Top Chef: "Block Party"

[rachelmanija]

Is anyone but me watching? I love the show! It's comforting to me to see that even pro chefs can screw up and produce inedible disasters on occasion.

I wish old episodes were available on DVD or online, so I could watch previous seasons! Here, Check out Hung's breakfast Smurf village on youtube!

It's too early to have real favorites yet, but I am currently rooting for the lesbian couple. I'm also rooting for the "molecular gastronomist" to make into the finals, because his food is so entertaining. It's a little early to tell who's actually got the best cooking. Though I have to say, Hung's food was consistently inventive and looked delicious from very early episodes on.

Was I the only one who mixed up the two smug, arrogant, scrawny white guys with light brown stubble? I totally thought they were the same person, sometimes with and sometimes without a hat, until they were all lined up together. Oops. It reminds me of how I went through 3/4 of The Thin Red Line thinking that two blue-eyed, dark-haired soldiers were the same guy, until one of them died. Anyway, they were both insufferable and I was hoping one of them would get the boot.

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[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

No, I'm in Connecticut. But you can make the cupcakes! I'm using Elizabeth Falkner's buttermilk cupcake recipe from Demolition Desserts, and I'm going to make the lime curd using misia's lemon curd recipe, which is the best lemon curd I've ever tasted and my co-workers can't keep their hands off it. I haven't decided yet whether I'm doing the rum icing as a buttercream or just a flat icing glaze.

My job is not rocket science. Some recipes are trickier than others but I freely steal as many as possible from sources like Cook's Illustrated and other things meant for the home cook.