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Stone Fruits!

A stone fruit, also called a drupe, is a fruit with a large "stone" inside.Examples of stone fruits are peaches, plums, and cherries. Fresh, canned, jellied, any way you want but your dish must star one of those fruits.

While you're perfectly welcome to make a large spread of food, please make sure there is clearly a "main dish" because that is what people will be voting on.

Only one person will be eliminated after this round. The remaining four will face off in our final round next week!

VOTING GUIDELINES

Voting follows an 'Iron Chef' style scoring system. This means you, the people of /ck/, will judge each entry individually instead of deciding on what you feel is the "best" dish.

Dishes are scored out of a total 20 points, based on 4 categories (worth a maximum of 5 points each); Presentation, Originality, Appeal and Challenge Goals. You may award 0's if you feel the contestant did not meet your expectations for a category.

-Presentation: The appearance of items on the plate; plating skills
-Originality: Creativity in composing the dish
-Appeal: How appetizing the food looks/whether or not the dish appeals to your personal taste as a voter
-Challenge Goals: How closely the entry followed the challenge goal(s)

The distinction between Presentation and Appeal: If someone submits an artfully arranged but burnt steak as an entry, it may score high in Presentation but low in Appeal.
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Copypasta Scoring Format for Lazymodo

Presentation: /5
Originality: /5
Appeal: /5
Challenge Goals: /5
Total: /20

Scores from last round.

>>5392717
nice theme. looking forward to seeing what everyone makes!

This is going to be really, really hard for me because there are no stone fruits in season and the very few they have at the store are insanely expensive. No idea how I'll pull this one off...

Interesting theme, gonna be very cool to see what people come up with.

>>5392817
Yeah, I was just thinking that, too. Here, at least, I think the only stone fruits that are in season now are some of the plum varieties. There might be some early cherries, I'm not sure. BUT, I love stone fruits, so this should be a fun round anyway.

>>5392817
canned? jam? jelly? The fruit doesn't have to be whole when you start ;-)

>>5392817
You could always use canned peaches, cherries, prunes, and stuff. It might not get you as many points as fresh but if your out of other options its better than nothing.

>>5392830
>>5392832
>>5392835
Looks like canned may be my best option!

This is definitely going to be interesting and challenge!

just a friendly reminder that almonds and coconuts are technically drupaceous fruits

>>5392860
I was thinking about this, if I could find some green almonds that would be fucking great, they have a tiny window where you can eat them whole and I think that's around this time. Unfortunately I don't know that my country bum kroger store would carry those hahaha

>>5392860
Almonds are the kernels (seeds) not the fruits. And coconut, while technically drupes are usually classified as a simple dry fruit.

Interesting theme, I like it!

I think I might have already figured out what I'm going to make. That's a record time for me, lol, usually it's Thursday before I've figured it out. I just hope my back feels better by the time I'm ready to make my dish. :/ The past two days have been fucking miserable.

>>5393099
I think I know as well, though I don't think I'm gonna make it past this round... I won chocolates though so I feel ok with that if it happens hahaha

They didn't even have fucking plums at the store, what the fuck, they always have plums. :|

>>5393374
I HAD TO BUY PRUNES LIKE SOME KIND OF FUCKING GERIATRIC NEANDERTHAL!

Is avocado a stone fruit?

>>5393415
i laughed way too hard at that!

I also think I know what I'm going to make....i'll be pretty bored the next few days, so between getting drunk and marathoning House, I'm hoping to get my dish in early this week

>>5393602
>Avocado or alligator pear also refers to the fruit, botanically a large berry that contains a single seed.[2]
As much as tomatoes are fruits, yes.
I was thinking about that too.

>>5392860
Also Richard Simmons.

>>5392712
>Welcome to the 9th Round
In keeping with tradition, shouldn't this be the 5th round or maybe the 11th?

A potentially helpful link for those still in:
http://www.foodsubs.com/Fruitsto.html

>>5394187
Well, at least you kept your tradition of being a douche!
>>5394232
This was the link that helped me out, I think I'll be doing mine today, maybe...

>>5394182

>>5394575
Glad I could help.

