Food Network’s Robert Irvine is ready for any challenge!
On the hit TV series Dinner Impossible, Robert is challenged to overcome culinary obstacles and deliver a delicious meal before his time runs out. Armed with chefs skills and a military mind this creative cook devours dish dilemmas with ease. Robert proves there is always a way to make dinner possible and this month we want to challenge you to utilize his creative cooking tactics to your advantage.
Mission: To turn cooking into an adventure and discover a new passion and excitement for food.
The Brief: Choose a different challenge each night that tests both skill and creativity to broaden your knowledge of food and put the excitement back into eating!
Resources: To follow are a few ideas to get you started and from there you can choose more elaborate and adventurous challenges from Robert’s hit TV series Dinner Impossible (series one now available on DVD) or pickup a copy of his new book Mission Cook.
Top Secrets Revealed: Want to know how to make any Dinner Possible? Then don’t miss our exclusive interview with Chef Robert in the Sept/Oct 2009 Issue of Bare Essentials Magazine.
Cooking Without Challenge- Forego the utensils and conventional cooking appliances as you figure out a way to make dinner possible without modern technology. Try googling tribal cooking methods or hit the library and scan the cultural section for some ideas.
Dinner Deadline Challenge- Professional Chef’s in a 5 Star restaurant must find a way to plate up on time or hungry patrons will be demanding their money back. Now is your chance to see if you can maintain skill and speed to serve dinner on time. For a truly ambitious cook a countdown of 20 minutes ( as on the TV series Ready Steady Cook) will offer the ultimate challenge!
Come Dine with Me Challenge- Hosting a dinner party requires a cook to be skilled in menu design, presentation, taste and timing. Are you ready to have your food judged?
Taste Tradition Challenge- Whether you choose a recipe from Grandmas Cookbook or lookup a heritage dish from another culture the challenge is to embrace new flavors, learn different techniques and discover a new taste for tradition.
Robert Irvine has led a one–of–a–kind life. He joined the merchant marine as a teenager, and would go on to become a cook in the Royal Navy where he happened to befriend a man named Prince Charles.
Since then, Chef Robert has gone on to cook for presidents, prime ministers, royalty and celebrities. It’s been a remarkable life and career, ranging from cooking on the beaches of Yemen for thousands of refugees to making a seven–course meal for First Lady Laura Bush and her friends on an aircraft carrier.
Trained by the best European chefs, Robert shares his cooking philosophy, his best recipes and tips on how to add that special twist to any dish in this cookbook for action addicts- Mission: Cook! (Harper Collins, 2007).
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