The Marx Foods and Foodie Blog Roll Iron Foodie Contest!

I am so excited. Iron Foodie? A challenge in the kitchen? I'm there and ready to whisk everyone away.

Why do I want to enter this contest?

Well, even being here today to type this response via virtual ink is a gift as I was only given two weeks to live a few years ago. Cooking saved My life as it gave Me something to look forward to.
I want to give back a little something with a great recipe from Marx Foods products that you can enjoy and share with your families and friends. Cooking is the way that I express My love and creativity. I want to express that love and creativity with you as well. Whats more is I want to prove something to Myself, that I am useful, that I AM creative. Creative enough to compete and WIN. I want to leave something behind for My family to be proud of. Winning this contest would not just thrill Me, but My family as well.

Who's kitchen would I like to spend a day in and why?

Julia Child. Why? The lady is a culinary icon yes, but she was also an honest to good down to earth person. I used to watch her show on PBS at times and simply crack up as she was so hilarious in the kitchen. I think a sense of humor is so very important in a kitchen and that Julia Child and I would get some serious cooking done along with some serious laughter during the process. I would love to simply listen to her experiences and learn whatever I could from her and use that knowledge in My own kitchen along with My own experiences for a wonderful yin and yang of cooking joy!

What morsel of food would I be most likely to swipe off a friend or family members plate?

It would most likely be cheese or a nice juicy mushroom. I adore cheese, so much in fact, that My Grandfather used to say that I was part 'rat'. Mushrooms also make My taste buds tingle. They are like morsels of meaty goodness with an earthiness that cannot be matched with any other thing (unless it is a Truffle that is). ;) So yes, I would steal a piece of cheese in a heartbeat and maybe even a mushroom too. Double the goodness, double the score!

Sum up My childhood in one meal.

Mercy. Living with a single father, our meals were oft times scary to say the least and at many times would make Me question My fathers sanity, however, Dad did make one meal every Sunday that we actually looked forward to. Beans and Franks with Mac and cheese (from the box). We didn't have a lot of money and usually ate cheaper cuts of meat such as liver on sale etc. Beans and Franks was the best part of My childhood meals, the rest could send a person running to the hills in fear, shock and horror. (Love you Daddy). :-)

The one mainstream food that I cannot stand?

Well, let Me think here as I enjoy most everything that ends up on My plate. Mainstream? Is fast food considered 'mainstream'? If so, I would say cheap sauces/add ons that fast food chains try to pawn off on customers to dress up their already horrible food that they have been serving since the ice age. I hate those fast food chains constantly 'revamping' their existing menu items such as one of their burgers with some so called snappy mainstream type of topping such as 'onion chips with black peppered mushroom sauce' when really all it is... well, is a cheap mushroom goop with processed onions in a tasteless greasy batter. Insert any new supposed thrilling burger name here________. Yuck. Just work on giving Me a good burger instead of trying to make your not so good burger more than it is with your cheap additions and icky sauces. I am NOT into the 'next big burger' from your fast food chain no matter how wonderfully popular it supposedly is.