Sunday Roast

Welcome to this weeks Top Chef Sunday Roast. Remember, if we are roasting you it is because we like you...or you make it to easy for us.

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Your turn. Use the picture above and write your own caption in the comment area below.

Your Turn To Vote

Top Chef Season 5 - episode 3 threw many challenges and twist at the chefs

but as true top chefs,

they pulled it together.

So we ask...

Which would your prefer to use for this challenge?

Home made grill

Microwave

Toaster oven

Which would your prefer to use for this challenge?
	Home made grill
	Microwave
	Toaster Oven
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Top Chef Gay Icon

Chef Richard may call him

"Tom the

hottie,

bear,

gay,

icon,

Colicchio"

We, the fans, call him the sexiest Chef.

A Very Top Chef Thanksgiving to You!

Love to watch Top Chef

'Cause it’s good

Love to watch Top Chef

Like everyone should

‘Cause it’s Bravo TV

So good

Top Chef for me

Top Chef for you

Let’s watch Top Chef 

With the BTC crew

Love to watch Top Chef

On my cable

Everyone gets nervous

At judges table

Watch that Top Chef

All night long

358,000 people a minute 

Can’t be wrong

Top Chef, Wop Chef doo and

Top Chef, Wop Chef dat

I watch Top Chef

While I sit and chat

Wednesdays are special nights

Padma Lakshmi says “Pack your knives”

That's right

Top Chef 4 in New York City

Had to feed the Foo Fighters alot of turkey

Top Chef for you and

Top Chef for me

Richard made his

Smore’s look spitty

Cook good food and 

You just can't lose

Just don’t make desserts

appear to ooze

Cooking in the microwave

And the baking in the toaster

It may have gone better

If they gave them a roaster

Wrap the leftovers up

In aluminum foil

So when they’re on the tour bus

they won’t spoil

Ariane’s turkey wasn’t dry

Unfortunately it was 

Richard’s turn to cry

Top Chef for the girls and

Top Chef for the boys

When judges piss us off

We make alot of noise

Tom Collichio and

Tom Collichi-ickel

I wish Top Chef

Judges wouldn’t be so fickle

Oh, I love Top Chef on Bravo TV

(adapted from The Thanksgiving Song by Adam Sandler)

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Wanna bet?

We got this email from Kate.

Thought this might be of interest:

With Season 5 of Bravo's popular cutlery competition Top Chef underway, and three chefs already sent packing, BetOnline.com is offering odds on all 14 of the remaining contestants.

Two weeks in, "Team Euro" has a solid lead in the competition (one elimination challenge win apiece for Stephan and Fabio) and amongst the odds makers.

BetOnline.com Top Chef Odds

Stephan 4/1

Fabio 5/1

Alex 5/1

Gene 5/1

Leah 7/1

Hosea 7/1

Richard 7/1

Jamie 10/1

Danny 10/1

Radhika 12/1

Melissa 18/1

Jeff 18/1

Ariane 25/1

Carla 40/1

Thanks Kate

Top Chef Season 5 - Episode 3

Three down and 14 to go.

Which Chef will Padma be spitting... we mean asking to pack their knives and go?

Click HERE and HERE for a few more previews.

and don't forget to join us this evening in our " Live" chatroom during the show. It is the Top Chef blog party of the night.

Top Chef Thanksgiving

On November 6th, PEOPLE magazine asked the judges and some past competitors of Bravo's Top Chef to lay down their knives and create a fresh take on the holiday menu. Here are their recipes:

Candied-Cranberry-and-Spiced-Rum Punch • Chef Josie Smith-Malave

Butternut Squash Soup with Walnuts • Chef Nikki Cascone

Deep-Fried Turkey with Hot Sauce • Chef Dale Talde

Sausage Stuffing with Caramelized Leek and Sage • Chef Tom Colicchio

Zucchini Pudding • Padma Lakshmi

The Vineyards Cranberry Relish • Chef Spike Mendelsohn

Creamed Spinach with Bread Crumbs • Gail Simmons

Potato Roesti • Chef Harold Dieterle

Pumpkin Panna Cotta • Chef Dave Martin

Day-After Turkey and Dumplings • Chef Lee Anne Wong

Top Chef Monday Morning Mixer

We here at BTC love to share our blog with other outstanding blogs that are covering Top Chef. Each Monday we will highlight these blogs in our Monday Morning Mixer.

