Chopped Canada, Season 3, Episode 18: Asparagus Stuffed Guinea Fowl

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 […]

Chopped Canada, Season 3, Ep 15: Sun Dried Tomatoes and Beetroot Powder Pizza

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 […]

Chopped Canada, Season 3, Episode 14: Using Sticky Rice to Make Dumplings

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 […]

Chopped Canada, Season 2, Episode 19: Black Plum and Oxtail Dumplings

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 […]

Chopped Canada Season Two: Salmon Wontons with Vanilla Yogurt?

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 […]

Chopped Canada Season Two: What to do with Challah?

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, […]