that, but SheilaAnn specified following the recipe exactly. My concern is that it would quickly get out of control, and not be what she suggested. I REALLY like the original idea.

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

I agree it could get out of hand, but I'd like to think the majority of us would only substitute when absolutely necessary. I just wouldn't participate in events where I know beyond a doubt I don't like certain ingredients (like caviar), but I would try recipes for things I don't like (like cream of anything soup) if the total preparation was intriguing enough to make me give that ingredient another shot.

[SheilaAnn]

Oh wow…. Ok. Thanks for all the feedback. You can choose to participate or not on any given recipe. If there are foods you just plain old don’t like, pass. EX: a recipe that calls for bananas or coconut will be a hard pass for me. They both make me hurl. I think there are reasonable substitutions for dietary or other reasons. Another example would be if a recipe calls for margarine, I will sub butter.

also, if we choose a recipe from a certain book, I certainly do not expect everyone to go out and buy the book. I will gladly copy the recipe and send it off to anyone, or provide a link if available online.

I think this will be fun. Especially the reveal and review.

Moderators, so going forward, since a traditional recipe will the the kickoff, we should put this is the actual Recipe thread, right?

[yakima]

SheilaAnn. Just run this like a benevolent dictator. Folks can propose recipes to you, or you designate someone to pick a recipe. Reasonable ingredient substitutions ok, but generally, follow Meathead's dictum to do a recipe his way first, then riff on it.

With respect to recipe availability {I am not technically proficient}, can one be scanned then posted here?

[SheilaAnn]

yakima absolutely recipes can be scanned. Anyway that I can get the recipe put there, I will figure it out.

[yakima]

SheilaAnn. Re thread placement. Might be best to keep it here. There is likely to be a bunch of commentary, which would clutter up a pure recipe thread. But folks above our pay grade will sort that.

[LA Pork Butt]

It could been fun. A friend of mine who also cooks on a kamado teamed up with me to follow a kamado cookbook in which the recipes were part of focusing on a particular kamado cooking technique. We compared notes on our cooking experience. It was a lot of fun. I could see where this could be fun, too. I think I will participate, but probably bow out on the ones that require an endless number ingredients or require speciality ingredients. I hate purchasing a jar of one time use ingredients.

[barelfly]

This would be fun, could be a new way to try some new recipes/foods.

Will you post a recipe at the beginning of the week to allow for time to purchase items, plan and then cook? I guess anyone could cook at any point.

thanks for hosting this!

[tamidw]

I could be game depending on my time. It sounds like a fun idea for sure.

[SheilaAnn]

I’ve lined up a few ideas so far……