Sponsor me!

[Kuyuk]

I'm entering another culinary competition. Date for it is March 5th.

http://www.acfchefs.org/download/documents/events/Culinary_Competition_Manual.pdf

Offering A-E, I'll probably either do A or C, C being my primary since I work at a wedding cake shop.

Entry fee is $80
Gotta drive to Boston for the event and get a hotel room since setup is from 3-6 AM. (http://www.theepicureanclubofboston.com/2006BUCOMP.html)

Plus I gotta supply all my own foods and such.


Last competition cost me around $500.
Anyone want to sponsor me eh?

paypal: Swkuyuk@yahoo.com

Thanks! I'm sure I'll be posting pictures and ideas here sometime in the next few days/weeks.


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[Kuyuk]

While I have not entered the competition yet because I simply cant afford it, I have been working on a piece I would enter. If I get it done, I'll try and enter the competition. Here are some pictures of what I'm trying to do.

It's (hopefully) going to be a butterfly on a mushroom. Please note, this is all made out of sugar, and is about 1/4" thick, so it's super-fragile.


1) Beginning of wing, airbrushed, without any detail
2) Black detail
3) veins
4) finished wing
5) mushroom top

[Kuyuk]

Underside of mushroom, and the 2nd wing



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[Jolena]

I'm impressed, seriously. My mother owned her own catering business with a friend for years and she specialized in cakes and the likes as well. You've got some definite talent. Hope you get to enter the competition.

[Kuyuk]

Competition is in 3 days, here are a few pics of my finished mushroom and base.


Base has cinnamon/sugar on it to resemble dirt. (so it's edible)


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[Asha]

If I had any money I'd definately sponsor you man.
If not becouse of your kitchen talents but for the fact you look awesome in a dyper. :D
Either way. . good luck!

[Kuyuk]

If I post more diaper pics, do I get a sponsor?



K.

[Asha]

Dude if you do, I'll find a way!!
lol.

[Kuyuk]

Oh, got interesting news this evening (thursday). Competition is sunday morning.

Evidently, the category for centerpieces is a supplementary category for other ones, so you need to do the other ones in order to even enter the centerpiece.


So now, I have to do a category (I'm doing the easiest, patisserie), in less than two days. And I need to finish the centerpiece.


Stupid rules.

K.


Category C - Patisserie/Confectionery, Professional and Student:
To complete this category, all requirements must be displayed (all exhibited pieces must be made of edible materials).
[Select one]
C-1 Decorated Celebration cake - sugar paste, rolled fondant or royal icing.
Celebration cake can be any shape with a maximum display area of
15x15; no dummy cakes are permitted.
C-2 One buffet platter of fancy cookies, chocolates, or petit fours (platter must
be made up of 8 varieties, 8 portions each) with one plate for tasting
C-3 Six different individual hot or cold desserts (must be prepared as an
individual plated serving). All shown cold.
C-4 Wedding cake - a wedding cake must be a least three tiers with a
maximum display area of 36” x 36”; no dummy cakes are permitted.
C-5 Novelty Cake - an imaginative creation in shape and design; cake and
decorations must be edible.

[longshot]

The title of this post made me think of Sharon Stone's character in "Casino".

She "needs a sponsor", so she goes down on Joe Pesci in perhaps the most incomfortable and ackward sex scene ever recorded on film.

I hope you don't have to go to the same extremes for sponsorship...

[Kuyuk]

Only if I know I'll get enough money... And they are hot (and preferrably female)



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[Kuyuk]

Started the 2nd part of my competition, the one I didnt know I had to do, I just whipped up a cake to put on there (not sure if thats all I was supposed to do or not, we'll find out)

Anyway, the themes have to coinside each other, or enhance another, so I chose to do a ladybug cake.


I also stuck the wings on the body of the butterfly today, without breaking them. Go me.

Also, I made a leaf for the ladybug to sit on, so it wouldnt look so lonely. Here are some during-and-after pictures.

[Kuyuk]

my shirt says : Danger, Men Cooking

[Back]

So would you call yourself a confectioner?

[Kuyuk]

Nah. Just someone who likes to play with food. :)


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[Back]

I only ask because all I have seen you do is confectionary type things.

Regardless. Great stuff.

[Jazuela]

You totally need to add a light-bulb underneath the mushroom top, and turn that display into a table-lamp! I love the coloring on the leaf, it was pretty awesome to see it in the closeup.

[Kuyuk]

Went to the competition on saturday to set up sunday morning.


I got into the building at like 10 pm, by being smarter than security, so I began to set up my piece in the hallway outside the room I needed to (so I just had to move it like 5 feet and be done in the AM). The stuff travelled 6 hours and boston streets great, it didnt break or anything (surprisingly).

As I brought the butterfly up to set on top of the mushroom to glue it there, the padding I had between the wings was too much and forced them apart and they both broke into several pieces. (see pictures) This happened at 10:30 pm saturday.

I figured I had 6 hours, I might as well fix it, so I stayed up until 2:30 and hot glued everything back together. Talk about a pain in the ass.


I got everything back together, and I even got it attached to the mushroom by 2:30!

[Kuyuk]

So here are some pictures of it completed on the floor outside the room.

[Kuyuk]

So now I am able to get like, 3 hours of sleep in a car garage under the building this is in. Car garages smell bad.

Anyway, I wake up at 5:45 to move my piece into the room.


And as soon as I picked it up, the whole butterfly rolled right off the top of the mushroom.


And shattered. It sucked. I could have not wasted time and gotten like 4 more hours of sleep.

And only like 3 people saw it whole.



So I at least entered the mushroom and ladybug, didnt win anything, but it was fun anyway. I'll post pictures of other people's food.

[Kuyuk]

here are food pictures from other contestants, they had to break down an animal (most of them did fish, it was easiest) and make 4 identical plates in an hour. All of them did very well.

[HarmNone]

That's quite a colorful and imaginative work, Kuyuk. Good luck with it! :)

[Kuyuk]

More pics

[Kuyuk]

More

[Kuyuk]

All Done

[Alfster]

why do they look like poop?

[Asha]

I can appreciate the skill it takes to make all this plus it looks pretty.
But I'm so unrefined and uncultured I consider this 'scary food'.
:/

[Kuyuk]

Hehe, they all look like poop because it's hard to get good pictures of competition food. A lot of the people who made the food this time were students, who a) do not have a lot of experience making food pretty, b) have little to no plating experience, and c) were working with bland color foods.

most of the foods were not "scary" almost all of them were basic, the most "scary" item was a curry. Everything else was normal american food stuffs ;-)


K.