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 […]
Top Chef: Nut Allergy
Y’all, I am still not over Christopher leaving last week. Or Moustache Joe winning. Or Carrie being on the bottom with Christopher. I need a Carrie win to make up for all of this. And tonight we go down to three. According to the episode guide, “The Voltaggio Brothers reunite on Top Chef for the […]
Top Chef: Cooking High
We are down to the final four. I did not realize the LCK winner would come back tonight. If I had, I would have made more of an effort to watch the last few episodes. I am swamped with recaps right now. That is why I keep talking about whether or not to drop a […]
Top Chef: Red Rum And Then Some
Carrie gets the phone call home. Her dad has some dementia stuff going on. She is the front-runner in my estimation so surely she not going home tonight. The challenge tonight happens at the Stanley Hotel which was the inspiration for The Shining. The quickfire is to make a dessert that represents their worst nightmare. […]
Top Chef: Bronco Brouhaha
I’ve noticed lately that the shows I like the most get the least amount comments and the show I like the least get the most. It seems like the trend is that being outraged my something is more proactive than enjoying something. That is precisely the reason shows like the housewives get such high ratings. […]
Top Chef: Restaurant Wars
I learned from the TV listing that Restaurant Wars will be men versus women. Do we even need to watch? Clearly women simply can’t work together. We learned that last week when Tanya went home. We were pretty evenly divided over whether Tanya or Claudette should have gone but when Tanya was a bit snippy […]
Top Chef: Olympic Dreams
First of all, in case you missed it, Chef Fatima Ali has cancer and surgery this week to remove a tumor from her shoulder. I haven’t been able to find any updates since the surgery. In better news, Bruce’s wife had a baby boy. Padma, and past Top Chef winner, Brooke, arrive at the Top […]
Chef Fatima Ali From Top Chef In Surgery Today
Sad news for Top Chef fans, Chef Fatima Ali is in surgery now to have a malignant tumor removed from her shoulder. Based on her Instagram this is something she has been dealing with since at least early November. Fatima posted this morning, “Going in for surgery today to get that tumor out of my […]
Top Chef: Now That’s A Lot Of Schnitzel!
It’s time for the gang to get themselves prepared for another challenging day. It seems no one wants to leave their bed after the camping expedition. They are all worn out from the high altitude. Lee Anne is sick and going to the hospital to make sure the baby is doing okay, she’s sitting out […]
Top Chef: This Is Not Glamping
When my DVR begins this program under extreme duress from everything else I asked it to tape tonight, the remaining chefs walk in to discover they have arrived in the last chance kitchen. That is because the winner of tonight’s challenge will be immediately allowed back in the competition. Kuame is cut. Tom can’t decide […]
Top Chef: Little Tools, Big Challenge
Because I can’t remember ANYTHING anymore, every time Top Chef shows up on my list of things to recap, I’m surprised and and happy every week. I’m so excited to get to this episode and see what female chef goes home tonight! Mustache Joe is high off of his win after making wings last week. […]
Top Chef: Keep On Truckin’
Every day, I forget what day it is and what I have to recap that night. On housewives nights I have to sort of pull myself together and get on with it, but when it is Top Chef, I look forward to the show all day. I guess that means Top Chef is my favorite […]