Still a few spots left in the SF Lamb Takedown!!! Sign up now and I can get you 15lbs of lamb to work with!!!!! Prizes from Wusthof, Anolon, and Microplane!!!
Buy tickets and get info here!
See you all down there! This will be the funnest lamb blast ever- August 8th at Thirsty Bear- at noon!
Man, did we eat a lot of bacon today or WHAT!!!??? Who knew the Twin Cities – hometown to Hormel – would kick so much beehynde? I did! I swear I did! The people are super laid back- but also venemous and cruel with their bacon tricks! We saw it all that day!!! Hormel Black Label Bacon made this thing all possible!!! So glad for the rad and super nice people over there!!!!!
What’s more, I got to meet bacontits.com !!!!! I know!!!!!
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AFTER THE JUMP, MEET THE WINNERS AND SEE WHAT ALL THE CONTESTANTS MADE!!!!!
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Still a few spots left to enter!!! Email me and I can get you 15lbs of lamb to work with!!!! Compete for super sweet prizes!!!
August 8th at Noon at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company– the Lamb Takedown blasts into town… 20 different SF cooks cooking 20 different Lamb creations, in deadly competition. Vote on the awesomest food that gets fooded at the Takedown!!!! Check out past Lamb Takedowns here and here! San Francisco will be annihilatedby this, the smartest of all meats!!! Find out about lamb!!!
Cooks! Sign up NOW and I will give you 15lbs of lamb to work with- shoulder, shank, leg or ground! If you can think it, you can lamb it!!! The prizes are sick: only the finest knives from Wusthof, the best pots and pans from Analon, and hell yes Microplane graters!!!
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Sponsored by the American Lamb Board!
CATEGORY: Generalvideo by Beth Cochran at FoodiesLive.com!
Thanks to the NYC Food Film Festival- all the super sweet staff, and especially to the always brilliant cooks that laid down their lives in the blazing hot sun- for possibly the greatest takedown ever!!!
We all watched a brilliant film It’s Grits! by Stan Woodward, a super nice and awesome gentleman who directed a food classic!!! The judges were super cool to weigh in their super smart opinions: the always fun Rachel Wharton, chill as all hell Jimmy Carbone (Jimmy’s No. 43!), Michael Davis, from BR Guest, and manager of Willdwood Bbq – and the great Stan Woodward himself!!
Here’s the winners!!!
Judges:
Placers won skillets by Anolon, knives by Wusthof, and graters by Microplane!!!
1st Place: #12 Eric Zawacki – Gravlax and Grits!
2nd Place: #13 Merrie Factor – Grandma’s Roasted Red Pepper Coulis Grits!
3rd Place: #4 Lauren Houston and Sean McQueen – Banana Rama Slama!!! Grits!
People’s Choice:
1st Place: #7 Linda Lou – Brazilian Grits!
2nd Place: #19 Lauren Moxey and Kelly Lorent – Jalapeno Cheese Grit Cakes w/ Pulled Pork
3rd Place: #1 Linday Johnston – Dominican Braised Pork with Sweet Potato Grits!!!
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CATEGORY: GeneralSIGN UP NOW BY EMAILING MTIMMS7 at HOTMAIL! If someone drops out, you could be first off the waiting list!!!
Woopsies!!!! The Twin Cities get wowed BIG TIME this July 18th, when 20 local mad scientists cook up the least-sane bacon ideas they can brain! Matt Timms’ Twin Cities Bacon Takedown comes to O’Gara’s in St. Paul, 4PM July 18th.
Email Matt Timms to enter! I’ll give you 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to work with! Bacon Candy bars? Bacon Bloody Mary’s? Bacon Explosions? If you can think it, you can probably eat it.. No idea too redonkulous… So don’t miss this!!! Over $1500 in prizes from Anolon, Wusthof, and Microplane!!!!
$15 to come on down and try all the meat magic! Tickets available at O’Gara’s! Ask at the bar!!! Buy in advance or show up day of!
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Matt Timms is on the Food Channel, fittingly, for an episode about FIRE- called Cooking with Fire. The show is called Food(ography) starring Mo Rocca. It’s as good as you think it is. Takedown Champ Melissa Sands, Chef Akiko Morman, and Line Cook/Film Editor Matt Brewster were the competitors in an impromptue “Trash Can Smoker Takedown”. We tansformed trash cans into fully smokey smokers- and I give a brilliant how-to demonstration on air! The show is a wealth of information and I hope you all check it out!!!
Check listings here. It’s playing throughout the week! Find out what channel it is here!
