The fifth episode has the most challenging mystery ingredients to date, all picked by viewers through social media. From prairie oysters to blueberry compote to Peking duck and gefilte fish (no, not all in the same basket), it was definitely…different. For this week, the main course basket, containing gefilte fish (a white fish often served […]
Fresh off the Boat, the first family sitcom featuring predominantly Asian characters in 20 years, made its premiere on ABC last night. Told in a narration format (think The Wonder Years) and set in 1990s, it follows Eddie Huang, an 11 year old obsessed with hip hop and the “black sheep” of the family, his […]
I just realized that I haven’t used ingredients found in the dessert basket yet, so this week, I’m going to discuss what can be made with the following ingredients: carrot juice, baba ganoush, sesame candy and tamarillo. Tamarillo, according to Wikipedia, is a shurb-like fruit, with a taste that is tangy and sweet. It also […]
A while back, I made the mistake of purchasing vanilla yogurt instead of plain for a curry dish I had planned to cook. Whoops! I ended up making something else with the chicken due to the mistake. However, on Chopped Canada this past weekend, vanilla yogurt was part of the mandatory ingredients list for the […]
On the second episode, the mystery ingredients were as follows: If challah (or any kind of bread) is in the mystery ingredients box for dessert, DO NOT make certain items Starter: Peanut butter cookie dough, boudin blanc (pork and liver, a kind of sausage), epazoete (minty flavoured herb) and zucchini Main: Frozen waffles, fish heads, […]
Last season, I recapped every single episode of Chopped Canada. For season 2 (which premiered over the weekend), rather than doing the same, I’ve decided to write about what I might make with one of the mystery boxes. The mystery boxes in the first episode consisted of the following: Kataifi Appetizer: Cherry drink mix, ground […]
I caught the series premiere of Black-ish, a new sitcom starring Anthony Anderson and Laurence Fishburne last night. The show centres around an upper-middle class black family and the culture clash between the father and his kids. Black-ish trailer via IGN While the generational culture clash plot line isn’t new, it’s also rarely told (and […]
Last night was the first season finale of Chopped Canada and I have to say that the ingredients were quite interesting. In true Chopped style, the first round required contestants to use not only chicken livers, but also watermelon, green onions and dulse (a dried and salty, purple coloured food that is somewhat similar to […]
Well, at least they weren’t all used in the same round. Chicken skin was up first, along with green beans, prunes and sweet apple cider. I probably would have stuffed the chicken skin with prunes, quinoa and tomatoes, serving it with a bean salad and an apple cider dressing, but that would probably have taken […]
I have no words. “Strawberry parfait” (it looked more like a gelatin parfait packaged in a mold, but it was hard to tell. Anyway, it looked gross) was one of the mandatory ingredients in the competition. However, it wasn’t for the first round. In Round One, the chefs had to create a dish using ostrich, […]
