Masterchef 2019

[Mistyavalon]

Gary helps Nushie open a jar
She is making and Armenian version of baklava and ice cream
Larissa is making a lemon parfait with black olives

Tim is rethinking his idea
Simon is making parsnips braised in coffee....gross
Nicole is doing a goats cheese parfait
Larissa has never had a black olive dessert and hopes they dont think she is crazy
Anushka feels no control over her cook as it all relies on time now
only 7 mins left, will her baklava be ready in time?
Tessa is making tomatoes in many different ways

Simon wants people to think outside the box with his dish
nushie stop watching the oven...... it wont make it cook quicker
she has turned the temperature up

3mins left
larissa has her olive thing out of the oven and she is plating

[Mistyavalon]

No one is quite sure what her dessert is!

Simon is plating now

Tessa says her mum would be proud of her dish
1 min to go
Larissa is in the garden
Tim is happy with his pesto and flavours
Anushka is pulling the baklavas out of the oven she knew she might not be able to finish the dish

1st up is Tessa
She definitely celebrated the tomatoes. A pretty dish
super delicious lots of different flavours of the tomato

Tim now Smell of basil is heady
Flavour bomb in every single way Pesto is wow
Garys mouth is still watering, delicious food
Nicole is next up her parfait is very solid Lots of clever elements
but you ripped the pleasure of goats cheese away she lost the flavour of the goats cheese

Nicky Whelan Anushka up now, she looks a bit defeated
Not Garys favourite

[Mistyavalon]

No one is quite sure what her dessert is!

Simon is plating now

Tessa says her mum would be proud of her dish
1 min to go
Larissa is in the garden
Tim is happy with his pesto and flavours
Anushka is pulling the baklavas out of the oven she knew she might not be able to finish the dish

1st up is Tessa
She definitely celebrated the tomatoes. A pretty dish
super delicious lots of different flavours of the tomato

Tim now Smell of basil is heady
Flavour bomb in every single way Pesto is wow
Garys mouth is still watering, delicious food
Nicole is next up her parfait is very solid Lots of clever elements
but you ripped the pleasure of goats cheese away she lost the flavour of the goats cheese

Anushka up now, she looks a bit defeated
Not Garys favourite he would like a tub of them at home though
she hasnt elevated the dish to MC level dont try and make a 2hr dish in 1hr

[Mistyavalon]

Larissa now,, the olive dessert you can see gutzy is intrigued .. he loves the twists..what is it lemon parfait crushed olive madelaine and more
It makes the judges feel warm in side careful and considered when you put it all together: just heaven
a roller coaster ride of flavours a clever dish gutzy said the best dish you have put up

Simon now
George says next is handsome, Tim says which one ha ha simon dresses the dish .....
Simons dish is interesting
A bit of a moment for the judges says Gutzy
Look what happened, you have developed into an incredible cook
delicious and interesting - spot on
George would serve it in one of his restaurants tomorrow

One dish had the lot creative delicious Larissa wins the round woo hoo

Invention test is cooking with ingredients chosen by the judges
They picked what they think is a brilliant ingredient for each contestant
Anuhska has been given Quail
Nicole gets Morten bay bugs
Tim has bone marrow
Tessa - John Dory
and finally Simon gets cauliflower
he is excited by this
best 2 dishes are safe
bottom 3 go into the pressure test
60 mins lets go

Cauliflower cheese by Simon, this isnt going to be your standard i bet,,,mmm hub is making cauli and broc cheese... I said try adding some dijon to it... cant wait to try it
bone marrow crumb from Tim with brussel sprouts.

