Gordon Ramsay Makes Dog Food

Gordon Ramsay's 'F' Word was hysterical tonight. First, he decided to enter a dog food contest. So to determine which recipe to submit, he took one dish from each of his four chefs down to the dog pound. He then picked out a dog that looked like each chef and let the dogs pick the winner. One dog ate the fastest and cleaned his plate while one didn't even touch the food at all. That determined the winner and loser. So off went his submission to the contest.

Later he has some sir guy do a blind taste test with wine. There were three rounds and he had to pick which was the expensive wine and which was the "celebrity" wine. Bob Dylan, Olivia Newton-John and someone else were the celebrity wines. The sir guy got the first one correct but picked Olivia Newton-John's wine and Bob Dylan's over the expensive one. The Bob Dylan wine went up against his own which which he makes and sells so he even failed against that. I didn't even know Bob Dylan and Olivia Newton-John had their own wines.

When he ventures out to a single father's house to teach him how to cook for his two children he can't get a cab. Not because there are none available, but because he said something nasty about London's cab driver a few years ago and now no cab driver will pick him up!

In his restaurant he has three stock brokers as the amateur chefs this week. At the restaurant they served Sautéed potatoes with red mullet and anchovy (all 50 customers paid), Saddle of lamb with apricot and cumin stuffing (21 customers refused to pay), Summer pudding with lime crème fraiche (12 customers refused to pay). All goes pretty well, but Gordon doesn't trust them to make the dessert which is donuts. Below is a clip of him getting all frustrated with the amateurs (there is ALOT OF SWEARING) and it is the maddest he gets all episode, but it's classic Gordon.

Teppanyaki Tricks

Going for teppanyaki dinner is so much fun. I never realized teppanyaki chefs had to practice so much! Chef David does some really neat things with eggs that I have not seen before. The below video is from Tokyo Cafe in Amsterdam, Holland.

Second Season of Gordon Ramsay's 'F' Word Begins

The 'F' stands for food. Gordon Ramsay's 'F' Word is one of my favorite shows because it features chef's in their environment. Gordon always has some celebrity visiting as well. He steps out to the guests and gets their opinions on his dishes as they are served. There are also clips of himself at home offering teaching techniques and recipes. He also helps regular people who lack cooking confidence in their own kitchens to learning something new.

In its second season, which premiered last night, Gordon's taken up the challenge of raising pigs in order to teach his kids the difference between pets and food. The first season features raising of live turkeys to be eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. He and his family went to the farm to pick out the baby pigs to take home. He was warned that the picks will probably take over most of his year and not stay in a pen like the turkeys did. His wife will not be happy with that. It is interesting to watch the kids interact with the animals. They have alot of fun but they also know that they will eventually be their dinner. Gordon told his son that they would have bacon sandwiches this time.

Four local butchers were the amateur cooks who helped Gordon prepare a three-course meal for the diners at his restaurant. Those poor guys had a really hard time. Some of the guests even refused to pay for their food!

The second season airs on BBC America and will contain nine episodes with the finale scheduled for Sunday, March 4, 2007.

Exploring the Papaya

I bought some papaya when I was at the store the other day. I have had papaya before at restaurants and I think there is some in the Dole fruit cups that I like to eat. But I have never handled one before.

Thankfully, it came packaged already cut in half. But I didn't know how to eat it. Sometimes I feel like such an idiot when I don't know how to eat a certain food. But in my dorky way I also think it is fun to figure out. There are these black seeds in the middle. I tasted one and it was soft and reminded me of a pomegranate. But it didn't taste very good so I gave them as a treat to my parrot. He hasn't touched them yet.

There is also a soft skin on the fruit. Is this edible? I wasn't sure. So I just sliced it up and ate the fruit out of it, kind of how you would eat the inside out of a sliced orange. It was then I decided to check online and I found out that you are supposed to cut away the skin. The parrot got the leftover skin as well, and that he loves.

I found a clip of The Hippy Gourmet slicing up mangoes and papayas to make salsa. He shows you just how to prepare the fruit.