>>5393782

Little friendly education. Not trying to be a douche, but you can take it as you like.

>Fruit:
Basically it's a fruit if it is the plant organ that produces seeds(uterus) coming as a result of pollination. Tomatoes, peppers, avocados, etc, are all the 'fruit' of their respective plant.

>Vegetable:
Any part of the plant, excluding the fruit or seed.

BONUS:

>Berry:
The fruit of a plant, thick skin, surrounding a fleshy body that feed a core of seed(s). Blueberries, grapes, oranges, avocados.

>Drupe:
Single stone protected by fleshy body, wrapped in a thin skin. Cherries, plums, nectarines, etc.

Pome:
Thin skin, surrounding a FIRM body that protects a complex housing seeds. Apple, quince, pear, etc.

Hope that clears some stuff up. And maybe y'all learned something for the day!

>>5394575
Gee, last round you thanked me for somethingorother I wrote.

>>5393602
>>5393782
>>5394684


Just clearing this up......can I or can't I use avocado as my stone fruit? I can make a great spicy guacamole con queso, courtesy of the man Billy Gibbons.

>>5393602
>>5393782
>>5394684


Just clearing this up......can I or can't I use avocado as my stone fruit? I can make a great spicy guacamole con queso, courtesy of the man Billy Gibbons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9yvRv4Cazo&hd=1

>>5395200
No, but you can use a non-mutated banana.

>>5395200
I am going to vote no... Reluctantly. Lets keep it plums/cherries/peaches/apricots/nectarines/etc...

>>5395501
Mango?

I WAS going to cook today...but its hot, so I made a drink, then another, and another....gin, lemonade, and pomegranate syrup. Yum.

>>5395553
Mangoes are stone fruit.
>>5395673
I'm kinda regretting cooking today. My kitchen is full of smoke and shits not going well. We'll see if this turns out. Fuck.

Ok so, I had planned on doing like a chipotle-plum marinaded pork chop but they had no plums so I had to figure something else out.

So I made an upside down pound cake.

It has yellow and white fleshed peaches, apricots and prunes (plums).

The glaze is butter and brown sugar with a tiny bit of cinnamon. The cake is a traditional poundcake with the zest of a lemon and some peach infused seltzer water.

I gotta say I was fucking panicking, I've never made an upside down cake nor have I made poundcake from scratch. My kitchen was smoking like fuck. But that produced an amazing glaze on top with caramelized sides and one of the tastiest most moist cakes I've ever had. I'm not a big dessert fan but the combination of tart and sweet flavors was just great. This is going to definitely become a staple in my house. Or as mom says "You'll keep making this once your done with your contest, right?"

Unfortunately it's not a very pretty dish, but flavor is much more important to me than presentation as a home cook.

I'll post a vert at some point.

>>5395874
Another pic...

>>5395884
Last pic, tried to take a pic of a slice but my camera kept fucking with the colors, I think because of the contrasting colors but shit I dunno!

Not the prettiest but probably tied with my mexican picnic for favorite dish I've made in the competition.

Thanks all!

...I guess they must have liked it

>>5395884
>>5395887
hnnngg

>>5395887

Holy crap that looks fuckable!

And you were complaining about acess to fruit and money earlier...

>>5395874
>yellow and white fleshed peaches, apricots and prunes (plums).
Are you trying for a 20/5 on challenge goals or something?!?!

>>5395887
You really need a better camera.

>>5395874
I would say I'm gonna try and make that too, but peaches (both yellow and white) are 9 bucks a kilo here, so...nope.

>>5395887
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20

>>5395874
>>5395884
>>5395887

>complaining/discussing not being able to find or afford stone fruits

>posts this lovely triple stone fruit pound cake on a tuesday

My queen. Love it.

>>5395966
>>5396154
Thanks guys!
>>5396639
I knoooowww my camera is like a 5 or 6 year old canon powershot, I am just happy I can take kinda decent pics..
>>5396753
>>5396937
Trust me, peaches were like 5 bucks a pound and the apricots were even more, so I only got like 2 of each fruit and came home with not a fuckin clue what I was going to make. Then I put the fucking cake in the oven and the butter and sugar starts melting all over the bottom of the oven releasing smoke out the wazoo... I thought it was gonna end up being total shit and I was very pleasantly surprised. Also the whole fuckin cake is gone which I'm a bit upset about cuz I only got one piece...

