What do you do with stilton cheese and egg rolls? With watercress also in the basket, along with chestnut flour, you make some sort of salad, of course! This week, I’ve decided to use the ingredients from the first course to create some imaginary dish that I may or may not eventually make in real […]
On last week’s episode of Chopped Canada, the appetizer ingredients included ingredients such as frogs legs, thumbprint cookies and romaine. The main course required chefs to use cherry cheesecake and T-bone steak while dessert had paneer and elderflower liqueur in the basket. They were all kind of throw-offs! Though I considered getting a bit creative […]
Besides turducken, which was for the main course, other ingredients included hamburger pasta dinner (e.g. Hamburger Helper (yuck!!)) and perch for the appetizer and crystalized ginger and fiddleheads in the dessert round. Again, I’ll be focusing on the main course this week (I don’t know why I gravitate towards that!). Purple potatoes Besides turducken, other […]
Ingredients for episode six included tuna steaks and french fries for the main and Royal Gala apples in the dessert round. For this week, I will concentrate on the mystery basket in the main course. In addition to the fries and tuna, the remaining two ingredients were lime pickle and pina colada mix. This is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
