Pecorino is on the menu today. Try it, you just might like it. BTW, I gave the kitties your compliments from yesterday. :-)
I love Top Chef on Bravo. It's being renewed for another season. Hurrah! I much prefer this to any of the other cooking reality shows. For those that haven't watched, the premise is bringing quality aspiring chefs (ok, there were a few obvious duds) into a competition with two daily challenges:
Quick Fire: They have around 30 minutes to create something gourmet out of something, usually silly. For example: Create a gourmet dish out of gas station food items, create a carnival food inspired dish, etc.
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The Challenge: They have usually a few days to create a meal for different guests. Examples: Cater a wedding of 100 guests (present your menu ideas to the couple & the couple chooses), serve dinner highlighting a rare wine & rare truffles to Napa Valley chefs, plan a dinner for food reviewers (but then producers switched up who was preparing which dish at the last minute to add a twist) and open a restaurant for a night...contestants choose the theme, set up and menu.
The hostess is awful, but the two standing judges are honest and seem to be having fun with the contestants. The contestants seem to be chosen carefully and the level of competition is great.
It's down to the final three now: Harold (mmmmm, Matthew Fox-ish, very skilled), Tiffani (bitchcy, but very creative dishes), and Dave (does gourmet casual well, emotional wreck).
Gooooooooooo Harold!
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15 comments:
I love the show too. I love food, and I like reality tv. Isn't the hostess married to Billy Joel?
Matthew Fox is a total dish.
And you? Top Dawg. In fact, I think that is going to be my special name for you moving forward.
Perfect! That hubby of your shall be Deputy Dawg.
The hostess is married to Billy Joel? Weird. She barely moves her lips when she talks.
Monsty, could you refrain from calling me Dawg for short? Then I'd picture you as Randy Jackson & that would be weird.
*snort* I like Deputy Dawg.
I haven't watched this. I'm not sure why because I really enjoyed Hell's Kitchen.
Sounds like an interesting show. I'm not into the food shows though. I tried watching one but it was too stressful.
I love Top Chef! I am rooting for Harold, too. I think he says some shitty things sometimes. If they showed more of him, I probably wouldn't like him so much.
Tiffani is a ho-bag. Dave is out of his league. I do like him as a person, but I don't think he should win the show.
LeAnne was my favorite. I'm bummed she was eliminated. :(
Why have I not heard of this?
Do you get Bravo up north, coco? Wednesday nights & lots of weekend re-runs.
I LVOE this show! I really wanted Tiffani to be eliminated.
My daughter (22) watches cooking shows all the time. Then she makes a frozen pizza. It's such a disconnect.
I forgot to tell ya, if you didn't know, they list the winning recipes online:
Dave's
Black Truffle Mac and Cheese
1 Tbsp. EVO
1 small shallot, brunoise
6 cloves of roasted garlic
3 oz of black truffles, sliced with truffle shaver
one quart of heavy mfg. cream
one cup of cognac, reduced to demi sec
2 tsp. fresh oregano, finely chopped
2 tsp. fresh thyme stems removed
1 Tbsp. sherry
2 tsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. white pepper
8 oz. Fontina, finely grated
6 oz Parmiggiano reggiano,finely grated
2 tsp. chipotle Tabasco
2 cups seasoned sourdough croutons, run thru food processor to turn into crumbs
1 lb Fresh pasta noodles (rigatoni or other noodle that will hold sauce), cooked in salt water to al dente
Method:
Heat oil on stove top in stock pot and then add shallots and garlic and heavily sweat until aromatic. Deglaze with sherry and then add fresh herbs, truffles and cream and reduced cognac. Cook over low heat until reduced by half and truffle flavor is infused. Season and add parmesan and Tabasco. To this hot mixture add the cooked and drained noodles and the fontina and mix cheeses are melted. Taste noodles for seasoning and adjust as needed. Set aside.
Other ingredients:
8 oz unsalted butter
3 oz sliced black truffles
Assembly:
Take small 4 -6 oz. baking dish and butter the bottom and sides. Set one slice of truffle on bottom of each dish. Then add noodles and sauce to the dish and top with the crumbled croutons, finely grated truffles and a pinch of the finely grated parmesan and back in the oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until mixture is bubbly and toasted on the top.
I watch cooking shows and fix frozen pizzas, I'll admit it. I don't know crap about cooking, and don't really even care to learn, but I enjoy watching other people do it!
(Want to know how much I really don't know about cooking? All last night I was thinking that a truffle was some type of chocolate. I couldn't understand how chocolate would go well with mac&cheese. I knew something was wrong, so I looked up truffle. Freaking.Duh. I am a culinary moron.)
LOL at jen's truffles! I see how a person might not know that, though. I have only tried truffle oil, never had real truffles.
It IS morel mushroom season, though. MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm!
Rats. I don't get US Bravo or Canadian Bravo (owned by Moses Znaimer.)
I don't get a lot of channels anymore. Eh bien.
Since I missed commenting on the cats before: what cute little kitties!
*scrunches up nose at funny cheese*
This sounds like a show Shawn would like. I'll have to tell him about it.
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