So, I love a few shows on the Food Network, my favorite being Chopped. The premise of the show is that four professional chefs are given a basket of secret ingredients, along with a stocked pantry, and told to make an appetizer. The least impressive is "chopped" and the remaining three repeat with a new basket for the entree round, and the final two battle over dessert.
The combinations of secret ingredients can be fairly normal things like Kale, honey, and quail, or as odd as trout and chocolate sandwich cookies (oreos).
Well, I've started looking at our pantry at home and picking the oddest ingredients and trying to figure out how I'd turn them into something delicious. The other day I made pork sliders with a spicy plum sauce... sure, it was tasty... but it was abnormal.
My family is tolerating my culinary explorations, but only just. I've definitely been told to eat it myself and make macaroni from the box for the kids.
Anyone else experience this phenomenon?
The combinations of secret ingredients can be fairly normal things like Kale, honey, and quail, or as odd as trout and chocolate sandwich cookies (oreos).
Well, I've started looking at our pantry at home and picking the oddest ingredients and trying to figure out how I'd turn them into something delicious. The other day I made pork sliders with a spicy plum sauce... sure, it was tasty... but it was abnormal.
My family is tolerating my culinary explorations, but only just. I've definitely been told to eat it myself and make macaroni from the box for the kids.
Anyone else experience this phenomenon?
But that's because I <3 Ted Allen and he's completely superfluous on that show, which I don't understand at all.
If you are from Betelgeuse, please have one of your Earth friends read what I've written before you respond. Or try concentrating harder.
"The trophy problem has become extreme."
"The trophy problem has become extreme."
The Perils of the Food Network (and all DIY channels)
- 02/08/2010 03:19:37 AM
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totally. I'm as guilty as you are *NM*
- 02/08/2010 09:40:42 AM
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What's our punishment? *NM*
Chopped annoys me.
- 02/08/2010 01:47:09 PM
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I don't watch it a lot, but I have started using more of my pantry while cooking.
- 03/08/2010 01:35:03 PM
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