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 […]
My husband and I have been watching Food Network Star this season and I think I have an idea who the finalists will be. I won’t say whom just yet, though. However, I want to talk about one contestant – Joy. I often wonder WHY she’s even on. Her cooking style is very…mom-like. People who […]
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 […]
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 main course ingredients for the twelfth episode of the third season were as follows: mint peppermint patties, capers, ground goat meat and black bean flour. As soon as I heard there were peppermint patties and meat, the first thing I thought of was something with a mole sauce. Can’t be that hard, can it? […]
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 […]
