Top of the Morning to ya! Yep, I just woke up minutes ago after sleeping all day again barely in time for this two hour Top Chef recap. My mind is not awake yet and keeps telling me to go back to sleep. But, I really want to know who wins this fantastic season of […]
Top Chef Recap: Cactus Makes Perfect
We are getting close to the end on Tonight’s Top Chef Recap. Let’s see who goes home tonight. I’ll probably cry for whoever it is because I love them all. I’d kind of love for Sarah to be the comeback kid and win the whole thing. I love that she won last week. Beating Budda […]
Top Chef Recap: What You Sea Is What You Get
Well, Gang, it looks like for tonight’s Top Chef Recap we are going fishing! I used to love to fish but not on a boat. I’m a puker. I hope the weather gets better by morning. At least Tom gave them some nausea meds. The next morning we learn that Damarr has never fished. There […]
Top Chef Recap: Dinner in Zero Gravity
Once again, the Bravo website doesn’t even list the title of the show or give up any previews making a Top Chef recap more difficult. I remember when I first started this website, Bravo kept offing me gifts like pots and pans or free online cooking lessons to cover Top Chef. I wasn’t interested in […]
Top Chef Recap: Freedmen’s Town
It’s less than an hour before the show airs for this Top Chef Recap and there are ZERO clips on the website for this episode. It’s barely listed at all. I wish Bravo would publicize the good shops as much as they do the trash TV. Oh I just went to NBCu Media Village expecting […]
Top Chef Recap: It’s Time For Restaurant Wars!
Welcome to Restaurant Wars! This will be the best challenge of the season. I’m really looking forward to writing a Top Chef Recap more so than usual. Coming off a week of grown ass women whipping wine glasses at each other and pushing over tables at public dinners, ganging up on each other while wearing […]
Top Chef Recap: Swallow The Competition
Whoever is in charge of the Bravo website is doing a crappy job. Fortunately, the NBCu Media site had some photos available for tonight’s Top Chef recap. I hope the challenges are better than they stupid ones from last week. Luke is losing his confidence in the game. The quickfire will be focused on Nigerian […]
Top Chef Recap: Texas Trailblaze-hers
It’s time for a Top Chef recap and we will all get to see who is coming back from part one of Top Chef Last Chance Kitchen. It’s time for the Quickfire but first, Ashleigh rejoins the competition. Then, half of the chefs must pick a sweet ingredient and the other half have to pick […]
Top Chef Recap: Don’t Mess With BBQ!
YAY! It is Top Chef recap night and tonight is all about BBQ! Yum! Sadly, Brooke Williamson is the guest judge and one of the very few Top Chefs I don’t care for. Nonetheless she is telling the chefs that they need to “reinvent” Texas BBQ. Um, WHY? I hate this challenge already. Leave Texas […]
Top Chef Recap: Double The Dishes, Double The Eliminations
Who is ready for another Top Chef recap? It looks like tonight they will be paired up and BOTH members of the losing team, will be eliminated. Or maybe the two least favorite dishes across the board? I have not had time to see the previews tonight, but I really prefer going in with no […]
Top Chef Recap: Noodles And Rice And Everything Nice
I am so looking forward to the Top Chef recap. It’s been one of the worst mental health days ever. I just need to watch a bunch of people cooking fancy food. Also, Master Chef Junior premieres at the same time! I may end up recapping that too. Because, I love Master Chef Junior! I […]
Top Chef Recap: Friday Night Bites
This Top Chef recap is going to be quite the jolt since I’ve been watching the Jussie Smollett sentencing all day. Like really it took all day. But, once the sentence was handed down, all hell broke loose with Jussie. Read my real time recap here. Then, as I was doing set-ups the news was […]
Top Chef Finale: Who Is Top Chef?
Tonight is the night that this season’t Top Chef will be announced! (psst actually, it’s not) I suppose I am rooting for Sheldon. But first, a hotel commercial. Sigh. The quickfire challenge is to feature the very hot Habanero pepper in a dish. They shop at a local market where Brooke picks up a cucumber […]
Top Chef: Murky Margaritas
It’s time to find out who won Last Chance Kitchen. I think it is going to be Jamie. Since he gave away his immunity and got eliminated, I feel like Tom probably just picked him every week. It really is all up to Tom regarding who comes back. No matter how many judges there are, […]
Top Chef: Adios Charleston, Hello James Beard!
We are down to just four chefs, the seemingly preordained winner, John Tesar, Sheldon, Shirley and Brooke. The top four walk in to the kitchen to see that the work stations have been partitioned. It’s clearly the challenge where they have to cook while telling an unknown partner how to replicate their dish. Generally, the […]
Top Chef Charleston: Shrimp Boats and Hat Ladies
This week we start out going trawling for shrimp. The chefs are all worried about getting sea sick. I am loving all the pelicans. We didn’t get to see nearly enough of the shrimp boat. After no more than two minutes of boat fun, we are back to the dock for an outdoor quickfire. Any […]
Top Chef Charleston: The Chefs Are Getting Crabby
Off to a bit of a late start due to a technical glitch with my much beleaguered DVR. With the return of Shondaland tonight I’ll be surprised if the my poor DVR doesn’t just give up and die tonight. It looks like the first quickfire is a palate challenge tonight. Most of them were really […]
Top Chef: Restaurant Wars
If you missed last weeks episode of Top Chef, it was a super crazy week. Everyone’s favorite chef, Jim was eliminated in a sudden death quickfire. Still. Not. Over. It. And then, they finally made us all love the burnt veggies guy, Jaime. He seemed to have found his stride and won immunity for this […]
Top Chef Charleston: Stormy Weather
Top Chef: Charleston wrapped filming around June 10, 2016. If you are aware of the hurricane season in the Atlantic, It technically begins on June 1st. But 2016 was a crap year and Hurricane Alex showed up in JANUARY. Because I enjoy going to the beach on my birthday in mid to late June, I often […]
Top Chef Charleston: Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em!
Since last’s week’s Top Chef had a bit of a Christmas theme even if the seven fishes were trashy ones, I expect there to be some sort of New Year’s Eve nod this week. Perhaps they will make Hoppin’ John or something? I was doing some cooking today and pulled out my cookbooks for a bit. […]
Top Chef: Feast of the Seven Trash Fishes
Well, I must say I am ill-tempered and want everyone to die in a fire tonight after that Project Runway finale. I’ll let CJ Bomb tell you all about that in her recap, so please ignore this ranting and save your comments for her post. But it was a difficult last two hours for me […]
Top Chef Charleston: Choke Holds And Clammy Hands
When you write recaps for a living, the days no longer really have names anymore. And because I have lost pretty much 56% of the brain cells used for recall, it’s a surprise every day when I find out what I am recapping. Sometimes my response is “Ugh, again already?” and other times I’m excited […]
Top Chef: Southern Hospitality
I’m totally looking forward to the episode. I loved everything Charleston and almost all of the chefs seem like people who want to see succeed. Except oddly, Emily the homegirl with the bad attitude. Also there are no idiot chefs “from Atlanta.” As a Georgia girl, I am already appalled by the folks on reality […]
Top Chef Charleston Premiere: Aw Shucks
I’m not really up for a full recapping of this show but I did want to do a quick post about it because for the most part, I loved the episode. This season is set in Charleston and in the preview post I made, I suggested that I would likely pull for the female chef […]