@ppeat (but maybe some other Mnetters could give Chris the clicks as I am not sure whether I should reproduce his blog here. That said I have posted his links on MN for years now so hopefully he will have had clicks from that. I have no idea how the internet works what is Jen doing with the internet 
but I think clicks are important.
Anyhoo - here is that column and for newbies here are his main links
twitter.com/Chrisrubery?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Well worth following him on twitter for Eurovision alone.
monkseal.wordpress.com/
All Strictly blogs here and his quiz (I am struggling with Q1 if anyone wants to give me a clue dammit!)
Monkseal's AJ masterchef recap
The Intro : AJ is introduced by saying “I’m very competitive, if you don’t win, what’s the point?” which…I’m sure Claudia and Mollie will be very pleased to hear.
The Invention Test : Faced down with a pallet of trout, pork, cauliflower, beetroot, raspberries and white chocolate, and asked to create a dish from scratch, AJ spends about 90% of his time perfecting a butternut and sweet potato puree and then realises at the last minute that it probably should go on something, because we’re not in the avant garde restaurant round just yet, a puree is not a full meal, so he hacks indifferently at a trout and flash-fries it and roasts three (3) small cauliflower florets as accompaniment. Mercifully it all comes out ok, although his efforts are somewhat overshadowed by Stella Parton singing a song about shagging a pig thief and producing perfect down home mountain cuisine.
The Professional Kitchen : Look, the Professional Kitchen round is boring, what can I say? AJ is asked to cook steak and chips with bearnaise sauce. Despite that sounding like one of the more simple assignments, AJ is immediately overwhelmed by the amount of meat flying at his face, and spends most of the service wailing buried under a mound of chips. The clue was there from the off that he might struggle, given that his most salient initial worry was about “crucifying” the steaks, which would certainly have been an interesting way of serving them yes.
The Signature Round : Despite existing in the same heat as Clara Amfo, who in the first round managed to serve a bowl consisting 90% of raspberries and chocolate buttons and…brown sticky lumps, AJ decides to go for broke, and covers his entire bench with ingredients, utensils, and the supporting cast of the movie Gandhi with the end goal of producing Masterchef standards, scallops and black pudding in a pea puree (and a garnish of seven (7) peas) and basil encrusted lamb rack with fondant potato, carrots, parsnip puree and a raspberry and red wine jus. Other than the scallops being underdone, it’s all fine, but again, he’s in the same heat as Clara Amfo, who serves up a plate of red water with raw celery and overdone prawns bobbing in it, and some peaches that have been blowtorched to death and buried under an entire carton of sour cream that’s barely even been stirred, so maybe he should have kept his best tricks back for a rainier day.
Day Two
The Wall Round : This is the fourth heat now, and I’m still not sure what the point of this round is. AJ formed a team with Lisa Maxwell (that one from The Bill that’s not La Roux’s mum) and they were tasked as a pair with creating two separate poached pears with honeycomb, creme anglais, and a chocolate drizzle that looked alike and were…both good? Basically it’s like if Tom Daley did synchro diving with a partition up and also with a middle-aged actress screeching bad innuendo about pears at him. In the finale analysis, AJ’s pear isn’t cored and his honeycomb is a disaster, but he produces a lovely thick creamy custard right at the climax, so the judges forgive him. (Also AJ gets hilariously flustered and defensive because nobody can believe he’s never eaten a pear before bless him).
The Mass Catering Challenge : Still with her from The Bill, AJ is tasked with doing mass catering for a whole legion of sexy vets. After an initial frantic period where both AJ and Lisa seem to think that they need to prepare each course one after the other like they’re doing a massive dinner party with three hours between courses, he gets peeled off to do dessert, a process that seems chiefly to involve throwing dates in the bin over and over and over and over again. Fortunately for AJ said dessert comes off a creditable second best of the three dishes, ahead of their fish main that Lisa wantonly overcooks. Sadly the point of the whole round is undermined slightly by the clear winner being a bunch of vegetables and pasta lobbed in a dish and baked whilst Lisa throws cheese at it and incants “SEXY SEXY SEXY CHEESE” over. Doesn’t give you much faith in the process.
The Celebrity Guest Stars Round Finally a round that AJ nails, as he impresses previous finalist Andi Peters (oooh look who turned up when there’s a twink on!), previous winner Alexis Conran (I think he’s a…magician?), and previous mutters into napkin Richard Coles with perfectly cooked sea-bass and a very strong chocolate orange pudding. His rice isn’t cooked and his “pepper sauce” just tastes of sugar, but elsewhere Lisa Maxwell can’t be arsed to clean her carrots, Stella Parton goes bonkers and just covers everything in bourbon and sets it on fire and Jay Blades…well I’ve not mentioned Jay Blades thus far, but rest assured he was never getting through. And so AJ SAILS ONWARDS TO THE SEMIS, OFFICIALLY THE MOST SUCCESFUL STRICTLY PRO ON CELEBRITY MASTERCHEF EVAH. (Craig Revel Horwood still made a final though so…still work to do)