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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: evil gameplay returns

September 30, 2009 /

If you watch NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” regularly, you know that a few seasons ago, Vicky and Brady — well, mostly Vicky — were doing all they could to win the game, at times with no regard for teammates and housemates. It was all gameplay all the time. Last season big Ron did the same thing while appearing to be the gentle father figure. Well, the new season has its game-player, and it’s Tracy from the purple team. Yeah, the same Tracy who started the season in a hospital because she couldn’t breathe on her own after jogging a mile. We’ll get into all that soon..but meanwhile, here is your recap….

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Hell’s Kitchen: are they really poking my steak?

August 12, 2009 /

Last night’s “Hell’s Kitchen” on FOX opened my eyes up to something…..to find out if a steak is to the desired doneness, the chef is supposed to poke the center of it while it’s on the grill? Probably multiple times? I think I’m ordering something else next time at Outback.


Anyway, the episode began with the remaining chefs meeting Latasha James, the wife of war hero Otis James, who would be coming home from Iraq the following day to a surprise dinner celebration. To determine the menu, each team would have to create an appetizer and two entrees for Latasha. But first, Chef Ramsay had Suzanne and Robert meet with Latasha to find out what Otis liked to help them create their dishes. The buzz words were grilled lobster, baked potato, seafood, soul food….so who would listen the best?

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Hell’s Kitchen: Did you think you had this show figured out?

April 3, 2009 /

Last night on Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” Gordon Ramsay shook things up in a big, big way. But more on that in a bit…hey, I have to leave you hanging like the show does during commercial breaks, or you can just scroll down if you want to.

Anyway, the bickering between Andrea and Carol was how the show began, and Giovanni and Paula were telling them that they needed to put their differences aside for the good of the team. Then came the initial challenge, the king crab challenge. Man, those things are big! Ramsay asked the teams to have each member create a crab dish in 30 minutes, and then to choose one of their teams’ dishes to represent them for Ramsay to taste. Andrea forced her dish to the front, but Carol wasn’t so sure they shouldn’t have gone with Paula’s dish since Andrea’s looked clumsy. The guys went with Ben, who pretty much forced his way to the front too. Ramsay didn’t really like either one, saying that Andrea’s was bland and disgusting, and Ben’s lacked the flavor he claimed it had. He asked Paula and Danny to bring their dishes forward and liked them both, but declared Danny and the blue team the winners.

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Hell’s Kitchen: get out!!

March 20, 2009 /

Last night on “Hell’s Kitchen,” there was a first. I’m pretty sure it was done for effect, but more on that in a bit. The episode began showing that the red team is divided…Carol and Andrea and L.A. are all not getting along and it’s making it difficult for them to work as a team. So as the teams are uneven now, Gordon Ramsay sends Giovanni over to the red team. If he really wanted to make for some exciting TV, he would have sent Lacey back there, but instead he gave the red team the blue team’s best chef.

The initial challenge started with Ramsay wheeling in some salmon tapas dishes that he created, and the contestants all were oohing and aahing over his cooking. Then he declared that the menu for the day would be a tapas menu, and he asked each team to create a tapas menu with leftover food in the kitchen then and there in 20 minutes. He liked most of the dishes, except for L.A.’s asparagus soup, which he likened to dirty dishwater. Yuck. In the end, Giovanni edged out Ben and the red team won. The blue team had to prep both kitchens and the red team won a day at the horse racing track in Hollywood.

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