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Will You Marinate Me?

Wedding season is over for me this year, which means it’s time for a wrap-up (of the food of course, what else?) Two valuable notes:

I’ve noticed that sometimes it’s not a bad idea to order the veggie at a big event like this. They have to prepare far fewer of them, so often it’s something way more original. Check out the crazy layered concoction our one veggie friend got at Travis’ wedding (above), compared to the typical dry steak (below) served to the rest of the table.

At Coli’s wedding in Chi-town, the stand-out dish was the shrimp ceviche. (Am I behind the foodie times? Hadn’t heard of this before.) Now, shrimp is the one food left that my still developing taste buds can’t handle, yet I loved this dish. Somehow the citrus dulls the taste of the shrimp, which I usually find to be too strong. Or maybe it’s just that my taste buds themselves were dulled enough, since this was served quite awhile after cocktail hour started. Anyway, I clearly know eff-all about preparing shrimp, but can someone cook this for me please? FoodNetwork.com’s got a recipe.

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It’s Getting Hot in Here

The polls are open and our own Stefanie Gans is prepared to ride to victory in the FishbowlDC Hottest Media Types contests. So run, don’t walk, your way over to FishbowlDC and get your votes on!

So far Stef is in a three-way tie for second place, trailing only Catherine Andrews of Washingtonian Magazine, who is clearly a cheater. We aren’t going to try and influence your decision-making and of course expect everyone to vote their conscience. But just in case you don’t know enough about the candidates, here is a handy voting guide:

UPDATE: Catherine Andrews is a sweetheart, and totally not a cheater. We officially endorse her for second place. Liz Gorman, however, is a bot.

UPDATE 2: OK…so, by “a lot of big web sites” did you mean a click farm in Bangalore or what? That’s a lot of votes, Catherine. We’re gonna need an explaination here.

Catherine Andrews, Washingtonian, CHEATER

Kara Rowland, Washington Times, PSYCHO

Kerry Howley, Reason, REPUBLICAN

Bridget Garwood, York Zimmerman, Inc., CRAZY

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Stefanie Gans, endless simmer, DING DING DING!!! WE HAVE A WINNER!

VOTE NOW

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Simmering Pizza, Endless Toppings

The ES crew gathered for a meal of semi-homemade pizza last night. I say semi- because my pizza style comes perilously close to violating our cheating policies. I’ve made pizza crust from scratch before, but to me, it’s one of those things that just isn’t worth the effort: it takes ten times longer to prepare, but it’s just not ten times better than store-bought. So until someone gets me a crust recipe that changes my mind, I’m sticking with DiGiornio.

When I get a slice at Famous Rays, I’m a purist and generally just go for plain cheese. But I find the key to putting the homemade pie over the top is toppings, toppings, and more toppings. My philosophy is, as long as you’ve got a firm enough dough, don’t stop until your fridge is empty.

Recipe for a super-rich pepperoni pie and a veggie-plus one after the j.

All That and She Can Cook Too!

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Admit it – you thought because we’re bloggers we were gonna be ugly, didn’t you? Well, in your face, readers! Because at least one of us officially isn’t!

The highly-respected site FishbowlDC has released their finalists for the 2007 Hottest Media Types contest and our co-editor/D.C. Bureau Chief gansie is on the list! There were over 1,000 candidates submitted and Fishbowl narrowed it down to a paltry two dozen in the Hottest Female – Off Air category. Our simmering editor is there alongside hotties from the Washington Post, BusinessWeek, the Hill and CQ. And guess what? She’s clearly the hottest!

So you know what you have to do now, folks: VOTE! The polling will begin tomorrow and lasts through Monday at 5 pm, so vote early and vote often.

Edit: Polls are open, get to it!!!

I have never been so proud.

Hottest Media Types.

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Fondue Me

Sorry to out-of-towners but I just have to plug this event for all our NYC readers. This weekend offers a new type of food contest that I can only hope will soon sweep the nation: a fondue takedown! What a great idea for a cooking contest, because if there’s one food, aside from chili, that you can eat all day long without any repercussions, it’s definitely fondue. The takedown is at Mo Pitkins in Alphabet City. Unfortunately, I’ll be out of town for the monthly Monroe Street Food Bloggers Conference, but if anyone makes it, report back here.

Photo courtesy of chocofountains.com

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Top Chef Recap: Episode 5 – Dame Mas Chocolate

This week’s Top Chef started out with a shocking order from Ms. Lakshmi that would have gotten her kicked off this blog for cheating. The CHEFtestants had to work with frozen pie crusts. Oh the horrors. After they got over being placed in such a demeaning situation, the quickfire provided the perfect opportunity for Joey to cement his dominance over Howie as the fattest, most obnoxious guy, by pretending to have no pastry training and then whipping out some pretty amazing looking alcohol-infused fruit tarts.

For the elimination challenge, Bravo embarked on their most tenuous attempt at corporate synergy yet, having the chefs cook Latin food for the cast of a Telemundo telenovela called Dame Chocolate, which, judging from these fantastic opening credits, makes Sabado Gigante look like it is written by Cervantes.

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Oh, PS: I’m pretty proud of the fact that I figured out how to put video on this blog, so that’s the only reason I made you watch that clip.

Back to the food after the jump.

Grillz It Iz

We blogged, you decider-ed.

In the first of what will surely be way too many polls here at endless simmer, we asked you whether to call our backyard cooking category “BBQ” or Grillin.” Well, the South has really risen on this one. You may not have won The War of Northern Aggression, but you took our inaugural ES poll by a nearly three-to-one margin. Grillin’ by a landslide.

If you look to the right, you’ll notice the win is already reflected in the category formerly known as BBQ. From this point onward, you will never again see the consecutive use of the letters B, B, and Q on this blog, unless we are referring specifically to a certain suculent Southern dish.

Pic courtesy of Webmetrics guru.

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