Dear restaurant chefs:
If you came to The Sticky Egg looking for a creative recipe for your weekend brunch menu, my apologizes.
We don’t do that kinda cookin’ here.
But if you are preparing to compete in Chopped on Food Network, I can help.
Previously an infrequent viewer, I recently sat through a Chopped marathon –ah, inertia — and have discovered the secrets to winning the Chopped championship and coveted $10,000 prize.
- Stories: The chef who puts his heart on his white sleeve usually wins. His chatter to camera is filled with phrases like “love in my food,” “cooking with soul,” and “passion for food.” The judges are also swayed by personal accounts of the chef’s family and/or upbringing. Bring photos. Obviously, you gotta cook well, but if the competition is close — stories can turn the tide.
- Seasonings — Be sure to use them. A chef who doesn’t salt or pepper his dishes well is dismissed as an amateur.
- Sense — Show some. If you only have 20 minutes to make an appetizer, don’t attempt to complete a dish that typically requires two hours. Undercooked food really turns off the judges…and makes you look like a goober.
Of course, ignoring all these rules makes for more entertaining television, so you can forget I said anything, too.
I am, after all, just an Egg.
Snack attack
I love salt. Salt loves me. But is it a healthy relationship?
YES
What the wha?
Quaker Oats waxes poetic about the cholesterol-reducing benefits of their oatmeal, but I have never seen a Frito Lay ad promote pretzels’ power — but they do the very same thing!
So do nuts and popcorn (sans oil and butter) and homemade potato chips!
And to think I have given the statin I take all the credit for my lowered cholesterol. Turns out my addiction to salty snacks may have helped just as much.
Okay, maybe not as much…but I sure enjoyed them more.
Fruit and hummus, two foods I eat several times a week, also help lower cholesterol. Who knew? I sure didn’t.
Actually, now that I read the list, I’m wondering why I have high cholesterol at all. It’s certainly not from my diet. I eat all kinds of foods that help keep my numbers down.
Oh right — I inherited it. I’d rather have money.
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