I am a huge fan of Top Chef and I was ecstatic when my dear friend, Chau surprised me with a copy of the book Top Chef The Quickfire Cookbook for Christmas. I enjoy watching the show and often times I wished I was one of the judges tasting the food on those quickfire challenges. If only I could be Padma for just one day. As a chef'testant I'm sure it must be nerve wrecking to be competing with other talented chefs knowing only one dish is the winner and knowing that there could only be one Top Chef. The book is inspring and features many wonderful recipes for home cooks to try. The book isn't all about just the recipes though, it allows readers and fans to go behind the scenes with producers on how they come up with the concept of the challenges.
For tonight, I thought I'd start with the first recipe which is Ilan's corner-store deviled eggs from season 2, episode 4: Create an amuse-bouche with $10 of ingredients from a vending machine. Ilan used CornNuts for his vending machine product which was extremely creative, along with salami, eggs, olive oil, paprika, oregano, and zest and juice of lime. Since I didn't have the CornNuts and Salami, I used gold fish and bacon. It was very interesting indeed. Instead of lime, I used tangering since that's what I had and it turned out too tangeriney for me, sweet and citrusy. I'll still have to try Ilan's deviled eggs recipe.
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5 comments:
eggs are certainly my weak point n love devilled eggs...www.chackoskitchen.blogspot.com
These eggs look terrific! I'm going to try them. Thanks for sharing!
I really need to start watching that show. I've heard so many good things about it. I'm so glad that you got the cookbook you wanted. The eggs look fantastic.
Devil eggs always remind me of my childhood. ^^
Sook, it's a great show with talented chef, definitely watch next season and you'll get hooked
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