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 […]
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 ingredients for episode 16 consisted of cassis flavoured macaron (one faux pas I heard during the episode – at least ONE contestant (a professional) pronounced it MACAROON. If you’re in the culinary industry, shouldn’t you KNOW it’s MACARON? Macaroons are a different species entirely), jalepeno peppers, pork tenderloin and loquats. The first […]
I rarely cook rice at home. I haven’t even used my rice cooker since November 2014! And I’m of Chinese descent. As a child, I ate rice nearly daily – always at dinner as I ate western-style breakfasts (eggs and toast or cereal. Sometimes, a very unique version of oatmeal my grandmother made consisting of […]
Jong – eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival is a tradition in Chinese culture. Called zongzi (or simply jong in Cantonese), it is often served savoury with ingredients such as duck eggs, sticky glutinous rice and nuts (usually peanuts) and wrapped in bamboo leaves. It resembles tamales from Mexico. Since episode 14’s dessert ingredients included […]
The ingredients for the main course last week were as follows: hare, sage, watermelon lollipops and bok choy. There was, as usual, a time limit, but this post isn’t about that, so I will will take my time and braise the meat in the oven. It’s a fantasy meal, anyway – something that I will […]
The mystery ingredients were a bit tougher this week – for me to come up with something, anyway. After a few days of thinking (or over-thinking, I suppose), I’ve decided that maybe a green radish, goat cheese cheese and hemp bite stuffed capon might do the trick (the ingredients in the main course basket were […]
The Chopped Canada Teen finale aired on Boxing Day in Canada with the winners of the previous four episodes competing for $20,000 (a little surprised that the finalists – winners from the previous four episodes – weren’t awarded anything. Honestly, $1,000 to $2,500 towards their education would have been great!). Mystery ingredients for the three […]
Well, episode four was the last show before the final round, which will air on December 26 – Boxing Day – on Food Network Canada. Ingredients on this episode included frozen deep fried pickles and tempeh in the appetizer round as well as white chocolate chips and pizza dough for dessert. However, for the main […]
This past Saturday, the very first episode of Chopped Canada’s teen edition aired, featuring kids between 13 and 17. It was also the first show with the new host, Brad Smith, who is a former contestant of The Bachelor Canada. The kids used ingredients ranging from toaster pastries (chocolate flavoured) to beef and fish sauce. […]