Nicole loves the bugs she is making angalotti and a bisque Gary questions the scallops.... gutzy drags him away

Nushie is doing quail in the water bath..poor Nushie....but she likes cooking Japanese... so she does.... gutzy sees miso an loos exceited so does Gary

[Mistyavalon]

30mins to go in the last invention test of the year
Tim taking inspiration from Curtis Stone he is making crackers too

Pan fried Dory for tessa
lots of butter in her potato puree
think about your mash and the burnt butter sauce.....mmmmmm

Simon has burnt some of his cauliflower on the hibachi

15 mins to go

Anushka always has so much on her bench...she pushes to get stuff done and nearly hurts herself with the blender

tessa pulled back on the butter in her potatoes pity her fish is going on with 10mins left to go

Nicole is struggling with her angolotti she is stressed 5mins to go and she is still making her pasta Nicole is abandoning the scallops
Nicole has to go with the pasta she has but she isnt happy
3 mins to go

plating up time

Tims cracker looks good
1minute left

Simon is happy with his flavours

Nushie left it till the last minute to plate again...time is not her friend

Time is up

Nushie didnt get everything on the plate...Poor Nushie

[Mistyavalon]

First up is Simon
That is nothing like cauliflower cheese i have ever seen,,, looks like aplate of crumbs
A lovely dish of bits says Cravat
tasty and clever
But some bits taste like burnt smoke says Gary
fine details will be the difference between winning and not

Nicole next
She doesnt look happy
George looks confused
You struggled with the pasta as it isn't great
its not a disaster dish but it isnt the Nicole we know
filling gets lost below the tough pasta she is disappointed in herself

[Mistyavalon]

Nushie next they like the dish

Tim now
Marrow and the crumbs delicious but biscuit is not good
Tim and Nicole will be in the bottom 3
Tessa now
looks good
Is there too much butter? no
rock solid cooking- perfection on a plate
Her best dish ever in the competition
Tessa = Safe
Tim and Nicole = Elimination
Who out of Anushka and Simon will join who?
Simon is also safe
Anushka, Tim and Nicole will cook in the pressure test tomorrow night
Pressure test will be epic

[Mistyavalon]

Nushie next they like the dish

Tim now
Marrow and the crumbs delicious but biscuit is not good
Tim and Nicole will be in the bottom 3
Tessa now
looks good
Is there too much butter? no
rock solid cooking- perfection on a plate
Her best dish ever in the competition
Tessa = Safe
Tim and Nicole = Elimination
Who out of Anushka and Simon will join who?
Simon is also safe
Anushka, Tim and Nicole will cook in the pressure test tomorrow night
Pressure test will be epic

[Mistyavalon]

I4hrs to recreate a lambinton from the horror pressure test Ashley Adam Watts from Dinner by Heston. Personally it doesnt do a thing for me... choc biscuit base choc ganache a whole pile of red stuff
Tim, Nicole and Nushie to cook

Nicole drawing what the dessert looks like
Biscuit base first
Tim stuffed up the first element instead of doing it again he is adding the cocoa powder to what he has
Nushie is going ok right now , working on her raspberry centre
30mins down, should be on the coconut by now

Tim is behind already
He has screwed up the raspberry insert too
He forgot his sugar - Pressure is getting to him
He knows he is behind Nicole so it is getting to him more

Nicole is working on her coating for the inserts
Nushie is running behind now too
Her coconut it almost ready to cook
Nicole is storming ahead

[Mistyavalon]

Onto her ganache now

If they dont have time to assemble they could come unstuck there
Tims biscuit is done
His inserts are freezing and his coconut stuff is cooling
2.5hrs to go and he is onto his ganache

Nushie's coconut is out of the oven
She is cutting her biscuit base...some parts are thicker than others
Nushie is filing some.of the thickness off her biscuit

Tim still working on his ganache He says a good recipe, it tastes good
He knows he needs to start assembling and feels he has caught up a bit
Nushie is behind only just working on her ganache
She is stressing out

Nicole is so focused, she has the rum mousse on and set already
Torching it to get it from the mould Comes out nice and cleanly
Rolling it in the coconut and spraying it
She is too close and it's blowing the mousse and coconut off