Executive chef Raffaele Spadavecchia specializes in pasta at Brooklyn’s Scottadito Osteria Toscana restaurant, but, like other chefs who competed on Food Network’s Chopped TV show, he was handed incongrous ingredients and told, figuratively, to make wine out of water.

Spadavecchia made it to the show’s final round after creating an appetizer with udon, watermelon radish, razor clams and pickled eggplant; an entree with sweet vermouth, leeks, French fingerling potatoes and live diver scallops, and a dessert with Thai basil, marinated cippolini onions, black Oxford apples and rolled oats.