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i am susan thye. aka chocolatesuze. lives in sydney, australia. born 30.5.83. married to noods. works in social media. this is a food and lifestyle blog. i like cheeseburgers, cake, fried chicken and macarons.
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Battle Royale Food Blogger Style
28 April 2010, 01:08
Once upon a time in a land far away there lived a group of people united in their love for food and of taking photos. With Billy, Ellie and Linda at the helm, a group of food bloggers were split into 2 groups- savoury and desserts. The catch? Savoury ppl had to use a fruit in their dish and the dessert ppl had to use a vegetable.
We were designated 15min time limits in the kitchen for those who needed to reheat and/or cook
Billy writing names and order of our dishes for the night
Minh: Pumpkin soup with port melon and vanilla creme fraiche
Richard: Melon Triplets Salmon Tartare
Ellie: twice-cooked orange salt rub pork belly with toffee-crisp crackling, caramelised cherry and brandy glaze, potato and apple mash with smoked bacon and savoy cabbage with smoky bacon.
Simon: Korean fried chicken – twice fried chicken thigh pieces with a pineapple chili sauce
Helen: pork ribs marinated in lychee and soy served with lychee and green olives.
And then there was a pause as we realised we had blown thru 5 savoury dishes within 1 hour. (Edit: i drink Mother because i LIKE it im not pimping it for $$$!)
Dessert time! Da bloggers went a lil crazy and plates were laid out awaiting conga line plating! Haha dessert overload!
Steph: a trio of beetroot – Chocolate & beetroot macaron, beetroot chocolate brownie with beetroot ice cream and a beetroot lollipop with fizzy sherbert powder
Karen: tasting plate of rhubarb – rhubarb financier, Rhubarb mousse gateau, lemon shortbread with rhubarb jam and rhubarb crumble.
Billy: eggplant chocolate tart with candied carrot, purple carrot ice cream with citrus peels and roasted almond
Linda: Caramalised onion panacotta w/ burnt butter ice cream & olive macaron
Shez: Fennel flan with fennel cream with beetroot sorbet and fennel and fennel brandy snap. (Thanks for the photo Richard)
MAH Rainbow Vegie Layer Cake! So i kinda didn’t plan ahead but knew i wanted something colourful, being all natural and not using food colouring. Finally decided on making 3 cakes, recipes via the links: Beetroot & chocolate, Carrot (minus the walnuts), and Spinach cake. I covered the cake in cream cheese frosting because i figured cream cheese frosting should be able to save a 3 layer vegetable cake… i was trying my hardest to keep the icing crumb-free but failing miserably so i was like meh screw it and chucked some edge pieces of each cake into the blender and covered the cake in crumbs hoho hello furry cake!
Innards shot! i LOVED how vivid the green in the spinach cake was! Though not so much the smell when it was baking… it really did smell like i was baking a vegetable cake! The beetroot and chocolate cake was ok though not something i’d make again unless i quadrupled the amount of chocolate used. The carrot cake was carrot cake. i managed to lose my grater so ended up chopping the carrots haha awesomesauce
Miss C and Billy tallying up the scores. Ellie won Best Savoury, Steph won Best Dessert and Linda won Most outrageous hehe congrats guys!
Carnage! Twas an awesome night with super sugar overload and the geekiness of mini lan party haha thanks so much to Ellie for hosting and to Billy and Linda for organising!
Back to home
rofl you’re getting quite good at these rainbow coloured cakes; maybe enter the Easter Show comp next year haha
that beetroot macaroon looks worth trying!
— Lex Apr 28, 02:02 AM #LOL at vege fur! You are the queen of layered and multicoloured cakes :)
It was an epic battle and hopefully there’ll be many more to come.
— Karen | C&C Apr 28, 02:13 AM #trying to imagine smell of spinach cake as it was baking
your cake was tasty – i actually wanted more of a vegetable flavour! but oh the pretty colours! and the multi-colour crumb topping only added to the fun!
— Helen (grabyourfork) Apr 28, 02:52 AM #Your furry cake was awesome! The layers were so bright and colourful and I can’t believe you hand chopped the carrot, that would have sucked!
