Chopped – Bourbon-Malta-Scotch

Mario – Personal Chef, Erica – culinary expert, Sunshine, Warren – Staten Island

Bourbon

Anchovies

Dates

Frogs legs

Warren

Pan roasted frog legs, sweet & sour date, 

Romaine, anchovies,[garlic]

Bourbon, dates, red peppers sauce

Erica

Anchovies melted in braise for frog legs, spicy date ketchup (tangy sour)

Salad: celery, apple, mint

Sunshine

Treat frogs legs like chicken wings, dust with flour

Bourbon, dates, honey garlic sauce to put on legs

Anchovy fries?  Into viniagrette for romaine salad, warm olive oil

Mario

Southern fried frog legs with cornmeal dredge with bourbon cream  sauce with pepper

Vinegar with dates: Date Gastric

Arugula fresh apple salad, anchovies in dressing

Hamachi (tuna like)

Beets

Tortilla chips

Malta (root beer like, malty)

Mario

Hamachi, tortilla-crusted, beet 3 ways: malta beet sauce, crispy beet tops

Bacon red bliss potatoes to tie together

Erica

Seared cooked/part raw hamachi with lime, tortilla chips bed for tartare, picked beets, sautee beet greens

Reduce Malta, cream, butter (like buerre blanc)

Warren

Cumin curry cinnamon cilantro with tortillas, crust fish with tortilla chips

Beet malta vinegrette with mashed potatoes

Clementines

Scotch

Basil

Toasted oats cereal (Cheerios)

Mario

Beignet batter with oats, butter eggs sugar flour, Clementine candy

Clemintine salad, Butterscotch sauce with scotch

Erica

Parfait: yogurt/mascarpone, scotch, cream, O brittle caramel, basil puree, scotch Clementine marmalade, croutons in marmalade sauce