This week on Food Network‘s Holiday Wars, “The Spirit of Christmas” continues with teams working seamlessly like little elves and wowing judges Shinmin Li and Jason Smith with their immaculate cake and sugar work. Host Jonathan Bennett had fun playing dress up, and wrapping gifts while tasking the remaining four teams to create Santa’s perfect […]
Host Jonathan Bennett and judges Shinmin Li and Jason Smith are back on Food Network with new series Holiday Wars and “Stealing the Naughty List” epitomized the holidays. This is exactly what I want to see out of a baking competition to put me in the Christmas spirit. The set decorations alone had my inner […]
This week on the holiday spinoff Sleighed It!, Netflix‘s Nailed It! host-comedian Nicole Byer partners up with Sugar Rush Christmas host Hunter March to go against world renowned pastry chef Adriano Zumbo. Finally, we get to see Nicole get in the kitchen, just how much has co-host Jacques Torres taught her? Apparently, a lot… “Sleighed It!” Episode […]
This week on a disastrous, hedonistic new episode of online holiday spinoff Sleighed It!, Netflix‘s Nailed It! host-comedian Nicole Byer and co-host Jacques Torres invited Let It Snow stars Kiernan Shipka, Isabela Merced, and Jacob Batalon to obliterate the Nailed It! kitchen and give the judges their “best” gingerbread waffle houses. Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourselves […]
The final episode of Food Network‘s Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge had the remaining three contestants expressing touching moments of inspiration and creating intricately beautiful meals to represent their family Thanksgiving. Host Giada De Laurentiis tasked them to use squash as their muse and all three created meals that made my mouth water. Judges Alex Guarnaschelli, Carla […]
Netflix‘s Nailed It! host/comedian Nicole Byer and co-host Jacques Torres invite Ashley Tisdale and Brent Morin from Merry Happy Whatever to compete in Sleighed It!, a new online holiday spinoff original where stars from the streaming service showcase their baking disasters in the Nailed It! kitchen. A hilarious undertaking which resembles a DIY demolition more […]
Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship is back and putting us immediately in the holiday spirit, so welcome egg nog, Rudolph, Santa’s helpers, and Krampus? Host Jesse Palmer welcomes 10 new bakers to the arena to battle it out for a chance to win $25,000. Consisting of some professionals and some just hobbyists, the competitors, have […]
With the holiday season approaching, out thoughts turn to buying presents for our loved ones, chopping down that perfect Christmas tree in the middle of nowhere, chaos happening all around us in stores, and (most importantly) spending time with some of our less-desired family members. So what better way to ring in the holiday season […]
The season finale of Food Network‘s Halloween Wars “Scary Tales II” had great concepts but struggled in execution – especially in the first round. Both “Small Scare” and “Spine Chiller” forced the contestants to think outside the box and they really (theoretically) got into the Halloween spirit. In reality, some of the ideas didn’t translate […]
This week’s edition of Cooking Channel‘s Freakshow Cakes was inspired a sizzling fire eater, with contestants charged to create their best “Flame Show” sculpture with a tasty “kissed by the heat” treat. They went all-out, with spinning displays and sparklers. I will say, I was hoping that a blow torch would somehow be incorporated into […]
This week’s episode of Food Network‘s Halloween Baking Championship offered up one of my favorite themes, Grave Robbing. “Gravely Delicious Desserts” had the contestants digging through dirt for… vegetables? Not exactly where I thought that was going: limbs, insects possibly, but not carrots, fennel, beats and sweet potatoes. Were they grave robbing or digging in […]
This week’s episode of Food Network‘s Halloween Wars was definitely an improvement from last week. Although the “Small Scare” challenge during “The Swarm” was uneventful, the contestants brought their serious “A-Game” in the “Spine Chiller” round. Host Jonathan Bennett (with judges Shinmin Li and Todd Tucker and guest judge Harley Quinn Smith) were impressed by […]
I was very excited for this week’s episode of Food Network‘s Halloween Baking Championship, although a bit thrown off by the title. “All Things Weird and Wonderful” was inspired by The Addams Family, and made me nostalgic for the time I won best Halloween costume as Wednesday Addams in elementary school – so there’s that. […]
This week’s episode of Food Network‘s Halloween Wars “Zombie Dating Show” had a comedic Halloween twist to it but seriously lacked in overall skill sets, a huge contrast to last week. It’s as if most of the contestants took part in some body-snatching experience prior to the show and were replaced with amateurs. Host Jonathan […]
In honor of the ninth season premier of Food Network‘s Halloween Wars, I sat down with my daughter to carve a pumpkin – and to be completely transparent, our “cat” came out looking more like “possum roadkill”. Regardless, every year I look forward to being shocked and frightened by the imagination of the contestants. My […]
Netflix‘s Nailed It host Nicole Byer took a break from her partner-in-bad-baking-judging chef Jacques Torres to make a guest appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden earlier this week to recreate the catastrophe-fueled baking competition where three amateur bakers compete to replicate masterpieces and well… let’s just say the show’s title is meant […]
Comedian Nicole Byer and co-host/chef Jacques Torres are back with a third season of Netflix‘s Nailed It!, and let’s face it: if you watched the previous two+ seasons, there is absolutely no expectation for the masterpiece baking creations to look great. Instead, this season delivered cakes that resembled reproductive organs, missing limbs, osteoporosis, and headless […]
That’s right, disaster food fans! Hosts Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres return for a third season of Netflix‘s Nailed It! – overseeing a new line-up of would-be bakers with terrible track records who compete to be “The Best of the Worst” – and a $10,000 grand prize. Part competition and part hot mess, the third season features guest judge […]
You can keep your fancy-schmancy cooking shows where competitors use “the right ingredients” or don’t “burn the kitchen down” or make food that’s “edible” and doesn’t require you “getting your stomach pumped.” For us, it’s not a real cooking show if it doesn’t end up with a cake – and the kitchen – looking like […]
The holidays are a magical time of year: a time to believe in miracles, a time to be with our toxic families, and (most importantly) a time to make New Year resolutions that most of us will never achieve. What holidays would be complete without another season of Nailed It!, and comedian Nicole Byer and co-host […]