This season, we've added our own recap to the Mixer. We've also added a new 'chef' to our kitchen. TrishDish has been a field reporter for us for sometime now and we are happy to add her to Team BTC.

TrishDishes -The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Epi.2.

Eric 3000 - It is just not top chef with out eric 3000 recaps. Eric keeps us laughing each season. Top Chef New York episode two: Restaurant Wars! But without the wars! And with only one restaurant! And they aren't actually creating the restaurant because it already exists. But, other than that, it's just like restaurant wars!

Amuse-Biatch have tasty tidbits. Click HERE


What'ere, Jane Eyre sums it up with Bitter, Party of Fifty


MinxEats - the laughs continue with episode 2 Top Chef Episode 2


My Monkey Could Do That - prepared Show your craft summary

Reality Check prepares Jill we hardly knew you

Cliffieland - keeps it going with Top Chef: New YorkEpisode: Show Us Your Craft (Or, The One Where Padma Spits Up)

Chew On That is serving - Crafty Contradictions

David Dust - is cooking on all four burners with Top Chef New York Episode 2 Weiner Takes All

Procrastiblog presents Top Chef Not the Sharpest Knives

Dealing In Subterfuges-Starts with this "Jill went up the hill to try and be on Top Chef and fell on her ass. " That made me smile. That's a good thing.

ModerDomestic Weblog is asking the question : Since when does Whole Foods stock Ostrich eggs?

Bravo Fan-Romance at the judges table?


Bored Moron-Episode 2 by Mebs.

We are thrilled to have many new blogs added to the Monday Morning Mix. If you are also blogging Top Chef and would like to join the Monday Morning Mix, please email us and we will be happy to add you to the fun

Enjoy!

Our Sous Chef Humor has been out of town on business the past two weeks and unable to blog with the team so a special thanks from her to Chef Back Burner and to Chef Biatch for keeping the kitchen running. But SCH is back and looking forward to joining everyone in the chat room this week.

I totally missed this email

I dont know how I missed this email but I did. If anyone saw it, let us know how it was. If we find a clip, we will post it.

AT HOME AND IN THE KITCHEN WITH TOP CHEF’S TOM COLICCHIO ON CBS “SUNDAY MORNING’S” ANNUAL FOOD ISSUE NOV. 23

Chef Tom Colicchio has created a culinary empire, but it is the hit show “Top Chef” that has made him a star. The James Beard Award winner has even become a sex symbol, something his wife filmmaker Lori Silverbush understands. This weekend on CBS SUNDAY MORNING’s annual food issue, “Eat, Drink and Be Merry,” anchored by Charles Osgood (9:00-10:30 AM, ET), Silverbush jokes with correspondent Tracy Smith, “I am always [saying], ‘Honey go get a girlfriend because I can’t possibly keep up with all the events…as long as I get to choose her we’re fine.” And what about the marriage proposals her husband gets? “It doesn’t phase me. ‘Cause he keeps coming home.” In the intimate interview, Colicchio opens his home – and his fridge – and forgoes his chef whites when he invites SUNDAY MORNING to check out his band rehearsals.

Top Chef Preview Episode 3

It's A Perfect Morning For Fabio
Top Chef
Everything is perfect if you're the winning chef.

Chick HERE to view

Sunday Roast

The Roast isn't as half-assed as least weeks but that isn't saying much. Enjoy.





New drinking game*...every time Radhika says 'Ethnic food' take a drink. If she cooks 'Ethnic food' take two drinks.





Hey Rubber Duck, looks like we got us a convoy!






I know what 'coming out of the closet' means but what does 'coming out of the freezer' mean?






OK, my script says "Be Dramatic" so let me spit this out.





The Blair Witch Project:New York, in theaters soon.






This one is for y'all. Get creative!



*BTC not responsible for liver damage.

