All Entries in the "Cooking Shows on TV" Category
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 7) – “Dinner Party”
Quickfire: Tonight’s high stakes quickfire challenge starts at the slot machine with guest judge Chef Tyler Florence. The challenge is to create a dish incorporating three keywords which will tell the mood, taste/texture and type of cuisine. With a pull of the slot machine handle, the slots will give the three keywords. This quickfire challenge [...]
Hell’s Kitchen (Season 6, Episode 13) – “4 Chefs Compete”
Down to the final four. While I don’t think there is a clear front-runner, my pick is for it to go down to Kevin and Dave, as long as Dave’s wrist doesn’t send him packing first. This episode of Hell’s Kitchen starts with little Gordon Ramsay coming out from the office and giving the final [...]
A Lyon in the Kitchen “Fast, Fresh and on a Budget”
On this episode of A Lyon in the Kitchen, Nathan’s all about cooking good food that’s fast, fresh and on a budget. He starts off visiting a local fire house where the firefighters have to cook on a budget every day. He prepares a Cincinnati chili for everyone and they all get to chow down. [...]
The Next Iron Chef (Season 2, Episode 1) “Fearlessness”
Season 2 of The Next Iron Chef looks like a good one. Ten new world class chefs battling to be the next Iron Chef along with Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, Wolfgang Puck, and Michael Symon. The chefs competing in this seasons challenges are: Amanda Frietag: Executive Chef of The Harrison Brad [...]
Bucatini All’Amatriciana with Spicy Smoked Mozzarella Meatballs (Giada De Laurentiis – recipe)
I was in the mood for cooking some pasta and meatballs tonight so one of the tasty looking recipes I came across was Giada’s recipe for Bucatini All’Amatriciana with Spicy Smoked Mozzarella Meatballs. It not only sounds good, it’s a fairly quick dish to cook up. Click the link above for the complete recipe. The [...]
Throwdown with Bobby Flay “Lobster Club Sandwich”
On this episode of Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Bobby goes head to head with Lynn Archer who’s known as the queen of Rockland Maine. Lynn is the owner of The Brass Compass Café (Facebook page)which has locals and people from across the country coming for her famous lobster club sandwich among other favorites. Lynns’ most [...]
Hell’s Kitchen (Season 6, Episode 12) – “5 Chefs Compete”
Dave and Tennille exchanging complaints start off this episode of Hell’s Kitchen. Dave’s upset that Tennille changed her mind at the last minute of the previous episode when she decided to throw Van up on the chopping block. Dave calls Tennille a few choice words and says he can’t trust her anymore. The first challenge [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 6) – “Penn & Teller”
This episode of Top Chef starts off with everyone upset that Robin did go home at the end of the last episode. They all feel Mattin should still be around instead. So as a tribute to Mattin, most of the chefs wrap a red scarf around their necks. And as you can guess, they all [...]
Hell’s Kitchen (Season 6, Episode 10 & 11) – “7 Chefs & 6 Chefs Compete”
“7 Chefs Compete” Gordon starts off at Whistler BC, at the Araxi restaurant where the winning HK chef will be one of the head chefs. The challenge is each team will have to cook with 15 ingredients from the region. Gordon arrives to judge the dishes with guest judges Olympic medalists Sasha Cohen and Johnny [...]
Gordon Ramsay’s F Word (Season 4) – The Bunton brigade
This episode of Ramsay’s F Word has the Bunton brigade up on deck. The starter was Gnocchi with peas and broad beans with a main of Dover sole with shrimp butter and nettle champ, and a desert of gooseberry and elderflower crumble. The starter went over fairly well with the diners, but after that everything [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 5) – “Camping”
Quickfire The guest judge for this “camping” episode of Top Chef is Tim Love, chef and owner of Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Ft. Worth. This is a high stakes QF where the winner gets $15K. Fans got to choose between rattlesnake, cactus and kangaroo. The vote was 57% for cactus. So the challenge is [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 4) – “Vivre Las Vegas”
Quickfire: Guest judge Daniel Boulud, chef & restaurateur who owns Daniel in NY, Café Boulud, Daniel Boulud Brassiere in Wynn Hotel and others. The challenge… make a winning dish using snails as the main protein. Winner gets immunity and loser goes home. High stakes QF! Top 3: Mike, Kevin and Jennifer. With the win going [...]
Hell’s Kitchen (Season 6, Episode 9) – “8 Chefs Compete”
The teams are tied 4 and 4, and while the men are fairly harmonious, the women are still struggling to get along. Suzanne is the outsider and while she makes an attempt to get along the other women don’t buy it. I think it seemed like a fairly good attempt to make amends, but who [...]
Dinner: Impossible – “Feeding Frenzy at the Zoo”
This was my first time watching Dinner Impossible with Robert Irvine. There’s been a lot of news about Robert faking information on his resume, but I’m not going to go there now. In my opinion the show was good, a little over acting on Irvine’s part, but I just don’t care that much about Robert [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 3) – “Thunderbirds”
This weeks episode starts with the contestants stepping into a kitchen which is full of potatoes. Every type of potatoe you can imagine. Standing next to the potato table is Padman and guest judge Mark Peel of Campanile restaurant in LA. The quickfire challange is to create an “out of this world” dish featuring… you [...]
Hell’s Kitchen (Season 6, Episode 8) – “9 Chefs Compete”
Last nights episode started with the palate test. The test everyone thinks they’re going to do good at until they try. As they find out though, it gets more difficult to distinguish tastes when you take away some of your senses. In this case the chefs are blindfolded and have to wear headphones so they [...]
Gordon Ramsay’s F Word (Season 4, Episode 10) – The Biggins brigade
The Biggins brigade bombed, but not the recipes they cooked. All three recipes looked really good and I’ll be cooking each one of them. The starter was pea, mint and lettuce soup with parma ham. Simply and really tasty. Full recipe here. The team did so-so on this one, getting 40 or 50 paid. The [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 2) – “Bachelor/ette Party”
Episode 2 (season 6) of Top Chef started with a quickfire challenge around a craps table… wait a minute, didn’t we just see a craps table a few nights ago on Hell’s Kitchen. Maybe craps is going to be the next World’s series of poker — World series of craps Ok, back to Top Chef. [...]
Hells Kitchen ~ up and down with the blue team
It was a roller coaster ride tonight for the blue team. Episode 7 started with a craps table. Each chef rolled a big die with letters, then they had to pick an ingredient that started with the letter they rolled. The women started strong choosing, rabbit, haricot vert, potatoes, garlic and hamhock. The men chose [...]
Hell’s Kitchen – picking up during season 6
This blog is picking up the night before Hells Kitchen airs (w/ 10 remaining chefs). To start with, here’s a little of my overall view of the show. Gordon’s a master at what he does, in my opinion. Master chef, entertainer and “donkey” herder I love the show. It’s just to bad that most of [...]
Top Chef – Season 6
Top Chef Las Vegas (season 6) — this should be a great season. I think this looks like the best line up of chefs out of all the previous 5 seasons; and what a perfect place to have the show, in Vegas. The first show of the season jumped right in and gave a good [...]
