Over recent years I stopped watching a lot of reality television, I used to enjoy Survivor and The Amazing Race for numerous reasons that I won’t bother going into here but I bored of them after a while and pretty much swore off them (this is not an opening for you reality TV snobs to spit your bile everywhere – we know that a lot of reality TV is absolute trash so no need to act superior about it).
Tracey and I have however been watching MasterChef Australia, which for my international readership that might not know of it, is a cooking show where amateur chefs compete in cooking challenges etc.
I admit the show has sucked me in, we have favourites and of course villains but the best part of the show isn’t even on the show!
You see Tracey and I were eating really poorly, same meals over and over, really poor processed junk, yes even vegetarians can eat badly! Now after watching MasterChef we’ve been encouraged to plan out our meals and eat better, the dessert above is a prime example of this, double choc brownie with double cream and strawberries. Yeah sure it’s probably not healthy but damn it tastes nice and it’s a lot better than some chocolate bar for dessert!
Two other meals that I’ve done over the last two nights:
That’s Sweet potato frittata with tomato salsa – everything from scratch including the salsa (thank you chef Ramsey).
The other meal (tonight’s) was a spiced lentil soup served with a simple flat bread, again everything was made from scratch and I even got to use my coriander that Baxter has been guarding.
I think one of the smartest moves of the show was to put it on at dinner time, so for the last couple of weeks when we had pizza over and over again there was natural jealousy of what they were making on television. I’ve always loved cooking and yet just haven’t been making the time for it. It’s also been fun watching people’s reactions on Twitter.
Now to open my comic book themed restaurant! (G’nort garden salads?)
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