Tag Archives: Contest

Photo-A-Day

Fry Sauce Overload

Fry Sauce Overload
Photo-A-Day #1305

I think that more than one person can be free to say that I went extremely overboard on the amount of Fry sauce I made. I made nearly 2 cups of each sauce and only had about 15 people have any, I think I still have about 2 cups of each sauce left. We didn’t even make a dent. I guess I should have looked at what I was making and paired it down even more.

Because I had so much I went to work today with a cooler of the sauces and also packed the cooler with every ice pack in the house to keep them cold. I sent a message to everyone sitting around me that I’d have the sauce in one area of the caf and if people wanted they could come and taste test and judge. I got a few takers and some interested parties who didn’t participate. The one thing I assumed would be abundant at the caf was French Fries. And with my luck today was a day when they only had Tater Tots. Luckily we know that Tater Tots go very well with fry sauce and they certainly went well with the sauces today. Everyone who participated today was very enthusiastic about the sauces and they really liked most of them.

Now I have to tally all the votes for The Ultimate Fry Sauce Recipe Contest and create the video for the announcement of the winner which will be Nov, 10th. Now I’m off to dispose of the entries and I probably won’t eat any fry sauce for a good long time, or I may make some tomorrow, who knows.

I am beside myself happy with the number of people who are entering the Edge Tech Corp Photo Frame Contest. Thanks for all the entries, keep ’em coming.

Today was the last day for the IZEA insider applications to be added. There are ten spots and ten entrants right now. Only a little while longer for people to get in their entries. I am wondering where some of my blogging friends are because there are many of them who would make great IZEA insiders. But if they don’t apply that is okay because I’ll be recruiting for my crew (if I get picked)

Photo-A-Day

Lazy Susan was Busy Tonight…

8 Comments
Lazy Susan was Busy Tonight...
Photo-A-Day #1303

Today was the day that I spent making Fry Sauce for The Ultimate Fry Sauce Recipe Contest. I started the morning making my list of ingredients and trying to convert every recipe into something that broke down into “parts” i.e. one part mayo 2 parts ketchup. I got my system down and headed to the store.

I spent about an hour and a half shopping because not only was I trying to get everything for the contest I also had to do some personal shopping and I had to make sure that I got all the cold things at the end so there was a bit of scrambling around the store and backtracking. But in the end I found what I needed.

I came home and made sure that I photographed everything for the video and the Fry Sauce post. I was about ready to get to work but decided that lunch would be a good idea and then one episode of Smallville. I had the time and we are still on Episode 3 of this season, so close to getting up to speed. Around 1:30 I started making all the sauces.

Making the sauces was fun, I laid each recipe out on the counter, measured all the ingredients and then filmed an into about each one. Then I would mix it in the Magic Bullet. The Magic Bullet works awesome, we got it for our wedding and this is my first chance to take it for a spin, I hope to use it much more in the future. Then I would wash everything and then repeat the cycle for the next recipe. It was time consuming and along the way there was a mishap with a measuring shot glass. It was shattered and I had to wash absolutely everything very thoroughly and pick up all the glass. But in the end I completed 10 Fry Sauces. then I let them all sit in the fridge.

Around 6:00 friends started arriving. We had seven judges, plus myself, tonight. I made an abundance of sauce, about 2 cups of each kind, and will bring the rest to work to have more judges weigh in with their opinions. Allison made up scoring sheets that had rankings of 1-5 for many different criteria. We decided on Store Bought Steak Fries as a control group to use for tasting. They were inexpensive and tasted great. There was some lively conversation about each of the sauces and everyone had a different opinion on taste so we got a really nice mix. I’m happy with the results.

When we were done with all the fries and Tater Tots (Thanks Stephen’s A.) We had a chocolate cream pie with cinnamon sugar meringue that Andrea made, delicious. Then we hung out till 11:30 swapping stories. It was a good night.