I get paid for the month tomorrow and if I make it to the next round I'm gonna go balls to the wall crazy muahaha

>>5397504
And here is the vert if anyone wants it...

>>5397594
>vert
That's two columns. It's more of a bivert.

>>5397629
Dude I struggle enough trying to make the shitty ones I put together, don't make it more difficult for me hahaha

I'm at a loss of what to make. I'm thinking either a prune chocolate fudge torte or a peach/passion fruit cheesecake.

>>5397796
They both sound delicious.

>>5395553
Fine, mango's ok as a stone fruit. At least it's sweet like the other.

>>5397796
all of it

>>5397504
Peaches are 4.90 €/kg here, 3.08 US$/pound.

Bump

>>5397594
Thanks, it looks delicious

Uuuggggh. Hopefully I'll be cooking tomorrow. I have all my ingredients except one, and I'm going to get that today.

>>5399754
I hope you try it!

Bumping off like page 7...

Night all!

Bumping

Friday evening bump. Looking forward to more entries :-)

>>5403982
I'm doing some prep work for my dish right now. But, I won't be posting until tomorrow, after lunch.
I thought I'd be able to get my dish in sooner this week, but my damn back being injured has delayed everything I needed to get done this week. :/ (It's getting better, though, just slowly.)

>>5404038
That sucks. Hope the strain goes away (warm baths help my back when it hurts)

>>5404222
Thanks, yeah warm baths do help. I've been taking warm epsom salt baths, using Tiger Balm on it, alternating ice packs with heat packs (the heat feels good, but the ice packs help more), and doing what little yoga I can manage with it to stretch it out. It's warm enough here now that I'm going to gym to use the pool and spa tomorrow afternoon, because that will really help take the pressure off it. I've been taking ibuprofen for it, but that only helps so much.

>>5404258
Hope you feel better! Back injuries suck; this week we must all be suffering. I got all my ingredients, but then Tuesday night I started puking. Been dealing with inner ear..thingie thats causing vertigo. I havent done anything but marathon House...I'm hoping to get my dish done tomorrow morning, if not, late that night.

>>5404258
>>5404562
Now I feel kinda guilty that I'm in great health lol...

Can't wait for my chocolates, gonna go check the mail box now...

>>5404562
Awww, well I hope you feel better too, Rei, that sucks. I know that feel, I used to get sinus infections all the time that would jack my equilibrium all up and make me nauseous. You have my sympathy (and empathy).
So this is the /ck/ challenge - invalid edition?

>>5404651
ITS HERE!!! YAY!

>>5404676
Hopefully John and 556 are feeling alright...

>>5404682
The innards... BTW this is the prize for week 7(?) that Borneo sent me!

The chocolate is absolutely delicious, I loooooove dark chocolate. I am gonna see if I can find this on Amazon, it's SO GOOD. I've never had english chocolate :D Also these things on the right, no idea what they are but they taste like a fucking fruit roll up in wafer form! SO WEIRD but so good.

My mom approves of everything, said the chocolate was "wicked good", so thanks Borneo and Bubble :) Gonna enjoy this tonight.

>>5404693

oh i love those flakes! Lol so good.

>>5404693
YUM
I love chocolate with cocoa nibs, love that little crunch.

>>5404705
I've never had anything like them before, it kinda tastes like someone took one of those fruit leathers and dehydrated it, but I fucking LOVE THESE OMG BRO
>>5404706
Yes! I've also never had chocolate with cocoa nibs but that little crunch is perfect.

I'm very happy :D

>>5404693
Lordy Lord!
There is a product called Lordy Lord Chocolate!
It sounds like they named the product after the first thing they said after trying some.
This is almost as good as the day I learned that there's a song called "Dance Mr. Bojangles."

>>5404743
Dude, it really is good, I'm in heaven right now eating little pieces with a cup of the new coffee I got yesterday in my new french press...

