Celebrity Iron Chef III – Pumpkin

Back in July I wrote about our Celebrity Iron Chef night. The secret ingredient was peaches and each husband (celebrity) was challenged to create an appetizer, entrée and dessert that included peaches. The wives were the judges. Well, by the end of the evening, the wives were so full of delicious peachy treats that one of us (not me) stepped out for some fresh air and took to lying in the driveway just to stretch her stomach. We never got around to judging.

But while we sat around my friend K.’s beautiful table…

We discussed who would host the next Celebrity Iron Chef night. I must have had a little too much wine because I volunteered. Then I said “Oh, I guess if we have it at our house, I’ll have to buy these thingies.” And I pointed to the placemats and napkin rings. This sent my friend K. into hysterics. “Thingies?” She’s never going to forget I said that for the rest of our lives.You see my friend K. is one of those people who always looks perfect, her house is decorated perfect and she is more organized than an elementary teacher on the first day of school. I make her laugh because I’m her opposite.

However, I had to try to impress everyone and buy some of those thingies. As Eric and I shopped for our new holiday dishes I goofed again. I told him it was about time we bought matching dinnerware. We were, after all, grown-ups. Then I started dancing in the aisle to the holiday music. He turned, grinned and said, “Yeah, grown-ups.”

Anyway, I did manage to impress my friend K.

The secret ingredient was pumpkin. This time each of the husband celebrities chose to create two dishes in order to keep our stomachs from bursting.

I’ll begin with dessert. Kiefer Sutherland, aka my husband Eric, made a pumpkin cheesecake with a bourbon sour cream topping.

John Travolta recently acquired an ice cream maker. This is what you can make if it’s your birthday and you have your own ice cream maker.

For pumpkin Iron Chef night John made pumpkin pie ice cream cake with a graham cracker walnut crust.

Johnny Depp formerly known as Brad Pitt (Apparently Mr. Depp looks “really handsome” with his new short hair) made pumpkin creme brulee.

Ashton decided to opt out of dessert and he created a pumpkin appetizer and entrée which will be featured in the next post.

The evening ended with everyone staying inside this time. With two dishes per chef there was no need to lie down in the driveway. However, there was some snoring from one of the celebrity chefs. I’ll never tell which one.

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