Top Chef

[shipperx]

First, before my thoughts on the episode as a whole, four words:

Peanut Butter Mashed Potatoes.

Seriously?

I'm not easily grossed out. Hell, I wasn't grossed out by last week's butterscotch scallops. But peanut butter mashed potatoes? I don't care if they taste good, that sounds gross.


Is this the Hell's Kitchen Top Chef? At least it doesn't have the same level of cursing and screaming.

So the bottom is Spike and Lisa? If only there could be a double elimination!

So, Spike exits. Well, I wanted Spike to go (but I really wanted Lisa eliminated even more). Oh well, here's hoping she's eliminated before the finale. I'm happy with the top three, however.

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Interesting. But you're from the South, I'd think you'd love the idea. I think it sounds like something I'd want to check out. But then, I use the all-natural peanut butter with no added sugar, so I'm used to peanut butter that tastes savory instead of sweet. And the low glycemic index of the peanut butter might bring down the blood-sugar rush from the potatoes, so that diabetics and pre-diabetics could eat mashed potatoes without taking their lives in their hands...

OTOH, if it tastes bad, it tastes bad. Is that what got Spike kicked off?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

But you're from the South, I'd think you'd love the idea.

Out of curiosity, why? I'm not sure that I see the connection.

I think it sounds like something I'd want to check out. But then, I use the all-natural peanut butter with no added sugar, so I'm used to peanut butter that tastes savory instead of sweet.

I usually go with all-natural freshly ground peanut butter as well, but then I've been on an all-organic kick for the last several months. And I can see peanut in many Thai sauces, but just the thought of it with mashed potatoes... I don't know why it bothers me. White potatoes are pretty much pure starch, but I can't help but wonder why?(!) Somehow I keep thinking these two things don't go together (and I was someone intrigued by Richard's chocolate guacamole a few weeks ago, so I tend to be of the "What the hell, I'll try anything once" point of view.)


And, actually, a few of the judges were intrigued by the peanut butter mashed potatoes. They were part of Lisa's dish and she and her perennially unwashed hair and bad attitued survived another week (damnit!)

Spike was kicked off for soggy scallops (not to be confused with Dale's butterscoth scallops, which got him kicked off last week. Scallops are bad luck this season. :)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

[But you're from the South, I'd think you'd love the idea.]

Out of curiosity, why? I'm not sure that I see the connection.

Because peanuts are a southern crop, and I'm used to seeing them used more in southern food (in the same way I think of sweet potatoes, ribbon cane syrup, pecans). And yeah, Thai food, but I've only had that out of the freezer section of the grocery. ;-)

And I've been past ready for Lisa to go for a while now. But being annoying may give her an edge if the decision is close; the producers seem to like controversy.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Because peanuts are a southern crop, and I'm used to seeing them used more in southern food (in the same way I think of sweet potatoes, ribbon cane syrup, pecans).

But we do tend to be relatively straight-forward and use them as is. I tend to think of peanuts in odd places as being vaguely Thai. Southern use of peanut butter usually involves sugar not mashed potatoes. :)

And she's made it into the finale!! *ugh*

[sourisvho.livejournal.com]

When she said "Peanut-butter mashed potatoes," I went "WTF??" But it's still not as gross as butterscotch scallops!

I also was hoping for a double elimination. I don't know WTF Spike was thinking using frozen scallops. He should've known Tom would raise hell about that.

Go Stephanie!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I was thrilled to see Stephanie finally win a challenge and I continue to hope for a Stephanie, Richard, Antonia finale.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Peanut Butter Mashed Potatoes.

Meh. I'd be willing to try them at least, but it doesn't ring haute cuisine to me. Butterscotch scallops grossed me out more, but I find shellfish to be inherently more potentially squicky than potatoes. That may be an Irish thing. We'll eat potatoes in any form imaginable (or we would *shiff* if we were allowed carbs! *whimper*

I don't know why, but there's something about Lisa's attitude during judging that makes me cackle gleefully. Deep down inside I think I may be a bad person because I find her defensiveness inherently funny.

More funny? When Spike got back to the holding cell and said "ZOMG! Why did I *say* that?!?!?!"

I'm a baaaaaaaad person.

All in all I didn't care which one was eliminated since they both deserve it so, and really, since I hated Dale with the force of a thousand suns* and am glad to see him gone I can endure Lisa in the finals.

*at least until he cried. I went all squishy and "awwww! puppy noise* when he cried.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think the reason I wasn't quite so wigged over butterscotch scallops is because so many asian dishes have some sort of sweet sauce. I don't really think that butterscotch scallops would be good, but I'm not grossed out.

Actually I'm not truly grossed out over peanut butter mashed potatoes it's just something that makes me go WTF? Something about that particular protein with a starch doesn't compute.

... sigh. And now she's made it into the finale. WHY?!!!

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

AAAAGH! Spoilers in my inbox!!!!!!

I'd already endured 3 hours of my DVR recording of that silly Lifetime Green River Killer movie so I figured I'd power through and catch Top Chef's DVR recording today. At least I could finally erase the bastich.

{{sigh}} the crapthings I watch for the Marsters*, though I have to admit a soft spot for Thomas Cavanagh which is why I didn't just catch JM's 4 minutes of airtime online. Of course I have no idea *who* of my fav three went home so I can still (mostly) blissfully watch tonight. Please let it have been Stephanie. She was my least favorite of the final three. And if it wasn't Stephanie please let it have been Richard.

*OTOH I don't think I'll ever forgive him for Shadow Puppets. That was dreck that *no one* should have to endure and I *bought* a copy!

[cy-girl.livejournal.com]

I LOVE peanuts (mmmm....boiled peanuts) and peanut butter but PB mashed potatoes sounds godawful.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it though?

Rescue peanut butter for bananas or for jelly, pairings where it belongs. :)