— Steph Apr 28, 05:28 AM #Suze, your cake looks so moist!Love the colours!You guys did an amazing job, I love the “behind the scenes” photos!:-)
— Maria Apr 28, 07:18 AM #Your cake is awesome! I was staring at it for a few minutes to figure out what it was. Didn’t taste much of the veges although I can imagine the smell of the spinach while baking in the oven. Great fun!
— Ellie (Almost Bourdain) Apr 28, 09:22 AM #LOL! Billy mentioned his purple carrot ice cream but I didn’t realise everyone was going so crazy with it! Sounds like so much fun! :)
— AY Apr 28, 09:59 AM #ahh that was soo much fun. Can’t believe one month of stressing, all ove rin one night =D
— linda Apr 28, 10:08 AM #Good thinking with the furry cake – ingenious, actually..!
— Tina Apr 28, 11:19 AM #Sounds like a wonderfully crazy night. Your furry cake is awesome; although I’d be reluctant to try it because there’s veggies in it – they don’t belong in desserts :P Although you guys have slightly convinced me otherwise; especially Steph!
— Phuoc'n Delicious Apr 28, 11:23 AM #Looks like a fun night, Steph’s dessert has me itching to try it, as do Helen’s ribs. Would never have thought to pair lychees and olives. How’d they work together?
— MissDissent Apr 28, 11:31 AM #Hehe, I like your action/behind the scenes shots, makes me realise there’s real people behind all those fab dishes! And I think your cake crumbs are what made the cake!
— Angie Apr 28, 11:44 AM #looks like so much fun! mini masterchef challenge!
— kewpie Apr 28, 11:48 AM #What’s with the mother drink advertising.
— Veggiedessert Apr 28, 12:42 PM #looks fun :O)
— betty Apr 28, 02:57 PM #Hehe I love your layered cakes! Great idea making it furry hehe I always get cake crumbs in my icing so it’s a good way to cover it up =P Did the spinach cake taste like spinach?
— Jacq Apr 28, 04:46 PM #Your layered cake looks awesome! So impressed by all of you guys! :D
— Betty @ The Hungry Girl Apr 28, 05:32 PM #Wow how exciting. I would be so nervous cooking in front of everyone. No singing or dancing in the kitchen while I cook kinda stuffs my mojo up. All the food looks fantastic.
— Katherine Apr 28, 08:27 PM #So many great cooks in one kitchen – sounds like a fun and fattening night. Rainbow vegie cake sounds both healthy and delicious at the same time – possible?? :)
— Trissa Apr 28, 10:08 PM #that’s a lot of food! everyone did a great job though – thumbs up to all!
— panda Apr 28, 10:59 PM #Hahha furry cakey was tasty! Though I liked the “normal” carrot part the best haha
— FFichiban Apr 28, 11:30 PM #Awww so bummed that I couldn’t make it!! everyone’s dish looks soo gooooood!
— Yas @ hungry.digital.elf. Apr 28, 11:44 PM #And I love the colours of your cake, those are my colour palette when I go furniture/accessory shopping LOL Hurray for natural food colouring!
hello nuffnanger! that cool shoot. I like taken food photo too but am still learning :D
from Nuffnanger Malaysia :D
yours
— Shahroll photo Apr 29, 12:34 PM #SH
I couldnt believe you guys wanna throw the cake out! Thank god I saved it and had it for breakfast, lunch and dinner the day after! LOL It was yummy dude… :P
— billy @ a table for two Apr 29, 07:30 PM #Hello!! My name is SIMAUMA. I write blog about the food.Please look.And I am glad if I link to your blog. — simauma Apr 29, 08:44 PM #
i’ve been to a friend’s dinner night with 4 dishes and that was crazy enough in the kitchen preparing the food. this must have been super crazy finding space to cook/prep/plate :-)
— Simon Food Favourites May 2, 07:14 PM #Had so much fun that night and loved the design of your cake.
It’s amazing what crazy recipes some of us can put together when given a little nudge :)
— Simon @ the heart of food May 7, 12:34 AM #wow so much food and so much fun! I’d love to try Ellie’s twice-cooked orange salt rub pork belly with toffee-crisp crackling and your furry cake !!
— Swee May 12, 05:01 AM #