I love sauces ---all kinds of sauces.

Have a great night everyone (who doesn't blanketly make fun of southerns).

I love southerners---have many friends and family from the south. But you cannot appreciate the perfect spring day til you have endured a crappy northern winter. Used to live in Michigan's UP and when the weather got up to 45 degrees people were out sunbathing on the dorm roofs.

I wasn't trying to make fun. Sorry.

That's creepy KK

Beeeeeeeeyatch ....Inside joke..... shhhhhh.
Don't you have some crabs to get????.lol

Hey, I could never live in the north...don't know how you'll do it. I live down here on the very edge of our earth (the U.S.) almost fixin to fall in the Gulf of Mexico, and by the end of winter I feel like I'll never be warm again. Yee-haw!!! It's spring. BTW...don't know why BJ thought you were making fun...did not seem so to me. Happy Spring!

I lived in Rome New York, in fact my youngest brother was born there. My dad came home and asked my mom if she wanted to go to Rome........took him a week to tell her it wasn't Italy!!!

Have folks that live in Harlingen and my two boys live in Round Rock.

Well after we lived in Rome New York, we moved to Puerto Rico so mom was much happier. However when we went from Puerto Rico to Sault Ste. Marie Michigan----not so happy. Oh and it was in February-----NICE.

Tater, you're killing me!

LMAO! You wicked, wicked girl!

Oh, yes, indeed! The bennys will be on the boardwalk soon enough with their crazy flaming match-head spikey hair-don'ts. Shewwww!

I originally made mention of Mark's use of the charcoal grill and commented that time was lost is waiting for the briquets to turn white and the fact that temperature control is almost nonexistent. I deleted the latter comments from my post.

Our gas grill of 30 years finally bit the dust - the burners rusted out and fell apart in places. I went and bought a replacement gas grill. So what does the wife do? She continues to use the old grill with the inoperable burners but with charcoal briquets.

I wonder if production provided charcoal fluid to go along with the charcoal chimneys.

A loooooong tube steak Hello to you NiCi! Welcome to the boards.

I don't think that you are breaking any rules that I see so far. As long as you don't double-dip when you're eating chips you are A-OK with us!

I didn't introduced myself properly before NiCi, I am Maludi, I'm a regular poster here but lately my password has been giving me problems so I created another account as Mluv after what a dear friend of mine calls me. Please feel free to walk around, get yourself a drink and feel welcome to say anything related to TC, we love new posters. I have watched TC since season 1 and it helps me a little bit understand these people's convos sometimes. You'll enjoy the variety of "Gates" we have here! Please jump in anytime!

Ryan looks good as long as he doesn't open his mouth. He said way too many blunders that made him unnattractive.

YEP! That was the only thing that bothered me! "Keep your mouth shut, unless.....!" lol!!

Us 'southeners' usually forget to watch out for the heating temperature, as we like it really hot!

Here in NOLA, we have wonderful springs. The trees are blooming, My flower bed is lushious and the weather has been a little crazy lately but all in all we have had the most fabulous spring! South, go figure eh?

I like smoked sausages myself...hot and steamy...and don't get me started on Buns!!!

Well, let's say two of the best. Some other names pop into my mind, like Denzel, James Woods, Spacey, DeNiro, Pacino, Freeman, Braugher, Whitaker, etc.

There's been so much talk about the sanitary practices this season that I thought I'd chime in. First, just as an aside to those who have questioned why Richard wasn't called out or dressed down, remember: we saw that, the judges didn't.

But the main reason I'm posting is to do a little 'reassurance'. While there are a lot of things that go on in a commercial kitchen that might give one pause, using the stirring spoon to taste doesn't happen that often. For one thing, those huge. over-size spoons are too unwieldy and hot. Most of the time we'll grab a teaspoon that's drying outside the dishwasher and use that, then throw it into the dirty rack. Also, while some chefs might 'tap' a sauce or soup to check temperature or taste, they don't stir with it; nothing is coming off the finger into the sauce, the sauce is sticking to the finger. Besides, with the number of times a chef washes his/her hands during prep, the finger might be the cleanest thing in the kitchen.

Frankly, I'd worry more about the 'kitchen flunkie' who put the sheet pan of defrosting chicken parts on the speed rack above the ramekins of creme brulee.

I had an aunt who lived in Little Marais, MN, alongside Lake Superior. Our family was visiting and we all took a drive up North Shore Drive. As we crossed into Canada, my aunt urgently told my dad that he had to drive on the left, as it was under British driving laws. My dad said "What? That's not right" at the same time he started to swerve into the left lane.

We all busted out laughing.

My dad was a pretty hard guy to get one by, but my aunt got him that day.

You needn't refrain if you're anal retentive. But contemplate this warning I heard most recently on "ER": "EXIT ONLY!"

That's too funny!! And I've been to Paris and Cairo . . . but they're both in Illinois.

The sad thing is that my grandmother would find it amusing - she is a hoot!

