Chopped Canada Season 3, Episode 17: Fresh Horseradish? Elk Ribeye?

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, […]

Chopped Canada, Season 2, Episode 26: Lotus Root Quiche

Episode 26 is season 2’s finale, so there won’t be another Chopped Canada write-up until season 3 premieres, probably some time in 2016.  For the main course, the mystery ingredients were:  trout caviar, lotus root, brunost cheese and butterscotch rice cakes.  Kind of a random box, I think.  I know some people complained about the […]

Chopped Canada Season 2, Episode 12: Lamb Shank Casserole?

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 […]

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, […]