Your turn to vote

Which sin is greater?
	Your food taste like glue.
	Your food gets spit out.
pollcode.com free polls

Jill, Jill...Oh What a "Spill"

Well...I hate to be obvious but I couldn't find a song about "eggs" or "Jill" (any ideas?) so...I had to go to the oldstand-by...

I would not, could not, in a quiche.

I could not, would not, for the Nou-(American)-veau Riche.

I can not cook them with my knives.

I can not cook them mixed with chives.

I can not cook them on Bravo.

I can not cook them so I must go.

I do not cook with ostrich eggs.

I do not cook them, is what Jill says.

(adapted from Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss)

Conference Call

As many of you readers know, we've been very fortunate and been allowed to interview many of the chefs from the four previous seasons. This season the interviews are a little different. Bravo has decided to do interviews by conference call.

I didn't know this until an hour before the first interview was to take place. I had no questions prepared and I sounded like a dying frog who smokes three packs a day when I talked. Oh well, it has to be done, right? So, I call the number provided and have my password ready. It doesn't work. I enter it again. Still not working. Arghhh!. I try to get my password to work for like 5 minutes and this stupid robo lady keeps telling me it's invalid. "The Fuck It Is!" I yell as I hang up.

I'm furious and hacking up an internal organ so I decide to check the blogs email. Low and behold, there's an email from Bravo saying sorry, we fucked up, try this password NOW. I swear the now was all bold like that. So, like a good little blogger, I call and use the password and it works this time. I can hear people talking and am immediately intimidated . These guys are real writers, not some fangirl who got lucky and hooked up with some awesome friends to blog about a show she loved. I am no writer! The only time I've ever used a comma correctly was an accident. I thought apostrophes were optional. You say run on sentence as if its a bad thing.

I hear someone from YumSugar ask a question and think "OMG, I love that blog!" Others ask question but I miss the names of who they are writing for, bummer. One lady asks a question and she has a terrible connection. She decides to scream into the phone,thinking this will make the connection work better, and all we hear are vowels. "A" "E" "I" "O" U." Yeah, I'm follow the vowel lady cause if I screw up, I can just yell out another question, pretending to be her. Brilliant! I so don't wanna ask any questions but I gotta do it so the next lull in questions, I go for it.

"Blogging Top Chef here, do you think you might pull a Danial Franco and come back next season?"

Lauren replies " Not without getting a bit more experience, no. "

I then ask "Why was using a paring knife so difficult? I didn't know it was an advanced skill."
Lauren replies " I hadn't used a paring knife in years. I use a peeler."

Ta-Da! That's my interview folks.

I took notes of the other questions asked and really planned on butchering the English language and writing it up but I can't read my notes. I swear to you my notes look like my two year old nephew wrote them.

So, I get ready to do interview number two, Patrick. I try the number, password is incorrect. Fuck. I keep trying and keep trying. Nope, not happening. I go back to our email and hope to see another email waiting for me with a magical password. It wasn't there but I can make my penis grow up to five more inches according to McAlister Applewood. I read the email from Bravo again and that's when I notice the times. Patrick's interview was scheduled 15 minutes before Laurens.

Fuckiteyfuckfuckfuckerson.

One interview down, 15 to go. This should be interesting.

Boner Alert!

Got a sweet tooth? You are gonna like this story then.

Is it or isn't it?

Click here to find out.

Top Chef Season 5 Monday Morning Mixer

We here at BTC love to share our blog with other outstanding blogs that are covering Top Chef. Each Monday we will highlight these blogs in our Monday Morning Mixer.

This season, we've added our own recap to the Mixer. We've also added a new 'chef' to our kitchen. TrishDish has been a field reporter for us for sometime now and we are happy to add her to Team BTC.

TrishDishes - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.


Eric 3000 - It is just not top chef with out eric 3000 recaps. Eric keeps us laughing each season. Enjoy Top Chef New York: If you can make it there, you must be very proud of yourself!


Amuse-Biatch have tasty tidbits. Click HERE


What'ere, Jane Eyre starts off season 5 with What!?!?


MinxEats - fun stuff with the episode 1 Team Rainbow



My Monkey Could Do That - prepared Melting Pot summary


Reality Check-Melissa from 'Top Chef' is a Marylander, too.

