I am trying so hard not to get spoiled because this Top Chef recap is late and everyone but me already knows who wins. So, I’m going to have little to say in the interest of time. So far Jaime is being worked to death by Dawn. The two of them still manage to have […]
Top Chef Recap: Shellfishly Delicious
On tonight’s Top Chef recap the final three will be responsible for catching their proteins themselves. They will be catching and cooking clams and crabs. The Final Quickfire Sadly, it’s time for the last quickfire of the season. I don’t want this season to end. Dawn is beating herself up for her plating issues. The […]
Top Chef Recap: The Cheesier The Better
We are down to the final four and I am not ready for my Top Chef recaps to be over anytime soon. And by the way, this was the most culturally diverse cast ever. It was also the most cohesive cast and the most enjoyable to watch. This is what inclusion looks like. There wasn’t […]
Top Chef Recap: Blind Ambitions
Guess what? It’s another great day at Chez Tamara. And on top of that, it’s Top Chef recap night! We are down to the final five and I would be happy with a win by any of them. I love them all! It’s a win, win, win, win, win situation! Oh No! I had to […]
Top Chef Recap: Tournament Of Tofu
After seeing the title of this episode, I’m less excited than usual about tonight’s Top Chef Recap. Tofu? Really? Is that still even a thing? Dawn, Jamie and Maria are excited to be part of the final six. Three women of color! For the quickfire, the teams are working in pairs to make a dish […]
Top Chef Recap: Portland-ia
Y’all, I am somehow behind on this Top Chef Recap. I had to take a call back from my new lawn person. Old lady homeowner problems. In my twilight years, I plan to never be a property owner again. I’m going to take the money and run and live a lavish life. And if I […]
Top Chef Recap: Restaurant Wars!
Tonight’s Top Chef recap will discuss the best episode of every season, Restaurant Wars! Let’s get right to it! We are down to eight chefs (with Sasha still defending Last Chance Kitchen). Byron gets the phone call from home. He’s very emotional. Everyone is excited for Restaurant Wars, but also really stressed by all the […]
Top Chef Recap: Feeding The Frontlines
I’m writing this Top Chef recap while asleep. I’m just now waking up. I had an early morning virtual graduation to attend this morning. I almost stayed up all night to attend this morning then when it was over I went back to bed and slept all day. Expect this to make less sense than […]
Top Chef Recap: Stumptown, USA
Tonight’s Top Chef Recap should be exciting because tonight’s Last Chance Kitchen winner will return to the show. So I predict a male chef will be leaving and returning. Then we will return to the vagicide already in progress. I won’t be able to watch. LCK until after I recap, the premiere of MDLNY right […]
Top Chef Recap: Meet You At The Drive-In
It’s Thursday night and that means it is Top Chef recap night! The only thing is I have thought it was Friday all day. Nanette graciously offered to send Top Chef photos for tonight. I still thought it was Friday night. But it is not. It is Thursday. So um yay? Let’s do this.
Top Chef Recap: Thrown For A Loop
It’s already time for a Top Chef recap. I feel like I keep missing days. Tonight they are doing a quickfire that requires them to use a can of Campbell’s soup. I cook with Campbell’s soup on occaision. But it is something that is not the kind of fine dining I expect from Top Chef. […]
Top Chef Recap: Pan African Portland
I have to tell you the NBCu suits love them some Top Chef. I just realized today that the Media/Press website has photos from the first four episodes of the Portland season. We are lucky to get one or two photos out of them total for most housewives shows. So, my Top Chef recaps are […]
Top Chef Recap: Trouble Brewing
This Top Chef recap is going to be rather brief. I was trying to stay awake to start it on time, but laid my head down for second while watching the trial and half way woke up when the phone started ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing. I was convinced someone had died. I […]
Top Chef Recap: First Impressions
It’s time for a new season of Top Chef and I am hoping that this will pull me out of my funk. Even though life is collapsing all around me. If you missed what the big scary noise was during the RHONJ recap, click here. Let’s get to the Top Chef recap, from Portland. The […]
Top Chef Kentucky Finale: The Winner Is Chosen
Foodies, it is time for the Top Chef Kentucky Finale! It’s been a great season. I am a bit sad to see it go. But, no ending of this episode could disappoint me. I love all three of the final three chefs. The two southern girls, Sara Bradley and Kelsey Barnard Clark are up for some stiff […]
Top Chef Kentucky: The Tao of Macau
Hey! How you durian? Whenever a cooking show goes to a country where durian is grown, we generally get an entire episode about it. Top Chef Kentucky is no different.For tonight’s quickfire, the final four Top Chefs must make a dish highlighting the world’s most disgusting smelling fruit. Jesus. It sound like China doesn’t even […]
Top Chef Kentucky: Holy Macau!
