I would like to invite you to participate in “I Like ‘em Spicy!”, a fortnightly food event, where all participants have to come up with a spicy recipe using the Star Ingredient (which is different every fortnight)!

The rules are simple:

1. The recipe has to use the Star Ingredient as the base of the dish
2. It has to be SPICY!!
3. Dishes can be of any form you can imagine, appetizers, mains, desserts, drinks…whatever you can come up with!

On the 1st and 15th of every month, I will the post the Star Ingredient and you are expected to email your entries to hookedonheat@gmail.com by the next two weeks.

At the end of the two weeks, I will post all the recipes on a special blog built especially for “I Like ‘em Spicy!” so you can all view the fabulous entries!

For further details do drop in “Hooked on Heat”, at http://www.hookedonheat.blogspot.com and join in on the fun!

- Meena
(www.hookedonheat.blogspot.com)

-Elizabeth

Meena–I will look into it, thank you for the invitation.

Elizabeth–I am told that yeast raised waffles are the aristocrats of the waffle world. I have not had them myself, but I am going to have to make them and find out if they really are all that.

One of Zak’s favorite dishes in all the world is yeast raised pancakes–his father apparently made them on Saturdays when he was a kid. Zak used to make them, but he also used to willy-nilly play with the recipe until he forgot utterly how they were supposed to be made. Perhaps as a surprise, I should figure them out again.

The yeast pancakes are quite good, btw. They are a bit beefier in texture than baking powder batter pancakes–which is not surprising. They really are good.