Grillin with the Stonies
December 8th, 2006 | Posted by Shannon
Well, I am a little late here, but what a fine episode of Top Chef we had on Wednesday. Finally! I was sort of getting to the point of not caring anymore.
Cooking on the beach over grills, for surfers: now that is a creative challenge. I loved all the “bro” and “bra” and the frolicking in the waves – it reminded me of how lucky I am to live at the beach. Everyone was so happy to be at the beach. Guess we can’t all live here though.
Anyhow it was awesome and there is an incredibly humorous and well-written blog about Top Chef HERE so go check it out. I have spit out my wine on more than one occasion reading Amuse-Biatch and even though I don’t much like spitting out good wine, I still head over there something like eight times a day.
Whatever. In other Top Chef news, Colleen and I went to TGI Friday’s in the Dallas airport last Friday and tried Betty Fraser’s winning dish.
The portobello mushroom grilled cheese sandwich was pretty good. There was not much to it – it wasn’t exactly heaving volume-wise, but it tasted good, all four bites of it. The soup was cloyingly sweet. I know it’s sweet pepper but whatever – it tasted like a hot popsicle. Or something like that. I don’t imagine the dish hanging around the Friday’s menu for eternity or anything. Not when there are jalepeno popper sandwiches to be had.
I am in love with the new Sparklehorse 
December 10th, 2006 at 11:09 am
I just listened to the Sparklehorse snippets on Amazon.com – they sound good! Mercury Rev-like. I’m going to add it to my list for post-Christmas “me” shopping. 😉
Too bad my pomegranate mega margarita didn’t make it into the Friday’s photo shot … That thing was Texas-sized, for sure. “Hot popsicle” soup – Yum!
December 31st, 2006 at 8:11 am
Hey there! I made Elia’s waffle-egg-coppo creation from the surfer episode and it was yummy delicious-even my 9 year old thought it rocked!