Cliffieland - Don't miss- Episode: Top Chef New York: Melting Pot (Or, Around the world with 100 chefs)

Chew On That-Neighborhood Nonsense.

David Dust-A Fairie Will Take You Home Now.

Procrastiblog-Top Chef Rules.

ModerDomestics Weblog-Apple Highs,Ethnic Cooking Lows, and Really Blatant Comercialism.

Thanks everyone for sharing these great blogs with the rest of us. If you are also blogging Top Chef and would like to join the Monday Morning Mix, please email us and we will be happy to add you to the fun

Enjoy!

If I missed your site, please send me your URL again please. We love hearing from fellow TC-aholics so if you know of any site we might like, send us that URL too!

I know this post is messed up but I still have a cold and am on some very fine drugs at the moment. Just t read it and pretend its all fine and dandy, k?

Half-Assed Sunday Roast

I have a cold. This is the roast.





Lets hope the Wizard gives Danny his heart soon.





Jill`s Jerk Scallop interpretive dance did little to impress the judges but her fellow chefs gave her 7/10 stars.





OK, show of hands. Who would have pushed his face into the plate?





If there is ever a show entitled Top Exorcist, Patrick is a shoo-in.





Dude, you gotta get all the stems out first.











Here is one for you readers to have fun with.

Your Turn To Vote

The elimination challenge begins with the fun but never knowing knife block. There were several neighborhoods listed, but of the following 5, which knife would you have hoped to pick? Remember you would prepare a dish from that area?

Which Knife would you like to pick?
	Little Italy
	China Town
	Long Island City
	Ozone Park
	Astoria
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Team Rainbow

This just in from our gal Orli,

Hey BTC,

Last night on Top Chef, the one lesbian and two gay cheftestants crowned themselves "Team Rainbow" in an impromptu genius (and adorable) move over a glass of wine. Now Bravo has created a "Team Rainbow" t-shirt, so anyone can join the club. Check it out here:
http://bravotv.seenon.com/detail.php?p=77326=bravotv-topchef

And the video clip that documents the formation Team Rainbow http://video.bravotv.com/player/?id=829423

Learn more about Team Rainbow and the rest of the Top Chef contestants and judges @ http://www.bravotv.com/Top_Chef/season/5/index.php

Thanks!
Orli

Chef Who?

Sorry these songs are so short but, come on...we barely got a chance to see your faces.

Lauren:

                                       I hate to peel,

                                     I hate to peel,

                                         I hate to peel, peel apples and more 

                                         apples

(repeat)

I hate to chop,

I hate to chop,

I hate to chop, chop apples and more apples

(repeat)

I hate to cook,

I hate to cook,

                                           I hate to cook, cook apples and more 

                                           apples

                                           (repeat)

(If you don't know this tune you should go back to summer camp!

...jk...to the tune of Apples and Bananas by ?)

Patrick:

Back To School

Back To School

To Prove To Chef Tom That I'm Not A Fool

I've Got My Knives Packed Up

My Apron Tied Tight

I Hope I Got My Head Shaved Right

Ohhhh

Back To School

Back To School

Back To School

(to the tune of Back to School by Adam Sandler from Billy Madison)

Top Chef Season 5 - Episode 1 Winners and Eliminated

Ah Chef Stefan. You showed your knife skills with those apples and

took the first Quick Fire win for season 5

and then turned right around and took the first season 5 elimination win. Nice start Chef...but can he keep it going?

Ah they found each other again for a moment... but how sad that we never got to see Chef Lauren cook. Chef Patrick, we were excited because you were the youngest and still in school. We wanted to see what you would bring.

We wish you both the best and hope you drop by the little kitchen some time.

Grub Street wonders "Where are they now?" and more TC stuff

Click here to read the article.






Click here to see which former TC chef has a bacon fetish.






Don't forget to stop in at Fafarazzi.com and play their TC Fantasy Game.








Pam, we thought "WTF?" too but we are super excited anyways. Dave Grohl rocks!




Thanks Jill, Orli, Megan, and Pam