No grilling, but I think you can sous-vide it and allow the bag to leave tread marks. However, it might be mushy . . . but probably just as pink as Richard's . . . salmon, that is.

Oh my, It is great to see that the late night crew on this board is a bit sassy - What fun!

Some folks, responding to Padma's and others' blogs mentioned Mark double-dipping. I missed that. But anyway, they said he should have been given PYKAG for that. Well, Richard did the same thing when he was making his tacos. I know it was a QF, but he won and thereby got immunity. So, maybe he should have been disqualified . . . like Andrew was on the 5-ingredient QF when he used 6 ingredients. Hmmmmmmmm!

Welcome, NiCi! Enjoy!!

Yep, I think all double-dipper cheftestants should be DQed, it grosses me out. My motto is; If I choose to kiss you that is one thing, otherwise keep your saliva to yourself! (I know it probably happens more than we want to admit in the real world, but I choose to remain in denial about it, I don't care to see it on national TV - the double-dipping part that is!)!

Are you SURE you would have enjoyed her food more? Maybe if you ordered the lasagne... I don't even want to think about the mushrooms! (Now THOSE you would not have to wait years to laugh about !)

That would have been a hit!!

I still don't get what happened to her. She doesn't have enough onions or peppers, yet invites diners to come back for seconds.

So BY THE TIME THE JUDGES GET THERE, she's out of both onions and peppers, they get a dried out sausage with no accoutrements that could have "juiced up" the sandwich, but she's got two homemade sauces . . . and Tom and Gail said she was having a bad day!

And how's she supposed to make that kind of sausage . . . which requires casing? She's supposed to be a butcher now, too? The sausage Richard made was a patty and included a couple meats. I can do that!

I'm just baffled by the last two weeks . . . I've read all the blogs and the board. Some of it makes sense, some of it doesn't. I'm just confused and cornmuffinflummoxed.

But it was entertaining to see him describe Mark's movie suggestions . . . open wide, just some noise comes out. They showed that twice. I guess the producers/editors liked it.

That could be . . . but I've got places to go and people to see . . . everything for you and me.

We'll call that fair . . . pale. I think Erik's like that, too -- corndogs and all.

Ahem...Excuse me!!!???... ...lol... ...

I drink beer, lots of it...In fact I've just discovered a "new" one called Delirium Tremens/Delirium Nocturnum...It's a Belgin, ale...Lots of flavor...I also totally enjoy Samuel Adams' Cream Stout, and SA's Honey Porter...Boston Lager not so much...Do like SA's Winter Lager...
I don't play any sport...I was gymnast in high school...But I love going to LIVE sporting events...Not so much televised(Although just the other day I was watchin' the Cub's game at my local Appleby's-and met a REALLY hot dude Cort)Appleby's as a cruising spot huuuummmm...(note to self)...
My fave sporting event is by far the Olympics(Summer/Winter don't matter)yeah I find the male athletes hot...But I also love the pagentry(of course)and the competition...And I will admit to a wide streak of "nationalism"...I like hearin' the "Star Spangled Banner" a lot...

HEY BJ's MINE... ...

Relax my true love NOBODY could take your place... ...

I'm touched... ...No really...I also got to hear a really great piece of music, Eric Whitacre's, When David Heard...A choral interpritation of II Samuel, 18:33-"When David, heard that Absalom, was slain he went up into his chamber over the gate and wept, my son, my son O Absalom my son, would God I had died for thee!...
(Eric is like totally HOT...)
not an easypiece tolisten to...It was written for the conductor Ronald Staheil, on the anniverssary of his(Ronald Stahiel's)own sons death...Arsis CD 147...
Interesting how Whitacre, whilest not religous(his own declaration)writes some of the most religious music out there...
And I bought a "new" car-new to me anyway...A '93 Buick,
Regal(perfect for a "queen")...Metalic grey...Power everything...

No EJACULATION is the only thing men can't fake...I've "faked" LOTS of orgasams... ...

Sorry to all my Jewish, friends...I thought Passover, was a long time ago...Usually Easter, and Passover fall around the same time...So now's the time I should be makin' "lamb" and "latkeys"...

Oh Hai gize, Im just a little bit disappointed in the fact that Ryan was given the knife up the sphincter, in that we no longer have any "dull" ones to make fun of. I almost died when he said he was a metro-sexual. All I could do was to picture him in his Pete Puma in drag.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF2erYQWIOs

Ryan- I wish you all the best in future endeavors. Kudos to you for realizing that "you aren't the sh!t."

Disclaimer for the dumbasses who might try to correct me: Of course I do realize that metrosexuals & drag queens are different.

Uuuuuh.... I'm thinking noooo. Because the bbb is the boss, and the boss don't like to be bossed around.

Nice try... thanks.... and do play again.

I have another question. How come a lot of these dudes haven't been to a tailgate party? I've been to plenty & I'm not even a huge football fan. But I've been to my share. But all you need to be is any kind of sports fan (baseball) or a fan of music (have been to plenty of tailgates at concerts.)

WTF??? Have these guys been living in some kind weird time-warp bubble or what?