Cooking Extravaganza #2

....for lack of a better name.

We were over at our friends Sara and Matt's tonight and decided that we needed to have another night of cooking like we did on New Year's Eve. Last time, B and I served up courses 1 and 2 and Sara and Matt (I really want to abbreviate this to S & M for ease of typing but I think I shall refrain) had 3 and 4, the latter being dessert. This time we decided that Sara and I would be a "team", although we're not calling them teams because we are not competing, and Bill and Matt will cook together. We then drew numbers 1-4 because we didn't want to assume the ladies would be making the dessert. As it turns out, I drew #4 so it didn't matter. We also drew #2 so the boys are up 1st and 3rd. Next we drew proteins. Course #1 will be poultry, #2 beef and #3 lamb. We skipped a protein for dessert. Now I've seen bacon ice cream on Iron Chef America (and think it would probably be AWESOME - said in a sing-songy voice), but I'm not Morimoto and choose to leave some things to the professionals. The last rule is that the price cap for the protein is $15. Since the portions will be smaller I think this is doable. The extravaganza is next Saturday at M and S's (doesn't quite have the same ring) so we have a week to prepare. As always, there will be pics to follow.