Chopped Canada, Season 3, Episode 10: Mountain Tea and Salmon Sausage Pizza?

So the contestants only had 20 minutes to complete the appetizer round on episode 10.  I say screw that.  I’m going to take my time if I were given the following ingredients:  mountain tea, graffiti eggplant, salmon sausage and barbecue sauce.  I’m going to make pizza.  Because I said so.  And because this is a […]

Chopped Canada Episode 2: Technical Difficulties and Raw Pork

I tuned into Food Network Canada last night at 10 PM Eastern, expecting to see Chopped Canada.  Instead, I got Restaurant Takeover, which, according to Twitter, aired earlier in the week.  Boy, were people on Twitter upset!  #choppedcanada was filled with Tweets joking that Shaw (the company that runs Food Network Canada) had chopped Chopped […]

Guests Try Brownstone Bistro’s Proposed Menu

In a private party on Monday evening, invited guests were able to try dishes from a proposed menu from Yonge and Wellesley area restaurant Brownstone Bistro, which recently underwent renovations (including an appearance on Restaurant Makeover).  Served cocktail style, ten proposed dishes, many of them enhanced versions of what is on their current menu were […]

Real Housewives of Vancouver, Embarrassment and Reality TV

As soon as I heard that a Canadian version was in the works, my reaction was “ooohhhhh boy.”  Yeah, the Vancouver edition debuted on Slice recently.  I don’t really watch shows like these – I think it fries too many brain cells, but I sort of understand why people watch these shows (that’s why they […]