Although sausage, cucumbers and honey roasted peanuts seemed like unlikely ingredients, we modified a recipe we know and love from my cooking idol, Ruth Reichl, to make Easy Vietnamese Caramelized Pork: We substituted sausage for pork tenderloin, seedless cucumbers for Armenian cucumbers, and honey roasted peanuts for peanuts. The herbs and cucumbers are a great…
Category: Chopped and Other Challenges
Chicken Wins By Narrow Margin! Sausage Demands Recount.
I’m sorry, sausage. You’ve been chopped. Despite voting irregularities (entries being sent to my junk mail) we can assure you that the one vote margin reflects the strong will of the people to elevate chicken to the top position. With this basket, Ben and I decided to do a chicken pot pie with a jicama,…
Day 6 – The People Have Spoken! Winning Basket: Catfish, Frozen Peaches, Asparagus
I’m sorry, chicken, you’ve been chopped. Thank you to all who voted! While we may be still experimenting with setting up the voting mechanism on our blog, we can assure you that there was no Russian interference. Our menu was grilled catfish with a peach mint salsa, pearl couscous “risotto” with asparagus, and peach cobbler. …
Chopped – The Bendemic Edition
One chef. Two baskets. Three different ingredients in each basket. What will Chef Ben make? Vote for the basket below that you think Ben should use tomorrow.