Puree this

Top Chef

Full of Top Chef-y goodness this week.
I must say I'm glad to finally see an individual challenge instead of all this team junk.
Stephanie is in the top AGAIN. Seriously, I think this girl is someone to be reckoned with.
I can't recall anyone in the past being quite so dominate over a series of challenges.
Plus, she doesn't seem like a jerk.

The quickfire was fun, pairing the beer with the food.
Spike is stupid. Seriously, you think all beer tastes the same?
Maybe it's because I come from Wisconsin, but even though I am a lightweight, I know there is a huge difference between beers.
Especially the hoppy ones.
Be careful, they bite back.

And we got to see dear Jen, "doing it for her girl"
Oh vomit.
Jen, your girl was kind of a dick when she was on the show, so I can't really feel that bad for you.
And especially since you won the Quickfire. It only proves my point that she was holding you back.
You did the Quickfire for her. You made the Greek tailgating food as a tribute to her. You want to win it for her.
Do you ever do anything for yourself? Or did that manipulative, whiny, selfish ho beat that out of you?
I'm still in your corner, this week, but keep up this Zoi moping junk and you are officially on the list of tedious, annoying people I don't care if they go home.

Turnip puree, parsnip puree, pecorino cheese.
I swear one of the above, usually more than one, has been in every episode this season so far.
Show some creativity people!
Nikki especially seems to love the pecorino.
But, I think she's not long for this show as thus far she has managed to escape elimination by managing to suck a hair's breath less than the person voted off.

I've liked Mark so far this year, but when Tom talked about his dirty workstation it turned my stomach. Stephanie said something about it earlier in the episode, but I thought she was just being a little uptight. Even thinking about it now makes me a little queasy.
I blame Spike.
Someone once told me that you really need to take a shower to get clean, because when you take a bath you're just sitting in dirty water.
I think that was Mark's problem.
He took that bubble bath with Spike and all Spike's grossness wore off on him.
Maybe if he'd bothered ironing his apron with Dale he would have been better off.

And Ryan got sent home this week. Is that any surprise?
I re-watched the first episode a few days ago where Ryan brags about getting other employees fired because he was working so hard at 11.
How sad for him to have peaked at 11.
He certainly didn't cook much on Top Chef that can be bragged about.
Has he never watched this show before? I can't tell you the number of times I have seen some one taken to task because they didn't think about their audience or where they would be serving their food.
Sigh.
It's too bad that Ryan isn't better looking, then I could feel better about him being so dumb.

When I started this blog about Top Chef, I thought it would be kind of short because I thought this week was a little boring, but I guess I have a lot to say about it after all... what do you know?