We have a Top Chef Season 5 DVD Giveaway, courtesy of Bravo’s Top Chef’s Eat Tastefully microsite. The Challenge: What dish you would make for Padma? It must include the use of a locally sourced produce or meat (from your area), cinnamon, a nutcracker and a deep fryer. Leave your answer (what and how) in the comments. Enter as many times as you like. The most creative/best sounding recipe wins. Please put your email in the corresponding field. You won’t be put on any mailing list. It’s just so I can contact you if you win. Contest ends Thursday December 17th 2009 11:59pm, the minute before my birthday!
In the meantime, here’s a Top Recipe from Eat Tastefully.


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I’m an awful cook so instead I’d like to take Padma out on romantic night of heavy drinking which hopefully culminates in her professing her undying love for me while undressing.
| December 14, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
@jeff …thanks for leaving a comment. Looks like you just might win …if no one else writes anything. Any takers?
| December 14, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
hm. deep fried tofu fritters with cinnamon, mixed nuts and berries. Padma used to be vegetarian, so she might enjoy that!
| December 14, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
Does beer count as a local produce? I could crack some peanuts. Poach them in a shallow saucepan with beer from the Brooklyn Brewery, until they are thender. Then deep fry the peanuts in oil until they are brown. Finally toss them with cinnamon and sugar.
| December 15, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
@bonnie… nice. Beer always counts as something.
| December 17, 2009 @ 11:17 am
I’ll take some eggplant grown at BK Farmyards, sixteen walnuts (still in shell) and an outdoor turkey deep fryer (not the indoor electric one).
I will take all those ingredients and throw them in my fridge (including the deep fryer). Then I will go to White Castle and buy a Crave Case.
Padma will enjoy the succulent hamburgers while I provide entertainment by swallowing a teaspoon of cinnamon powder.
| December 17, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
Damn I missed it.
| December 18, 2009 @ 9:34 am
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| August 31, 2010 @ 11:52 am