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The Food Network has renewed the chef finding show for a third season according to Mediaweek.com.  This show has returning host, Marc Summers, along with guest chefs searching for the next great food personality.  The last winner, Guy Fieri of Guy’s Big Bite, has also been renewed for a second season.  He will also be appearing on specials for the network.  The Next Food Network Star will be premiering in June 2007.

In the last post, I alluded to a special menu that a friend of mine and I were preparing for Labor Day Brunch, and I must give us a round of applause.  We attempted a couple of items from Bobby Flay’s Boy Meets Grill brunch episode in the Labor Day marathon.  We made cheesy eggs and blueberry honey butter for biscuits.  The original accompanyment for the butter was corn muffins, but the biscuits were only 44 cents at the grocery store, so who can pass that up.  Although the corn muffins would have perhaps been better for the butter. 

The eggs were great and pretty easy to make.  I always forget how much you can do with eggs.  I get worried that when I add cheese to eggs, the cheese will burn and get stuck to the pan.  The cheese never does this, but I still worry.  This time we used goat cheese, which is creamier than say a cheddar, so it added more of a creamyness as opposed to a cheesey, gooeyness.  It was delicious.  You also might be tepmted to take out the jalapeno if you don’t like heat, but please don’t.  It definitley adds a much needed kick and you need to give it a try.  Just don’t put too much in it. 

The butter was good, too.  It was more of a method for the butter.  I now see how they make things like garlic butter, honey butter, chive butter, etc.  It’s simple.  Take whatever you want to turn into butter and stick it in the food processor.  Then add the butter and blend away.  It’s so easy, I couldn’t screw it up if I tried, although I don’t usually need to try to screw things up, it just sort of happens. 

All in all, the brunch was delicious.  A Bloody Mary makes a perfect addition to the brunch.  If you don’t want any alcohol for breakfast, Virgin Mary’s are great, too.  In fact, I think I prefer them at 10 in the morning, but to each their own I guess.

Who else had a bruch they’d like to tell my about?  I’m always looking for good brunch ideas.  There’s nothing better on a lazy weekend then a huge spread of delicious and pretty food.