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 […]
Yes, the appetizer round called for the following ingredients: already-prepped deviled eggs, Canadian smoked cheddar, venison sausages and…get ready for it…rainbow cake decorations. In other words, rainbow sprinkles. Why are ingredients this season so…odd? Anyway… Can you SERIOUSLY incorporate this into a non-dessert? So what can you make with this? Let’s think OUTSIDE of the […]
The basket for the main course were as follows: peach drink box (ew!), beef tongue, pinto beans and salsa morita. Well, that’s an easy thing – kind of – enchiladas! Better yet, deconstructed enchiladas. Raw beef tongue One might think that the peach drink can be used as part of the sauce, perhaps giving the […]
The mystery ingredients were a bit tougher this week – for me to come up with something, anyway. After a few days of thinking (or over-thinking, I suppose), I’ve decided that maybe a green radish, goat cheese cheese and hemp bite stuffed capon might do the trick (the ingredients in the main course basket were […]
If you ever eat bitter melon with my dad, he’ll tell you a story of how guys in his university residence “forced” him to eat bitter melon because that was the only thing available for dinner said evening (because everything was shared family style, as per Chinese custom and the guys KNEW my dad hated […]
Well, since the Year of the Monkey started on February 8, why not use the mystery ingredients from episode 5’s second round (frozen sausage patties, Long Island Ice Tea, heirloom carrots and figs) to make dumplings? Not too hard to think of something, right? And to make it more main course-like, it can be served […]
Ingredients for the second (i.e. main) course on the fifth episode of this season’s Chopped Canada were: lamb crown, tomato sauce, nutritional yeast and chrysanthemum leaves. The first thing that came to mind was roast lamb. But I was trying to figure out what exactly to do with it (if I were to make this […]
Tiramisu is one of my favourite desserts! This might sound a little odd, but why can’t one attempt to make tiramisu with quinoa instead of lady fingers? Can’t be THAT difficult, can it? And no, I am using ACTUAL quinoa for the “cake” rather than quinoa flour – it isn’t, after all, quinoa flour that […]
Bean curd sheets, or tofu skins, are often see as savoury items at dim sum (fu pay guin). However, it was a mystery ingredient on the third episode of the third season, along with white Saturn peaches, black peppercorns and vanilla powder. If you look at it from a dim sum perspective (even though it’s […]
The first episode of the third season aired on Food Network Canada, featuring, yes, the new host (who made his debut on the show’s teen tournament). Ingredients in the three rounds included candy necklaces in the first round as well as caramel-flavoured rice cakes and yarrow for dessert. The main course’s ingredients were rotisserie chicken, […]
