Author: Mike Farley (Page 46 of 117)

Top Chef Las Vegas: more veggie tales

October 29, 2009 /

Last night’s “Top Chef: Las Vegas” on Bravo featured the remaining seven chefs facing more and more pressure. Some would respond while others would start to wilt, and we’re almost to final four territory (just where has this season gone??).

We began with a quick fire challenge as host Padma Lakshmi introduced Italian chef Paul Bartolotta, who has an Italian restaurant in Las Vegas and is known as one of the best in the cuisine. But oddly, their quick fire was not Italian-oriented. Instead, they each had to create a “TV dinner” style dish based on a popular show, drawing knives to determine who would be representing which show.

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The Biggest Loser: black team woes continue

October 28, 2009 /

So last night’s “Biggest Loser” on NBC began with the black team explaining to the blue team why they eliminated Dina, and Liz and Rudy, who were both good friends with Dina, were pissed. Liz even said that they were showing fake tears. Then back to business, host Alison Sweeney said that this week would be head to head matches between blue and black team members. And they would have a pop challenge to determine who would choose those teams.

The pop challenge was one in which each team had to have a relay race in which they would go back and forth in a ten foot line and touch a button at each end. They would have to touch the buttons a total of 500 times and the first team there won. Pretty simple, right? Well, Abby and Tracey were allowed to participate for a change because this was a somewhat easier exercise. But Abby could only do 20 touches. And the blue team got off to a better start, as usual. I felt myself pulling for the black team because I just don’t want to see Tracey win anymore. Of course, with Daniel bringing up the rear for the black team against Rebecca, the blue team won….again. So they were able to choose the opponents.

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The Next Iron Chef: sweet, savory and see ya

October 26, 2009 /

Last night on Food Network’s “The Next Iron Chef,” the contestants were asked by the chairman to create two dishes using a secret Mexican-themed ingredient, tamarind. I’m not sure what it tastes like, but I think it’s tangy along the lines of miso paste. Anyway, they were asked to create two dishes–a savory and a sweet, with 90 minutes to both shop and cook. Chef Mullen began with a 5 minute advantage because he won the previous challenge.

After shopping, the chefs went to work, with chef Mehta once again trying to make ice cream. Host Alton Brown wandered over to Mehta and started giving him a hard time, but the chef was adamant he was making the right choice. Meanwhile, chef Appleman was using a pressure cooker to make his soup, and he wound up burning it but still saving what was not burnt. Then with a few minutes remaining, the chairman threw another twist at them–they had to make a drink as well, also with tamarind incorporated. Yikes.

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Top Chef Las Vegas: restaurant wars return

October 22, 2009 /

I confess I’ve only been watching Bravo’s “Top Chef” for one-plus seasons now, but I’ve become hooked in a hurry. So this was just my second time experiencing “restaurant wars,” when they break up the final eight contestants into two teams and have them run an actual restaurant for the night.

But first, the episode began with a Quick Fire challenge, and the guest judge this week was Rick Moonen, who owns a sustainable seafood restaurant in Vegas. They would have a tag team cookoff, in which each chef had 10 minutes out of 40 to complete a dish, but while one chef was working the others were blindfolded. Man, that looked HARD. They drew knives and Jennifer and Michael V. had to choose teams…Jen chose Kris Kringle (Kevin), Mike Isabella and Laurine, deciding to let the brothers be on the same team and duke it out, literally. So Michael had Brian, Eli and Robin.

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The Biggest Loser: It pays to have friends

October 21, 2009 /

Last night on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” it was clear that having friends in this game is just as important as whether or not you lose weight. But more on that in a bit.

First, they began by showing the blue team coming back in from elimination, and everyone on the black team was utterly surprised that they had sent Coach Mo home instead of Tracy. The blue team was collectively defending itself and it didn’t seem like they had a good answer, other than maybe Tracy had brainwashed them all. They all stood by their decision. Okay, we’re going to start giving them the benefit of the doubt here…maybe they gave Coach Mo what he wished for and let Tracy hang around so they could eliminate her at a better time.

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