Chopped Canada’s fourth season started on Food Network Canada on September 3. Mystery ingredients for various courses premiere included haggis, mountain yam root, gai lan (Chinese mustard greens) and fruit ring cereal (i.e. Froot Loops – YUCK!!!). For my meal idea, I’ve decided make a (fake/fantasy) main course out of the round 2 basket, consisting […]
The main course ingredients on this episode were candy powder dipping sticks, halibut, sweet peas and baby turnips, and thus, the first thing that came to my head was, well, fish and chips (okay, so the baby turnip “chips” will look more like turnip hash browns, but still!). The candy powder can easily be mixed […]
Ingredients for the main course were as follows: guinea fowl (gamey poultry), purple mustard seeds, barbecue flavoured rice crackers and green asparagus – pretty simple compared to other weeks. As soon as I heard about the ingredients, I thought of breaded guinea fowl – stuffed with asparagus, sundried tomatoes and goat cheese. Why not? The […]
Hmmmm….what can you do with those? And nacho cheese flavoured chips? And seaweed sheets? I mean, I could go all pubby, slow cook the elk and then make nachos with it. However, that wouldn’t really be a main course. I would cook the elk, wrapped in seaweed and then serve it with a fresh horseradish, […]
The appetizer round ingredients for episode 16 consisted of cassis flavoured macaron (one faux pas I heard during the episode – at least ONE contestant (a professional) pronounced it MACAROON. If you’re in the culinary industry, shouldn’t you KNOW it’s MACARON? Macaroons are a different species entirely), jalepeno peppers, pork tenderloin and loquats. The first […]
The appetizer round consisted of the following ingredients: beetroot powder, pepperoni, sun dried tomatoes, and long beans. Since this is an imaginary meal and I’m also not a contestant on Chopped, I have all the time I have. Thus, I’m going to make pizza (actually, I’ll probably make some sort of open-faced sandwich if I […]
Jong – eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival is a tradition in Chinese culture. Called zongzi (or simply jong in Cantonese), it is often served savoury with ingredients such as duck eggs, sticky glutinous rice and nuts (usually peanuts) and wrapped in bamboo leaves. It resembles tamales from Mexico. Since episode 14’s dessert ingredients included […]
The ingredients for the main course last week were as follows: hare, sage, watermelon lollipops and bok choy. There was, as usual, a time limit, but this post isn’t about that, so I will will take my time and braise the meat in the oven. It’s a fantasy meal, anyway – something that I will […]
The mandatory ingredients for episode 11 weren’t all that difficult – especially the main course. Halibut, maple sandwich cookies, baby fennel and aji pepper paste. I like halibut and I like maple, so why not create a sauce out of cookie filling and paste? One doesn’t even need a food processor – just a bit […]
So the contestants only had 20 minutes to complete the appetizer round on episode 10. I say screw that. I’m going to take my time if I were given the following ingredients: mountain tea, graffiti eggplant, salmon sausage and barbecue sauce. I’m going to make pizza. Because I said so. And because this is a […]
