The Takedown

Ahem.  I have some really, really, really… reallyreallyreally Good News. Matt Timms is hosting the Brooklyn TACO Takedown, May 31 noon – 2PM at Royal Palms!!!!  If you can’t make it… well, let’s just say I guess that is nacho day. (yesss!)

CALL FOR COOKS!  Want to compete????  Tortilla sponsor Torterilla Nextimal will give you 220 mini (4″) tortillas to fill with whatever you deem most badass! Super authentico?  O muy loco?  Matt Timms cares not because I LOVE TACOS you guys!!! I want to eat them all!!!

Want to come eat all the tacos like it’s Satan’s birthday? Tickets available HERE (21+)!!!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Here’s the wrap up – you had to see it to believe it!  A 20 ton Mac and Cheeze Kaiju spiraled into existance from a cheeze typhoon created by 25 local home cooks – it stomped around The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club, destroying everything in its path with its power cheeze breath while everyone laughed and laughed!  Sadly, the kaiju emits special xray power rays that render photographs impossible.

Here are all the winners and stuff!  Thank you, cooks!!!!!!  You are the best people ever! Continue reading →

Fill those tacos!!!!  (!)  I’m looking for Chicago’s home cooks to get evil with the most wondrous and perfect dish…   On my last visit to your rad town, I noticed that whoah, Chicagoans are Mexican food snobs like no other.  So I said oh DOY, why not a Chicago Taco Takedown!?? Let’s do this, home cooks!  Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com to COMPETE FOR PRIZES!

APRIL 19 2-4PM at Lincoln Hall!

Want to eat a gadgillion tacos?  TICKETS AT LINCOLN HALL!

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PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Thanks for the full up belly of tacos, Austin home cooks!!!!  Not only are you the best, you’re the bestest!  This is not embellishment, overkill or exageration this is the actual truth!!!  Super cool to see you all a SXSW!

Thanks to Shangri La, for hosting this super tacoblast- it was truly “smashing”, like how the English say it.

Here’s a list of Tacos, and those that won STUPID prizes from Cuisinart, Wusthof, Analon and Microplane!!! Check out the Tacos and also the winny ones!

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CALL FOR AUSTIN HOME COOKS! Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com to compete for huge prizes (see below!)!!! El Milagro sponsors!

I get to visit Austin a couple times a year- to eat tacos at the finest taco places, find out about migas and melt brains on good Tex Mex.  Why can’t NYC understand tacos like Austin do? Why is Tex Mex apparently impossible to pull off anywhere out East?  And why do Austin’s homecooks be so handsome? I want to see them food fight! Don’t you?

March 15 2-4PM at Shangri La – during SXSW!!! Eat a bajillion home made tacos as Austin’s home cooks reimagine, or go authentic, depending on what’s their fancies…

WANT TO EAT MUCH TACOS? TICKETS HERE!

PS  Takedown art this time is by Viking Truthslayer Andy Belanger, also noted for his work with The Sword, Austin’s most furious of righteous bands!!!!

TORTILLA SPONSOR:

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

In the land of cheeze hugs, there are no losers.  Only champions.  Get to know these champions at the cool kids only Mac and Cheeze Takedown April 12 NOON – 2PM at Royal Palms!

CALL FOR COOKS!  Come at me at chilitakedown@gmail.com if your Mac and Cheeze can crush the skull of the vilest cheeze demons in the land.  It’s important because there are prizes!

This is the one, you guys.  The one that gushes you with cheeze and good feelings!  See you there!!!!  Want to eat the godless and infinite mac and cheezoz???  TICKETS HERE!!!

Art by The Best Assassin Eyeball Stabber in the Universe: Gunsho!!!

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

GODLESS BALLS

The Lords of Homecookin did gather and slather the homemade meatballs with their good intentions! Success!!!  Literally thousands of yummed-up meatballs were on hand to consume!!!  And then guess what?  A yacht rock cover band hit the stage and partied everyone’s balls RIGHT OFF! This new venue Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club is the PERFECT new venue for takedowns!!! Incredible!!!!

Oh and check out TheTakedowns INSTAGRAM for pics of the TD!  And if you got your own, #meatballtakedown @TheTakedowns @RoyalPalms – Add, like, whatever!!!

Here below are all the takedowners and what won!!! Continue reading →

And now… the Meatball Takedown. Yes.  The Homecook Hivemind gathers for this epic crusher- and the throngs adore and choose the finest meatballs in all of Brooklyn.  Check out the foodsleeze pics from last year’s Takedown at Serious Eats!!!

March 1, Noon – 2PM at Royal Palms!!!!

COOKS!!!  Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com to compete with your evilest meatball recipe!!!  

Want to come and eat non-stop meatballs!!!!??!?! TICKETS HERE!!!

If you’re wondering how and if Takedown art could get any insaner- here’s a look into the meatball-obsessed world of the Only Wonder of the Natural World- the naked mole rat! Also sodoku, and Napolean, and the background from the Mona Lisa, because what screams meatballs like total insanity!!? Eyebulger by Romayne Dawnay!!!

Happy the 2015, with the first takedown of the year! I know it’s stinky cold out, but there are solutions!  Or actually only one solution, the Brooklyn Soup Takedown!!!  Feb 1 2-4PM at Littlefield!!! New York has very strong opinions about soup. And you’re in charge of awarding the prettiest opinion- what home cook has made the ultimate belly charmer???

Cooks!!!  Come at me!!! FIGHT for the finest prizes in the whole wide world, and maximize your status!!!!

Want to cuddle yourself with allday soups in the chillingest month?  Tickets at the Littlefield website!!!

HOME COOKS!  Email chilitakedown@gmail.com to enter and compete w your extra special soup recipe!!!

Eat non-stop SOUP!!!  This takedown has NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE! But it seems so duh!  How have I never? Chicago so freezy, and everybody loves soup in the freezy!!!!  Let’s see what Chicago’s homecooks can do to save your souls!!! Tons and tons of the finest homecooked soups should deliver you from the depths of January brrrrr.