MasterChef is great tonight!

[j*oono]

Am I the only person here that still loves the show?

[mtnlane]

She would be silly not to really!

Poor Renee, particularly in view of the over-the-top power Tracy has had for the last week.

All wrong I think!

Glad about Laura and Ben making it through too .... Laura's dish was a worry there for a while.

Wasn't Sarah's dish unappealing on the eye lol

[j*oono]

It really was. No matter how good it tastes you can't really put something so unappealing on a plate and serve it up in a restaurant.

I could at home because the boys would just scoff it down.

[j*oono]

It was strange tonight.  There was no way the Amy came even close to beating the guest chef John Lawson.

His quail dish looked fantastic, not that I am a big fan of eating little birds.

I've never tried to poach a lobster tail but even I was saying that 4 minutes was not enough.  It had a mighty big shell and you have to get the heat through that first.  As for the 'mustard'... yuk!

If I'm cooking large green prawns au naturel I will chuck them in boiling water for 3 or 4 minutes and then an ice sludge. 

Anyway, I'm glad she didn't get it.  It's all fair now and may the best contestant win.

[crystal**flake]

The lobster dish was just so easy.............the pro dish had so many elements, of course that one was going to win,.

[j*oono]

I did miss the 1st half of tonight's show but poor Brent again. I'm glad that Laura is ok though.  Ben and Renae were the lowest scorers and they are two more of my favourites so not good.  

Tracy is the one that I hope leaves.  She reminds me too much of Pauline Hansen anyway.

I watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution programme this afternoon and it was pretty sad. This series was in a junior school canteen in the US but I'm not sure where.  California, I think.  It was unbelievable that he was showing them different vegetables and asking them to identify them.

It was insane!  All of those french fries that they eat and the kids couldn't even identify a potato.  Nobody even knew what the tomato was until he explained that it was what ketchup was made from.

I have been told that in UK it is a little bit the same but that shocks me as we were always given good school dinners when I was growing up.  Good few years ago.  Can you believe that your kids wouldn't be able to name a vegatable?

The show was a couple of years old.  I hope some headway has been made.

[mtnlane]

j*oono are you looking forward to Heston Blumenthal being on this week?

I am not particularly enamoured with his dishes from what I have seen in the past - but that is just me.

I am a bit more traditional with my cooking lol

[j*oono]

No I'm not.  When I have to wear industrial insulated gloves and cook with dry ice that's me finished in the kitchen.

I'm a bit sick of the super market sell out chefs.  As much as I love Jamie Oliver, he has done it too with Woolworths.

I do wonder how much input Heston Blumenthal had with the new Coles Heston range.  Very little I suspect.

[mtnlane]

I don't shop at Coles so had no idea about Heston's range.  Jamie's involvement in Woolies has not made any difference to my shopping habits - the only change is that our neighbours children have appreciated the stickers I collect for them lol

I do wonder about their involvement and the impact on prices but honestly, havn't noticed much change.

I cannot be bothered with all that tricked up Heston food - making things taste different to the way they look and playing music whilst you eat whatever it is cos it is supposed to represent the seashore - what a joke and how pretentious lol

[mtnlane]

Give me a regular mushroom risotto over that mess any day!

Molecular gastronomy?  Bah humbug 

[mugssy65]

Ohhhh I like Heston, his shows are really good.
J*oono, my sons new boss had a visitor in his home this week... Antonio Calluchio no less!