The Taste Recap: Seduced by food (not tequila!)

The Taste

By eyediosmio | Friday, March 8, 2013 | 4:22 pm | 4 Comments
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Hola Gasmii and welcome to the full recap of this week’s The Taste!  First, I’d like to congratulate one commenter who guessed every item correctly in last week’s recap!  JustDucky, you get the prize!  Yay!

Here’s the list of what I have eaten, according to Judge/item:

Nigella:  Ham Hock, Sweet Breads, Pig Ears

Malarkey:   Sweetbreads

Tony:  Tripe, Cow Tongue, Sweetbreads

Ludo:  Oxtail, Pig Head, Pig Blood

Now, here are my thoughts on these ingredients.  Ham hock is NOT offal, it’s a standard ingredient when making a stock or some kind of meal that needs that meaty/ham taste (thinking beans or peas), Oxtail is a delicious cut of meat and NOT considered offal and actually pretty friggin common so whuh? about including that, Pig’s head I’ve eaten as “head cheese” before as my husband has made it from scratch you guys!  It’s actually pretty damn good.  I absolutely HATE trip (or most organ meat, such as cow stomach – ew!).  My friends, if you have the opportunity to eat sweetbreads, please please PLEASE do yourself a favor and try it.

I had never tried it before until I married my Argentine, and let me tell you – it’s so friggin delicious it is my FAVORITE meat to eat.  Seriously.  Think about the most delicious steak you’ve ever had, and that crispy piece of fat attached that holds all the flavor?  Sweetbreads is kind of like that texture wise, and taste wise?  It’s like creme de steak.  Seriously. I cannot emphasize this enough – EAT IT!  You can thank me later.

So this week’s episode is all about “seduced by the taste,” and I immediately think of a 100 filthy things to say here, which I won’t.  But you know.  YOU KNOW!

We are now down to 7 chefs, and next week is the finale – so no one gets immunity.  However, the winner of the team spoon challenge gets a big ol mess of pots and pans. Yay!  Also, the assistance of the guest chef – Ingrid Hoffman.

They have one hour to cook a dish using one of five ingredients. 

Oh Jeez-Louise, Lauren tells us that this is out of her comfort zone because she made a vow of purity and she’s still a virgin so she’s not comfortable with the challenge.

Listen up Lauren.  Can I give you some advice?  Please do not talk about being a virgin, it will only complicate your life to a ridiculous degree needlessly and you won’t be Lauren who can cook, you’ll be Lauren the virgin.  Forever.  On top of that, sensuality is NOT a sin, it’s human nature.  It’s part of being a human being, and it’s that fire inside of you that lights up from the inside out when you hear a song you love, when you are dancing with your eyes closed, when your heart does a flutter when you see that man you’ve been crushing on smile at you, when you eat a juicy steak, when you sip a lovely glass of wine – these human things – that GOD gave us.  That’s sensual, that’s human.  So my dear, just because you are a virgin does not mean you can’t be sexy.  Sexy is not sex, you hear me?

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eyediosmio

I'm a part time writer, full time wife and Doberman wrangler in steamy South Florida.  I try to keep my sanity by watching loads of reality tv so I can feel better about myself.  It's a lazy way to maintain my moral compass, but I'm too lazy to drive to church every Sunday. 

4 Comments

  1. 1
    Andyourlitteldogtoo
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    When I watched last weeks’s episode and then this week’s episode I kept thinking about that scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

    Drusilla: Do you love my insides? As much as you love my outsides?

    Spike: Eyeballs to entrails, my sweet.

    Now if that isn’t love I don’t know what is.

    Totally agree about Lauren the Virgin. Yes, it must be capitalized. Choosing to remain a virgin when you’re young and not jumping bones willy nilly until you find the right guy is a fine thing if that is what you choose to do. But you lose MAJOR virtue points when you smile big and point it out endlessly, as though you should win a merit badge or something. You don’t say, ‘Hi, I’m Lauren. I don’t know anything about sexy foods because I’m a VIRGIN.’ Just like you don’t say, ‘Hi, I’m Luann. I’m an expert at sexy foods because I’m a big ol’ SLUT.’ Private lives, Public lives. We don’t need your sexual resume, just cooks some good food. Sigh. Rant over.

    I do not understand sexy food. Period. No food ‘turns me on’. That entire conversation the whole episode just mystifies me. Apparently I am in the minority. I know what is supposed to be sexy (Lauren!) but it does nothing for me. In fact most foods in that category kind of make me want to heave.

    My favorite part of the whole episode though was Ludo condescendingly telling Nigella that you wouldn’t want a lover that was rough and hard, would you? And she sips her wine and says, ‘Yes.’ Right there with you Nigella. The look on Ludo’s face was fantastic. Shut him right up.

  2. 2
    eyediosmio eyediosmio
    Posted March 9, 2013 at 5:23 am

    @littledog: I love that quote!

    And I think the idea of seduction by food has more to do w setting the mood than actually seducing. Plus having a gorgeous hunk to prepare it for u helps. Amiright?

    And re Lauren, in Christian circles remaining a virgin is like the gold standard. It’s soooo weird, I mean great to hold out and all that but just stop talking about it. Ugh. It just makes everyone squicky and makes her seem really self righteous. Even without her announcing it I knew her deal, yo.

  3. 3
    Helena Handbasket
    Posted March 10, 2013 at 1:41 am

    Loved nigella’s answer to Ludo!! I find it hard to believe that Ludo is a wimp in the bedroom though, aren’t the French pretty earthy when you get down to it??

    I also agree with you totally as far as your viewpoint on sensuality!!! I have to feel bad for someone if they’ve never felt any kind of passion in their life…sometimes the chase is more sexy than what it’s leading up to!

  4. 4
    Just Ducky
    Posted March 11, 2013 at 8:46 pm

    Yay me!!! Thanks for the shout out! And the always entertaining recap, of course.

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