Tag: MasterChef
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MasterChef Season 3: Auditions
So I’ve been on the road for the past 3 weeks, and I missed the original airing of the MasterChef auditions. After a frantic arrival back in Dallas with barely enough time to cook for FRANK on Saturday, I finally had time to sit down and get caught up before the show airs tonight! The…
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MasterChef: One Year Later
Today is February 2, 2012. Exactly one year ago on this day, I flew to Los Angeles to film MasterChef. It was a cold day and Dallas was buried under a foot of ice. A storm-of-a-century had descended on Texas the day before, and I awoke at 4am in hopes that I’d be able to…
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Hawaii, part 1
A week ago, I went to Hawaii with Jennifer, Adrien, and Tracy from MasterChef at the invitation of Cristy Kessler. Cristy is an amazing and inspiration woman…her whole life she’s been plagued with serious, normally-fatal illnesses. A mere 6 months ago she was in Turkey for a controversial stem-cell transplant in a last-ditch effort to…
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Aloha, Hawaii!
This Tuesday, January 10, I leave for Hawaii with Jennifer, Adrien, and Tracy from MasterChef to help with some benefits for a couple of VERY worthy charities on Oahu. YO! House is an organization that helps support homeless youth on Oahu. It’s actually illegal to be homeless in Hawaii if you’re under the age of…
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Pumpkin Carrot Cake Breakthrough!
Today I’m making my pumpkin carrot cake for a friend’s 70th birthday, and I decided to try something completely new. It worked beautifully, and I’m so excited I just had to tell someone! Normally I make the cake batter first by creaming butter and sugar, adding the rest of the liquid ingredients, then the dry. …
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Chicago Christmas Special
What a weekend! I spent last weekend in Chicago filming “A Ben Starr Christmas” for the Kenmore Live Studios. Beena David, who is both a classically trained vocalist AND the host for Kenmore’s shows, has been working with the Chicago area MasterChef contestants, and I met her on my recent mega-roadtrip to the northeast. (She…