Thank you thank you again to everyone who voted and to Borneo and Bubble, I very rarely get prizes or gifts or surprises or anything so this really means a lot though I'm sure that sounds depressing, heh.

Goodnight all!

>>5404706
Hey Pye, last round you talked about a steakhouse in London that has a beef tasting menu for a party of 8, and you were looking for 7 friends.
You can count me in.
john_ck@randomail.net

>>5404743
>how I imagine Squee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr8tOa_En7A

>>5405289
Ha!
I've been compared to worse...
Is it just me or is the weird haired alien a caricature of Napoleon?

>>5404693
I'm glad to see you're enjoying your prize! The things on the right are haw flakes made from the Chinese hawthorn and you can get them in most asian stores.

>>5404752
The pleasure is mine, I love sharing delicious things with other people.

>>5404743
heh, there's an english confectioner by the name of Monty Bojangles too, pic related

>>5405386
A long time ago I decided that if I ever end up homeless again I'd change my name to Bojangles and speak solely in the third person.
All these other Bojangles (the mouse, this guy, the country song where he dances.) make me fool as if I chose wisely.

>>5405393
Ended* Feel*

>>5405383
Did you ever watch Babylon 5? The clothing that he and his species wear may be modeled on French military fashion, not sure. The low-rank soldiers wear stuff that is more Roman themed, I think. His character is complex and in the end rather tragic; he struck a Faustian bargain early on and lived to regret it despite achieving his highest ambitions. Overall a good series; it was a real shame that the network fucked with it and basically wrecked the plot arc for the last two seasons.

>>5405243
Ha, that's awesome, John. Well, I'm not going to be taking that trip soon, but hopefully sometime in the semi-near future. That would be really fun, sort of like an ultimate /ck/ meet-up!

Ok guys, something pretty simple this week. Vertigo doesnt let me do too much...

From bottom to top: mango cake, sugar nectarine, peach cream cheese, prosciutto, and nectarine hard candy.

just realized I forgot my identifier..and my name disappeared for the last 2 pics...hm. I started eating, so mind my mess!

>>5395874
>>5405955
Looks awesome you guys. I'm waiting for everyone else to post before I vote.

I'm almost done. Posting in a minute.

>>5405955
IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKIN PROSCUITTO ROSE

Alrighty, here we go. This dish is loosely based, flavor-wise, on a dish I had in a local restaurant last year. So we have:

Spicy Plum Glazed Bacon Raft, topped by
Sunchoke Puree
Grilled Shrimp
Pickled Peaches
with a Cherry - Chile Sauce

More pics and verticals to follow!

And another pic, a little closer

>>5406033
you sure that isnt just ketchup, bacon, mashed potatoes and a shrimp?

And a little closer still....

>>5406039
Oh very sure, and I have the verticals (and happy tummy) to prove it. :)

>>5405957
The sugar thing looks like Winged Victory.

And even closer....

And one more....

Plum glaze vertical.

(there's more added to it in the bacon vertical, this is the regular glaze, which can be used on lots of things, and/or added to other sauces, glazes, etc.)

Quick Pickled peaches vertical.

Cherry-Chile sauce vertical

You can make this sauce spicier (by adding extra chiles), or less spicy depending on what you want.

Spicy Plum Glazed Bacon vertical

(I forgot to take a pic of the finished bacon for the vertical, ah well)

Sunchoke Puree vertical

I didn't do a vertical for the shrimp, because that seemed unnecessary. But, I seasoned them with garlic, jalapeno, sumac, black pepper, salt, and almond oil before grilling.

And these are just pics of building the stack.

And one more, just because I took too many pics. :)

>>5406059
This was actually my favorite component. Not just because of how it went with the dish, but because I immediately had more ideas on how to use it once I tasted it. While I was getting everything ready, I ate a little of it on top of some crackers with cream cheese, absolutely delicious.

>>5406026
lol yeah...i got inspired by watching Hannibal (tv series)...not that that's creepy.

>>5406036
looks super tasty!

>>5406121
Thanks, Rei, so does yours!

