One of my life's goals is to become a Chopped Champion.
If you are not familiar with Chopped, let me enlighten you. It is THE cooking competition of our generation, primarily for professional chefs but occasionally for amateur home cooks as well.
It's 3 rounds: appetizer, entree and dessert. You have a limited amount of time to prepare a dish using secret basket ingredients that are revealed just before you are allowed to start cooking. You have access to a pantry and fridge with additional ingredients that you can use however you are tasked to truly highlight the basket ingredients, which can sometimes be strange and uncommon items. You are subjected to judgement from super cool professional chefs after each round and if your dish doesn't cut it, you are chopped. After 3 rounds, a champion is awarded $10,000 and (more importantly) the title of Chopped Champion.
I am not a professional chef - I am an executive in the corporate world - and I love my work. But cooking is my personal passion. Coming from a family of artists who paint, draw, make films and a variety of different crafts - I found my ability to express my creativity with food through cooking at a young age. Look here I am making stuffing!
I always liked to be in the kitchen as a child and my grandfather was a butcher and an amazing home cook who started showing me the ropes whenever I would go to their house. When my mom went back to school to get her teaching degree, I made dinner for our family a few nights a week and loved it. I even invented the "Recipe Talker" in middle school - which was a recording that would talk you through a recipe instead of looking at a cookbook.
I've created this blog as I believe this is my next step to getting closer to my dream and bolster my Chopped application. I'm going to dig up old photos of culinary creations to share and start documenting new ones created going forward to demonstrate that although I am not a professional chef, the Food Network will definitely want to cast me on Chopped - and once I am on the show, I know I will win. I hope so anyway because (unfortunately) I am a sore loser - and no one wants to deal with that.
Wish me luck!
If you are not familiar with Chopped, let me enlighten you. It is THE cooking competition of our generation, primarily for professional chefs but occasionally for amateur home cooks as well.
It's 3 rounds: appetizer, entree and dessert. You have a limited amount of time to prepare a dish using secret basket ingredients that are revealed just before you are allowed to start cooking. You have access to a pantry and fridge with additional ingredients that you can use however you are tasked to truly highlight the basket ingredients, which can sometimes be strange and uncommon items. You are subjected to judgement from super cool professional chefs after each round and if your dish doesn't cut it, you are chopped. After 3 rounds, a champion is awarded $10,000 and (more importantly) the title of Chopped Champion.
I am not a professional chef - I am an executive in the corporate world - and I love my work. But cooking is my personal passion. Coming from a family of artists who paint, draw, make films and a variety of different crafts - I found my ability to express my creativity with food through cooking at a young age. Look here I am making stuffing!
I always liked to be in the kitchen as a child and my grandfather was a butcher and an amazing home cook who started showing me the ropes whenever I would go to their house. When my mom went back to school to get her teaching degree, I made dinner for our family a few nights a week and loved it. I even invented the "Recipe Talker" in middle school - which was a recording that would talk you through a recipe instead of looking at a cookbook.
I've created this blog as I believe this is my next step to getting closer to my dream and bolster my Chopped application. I'm going to dig up old photos of culinary creations to share and start documenting new ones created going forward to demonstrate that although I am not a professional chef, the Food Network will definitely want to cast me on Chopped - and once I am on the show, I know I will win. I hope so anyway because (unfortunately) I am a sore loser - and no one wants to deal with that.
Wish me luck!
I hope to see pictures of the tacos you make! Those are SO great!
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