You can check it out at (all times Eastern)
June 8 10PM
June 9 2AM
June 10 8PM
June 11 12AM
June 12 7PM
But again, check out all listings HERE!!! Or at the Cooking Channel!!!
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As part of the NYFFF Press junket (I think that’s what they call it- a junket) Matt Timms was invited to speak and promote the Grits Takedown, June 27 at a culinary Mecca – The James Beard House!! Who ever thought this could happen??! The second he approached the mic, the press went into a mad frenzy, peppering the humble genius with queries about the Takedown! I was like, WHOAH SETTLE DOWN YOU GUYS! I LOVE ME TOO!
The press, wolfing down gourmet snacks to muster strength for their barrage of questions! Some trivia: my vantage point is the shower area, from which JB would shower naked for the world to see!
If I don’t brag and blog about this, it will be as if it never happened… Serious thanks to George Motz and Seth Unger, producers of the New York Food Film Festival, for inviting me to attend.
I quickly sumarize the brilliance of the upcoming Grits Takedown. Jaws were on the FLOOR. Please note JB on the wall, listening if he could. So rad.
me in JB's bedroom (there's mirrors on his ceiling becuz JB could bring the funk like no other) with the super awesome NYFFF poster!
See? Wasn't kidding about the mirrors on the ceiling. Nice one JB...
I thought maybe it would be a good idea follow up the varsity chef episode with an all- amateur show, starring a few of my friends. I got Trevor Kenmure, Greg Leitman, and Shane Webb to show up. This was the biggest mistake ever. They got really drunk and ruined everything, and they are now ex-friends, all. The ingredients this time were Kale, Figs, Chicken, Doritos, and Jagermeister. Shane Webb won, because she annoyed me the least! Listen here!
Music by High on Fire, Drive-By Truckers, and Dozer!
CATEGORY: GeneralHoly Grits!!! The Brooklyn Grits Takedown is coming to town! June 27th at Noon at the Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO! ENJOY FREE DRINKS as you pick the Grits Takedown champ!!! And it’s actually part of the NYC Food Film Festival!!! We’re calling it the “Matt Timms Grits Takedown”! I’ve gotten so big for my britches, I just bought stretch pants!
Dudes! Email me to ENTER this thing! Southern transplants who think they know a thing or two! Northeastern wannabes who can fake an accent! I will give you 10lbs of Quaker Grits each! AND basic groceries from Organic Valley for FREE! The rest is up to you! And you KNOW grits is the most pliable breakfast in the land- so I want to see your shrimp grits, sausage grits, ice cream grits – whatever-the-cuss grits! The sky is the limit, and it’s time to fiddle Satan back to hell with an assload of delicious ideas!
You’re playing for some dastardly prizes from the likes of $500 CASH for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place and $100 for 3rd. Plus amazing prizes from Wusthof, Anolon, Microplane, Organic Valley, Whole Foods Market, Quaker Grits and more!
And when this unholy day comes along, make sure your friends know! They’ll be treated to a screening of Stan Woodward’s’ food film classic, “It’s Grits!”, free booze drinks, and all the grits recipes they can handle!
TICKETS: http://www.nycfoodfilmfestival.com/tickets.html
This is the first-ever Grits Takedown. I’m shaking in my cowboy boots!!!! Sign up now!!!
PS: Another SUPER SICK POSTER by artist and genius Matt Langland!
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The Mind Kitchen probes your cerebral kitchen cortex once again- in Episode 4! You’ll be on the edge of your beanbag for this one… Chef Erica Wides (chefsmartypants.com), Mike Lee (studiofeast.com), and Michael Cirino (arazorashinyknife.com) were the superstar guests. Did they intimidate Matt Timms with their fancy terminologies and first rate culinary experience? NO. Well, MAYBE. They are REALLY SMART DUDES. Hanging with actual or pretty much actual chefs can be a bit trying on the ego, which they have in abundance! But so do I, folks! They are also super cool and excellent people, so we got along swimmingly.
The ingredients? A bit hard to swallow this time out… Eggplant! Ginger! Celeriac! Quince! Dog! … I know!!!!
I want you guys to know, by the way, that you can NOW DOWNLOAD EPISODES OF MIND KITCHEN ON ITUNES!!! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!
Music by At the Gates, Type O Negative, and The Red Chord !!!
P.S. Hot tip you guys- here’s an illuminating FYI: Metalsucks.net has just produced a cooking show. If you want to know what guys from Monstrosity and Hate Eternal think about the culinary world, this is the show for you! You’re welcome!
