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 […]
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 consisted of the following ingredients: beetroot powder, pepperoni, sun dried tomatoes, and long beans. Since this is an imaginary meal and I’m also not a contestant on Chopped, I have all the time I have. Thus, I’m going to make pizza (actually, I’ll probably make some sort of open-faced sandwich if I […]
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? […]
The mandatory ingredients for episode 11 weren’t all that difficult – especially the main course. Halibut, maple sandwich cookies, baby fennel and aji pepper paste. I like halibut and I like maple, so why not create a sauce out of cookie filling and paste? One doesn’t even need a food processor – just a bit […]
Ingredients for the second (i.e. main) course on the fifth episode of this season’s Chopped Canada were: lamb crown, tomato sauce, nutritional yeast and chrysanthemum leaves. The first thing that came to mind was roast lamb. But I was trying to figure out what exactly to do with it (if I were to make this […]
With Christmas coming up, why not use the dessert round’s ingredients to create a sweet casserole dish for Christmas morning (who cares if the kids are going to get more hyper? It’s Christmas Day. It’s allowed). In the basket for round three were: crumpets, quince, butterscotch chips and whole allspice. Not too difficult to combine. […]
There are always weird ingredients on Chopped, regardless of whether the chefs are adult professionals or kids! On episode 2, these included “ants on a log” (peanut butter and raisins on celery) and “marshmallow rice cereal” treats (basically Rice Krispies squares, but Chopped never gets food brand sponsorship (why IS that, anyway??), so a generic […]
