You have to use these two ingredients. You have a well stocked pantry. A well stocky pantry is defined as the things you normally keep in your kitchen. What would you make with the featured ingredients?
Whoops, I didn't really look at the reviews until I'd already posted the comment. I then watched about the first four dish reactions and they all sounded fairly clueless to me. On later shows, usually it's a mix of a couple airheads and a couple knowledgeable food critics, such as Dr. Hatori. The real fascination, energy and spirit of the show comes from the food-prep stage, though.
The number one thing that came through in all those was that they didn’t accent the pineapple enough.
Unfortunately that happens fairly often. The chefs themselves are really talented, and it's pretty common for them to create a bunch of stuff that surprises the tasters by *not* tasting all that characteristic of the main ingredient. That's partly why my personal first choice was to keep it simple and bake the pineapple. I'm thinking the resultant maillard reaction might be really interesting, as with baked apples or such.
