Food Network Assignment Week 5

This week I chose to watch 5 Ingredient Fix with Clair Robinson. She gave several tips on how to use ingredients including: let the succotash steam before mixing and use the mayonnaise on the outside of the grilled pimento cheese sandwich rather than butter to keep it at 5 ingredients. She did use a technique that I was unfamiliar with--she peeled a lemon and put the rind in a simply syrup mixture. Some ingredients that were strange to pair together were ham and bacon in a succotash. I always thought that succotash was purely a vegetable mixture. She mentioned the flavors of mayonnaise and sharp cheddar and how they mix well together. She also mentioned that block sharp cheddar has more flavor than pre-shredded sharp cheddar. I learned that when making biscuit dough one should use cold butter to achieve the desired consistency. It wasn't really the most healthful meal so I wouldn't really suggest incorporating the recipes into class--It looked really good though :)