Last week on Top Chef Kentucky, we lost Justin Sutherland in the elimination round leaving Eric Adjepong as the last man standing. Eric, Sara Bradley, Kelsey Barnard Clark, Michelle Minori,and Adrienne Wright are officially the top five chefs of Top Chef Kentucky! The top five chefs hopped a flight to Macau where they will fight to the finish! Top Chef […]
Top Chef: Kentucky Farewell
It’s the last episode of Top Chef: Kentucky filmed in Kentucky. I am tired. I am hangry. Today, I have written or edited over 10,000 words .My eyes may be bleeding. I have not eaten and just set some brown rice next to me to shovel in while I type about good food. There are […]
Top Chef: The Greatest
It’s time for Top Chef and it’s going to be late because I have been editing another post for the past two hours or so and am not even halfway done. I completely lost track of time and Top Chef is almost over. I also haven’t had a chance to eat and so I am […]
Top Chef: Hoop Dreams
We start with the remaining chefs celebrating Michelle’s win last week in the musical memory challenge with a red snapper dish, and mourning the loss of David who just sort of lost his way this season. The quickfire challenge is a nod to Fort Knox with gold bouillon locked in a case. The judges have […]
Top Chef: Music City USA
Don’t start without me! I am here and very excited we are going to Nashville! It’s been a super busy day at Tamara Tattles and I had to get some adulting done in the real world to keep all my pie plates in the air. I also have to stop these recaps a lot to […]
Top Chef Season 15 Fan Favorite, Fatima Ali Has Died
It is with a very heavy heart that I report the news to my fellow Top Chef fans that Fatima has died after a long, painful fight with a rare form of bone cancer. Last night, as I was beginning my latest Top Chef recap, I felt a feeling of loss regarding Fatima. I began […]
Top Chef: Whatever Floats Your Boat
I am really enjoying Top Chef Kentucky. I haven’t spent much time in Kentucky and I feel like that needs to change. Perhaps Banjo and I will rent one of these houseboats for a week or something. Banjo is not much of a water dog though, except for that one time when he was a […]
Top Chef: Carne!
I’m a little late to the party because I was making some Asian stirfry that relies heavily on soy sauce only to discover too late I do not have any soy sauce so I had to get creative. It’s weird tasting but not really bad. Red cabbage is good in almost anything. Everyone is happy […]
Top Chef: Roaring Munchies
This week Brian is feeling a lot better about his place in the competition after winning Restaurant Wars last week. Then all the chefs arrive to the kitchens to discover that Last Chance Kitchen is happening. There are some of our favorite chefs from seasons past, Brother Luck, Jim the chef from Alabama we loved, […]
Top Chef: Restaurant Wars Part 2
I was trying to take the night off and then discovered Top Chef on my DVR. I really have to see how this all works out and as long as I am watching and might as well slap up a recap. My last recap was really good if I do say so myself, but I […]
Top Chef: Surprise! It’s Restaurant Wars!
The premiere of this season seemed to have a lot of you hooked. Then it seemed like everyone had lots of Christmas stuff to to do during the second episode. That left even fewer of you around for the third one, last week. So click on the links and get caught up, because it is […]
Top Chef: Naughty And Nice
I’ve very excited about this episode as Eric Ripert is on and he is my favorite chef! I am off to a bit of a late start because The CRAZY is kind of strong today and I have the puking part. One of my parents was that way too. Anyway I am fine now. It’s […]
Top Chef: Bourbon, Barrels And Burgoo
I love that the fabulous Kentucky home they are staying at has several garden plots and each chef gets to do some gardening! I’d love to have beds prepared and all the seeds and starter plants laid out for me to choose from! I need to live in this house! It also has a beautiful […]
Top Chef: The Fastest 2 Minutes In Cooking
It may just be my current piss poor attitude, but I am not optimistic about this season. I feel like all the city slicker judges coming to Kentucky will produce an overly stereotypical season of the state. Also of the fifteen cheftestants only two are from the south. Kelsey is from Alabama and Sara is […]
Top Chef’s Fatima Ali Has Terminal Cancer
It’s going to take me a minute to write this post. I can’t see the keyboard through all the tears. I just read this and it’s a kick in the gut. I am so tired of reporting sad news. I am so sick of people getting fucking cancer. This one just crushes me. If you […]
Top Chef: Finale
Well, it has come down to the final two, Adrienne and Joe Flamm. I saw some of the marathon that ran today and had forgotten that nearly all the chefs had emotional breakdowns when Flamm was voted out. So all the chefs are probably rooting for him. He seems like a great guy. I also […]
Top Chef: A Little Place Called Aspen
Well, it’s down to Mustache Joe, Joesph Flamm and Adrienne Cheatham. Here is what it looks like overall. Mustache Joe has the most wins, but he’s been inconsistent in the last half of the season. He has recently gotten his groove back and appears to be the front runner. Joeseph Flamm flamed out and was […]