Yamalamadingdong

People who know Big Daddy know that Big Daddy is not much for TV, but every once in a while Tony will get me hooked on a show. I find I'm especially susceptible to reality shows. Let me just take this opportunity to go public with my long-standing "Real World" problem.

I've been clean since the Seattle season.

But this show "Top Chef," I'm obsessed with it!

I think it's because I like to cook,. and every time they give the cheftestants a challenge, I start thinking about what I would do if I were on the show. You know? How would I approach it.

I don't know if I'd get real far, though, because every idea I come up with involves yams.

Like the ice cream challenge. I said, "Oh, I know what I'd do! I'd make yam ice cream! I bet you could make great ice cream with yams!"

And the challenge where Padma told the cheftestants they had to feed a team of athletes, but she couldn't tell them anything about the facility where they were going to prepare the food.

I said "Easy. I'd do yams. You can bake 'em, fry 'em or serve 'em raw. And they're full of Vitamin A, which, obviously, the athletes are gonna be all over that."

And when they went to the healthy eating camp for the kids, I said, "Oh hey! I'd make those kids a healthy yam snack." And when they had to invent a new dish for TGI Friday's, I said, "Catfish, blackeyed peas and yams, baby!"

Imagine if I'd made it all the way to the finals in Hawaii. I think they grow like 800 varieties of yam there!

So I just had to start getting those yam ideas out of my system, and last night I made the most yamalicious yam-apple-cinnamon muffins you ever ate!

Chef Tom might knock off a couple points for presentation, but tell me something, who really deserves the Top Chef crown? Your Big Daddy? Or some guy who goes around making chocolate-covered chicken livers?

Kurt "big daddy" True
5 february 2007