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Tonight is going to be a fun night sitting in front of the tube. The new Food Network show Chopped is premiering, yay Ted Allen!! By the way, does ANYONE watch his show Food Detectives? It is coming back for a second season. (Shrug) Whatever.
In non-food related tube news, American Idol is premiering tonight!! I figure watching a wasted Paula Abdul feeds my soul, so that is nourishment enough for me!
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No, not Kevin Bacon. The GOOD kind!!
I love Iron Chef America, but not enough to watch it when it airs. So as a result I recorded it and was pleasantly surprised today. Battle Bacon. Um… hell yeah. Now I was hoping the Iron Chef was Michael Symon ’cause my man loves the pig, but I knew from the info it was Bobby Flay vs Chef Sursur Lee. Oh well.
Now Alton Brown is great with his quotes and great background info, this show he even whipped out the pig diagram. Hilariously, he said one of the funnier things to pass his lips in some time. He notices Flay’s sous using a technique he called, and I quote, “spanking the pomengranate”. I want it on an apron, a t shirt, whatever.
Everything was wrapped in something fun, whether it was caul fat, bacon, scallops and more bacon. I wanna be mummified in caul fat. It sounds delightful.
Guest judge Mo Rocca thought Canadian Chef Lee should feed his bacon dishes to Celine Dion. I’m thinking a more bacon filled Celine might make her more tolerable.
The special ingredient was bacon, I don’t really remember what happened to the other components of the dishes.
Oh yeah, the battle ended in a draw. Bacon = Everyone wins
Update: Just found this crazy, high-larious bacon dish called the Bacon Explosion. Where was that on Iron Chef? Amateur night at the FoodNetwork apparently.
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By the time this is posted I know the next episode of Top Chef is in a few days, so I thought I would recap my favorite highlights from the last show to see if anyone agrees, disagrees, or is even reading this. The last Top Chef was interesting in a few ways and when I say interesting, I mean I thought it was kind of a hot mess.
Did Toby Young know he was on a cooking show? I find him an extremely talented writer and wit, but enough with the acting and movie quips. Congratulations on being a producer on a movie, made from a book you wrote. I wanna hear about food and fast forward whenever Padma speaks. Although I will admit, his vocals left it impossible for her to get a word in. Score for editing.
Woo hoo Ariane! I’ve been reading on the web and people still think she can’t cook. Has she or has she not been kicking butt?
The clip of Fabio saying it was “Top chef, not top scallops”. Although it was great to see Jamie represent for Team Rainbow, scallops a winner do not make. Or soup. Scallops AND soup. Next week Jamie, just say no.
Gene is a big bummer. A BIG one. I wanted to root for him, but grumpy Hawaiian’s? Is that even legal? I want my island chef to be happy whether he wants to or not. Dude, you live in paradise.
Blondy bangs Melissa was really quite sweet. She was a very sincere contestant and I’m sure once or twice she has made a bitchin fish taco, but she was boring. I wish I only cared about the food they cooked, but personality counts when it is reality tv. I forgot her name while writing this and had to look it up. That is not a lasting impression.
If Fabio is the Italian Stallion, would that make Stefan the Ivan Drago of the show? (Rocky lV people!!) I know Stefan is from Finland and Ivan was from the Soviet Union, but I dislike their characters about the same.