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.
He's not superfluous! He's integral! Without him, the judges would have to explain everything themselves, time the contest, and come up with their own witty banter!
(I also <3 Ted.
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I was Phelix on wotmania, I will always be Phelix in the "real" world, and now I am Phelix on RAFO.
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You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.- Churchill
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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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Chopped annoys me.
- 02/08/2010 01:47:09 PM
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But... but... 
- 03/08/2010 06:52:23 AM
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- 03/08/2010 06:52:23 AM
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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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