For the appetizer round, the mandatory ingredients were chicken breast, stout, parsnip and jelly rolls. A little bit weird, but not a complete throw-off. Not that difficult to figure SOMETHING out, either. What I’d make would be sweet and sour chicken sliders topped with parsnip slaw. This would work very well both as a passed […]
Maple fudge was one of the items in the main course basket, along with soft pretzels, chili fries and corn on the cob. So what should one make with that? Why not pulled maple turkey over pretzel and fries cake? Topped with corn and kale salad? Maple fudge – would you use it for a […]
Ummm, sure? Yes, rainbow coloured “fruit ring” cereal (think Froot Loops) was one of the mandatory ingredients for the main course of Episode 21. This was along with rabbit legs, spicy pickled green beans and port. Yes. What a weird basket. Difficult, too. But one needs to use the imagination in order to win, right? […]
So what do you make with ingredients such as elk, microwave cake (mix), saba and fenugreek? Roulade, filling the elk with fenugreek, ricotta, spinach and a bit of cake. The dish would be served with some orzo and some vegetables. Would you be able to make a main course with MICROWAVE CAKE?? (GROSS!) First of […]
The mystery basket ingredients for the appetizer round of episode 18 wasn’t all that difficult if one is very creative. They were: hot chocolate, cooked oxtail, harissa and black plums. With hot chocolate as one of the ingredients, the first thing that popped in my mind when I was watching was a mole sauce. Since […]
Mystery basket ingredients for the main course were not all that weird this past airing. They were whole chicken, malted soda, dried goji berries and raisin bran muffins. Thus, the first thing I thought of was stuffed chicken, using the goji berries and muffins. The malted soda could be used as a marinade for the […]
Due to being out of the country for a family wedding, I actually did not see the episode until Tuesday, so I had to write this up very quickly. It was very interesting, considering it was the first-ever episode in franchise history where someone was not able to finish a course due to injury (and […]
What do you do with pavolova, lamb shanks, wheatgrass and pizza cheese? Normally, you think juice when you hear about wheatgrass, but this is not what I’m going to make. With the lamb, you could go with curry, but you can also make some sort of casserole. In addition to the mandatory ingredients, I would […]
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 […]
Canadian seafood provider, Toppits, has just launched its gluten-free line of breaded fish which I recently had the chance of trying at a luncheon, courtesy of High View Communications. Currently, there are three in the line, black pepper cod, lightly seasoned haddock and savoury lemon sole. The fish can last for 18 months in the […]
