Lucullian delights
Excellent! Since it's mid-winter in the Northern Hemisphere and I'd love to be seasonal, I suggest a root vegetable of some sort should be on the list 
I too suggest that we keep this seasonal. Now, here in Canada seasonal has a different meaning to seasonal in Italy, but I would be disappointed to see, say, asparagus or fresh tomatoes on the list.
My suggestion:
Butternut squash
It's Valentine's - so definitely 'something red'.
What an excellent idea. How this event slipped by me I have no idea.
Um.. leeks would be my ingredient
Good for you Ilva........haven't participated in PC in a very long time.
My suggestion is plain olde ordinary potatoes.
kiwi!
polenta
Beetroot!
Hurray! Thank you, Ilva. You are such a nice person to do this. I have to admit that for about a year there the only reason I kept my food blog going was so that there was a possibility that Paper Chef would keep going...
I'll put a post up over at Tomatilla! this weekend and I am going to nominate paprika.
I hope people don't think this is a totally boring ingredient, but I propose lentils.
I have lots of chillies in my garden at the moment. So I nominate Chillies, i love your site.
Perhaps it's time for me to try blogging a bit in English, now that I've taken up knitting too ...
My suggestion is my fellow countryman, the swede!
Great work Ilva.
How about another winter vegetable, fennel?
I see a lot of veggies, how about adding in millet or quinoa.
Hi Ilva,
Thank you for taking on and continuing with this food blogger event. It looks a lot of fun.
I second Kalyn's suggestion for lentils.
Thanks! I'm writing down all the ingredients, right now they are: red beetroot(Pille, Alanna and Colleen together!), butternut squash, leek, potatoes, kiwi, polenta, paprika, lentils, chilipepper, swede, fennel, quinoa.
continue to add!
Pistachios and cashews: my two favorite nuts.
Yay! I love this event, so pleased to see you have picked it up Ilva!
I nominate - honey
How about plum tomatoes
ever the carnivore - bacon!
something citrus! I look forward to this.
I suggest rabbit or hare. Obtainable, seldom used, and very very versatile.
Thanks again!
Ilva, I think it's absolutely wonderful that you're taking over Paper Chef -- thank you! Dave and I have been FTBTB (Far Too Busy To Blog) for some time now, but this just might pull us out of the woodwork!
Oh, and if it's not too late, Dave nominates offal. Heh. He's probably been saving that one for a while.
MizD-Yes please, get out of the blog lethargy and create some of those fabolous dishes of yours!
Hey, I never did get my book from winning #25! Should I try to win it again?
I nominate kohlrabi.
Heather-you have to take that up with Owen, not me! Try to win it again but it's too late for ingredient nominations!
I would suggest that the ingredients can be purchased here in New Zealand and down-under countries as we have different seasons from you guys up there. Think about it: when you are in Summer, we are in Winter. When you are enjoying strawberries, we could only use frozen ones here which I don't think Iron Chef would ever recommend. I'd love to join in!
arfi-well, I add whatever you suggest and then a random number generator draws the numbers so if people from the two hemispheres suggest seasonal ingredients, we all have the same probability to get ingredients that are in season somewhere! And if someone can't find a particular ingredients for some reason, they can substitute it dor something similar.So if fresh strawberries are drawn, those in the winter hemisphere can always substite it for strawberry jam or frozen ones or something like that! and please participate next time!
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