{"id":3111,"date":"2010-09-11T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T04:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2010-09-11T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T04:40:22","slug":"mission-4-dinner-party-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Mission 4: Dinner Party – Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: The 2010 scavenger hunt is over (a concluding post will come soon) and we got first place out of 121 teams! This is a series explaining the background and thinking of our missions of the SF Street Food Scavenger Hunt 2010<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Mission: It’s time to host a dinner party, but not just with YOUR friends, but with another team playing the game. You will have to hunt down a secret ingredient and make a dish with it to be shared with the other team at a dinner party in a location of your choice. <\/b><\/p>\n

In a dinner party<\/a> planned in less than 48 hours….<\/p>\n

Secondly, what is the secret ingredient?<\/p>\n

I immediately spammed my team with the riddle:
\n1. Currently in-season
\n2. Between 35 and 40 calories
\n3. The “unluckiest” colony.<\/p>\n

And fortunately, Jeff T. knew the answer immediately. Peach.<\/p>\n

Perfect. I already had planned a tomato and peach salad inspired by Mark Bittman’s 101 Simple Salads<\/a>. But that seemed too simple. Perhaps something that represented our namesake? A deep fried twinkie (with my newly acquired fryer from my parents) certainly? With some kind of peach topping\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgrilled?<\/p>\n

A healthy and unhealthy contrast? Yes!<\/p>\n

I sent out an invite to the LMS team and my team.<\/p>\n

To a sinking realization, the number of people attending from LMS was low. So low. The main blog owner was out of town. Unknowingly, that weekend was a special food event taking up most people’s time. I braced myself for the worst…and three hours before the dinner\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI got a call that only one person could make it. Ok, that works. I rushed home and started the meal preparation. Then halfway through…no! He called to say that he wasn’t sure\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe was tired\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcould we reschedule to say another weekend?<\/i><\/p>\n

I understood that wariness of attending an event, super-exhausted. But no! This was the last weekend before the deadline. I could do a weekday, but the rest of my team couldn’t…and me rushing back by 7 pm to prepare a feast was almost impossible. Could you come for 10 minutes?<\/i> I asked. Then I felt guilty as he was coming all the way from Berkeley. Whatever you want to do, but I promise you a feast and good times.<\/i><\/p>\n

He did make it And it was a feast. And more than good times…it was incredible.<\/p>\n

\"dinnerparty\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Not only did I manage to get nearly my entire menu, but we managed not to bore out honored guest to death.<\/p>\n

We had:<\/p>\n

  • cheese plate<\/li>\n
  • corn casserole<\/li>\n
  • braised whole chicken<\/li>\n
  • tomato and peach salad<\/li>\n
  • gazpacho<\/li>\n
  • guest provided bread<\/li>\n
  • then for dessert…deep fried twinkies with grilled peachs<\/li>\n
  • and the game…What else can we fry?!<\/li>\n

    \"The<\/a><\/p>\n

    Notable moments:<\/p>\n

  • Meeting us meek asians…is really not that intimidating<\/li>\n
  • Or at least having Chris around makes everything easy, because he relates to everyone<\/li>\n
  • No matter what we did, there’s no way to make a photo with twinkies and halved peaches NOT inappropriate<\/li>\n
  • It was the first time that I actually finished cooking “on time” so that I could actually eat with people<\/li>\n
  • My rice cooker from my parents does not work<\/li>\n
  • If you put cream cheese on a plate, most people will ask about it, especially wondering if it’s a creamy version that they never had before. <\/li>\n
  • Goat cheese fully packaged and sealed is still good more than a year later<\/li>\n
  • Peaches are a great ingredient<\/li>\n
  • Fried Coke is good<\/li>\n
  • Grapes dipped into batter and fried is incredible<\/li>\n
  • The same with maraschino cherries<\/li>\n
  • And deep fried twinkies never cease to amaze everyone who touches it<\/li>\n
  • A good question: do vegetarians eat twinkies?<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Note: The 2010 scavenger hunt is over (a concluding post will come soon) and we got first place out of 121 teams! This is a series explaining the background and thinking of our missions of the SF Street Food Scavenger … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,36],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gogame","tag-street-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}