Saturday, October 10, 2009

a top chef's home sweet home

It’s time to get homey on Top Chef.


Jennifer is feeling sick but she decides to continue on. That makes me a little nervous because I wouldn’t want to know that the chef cooking my food is sick!

Tyler Florence met the chefs as this week’s guest judge. For their Quick Fire Challenge, the chefs had to take three keywords to make a dish, similar to how the website cookstr.com works. And to choose the three words, they used a slot machine! How very Vegas of them! Plus, this is a high stakes challenge, but what is at stake will be revealed later.

Kevin won the challenge and he is on a roll! He has won a lot of challenges so far. As his high stakes, he was given a choice to take either immunity or $15,000 from the M Resort. As a smart and confident chef, he took the money.

Oh, gosh! The chefs would be hosting a home-cooked dinner party at their home with just 3-hours to prepare! The Chefs would be working in pairs and received their ingredients from very well-known and accomplished chefs.

Haha, Michael I. is working with Robin, which is his worst nightmare and their ingredients were from Takashi Yagihashi. The other pairs were Ash & Michael V. who had Nancy Silverton, Eli & Ashley who had Govind Armstrong, Jennifer & Kevin who had Tom Douglas, Bryan & Laurine who had Tyler Florence.

Jennifer & Kevin and Laurine & Bryan were called out as having the best dishes. Kevin & Jennifer’s dish of short ribs and a tomato cardamom sauce got rave reviews from the judges and guest judge Tyler Florence. The beef was cooked and seasoned well and everyone really loved the gravy sauce. Bryan & Laurine’s dish really outshone the other halibut dish belonging to Bryan’s brother. For the second time this episode, Kevin’s dish won but Jennifer’s sauce was the real highlight of the dish so she won the prize and $10,000 from Macy’s!

For the bottom, the judges called out Michael V. & Ash and Eli & Ashley. From the get go, Michael V. took responsibility for his dish and the overcooked fish. Ash ended up throwing himself under the bus a little bit by saying that he was okay basically being a sous chef to Michael. I think that could get him sent home because he just said that other chefs are better than him. Though, by the way the judges were ripping apart Ashley & Eli’s dish, I think one of them could be going home. Ugh, and Ashley got sent home! She was just starting to get better and really do well.

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