Last weekend, I co-hosted a Palate Party. What is a Palate Party you ask? We ripped it off from a Top Chef quick fire competition. It's where you have a competition to see who can guess the most ingredients....essentially who has the best "palate"?
Marisela and Soung were my co host.
Every attendee had to bring 1-2 ingredient, this way everyone can play and have a shoe in to guess what they brought. As soon as they walked in the door, they had paper bag to put their ingredient and write their name so we could track. We had 3 prizes...first prize for most # of guesses, another prize for person who brought the ingredient that could not be guessed, and third was host choice.
We did in 2 rounds. Girls round and boys round. We only had so many blind folds. As you can see, we got creative with this. Although, we swear some people (Dan!) took advantage and could see through their blind fold. Each round had 5 tastings.
People brought creative stuff. We had...pears, tamrind sauce, vegimite (yuk), apples, pears, veggie dogs (which people hated the most), cactus (a good one!), pepitas (mine), nutella (yum), cooked squash, and more that I can't recall. It was fun!!!
Us, co host each made 2 appetizers or so....
Marisela made salmon fritters, cheese plate, and eggplant bruschetta
Soung made savory bread pudding and cookies
We are definitely doing this again but going to rethink how to run the competition...maybe Family Feud style next time.
