Top Chef I
Secret Ingredient: Banana
Dinner Creations 3.24.07
Top Chef at 1849 Church St.
Team Bernie: Chris, Bill, Dominic
Team Beni: Doug, Meredith, Rebecca
First Course Team Bernie:
- Mixed greens and kale with banana vinaigrette salad dressing, cranberries, slivered almonds and banana chips
- Banana crumb crust with fresh crab and lime
First Course Team Beni:
- Banana bread with candied walnuts
- Wild basmati rice with cranberries and green onions
Main Course Team Bernie:
- Turkey filets fried in a meringue crust
- Plantain mashed potatoes with garlic
- Mixture/stuffing of plantains, chipotle peppers, raisins, hollandaise sauce
Main Course Team Beni:
- New York strip steak with red wine reduction sauce and carmelized onions
- Fried plantains
- Sauteed spring vegetables
Dessert Course Team Bernie:
- Banana custard in mini pie crust topped with strawberries
Dessert Course Team Beni:
- Homemade banana ice cream
Winners: Team Bernie
Rematch!: TBA
Top Chef II
Secret Ingredient: Onion . . . worst ingredient ever. Bill's onion bread "dessert" was a serious disaster. Everything else was pretty great.
Top Chef III
Secret Ingredient: Apple
Top Chef IV
Secret Ingredient: Tomato
We covertly held Top Chef IV at my parents' house without their permission, so there are no photographs of this event. Of course they found out anyway. Also, there were technical difficulties such as the lack of an impartial judge. This has resulted in an epic argument over which team had the worst dessert, with no objective party to intervene. Bill maintains that my team's tomato ice was disgustingly over-vinegared, whereas I maintain that his team's tomato-basil ice was equally, if not more, heinous.
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