Taste vs. Original(Iron Chef won?!) --Beef Stroganoff

It was Battle Almond. I didn't watch the beginning ,not sure if Chef  Phan is from China, but from the ingredients he used and the way he cooked, I guess it was about Chinese cuisine. Very excited, it is not usual to see Chef playing with wok in 'Iron Chef America', I felt proud. When chefs presented their dishes, apparenly, judgers liked the Chef Phan's food more, But to my surprise, Chef Cora won. In face , in the taste aspect, Chef Phan was 6 points more, but he lost a lot in the original aspect, which leaded him lose the challenge.

Food is for eat after all,  the taste is the most important over all the other aspects, isn't it? 

I kinda think the competition is not very fair, it is unfair to assign each aspect equally 10 points, taste should account for more weights ( See, I am taking 'Data Mining' class right now :)

Yes, the classic Chinese cuisine is a little boring, it has been there thousands of years. But it comes from several centuries to today, but still mostly keep the orignal way, it means it is the BEST way to do it, it's not people don't want to be creative, but they can't find a better way to make replacement.

( My aha moments came....)

I kinda got to understand why SK likes the most orignal ways about food, becasue it is classic and nothing can be wrong with it. Although the world is rapidly changing every second, the definition about good taste still stay almost the same, I guess. ( I am not talking about the healthy issues here)

So maybe I should practice more on how to make perfect KongBao Chicken, instead of trying to start some adventure about Kongbao Chicken Lasagna.

Beef Stroganoff can be counted as a traditional dish from Russia . I checked several recipes and decided to make the roxy version. I browned the beef in the way borrowed from Chinese cuisine (medium heat ,wash with starch water ahead)and it turns out super tender! Also I like the idea of using dill to match the sour cream/ yogurt

Sauce
Basic roux plus yogurt and Dijon mustard brandy ( confession: I forgot nutmeg)

Beef
Rubbed with salt pepper Ginger powder brown sugar oregano. Washed with starch water before cooking under medium heat with ENOUGH oil, cooked it until 80% done.

Saute mushroom and onion .dill about 10mins, add beef,  add sauce.
One more declaration, it's not I wasn't cooking, I did make some interesting things but only for testing and of course my weekly squash soup, I have made four kinds so far:

1. Squash sage nutmeg maple syrup with white bean
2. Squash carrot Ginger
3. Squash curry
4. Squash apple cinnamon allspice white bean

I think I like No1 and No2 most.  And this beef stroganoff was a failure last weekend, so I made it again. Although I still took good pictures for it, I don't think I could post them, they were not good eats, it's a food blog but not a photograph blog.