So we were in line for boarding for the Seattle to home flight. I tend to see a lot of people I know given that we live in a small town - but never anyone actually "famous".
But if Stephanie from Top Chef posts on her blog that a little red haired girl screamed most of the last leg of her flight to her latest cooking demonstration this weekend, that would be my girl.
RAB told me that Stephanie was cooking this weekend in a neighboring town. And there she was boarding the same flight as us. AB and I both contemplated saying something to her. Something like "so glad you won, we were rooting for you all along!" or " which wineries are you cooking at?" or just the typical fan stuff, "hi Stephanie, I am a huge fan, do you want to come cook at my house tonight? We were going to have Top Ramen and grilled cheeses, but I am sure you could do better."
Instead we just smiled at her.
And she smiled back.
Showing posts with label Top Chef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Top Chef. Show all posts
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Top Chef is back!
One of my favorite shows is back for round 5!
I was met the other morning with e-mails from the girls inviting me to dish with my Top Chef girls. We dished.
Here are some of our thoughts (with lots of embellishing by me - so they are probably my thoughts mostly...):
Is Carla a woman or man and why does she so severely freak me out?
Bleeding in apples is a gross biohazard and should have incured a penalty.
Peeling 15 apples? Can you imagine anything more miserable? There is a reason I have a nifty little apple peeler/corer/slicer thing in my kitchen. I would have massacred them. AB (otoh) could have probably competed, he loves to peel apples and is freakishly good at it.
Lauren... seriously now have you not WATCHED the show? How many people get cut making a salad that frankly is the type of thing I would whip up in my kitchen and then wave my hand saying, "oh it was nothing". You didn't bring it, which is too bad because I wanted to like you. However, I think cutting someone is way unfair in the Quick Fire. Not nice.
(I would have made hmm... what would I have made... not salad... I don't cook with apples... what would I have made... oh my time is way up - nearly a week later.)
Please Radhika live up to your potential we know you are capable of. Actually we don't know this, we just want you to go far because we think you seem like a way cool chick to hang out with. And the fact that Stephanie (in her blog) knows you and is backing you up just adds to your level of credibility. Go Radhika!
Richard - err I mean Stephan, kind of annoying, but probably will make it far. He's the one to beat right now.
Love Eugene. Love him. Quiet, unassuming, keep it up.
The weak links were cut after the first night. No surprises there at all.
Ariane... I thought you were going to be cut when you said you needed to have a book for a recipe. Duh Duh Duh. She's next to go.
Hosea... Did we know each other? Maybe you knew AB? BS in Engineering Physics from CU in '97... so you are just younger than us. Hmmm... Oh but sorry, I have eaten at Jax and have never been impressed. Hope this launches you somewhere great to cook in Boulder though since I can understand the desire to never leave.
I was met the other morning with e-mails from the girls inviting me to dish with my Top Chef girls. We dished.
Here are some of our thoughts (with lots of embellishing by me - so they are probably my thoughts mostly...):
Is Carla a woman or man and why does she so severely freak me out?
Bleeding in apples is a gross biohazard and should have incured a penalty.
Peeling 15 apples? Can you imagine anything more miserable? There is a reason I have a nifty little apple peeler/corer/slicer thing in my kitchen. I would have massacred them. AB (otoh) could have probably competed, he loves to peel apples and is freakishly good at it.
Lauren... seriously now have you not WATCHED the show? How many people get cut making a salad that frankly is the type of thing I would whip up in my kitchen and then wave my hand saying, "oh it was nothing". You didn't bring it, which is too bad because I wanted to like you. However, I think cutting someone is way unfair in the Quick Fire. Not nice.
(I would have made hmm... what would I have made... not salad... I don't cook with apples... what would I have made... oh my time is way up - nearly a week later.)
Please Radhika live up to your potential we know you are capable of. Actually we don't know this, we just want you to go far because we think you seem like a way cool chick to hang out with. And the fact that Stephanie (in her blog) knows you and is backing you up just adds to your level of credibility. Go Radhika!
Richard - err I mean Stephan, kind of annoying, but probably will make it far. He's the one to beat right now.
