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 […]
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 […]
If you ever eat bitter melon with my dad, he’ll tell you a story of how guys in his university residence “forced” him to eat bitter melon because that was the only thing available for dinner said evening (because everything was shared family style, as per Chinese custom and the guys KNEW my dad hated […]
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 […]
Well, if you can have maple bacon donuts, why not breakfast sausage cheesecake with coconut flakes? As a dessert? I know it sounds crazy, but it can work. Of course, this would be next to impossible to make on any Chopped episode, since cheesecake really takes more than a day to create! The last (and […]
I think this is only my second post using the dessert basket! The remaining two contestants were to make a dessert using sprinkle donuts, pomelo, peanuts and licorice babies (licorice bits). I had first thought of making some sort of deconstructed dish, but it just dawned on me…cake pops. Sure, they’re not really a “thing” […]
Also known as “student casserole,” this dish traditionally consists of ketchup, hotdogs, bad cheese and pasta. However, to make it just a bit “fancier,” (as if student food can be fancy – LOL!), I’m going to toss in a few other items, all in the appetizer basket of a recent episode of Chopped Canada. These […]
On last week’s episode of Chopped Canada, the appetizer ingredients included ingredients such as frogs legs, thumbprint cookies and romaine. The main course required chefs to use cherry cheesecake and T-bone steak while dessert had paneer and elderflower liqueur in the basket. They were all kind of throw-offs! Though I considered getting a bit creative […]
Besides turducken, which was for the main course, other ingredients included hamburger pasta dinner (e.g. Hamburger Helper (yuck!!)) and perch for the appetizer and crystalized ginger and fiddleheads in the dessert round. Again, I’ll be focusing on the main course this week (I don’t know why I gravitate towards that!). Purple potatoes Besides turducken, other […]
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 […]
