"The Taste: Tuesday at 8|7c on ABC"

It has been a long time since I got instantly hooked on a new television show but I can say that it has officially happened with The Taste on ABC. 

I love cooking shows and competition shows and The Taste is like a combination of Chopped and Survivor.  The contestants are broken up into 4 teams to try to win a challenge but ultimately, there can only be one winner so while they are a team, they are fighting individually within the team to have thier best dishes represented.  Like Chopped, they are given a set amount of time to complete a dish but unlike Chopped, the ingredients are hand picked by thier mentors and they don't have to use them all in each dish.  I love this idea because they can create something that would be truely used rather than weird stuff going together because they have too. 

Check out the site here...ABC's The Taste

I also watched the most recent episode here...http://abc.tv/Z3jimp

Be careful though...it is addicting!!