Chopped: Double Date

Have you seen the food Network show, Chopped? The rules according to us were:

1. Say yes when your friend texts you about this great idea she has, even though you have no clue what she's actually talking about.

2. Split up into teams—girls vs. boys. and shop for 4 secret ingredients. Let the guys push the cart with the purse and the baby.

3. Flip a coin to see whose house the boys end up at and vice versa. Tell the boys it doesn't matter which house we get because we can make anything work.

4. Race home, split up the ingredients, steal some cheese. Pretend not to notice the boys took the pizza dough recipe.

5. You have ONE hour to fix dinner and dessert. Have fun searching for stuff in a strange kitchen.

6. Finish early, even have time to do some dishes and feed the baby before meeting up again.

7. Meet up and plate your meal (because looks are worth points) while trying to figure out how/if the other team cheated.

8. Eat the edible parts of the meal. (Most of it was! We all got full.)

Above: Boys' Dinner. Cinnamon chipotle pizza and jalepeno poppers.

Below: Girls' dinner: Cheese chile stuffed breadsticks, with steak and salad.

Above: Girls' dessert. 3 layer dessert with oatmeal crumble crust, cream cheese filling and berry topping.

Below: Boys' dessert. Oatmeal...mush, berries with rock hard chocolate drizzle and whipped cream.

The Secret Ingredients were:

steak

canned chopped green chillies

whole jalepenos

fresh strawberries

frozen raspberries

heavy whipping cream

cream cheese

oatmeal cookies

Best of all, it was really FUN! I did take pictures of our "date". But since it was only our first date...I don't want to seem too eager. So I'll hold off for now, we'll have to see where this goes first....