Love Eugene. Love him. Quiet, unassuming, keep it up.
The weak links were cut after the first night. No surprises there at all.
Ariane... I thought you were going to be cut when you said you needed to have a book for a recipe. Duh Duh Duh. She's next to go.
Hosea... Did we know each other? Maybe you knew AB? BS in Engineering Physics from CU in '97... so you are just younger than us. Hmmm... Oh but sorry, I have eaten at Jax and have never been impressed. Hope this launches you somewhere great to cook in Boulder though since I can understand the desire to never leave.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Top Chef finale
So I am finally getting around to blogging about my favorite TV show. Well second favorite - still cannot wait till season three of Big Love starts next January.
Anyways...
Yay Stephanie!
AB and I have been huge Top Chef fans since it originally aired four seasons ago. Finally a woman has won - and she kicked butt too!
AB kept telling me at the end that Lisa was going to win and he was shushed many times. And maybe with an angry and worried tone as well. I was going to be so disappointed if she won after floating through so many elimination challenges. That's not to say I wouldn't have loved to eat her food... (Must go get her Thai soup recipe and her dessert recipe.)
I was sorry to see Richard falter. I really wanted Stephanie to win, but Richard (had he lived up to his potential in the finale) would have been a deserving Top Chef as well.
Can't wait for season 5!
Anyways...
Yay Stephanie!
AB and I have been huge Top Chef fans since it originally aired four seasons ago. Finally a woman has won - and she kicked butt too!
AB kept telling me at the end that Lisa was going to win and he was shushed many times. And maybe with an angry and worried tone as well. I was going to be so disappointed if she won after floating through so many elimination challenges. That's not to say I wouldn't have loved to eat her food... (Must go get her Thai soup recipe and her dessert recipe.)
I was sorry to see Richard falter. I really wanted Stephanie to win, but Richard (had he lived up to his potential in the finale) would have been a deserving Top Chef as well.
Can't wait for season 5!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Top Chef returns Wednesday!
Anyone else notice TV sucks lately?
So supposidly the writer's strike is over now, but things won't return to "normal" until next season.
Honestly, it has been good for us. AB gets up and leaves for work by 5:30am, which he reminds me was "really" 4:30am Monday morning post-springing forward. Consequentially he is going to bed by 9pm most every night. He used to stay up much later than me on a daily basis. Now I have four (sometimes five) nights a week where the cat and I are the ones wandering the house togeether while everyone else sleeps.
I get home from work about 5:35pm with both kids. We get everything carried in and I get a Curious George episode started for Leif while I start dinner. AB usually wanders in a few minutes before 6pm. We juggle Skadi back and forth while finishing dinner prep and aim to have dinner for us all on the table by 6:15-6:30pm.
Many days we all have the same thing. There are plenty of other days where neither AB nor I are up for the whining about our choice in food (last night Leif told AB that the filet mignon was "yucky"...) and we put chicken nuggets, carrots or green beans and a pile of ketchup in front of the kids. Skadi thinks it is the coolest thing in the world to have her own chicken nugget. (She ate the filet like a champ though, truth be told there isn't much she won't eat... in fact, I can't think of anything so far. Even the asparagus, she shook her head and made a face with each bite, but kept right on eating.)
Ok, so I started talking about TV now didn't I.
After dinner we have a little time for play. Leif likes to play Cariboo during this time. The problem is Skadi does too. Sometimes we set the train up, or just play with random things in his room. Bathtub for the kids, bedtime for Skadi, snack for Leif, brush Leif's teeth and then his storytime.
One of us does stories while the other starts the evening chores. Clean up the dinner mess, make lunches for the next day, get bottles ready, make our stacks of things that get hauled to the car or carried to the Vanpool tomorrow.
On a good day we are both finished by 8:45pm. Sometimes it is more like 9:15pm.
TV? Many nights a week it doesn't even get turned on. That's not to say that our TV isn't working for us. Our little Tivo box is busy recording stuff ensuring we never need to make a trip to the local Blockbuster.
