Food loves company.
For a recent company get-together, we experienced an Iron Chef-like competition. In case you haven’t heard of that show, it’s a competition in which you must use a key ingredient to make a recipe. In our case, the company was divided into teams, and each team got an ingredient to create an appetizer.
We discovered that the challenge was not everyone knew what to do with the key ingredient. That was related to the fact that we had people on our team who didn’t cook. (But the purpose of the activity was to have fun so a lack of cooking expertise didn’t matter.)
The competition was held at a cooking school with plenty of ingredients, stoves, ovens, and tables. Our team was assigned blue cheese as an ingredient. Half the team hadn’t tried blue cheese or didn’t like it, so one person took charge and came up with a recipe.
In the end, we made blue cheese with apples and nuts on a cracker. We were defeated by teams that had key ingredients such as salmon and another type of cheese. Of course, these competitions really depend on taste when determining the winner. The chef (and judge) thought our team’s recipe was too sweet, but a coworker liked the appetizer.
In the end, we got to try the appetizers made by all our coworkers. The main course was made by the instructor at the cooking school and his team. Many coworkers thought the dessert was too sweet. (Again, food is so subjective and depends on individual taste.)
In the end, it’s not just about the food. (Well, if the food tastes good, then certainly, you get a great meal.) What we remember is the time spent with the people we care about and the memories we create from the experience.
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