>>5406074
What's that green thingy and how did you make it curly!

>>5406145
Oh, that's just some scallion tops! You slice them in thin strips and put in a bowl of ice water, and they'll curl right up.

>>5406298
The fuck?! How do you learn this stuff!

>>5406649
i know right!

Bonus: I made donut holes and thought i'd share. Trying to do stuff that requires some movement and standing....still get dizzy +15 mins of standing/moving head....blarg. Some look more like alien fetuses than holes..but..whatever.

>>5406665
They ALL look like alien fetuses.

>>5406665
I worked at a german bakery for a while and we made fresh donuts every fucking day and this pic gave me the biggest craving fucking EVER CAUSE THEY LOOK JUST LIKE OUR HOLES :|

why you do this Pye.

peach clafoutis with some haagen dazs vanilla ice cream

>>5407677
400ml milk, 50g butter, 3 medium eggs + 1 yolk, 3 tablespoons of flour, about 400g of peaches (I used tinned), 5 tablespoons of sugar, a pinch of salt and a dash of vanilla extract

>>5407683
I tried to make it look pretty but once i poured the batter into the tin the peaches just floated up randomly

grease up the tin, warm the milk, mix the ingredients and pour into tin

cook at 200C for about half an hour or until set around the edges and jiggly in the middle

>>5406665
Those look a lot better than the factory cut donut holes you find in most chain donut places.

>>5406033
Presentation 5/5
Originality 5/5
Appeal 4/5
Challenge goals: 1/5
Total 15/20

Sorry, this is a sunchoke and shrimp dish. The stone fruits are just garnishes. Jellied bacon is awesome, but the plum is trivial here. I would love to eat it though.

>>5406051

Can we have another photo thats as close as you can get without getting your eyes wet?

>>5407865
Easy now, my fuzzy little man peach

Everyone, stuff is looking great this week. Looking at these fruit based dishes in the morning is making me starving. Best thread on /ck/.

Haha Borneo is your name really Yonghorn? Thats fucking awesome.

>>5406649
You must eat many goldfish on the path to enlightenment, glasshoppa.

>>5395874
>>5397594
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20

>>5405955
>>5405958
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 16/20

>>5406033
>>5406071
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 13/20

>>5407917
oopsy daisy

I really gotta check my photos before I upload them next

my favourite dishes this round are Cooking Rei's and pye's, they speak to my love of sweet things and pork

>>5405955
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 19/20

>>5406033
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 14/20

>>5394684
>>Vegetable:
>Any part of the plant, excluding the fruit or seed.
that's wrong tho.

Given you've stated a definition of fruit based on the scientific one, I feel obliged to point out that there is no such thing as a vegetable in science.

Tomatoes are both vegetables(culinary) and fruit(scientific), but they are not culinary fruit

>>5408371
Thanks! I'm a big advocate of sweet and pork together....no one wants to get maple bacon donuts with me...

>>5395874
>>5395887

Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 13/20

>>5405955
>>5405957

Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20

>>5406033
>>5406036

Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 17/20

Love the dish, it's a shame I can't give more points in challenge goals.

>>5407677
>>5407683

Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 15/20

>>5408460
I'd go with you... I wish I could find maple bacon donuts here.

i could wreck some slow cooked pork belly with sugar right now

>>5395874
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 15/20

>>5405955
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20

Sorry I couldn't give you more on appeal, but even though it's very nicely presented, the prosciutto plus cake combination didn't sound appealing to me at all. But nice job!

>>5406033
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 18/20

I really liked this, and wish I could have tasted it, but I still had to knock points off of the challenge goals a bit, since the fruits used aren't prominently featured, even though I realize they are in there.

>>5395874
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 12/20

>>5405955
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20

>>5406033
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 1/5
Total: 11/20

>>5407677
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 11/20

>>5408460
I work in the coffee shop where those donuts were created, man. Where are you located?

>>5409561
OH GOD IF YOU'RE SENDING DONUTS ILL PAY

>>5395874
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 12/20

>>5405955
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20

>>5406033
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 14/20

>>5407677
Presentation: 1/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 10/20