You know it's really nice to go up against
your peers from other cities and see how you
stand up. The experience on Chopped is definitely
real time. I thought for sure going into it
"Oh, you have to know in like five minutes
what the ingredients are," or something like
that. I didn't believe that you know, you
were going to open this basket and then go,
but that's how it is. You open the basket
and then the clock starts. For me, you know
I open that basket, saw what was in it and
it was like, just go with your gut, do the
first thing that pops into your head, they
were luckily all ingredients that I was familiar
with. The first basket for me had chicory,
habanero peppers, date paste and falafel mix.
So, not necessarily something that I would
say "Oh, let's make this for dinner," so you
know, it was just a matter of adding some
other components to it to make it taste really
good. But, what winning Chopped did for me
is it just verifies that hard work pays off.
