Passion and expertise rule the kitchen on the fast-paced new series, Chopped. Hosted by Ted Allen (Food Detectives), the series challenges four up-and-coming chefs to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary three-course meal. After each course, a contestant gets "chopped" until the last man or woman left standing claims victory. Each week, a rotating panel of culinary elite judges including Alex Guarnaschelli, Aaron Sanchez, and Geoffrey Zakarian will decide whose dishes shine the brightest and award the winner $10,000.
So, each course the chefs get three to four ingredients they MUST use. And trust me, the combination is not easy. They have a pantry at their disposal but the ingredients are not unlimited, and sometime it is missing such basics as milk. AND, they only get 30 minutes per course.
I love watching these trained chefs come up with beautiful culinary creations under such stressful situations. I mean, they are pairing beautiful cuts of fish with string cheese, or scallops, figs and macaroni and generic macaroni and cheese packet of fake cheese. And they have to use it ALL to make a gourmet meal.
Hopefully I've explained the concept of the show well enough that you are excited too - cause I'm going to try it at home!! :) I am employing Sam to pick out my three unknown ingredients (although I think I'll just do one course - not three). And I'll be able to use whatever is in my pantry (aka kitchen). We are going to try this sometime in the next week or so, it should be fun. (In the meantime, I have a couple recipes to put up this week too).
We'll see... if this is fun for me to do, fun for you to read, and I come up with something semi-successful, I may make it a monthly challenge. And even more fun, if you do this... send me pics, a description of your meal, and I'll put it on the blog too!
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