Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The Hawai'ian Pasta

Haha! And I still cant believe I just won the first cooking competition I ever participated in!
Ya, Henry and I came up with this very 'exotic' Hawai'ian Pasta,the name was my idea!
So we had a cooking competition this evening for all the summer students at Caltech, and as expected there were few participants. Only about 9 teams came out with entrees/desserts and there were three prizes for grabs! I saw this as the motivation that I've been waiting for ;) to bring out the chef in me.
After 90 minutes of brainstorming and bugging the hell out of Tracy and Stephanie, Henry and I (all summer research students at Caltech) decided to take on the challenge of what was to be exotic Pasta in Sweet and Sour sauce with Pork Sausages. It took 30 minutes of eleventh-hour shopping, all of about 10 dollars worth of food, and a lot of crazy ( read great) ideas before we came up with this masterpiece, full with pan fried sausages in excessive butter, sweet and sour sauce improvised with a dozen sauces and again lots of butter, cheddar cheese, bow-tie pasta and a topping of pineapple!
Not bad at all! We were not only awarded the best entree at the competition with 20 dollar food coupons, but got lots of compliments of what seemed like a very 'creative idea'
Perhaps this is just the lucky break we were looking for.... :)

2 comments:

Arvind said...

Cool!! So the time at Caltech has been much more than an academic exercise for u... And indeed the dish looked really good..

Ravi Teja Synti said...

stud da!