Team Wu-Tang Flan - Chat!

[Alaina]

Wu-Tang Flan:
Aly ✔️
Ruthie ✔️
Kim
Ashlyn ✔️
Saige ✔️
Charlotte ✔️
Ellen-Arwen ✔️
Diana ✔️
Berra ✔️
Simone ✔️

Q&A: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
SS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Please check in by January 1st!

[Ashlyn]

Checking in!

[Evie]

Checking in!

[Aly]

Hi team!

[Alaina]

Ashlyn wrote: "Checking in!"

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[Alaina]

Charlotte wrote: "Checking in!"

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[Alaina]

Aly wrote: "Hi team!"

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[Alaina]

Adding Ellen-Arwen to the team everyone!

[Alaina]

Adding Diana to the team everyone!

[Diana]

checking in!

[Alaina]

Diana wrote: "checking in!"

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[Ruthie]

checking in

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Ruthie wrote: "checking in"

Gotcha!

[Ellen-Arwen]

I'm late - sorry! But I'm here! I'm not used to the group yet, sorry

[Alaina]

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "I'm late - sorry! But I'm here! I'm not used to the group yet, sorry"

Gotcha!

[Alaina]

Good morning, everyone! Adding Berra to the team!

[Aly]

Hi Berra!

[Evie]

I finished this book today and it does not fit into any category for the Appetizer, so are their any extra ingredients that fit with the recipe anyone wants me to check for?

[Aly]

I found a recipe that has ginger, lemongrass, onion, lime, pepper, and salt. Can you do any of those?

[Evie]

Good for ginger, I will post in a minute, thanks!

[Ellen-Arwen]

I'm a bit confused about how we meet the prompts and have extra ingredients and stuff - sorry! I don't think the books I've read so far contribute though...

[Alaina]

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "I'm a bit confused about how we meet the prompts and have extra ingredients and stuff - sorry! I don't think the books I've read so far contribute though..."

So, in the show chopped each contestant gets a basket filled with 4 ingredients. From those 4, they have to create a dish based on that round - appetizer, entree, or dessert. The 4 ingredients alone won't be able to make the whole dish, so you have to use other ingredients in order to make it. That's why you only have tasks for the 4 ingredients you get from that basket. Anything else you need to use needs to be found in text, on the cover, or books from the food lists mentioned in the REMEMBER on the review thread..

[Aly]

Posting so I remember: Messengers on hold

[Alaina]

Okay team, after thinking about it, I decided to make a team spreadsheet. It is now linked in the first message and has been updated with everything posted on the review thread

[Ashlyn]

Alaina wrote: "Okay team, after thinking about it, I decided to make a team spreadsheet. It is now linked in the first message and has been updated with everything posted on the review thread"

Thank you!

[Ashlyn]

I'm halfway through , and it has a story that is set in Asia. I should be finished with it in a few days if no one has has anything for Bok Choy by then.

[Berra]

I have a book for Oyster Sauce The author's initials are S.T. so it fits in. I'll be done in a few days as well.

[Ellen-Arwen]

Berra wrote: "I have a book for Oyster Sauce The author's initials are S.T. so it fits in. I'll be done in a few days as well."

Do we have to get in authors' initials with O, Y, E, R, SAUCE as well? Sorry for being ignorant!

[Ellen-Arwen]

Just to check, I'm reading The Ten Thousand Doors of January which has 384 pages. Does the 8 have to be at the end to count for octopus or will this be okay? Thanks!

[Aly]

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "Berra wrote: "I have a book for Oyster Sauce The author's initials are S.T. so it fits in. I'll be done in a few days as well."

Do we have to get in auth..."

No, just one book that has initials somewhere in Oyster

[Aly]

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "Just to check, I'm reading The Ten Thousand Doors of January which has 384 pages. Does the 8 have to be at the end to count for octopus or will this be okay? Thanks!"

We already finished the baby octopus category so we don't need an 8 in page count

[Ellen-Arwen]

So we only need one of each? Do we make multiple appetisers?

[Aly]

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "So we only need one of each? Do we make multiple appetisers?"

I think once the appetizer is finished, we'll get new categories to make a main course

[Alaina]

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "So we only need one of each? Do we make multiple appetisers?"

You make one appetizer dish. After the four ingredients are completed, you start making your dish with other ingredients either found in text, on the cover of your book, or using the food list option. After you gather everything, and your dish is complete, you post what you dish is on the team's review thread. Then you get a new basket.

[Alaina]

Hello team! Adding Simone!

[Simone]

I think I have a book that fits Bokchoy. The title is: The Emily Dickinson Cookbook. It's poetry, biography/memoir, and cookbook all in one. Would that count?

[Berra]

Simone wrote: "I think I have a book that fits Bokchoy. The title is: The Emily Dickinson Cookbook. It's poetry, biography/memoir, and cookbook all in one. Would that count?"

I don't think we need any more categories for now

[Aly]

So now we need to come up with a name for our dish and submit it. Any ideas?

[Berra]

Nope not from me.

[Berra]

Maybe something Octopus?

[Ellen-Arwen]

Does it have to be serious? Can we call it Noodle the Baby Octopus? (sorry, still working this all out!)

[Aly]

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "Does it have to be serious? Can we call it Noodle the Baby Octopus? (sorry, still working this all out!)"

It can be as silly as we want. I'm good with your idea

[Berra]

Alright! We can submit that then.

[Berra]

I got a book for the Lime Gelatin does anyone have anything for the other two categories?

[Ellen-Arwen]

I haven't got anything for the main prompts - what extra ingredients can we add? (I have no idea what this dish is lol, sorry!)

[Aly]

It's not a real dish, just a made up one. So we can add literally anything to this monster lol

[Alaina]

Aly wrote: "It's not a real dish, just a made up one. So we can add literally anything to this monster lol"

lol true.

[Aly]

I can't imagine anything with lime gelatin, cheetos, and crab being edible lol.

[Alaina]

hehehehehehe

[Ellen-Arwen]

Aly wrote: "It's not a real dish, just a made up one. So we can add literally anything to this monster lol"

lol - okaaaay! This makes so much more sense! How on earth did we get those ingredients then? The appetiser made more sense...

(Here was me imagining some crazy American monstrosity with cheetos and lime gelatin and crab ROFL - I even tried looking it up!)