The third season of American reality television series Top Chef (also advertised as Top Chef Miami) began airing on Bravo on June 13, 2007. Padma Lakshmi returned with Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and new judge Ted Allen, who will switch off with Simmons throughout the season. First season contestant Lee Anne Wong was brought in as a food consultant and assisted in planning the challenges. Production took place in April and May 2007 in Miami Beach, Florida, with 15 contestants living, and the production activity centered, at the historic Fontainebleau Hotel . As with Season 2, the winning recipe from each week's episode of Season 3 is featured on Bravo's Top Chef website and prepared by Season 1 contestant Lee Anne Wong in a web video called The Wong Way to Cook. Another former contestant, Season 2's Carlos Fernandez, is featured on a Yahoo!/Telemundo blog called Sabrosazon in which he presents recipes and writes about Season 3 in Spanish, as well as a Bravo blog called Miami Spice in which he presents recipes in English.

Ingredients1 pound 3 ounces sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed 1 1/4 cups plain yogurt 3/4 cup packed, dark brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg 5 egg yolks Salt 1 (9-inch) deep dish Pie Crust 1 cup chopped pecans, toasted 1 tablespoon maple syrup Method Put cubed potatoes into steamer basket and place steamer basket into a la

Fried Chicken is not something everyone can indulge in, because of the high-fat content, but this oven baked version might just help satisfy those cravings.

With the holidays wrapping up and the New Year around the corner, another yearly tradition comes creeping, the dreaded New Year’s Resolution. And with that in mind, here are a few gadgets to help motivate you to burn off that bourbon pecan pie with the chocolate-lined graham cracker crust you can’t keep from scarfing down every year.

"based on a prototype the previous year we were aware of a fundamental limitation of large pies, namely the crust to filling ratio. for traditional circular pies of radius R, the amount of filling scales as R^2 while the crust only scales linearly so as the pie grows larger, the flaky crust is completely dominated by the creamy filling."