The 2014 edition of the Delicious Food Show is only a week away! This delicious, food-related event will feature, as usual, celebrity chefs, how-to workshops and, of course, exhibitors from food/food related brands (and restaurants, too) both large and small – you might even discover a new one as I did last year with Gaga […]
Well, at least they weren’t all used in the same round. Chicken skin was up first, along with green beans, prunes and sweet apple cider. I probably would have stuffed the chicken skin with prunes, quinoa and tomatoes, serving it with a bean salad and an apple cider dressing, but that would probably have taken […]
I have no words. “Strawberry parfait” (it looked more like a gelatin parfait packaged in a mold, but it was hard to tell. Anyway, it looked gross) was one of the mandatory ingredients in the competition. However, it wasn’t for the first round. In Round One, the chefs had to create a dish using ostrich, […]
What would you make with escargots and onion ring chips? It is, in a way, taking “high and low” to a whole new level. Well, maybe not that high, since the escargots were canned, not fresh, but still. Those two ingredients, combined with cranberry juice and chanterelle mushrooms were the four mandatory items for the […]
I think out of the 20 shows so far, combinations last night were one of the tamest. In addition to the yeast extract, contestants were required to use mussels, instant coffee and portobello mushrooms for the appetizer round. The dishes weren’t all that innovative. All four of them went a traditional route and steamed the […]
This time, the gross ingredients mostly came in the first round, with candied fruit rolls and yellow mustard in the same basket. Nothing against yellow mustard, but it’s just not as good as the grainier kind. Anyway, the contestants, two from Toronto and another two from Calgary, set out to create a starter using those […]
Wait, didn’t they have chicken thighs LAST WEEK? Anyway, it was on the ingredients list again this time (first round), and unlike the previous episode, contestants actually cut the chicken into smaller pieces so that it would cook quicker. Unfortunately, judges were still left with undercooked (and therefor inedible) chicken. Other ingredients in round one […]
Not only was there a lot of junk in the mystery boxes, but last night’s show also featured one of the most “mature” candidates yet. Chef Philip was in his early 60s! Not that age really matters, of course. But it was interesting to see the difference in dishes he made and the other candidates, […]
Last night’s Chopped Canada definitely had very interesting baskets, and in all three rounds. The first, for example, consisted of PEI oysters, dried shrimp, chocolate shavings and wasabi peas, definitely not the easiest basket to use. In fact, I’m not sure what I would have done had I been in that position! Yet, the four […]
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 […]
