The Splendid Table's Stump the Cook: Can you be stumped by these rather unusual ingredients?

I believe you may have found the actual recipe for Ipecac.

Hey OTB! Happy New Year!!

That's kind of what I was thinking.

Uhhh... I don't know what I'd make with that. Can I buy a vowel, Pat?

Can I buy a vowel, Pat?

Eat that and you might be able to move a bowel.

But go ahead, buy a vowel, OR you can solve the puzzle:

"TASTES L_KE SH_T"

:D

Hey OTB! Happy New Year!!

Oh, yeah...same to you.

I'm just waiting for my dad to die...

I don't know what to say.

I don't know what to say.

Ah, don't worry about it.

He was diagnosed with brain cancer last May, had brain surgery, then radiation. The radiation didn't work and chemo isn't recommended. He's been in a hospice for about 3 weeks. He wasn't expected to make it to Xmas, but he did. He's just laying in bed wasting away.

Cancer sucks.

Yeah, it does.

Onan - LOVE your comment! : - )

Seriously, the closest I could come is a truffle recipe where the beans and juice are used to flavor the chocolate coating. The corn is the only thing stumping this equation, though. Perhaps it could be creamed and added to the butterscotch and sour cream flavored center.

This cook also suggested using the following as a possible flavoring for the chocolate truffle coating:

"Chipotle -- One large dried pepper cut up a little and heated with the cream. Pass the cream through a wire mesh strainer when pouring over chocolate to get all the seeds out unless you'd like to burn a few of your guests at random."

Sometimes the wierdest additions create the most interesting and savory flavors.

Julia, this is just EWWWW. In fact, it's so EWWW that I don't even want to try to conjure anything. Can I just make an alternate recipe suggestion and have you over to my place instead? It would be preferable, I'm certain.

I shudder with you! This looks like breakfast, maybe, but designed for the very young who still have their over-the-top sweet tooth. I suggest a butterscotch corn casserole, so my added ingredient is
eggs--and hope using a total of 3 isn't required.
Grind coffee Turkish fine to brew some good Turkish coffee and pour glasses of pomegranate juice. Cook the corn and allow to cool. Preheat the oven.
To make the casserole, beat eggs and sour cream with salt and a touch of butterscotch. Stir in cooled corn and put mixture in a buttered casserole. Top with dots of butter. Bake until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes, depending on the size of your casserole. If small, for two, I might start testing after 30 minutes.
Serve the corn custard casserole with the coffee and juice.
If the two additional ingredients are required, I'll add toast and peanut butter. (or marmalade or Marmite, or sausage crumbled, frid and stirred into the casserole mixture).

Dorine, you may be an almost genius. I couldn't even give those ingredients consideration and you actually conjured a recipe with them. YIKES. You win!

Dorine, you've come up with an unususal recipe. Congratulations!! I shuddered too much to even CONSIDER putting something together with these ingredients!

(But, when you have a morning breakfast gathering, omit me from the guest list.)

Madame Donna ~ let's go to Denny's for the Grand Slam!

Have a wonderful day, all.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.


*urp

Dorine-- you totally nailed it! About to attempt an alternative, but nope. Just can't top that one.

Sheryl O., thanks for the attempt. I love chiles and chocolate - and they might counter some of these other flavors - so hey, good thought.

Go for it if you're still game, Madame Donna C.

Dorine Houston walks away with it! And yes, Dorine, the "stumpers" are rather young, and IMO they really...might have a chance at stumping Lynne. You really took a good run with it.

*waving to Zpie & EZ*

*still got a little shudder*

This sounds like an interesting combo!

A couple of thoughts on the ingredients - I would opt for dried corn and grind it into a meal or flour and make a tiramisu like cake with eggs, flour, baking powder as the three extra ingredients. Oil is allowed by the rules and I would use the Pom juice as one of the liquid ingredients (but not too much, it goes a loonnnggg way) along with the sour cream. Grind and brew the coffee and soak the cake, then top with a drizzle of butterscotch. Who knows, I might even mix the Pom juice, coffee and butterscotch together and boil it down to reduce it to a syrup for the topping! The kids are going to love being guinea pigs tonight!

Opps, forgot to add some sugar, better add some butterscotch to the batter for sweetening the batter!

Russ C. you and Dorine are ingenius. I'm seriously amazed at your ideas.

Chipolte and Cream! Yummy - makes a wonderful pasta sauce - a local winery has a southwest chipolte sauce over ravioli that is out of this world. I personally like to be the person who get the seeds and all the flavor (translate HEAT)

I was thinking similar to Dorene - maybe brew the coffee, put the corn, sour cream and butterscotch into a sweet corn pudding and drink the pomegranate juice. What else could you do with this? I was also thinking of grinding the coffee very fine and using it in a rub on some steak or pork, along with salt and pepper, and maybe one other spice, maybe chiles? I've seen Bobby Flay make a coffee rub.

Thanks!

But you don't think I'd actually eat that shudderable stuff, do you??!! Though I can picture my college student nieces and nephews thinking it quite a fie breakfast--as long as somebody else made it for them, and served it around noon!

Me, I'd stick to the coffee and juice. I like pomegranate juice, actually! I like its pleasant tartness. It's the awful butterscotch ...

I'd rather join you and Donna for the Grand Slam!

Butterscotch Espresso, Crepes Pomegranate and Corn Souffle

1. coffee beans
2. pomegranate juice
3. sour cream
4. corn
5. butterscotch (candies)

Extras: frozen crepes (thawed), heavy cream and butter

Grind coffee beans for espresso. Add a few candies to the ground beans. They will melt as the coffee drips.

Mix half of pom juice with a little sour cream. Heat half of butter. Fry crepes. Serve with pom cream. Serve with remaining juice.

Puree corn. Stir in cream and butter. Bake til bubbling.

Breakfast is served!

sounds like dessert....one of these days I might really try one of these but for now, will focus on creatively combining ingredients I really have in the house!