Food Network is one of my addictions. A pretty decent cook myself, I love watching shows on the Food Network. My favorite person on Food Network has to be Rachel Ray, she is just sooo happy all the time!! lol I swear she’s like me on E! haha (and I don’t mean the TV network lol). She has these corny shows like “$40 A Day” where she has to find good cheap food in a new city for less than $40 a day. I just love her persona, very genuine, very down to earth. She even has her own day time talk show on real network now, it’s amazing! My least favrote person has to be Bobby Flay, he has to be the most cocky obnoxious person on Food Network, he thinks he’s the best, I mean when I heard he got picked to be one of the 3 original Iron Chef America on the show, I was like “Great, like he needs anymore ego boosting!”. I mean I’ve seen episodes where the man literally corrects everything the judges said about his food implying that they don’t know what they are talking about!!

So when I heard that Iron Chef America is having an All Star Battle including Rachel and Bobby, imagine my excitement and nervuousness! I mean imagine if they put Rachel and Bobby on the same team!! I would’ve shoot myself cuz I wouldn’t be able to handle the psychological conflict lol. Good thing they paired Rachel up with Mario Batali (another pompous star chef, but much better manners than Flay in my book), and Bobby got Giada De Laurentiis (total hottie with the perfect flawless accent, star of Everyday Italian) as his partner.

The secret ingredient is “Cranberry”, both teams have 60 minutes to prepare 4 - 5 dishes based on that theme. After an hour of intense cooking, Team Bobby/Giada serves up cranberry/goat cheese French toast stack; butternut squash/cranberry ravioli; cranberry duck confit tamales; cranberry venison osso buco with a cranberry risotto; and cranberry zepoli with cranberry simple syrup. Team Rachel/Mario serves up pancetta wrapped, sage infused shrimp on a cranberry “polenta”; cranberry tempura cod cheeks on a salad of grapes and cranberries; cranberry sausage ragout on a wine soaked bucatini; cranberry turkey osso buco; cranberry panettone zuppa inglese. Final Score? - Bobby/Giada 46 points, Rachel/Mario 53 points. Team Rachel/Mario wins!! YEESSSS!!! HOTNESS!!

lol Bobby and Giada clearly hates Rachel, and Mario is probably shaking his head thinking he has to carry the wright of the whole team and wishes Rachel would just stop talking (she doesn’t lol), but who cares, in the end Good triumphs! That’ll teach Bobby Flay to be cocky in the future - you can’t even cook cranberry better than a cook with no formal training!! Hahah!!