Note to self:  If ever in a cooking competiton, never make pasta salad as your dish.

  or "10 Things I learn from watching Top Chef":

1)  If it tastes bad, don't serve it.  
2)  If you need another dish fast, serve salad or fruit
3)  Knowledge base matters.  You really DO need to know how to make a proper Rue Roux sauce.  And if you have to ask what that is, go look it up. Now.
4)  Trust your tastebuds.
5)  "Make it work" (ok not ( Read more... )