Right now we have 12 episodes of InTreatment, three episodes of Big Brother, five episodes of Smashlab, two episodes of Mythbusters, and Bernard and Doris (an HBO special movie that looked good to me - not to AB) in addition to many, many episodes of Curious George (you never know which one Leif is going to ask for). The one we always get to watch on Thursday night is Survivor, because you can't come into work without having seen Survivor the night before. The likelihood of it being completely ruined for you is too great.
Turmoil is about to hit our Tivo routine however. Top Chef returns on Wednesday.
AB and I are major Top Chef fans who have watched since the first episode. It is the one thing we both are likely to sneak and watch by ourselves when the other isn't available knowing full well we can't divulge any details and will likely have to watch a second time with the other. AND we are completely fine with that.
AB has given up on InTreatment, so I should be able to start plowing through those making room for Top Chef. He also doesn't succumb to the dregs of TV programming known as Big Brother... it's mine too.
I am anxiously awaiting Big Love which is rumored to be returning later this summer, AB won't admit that he is too, but he is.
However, AB just might be counting the days until Burn Notice returns. I am pretty sure he is.
So supposidly the writer's strike is over now, but things won't return to "normal" until next season.
Honestly, it has been good for us. AB gets up and leaves for work by 5:30am, which he reminds me was "really" 4:30am Monday morning post-springing forward. Consequentially he is going to bed by 9pm most every night. He used to stay up much later than me on a daily basis. Now I have four (sometimes five) nights a week where the cat and I are the ones wandering the house togeether while everyone else sleeps.
I get home from work about 5:35pm with both kids. We get everything carried in and I get a Curious George episode started for Leif while I start dinner. AB usually wanders in a few minutes before 6pm. We juggle Skadi back and forth while finishing dinner prep and aim to have dinner for us all on the table by 6:15-6:30pm.
Many days we all have the same thing. There are plenty of other days where neither AB nor I are up for the whining about our choice in food (last night Leif told AB that the filet mignon was "yucky"...) and we put chicken nuggets, carrots or green beans and a pile of ketchup in front of the kids. Skadi thinks it is the coolest thing in the world to have her own chicken nugget. (She ate the filet like a champ though, truth be told there isn't much she won't eat... in fact, I can't think of anything so far. Even the asparagus, she shook her head and made a face with each bite, but kept right on eating.)
Ok, so I started talking about TV now didn't I.
After dinner we have a little time for play. Leif likes to play Cariboo during this time. The problem is Skadi does too. Sometimes we set the train up, or just play with random things in his room. Bathtub for the kids, bedtime for Skadi, snack for Leif, brush Leif's teeth and then his storytime.
One of us does stories while the other starts the evening chores. Clean up the dinner mess, make lunches for the next day, get bottles ready, make our stacks of things that get hauled to the car or carried to the Vanpool tomorrow.
On a good day we are both finished by 8:45pm. Sometimes it is more like 9:15pm.
TV? Many nights a week it doesn't even get turned on. That's not to say that our TV isn't working for us. Our little Tivo box is busy recording stuff ensuring we never need to make a trip to the local Blockbuster.
Right now we have 12 episodes of InTreatment, three episodes of Big Brother, five episodes of Smashlab, two episodes of Mythbusters, and Bernard and Doris (an HBO special movie that looked good to me - not to AB) in addition to many, many episodes of Curious George (you never know which one Leif is going to ask for). The one we always get to watch on Thursday night is Survivor, because you can't come into work without having seen Survivor the night before. The likelihood of it being completely ruined for you is too great.
Turmoil is about to hit our Tivo routine however. Top Chef returns on Wednesday.
AB and I are major Top Chef fans who have watched since the first episode. It is the one thing we both are likely to sneak and watch by ourselves when the other isn't available knowing full well we can't divulge any details and will likely have to watch a second time with the other. AND we are completely fine with that.
AB has given up on InTreatment, so I should be able to start plowing through those making room for Top Chef. He also doesn't succumb to the dregs of TV programming known as Big Brother... it's mine too.
I am anxiously awaiting Big Love which is rumored to be returning later this summer, AB won't admit that he is too, but he is.
However, AB just might be counting the days until Burn Notice returns. I am pretty sure he is.
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