Next Food Network Star~Red Lobster Winner
July 20, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Recipes
Are you still following The Next Food Network Star? I’m behind on my updates, it seems like I never get to watch the show on Sunday nights. I’m always catching up when they reshow it later in the week.
If you missed last weeks show, you can catch the highlights here:
The 4 finalists had two contests they had to compete in. One was working in front of the camera and improvising when something goes wrong. The contestants didn’t know they were going to be sabotaged ahead of time.
The contestants also had to develop a new dish using one of the fish on Red Lobster’s menu. The winning dish will be featured in Red Lobsters nationwide. I was excited when Jeffrey Saad’s wood-grilled fresh fish with spicy soy broth won the Red Lobster wood grilling contest. At this point he’s my favorite to win.
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Chef LaDuke from Red Lobster was a guest judge on this weeks show, and helped pick the winning dish. You can watch behind the scenes footage that you didn’t see on the show, and see a video demonstration of Jeffrey Saad’s winning recipe at the Red Lobster website.
Like I said above, Jeffrey is my favorite, and really hope he makes it to the final two. Who’s your favorite of the final three? Which Next Food Network Star contestant would you like to see have their own show on The Food Network?
Melissa is my favorite to take the show! Jeffrey bores me to bits! I just don’t see him as being interesting or original in any way. When he tells personal stories they always seem a bit fake to me. And well, Debbie may be Korean, but I don’t like her at all. She’s been so dishonest from the beginning of the show. I certainly wouldn’t watch her show if she won.
Loretta~ Melissa is my second favorite, she just gets flustered sometimes and it’s hard to watch. I agree with you on Debbie, I don’t want to see her in the final two. I hope it’s Melissa and Jeffrey.