It's Ken Doll vs Chucky. Masterchef The Professionals Thread 4

[Halsall]

Let battle commence.

Love that we have a literary subthread ❤️
pencil share your pain re Bill James later work, plus he or his agent hasnt twigged about producing decent audiobooks - just a smattering of titles available which is such a shame.
I will as ever commend Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May series which fill me full of the utmost, utmost joy and are beyond magical as audiobooks. Sod all in them about cooking so cannot make this a clever tie-in post 😀

Bill James sporting-looking books?

No Footle - he is some yankee soundy-likee - the Harpur and Iles police ones.
Whatashower - never heard of C Fowler but a quick Kindle search shows he is quite prolific so will give him a go. He has also recently published a book about forgotten or overlooked authors which looks quite interesting. do you get your audiobooks from audible/amazon prime?

pencil audible 😀Used to be a prolific real book reader but am addicted - as can listen while doing something else now!

Phew! I might have ploughed through acres of baseball waiting for sudden enlightenment

I have noted down Bill James (novelist) as something for my Dad to read. He'll be pleased.

I'm making muesli right now and feeling very cheffy. It smells bloody delicious. I should bottle that smell.

My muesli is pretty nice but it doesn't smell particularly alluring. What do you put in there?

I'm not sure what it is that smells so good. Maybe the honey or the coconut. Though I do love the smell of toasted oats.

Expect me for breakfast.

There's plenty for everyone.

Do the professionals have a mass catering round? I think no?

Don't they just get shipped off to some wanky eatery in the Hindu Kush or something, where all of the billionaire guests arrive by private, globally warming, helicopter and eat about 11 calories worth of endangered species (weighed to the gram, and measured to the millimetre) artfully arranged on a sheet of Etruscan marble and decorated with a single caper, three minute slivers of high-carbon-footprint vegetables and a tenth of a teaspoon of unicorn jus?

And pay the equivalent of the GDP of a small independent African state for the privilege?

Oh, I do that for dinner every Friday, Schaden

All in a day's work for the aspiring Masterchef winner

Oh, I know you do Halsall

'Tis only to be expected . . .

. . . but the rest of us open a tin of soup and scoff it with half a loaf of sliced white in front of the telly.

Never was a crapper programme so hotly anticipated. Ha. Chicken for me. Got that old person's craving for a hot meal. I see from the Waitrose Dec. Issue that since William Sitwell has been fired, the acting editor is Jessica Gunn of whom I know nothing. Was WS connected to those same name stalwarts of The Bloomsbury set?

Ha! Mince and tatties here! When in Scotland .......😀

Pencil apparently William Sitwell is the great nephew of Dame Edith and Sir Osbert Sitwell and grandson of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell.

Means nought to me philistine but Sacheverell should appear in the baby names threads.

Something chickeney from Simply Cook for me.

We had pizza and sausage rolls because DH is out tonight and I can't be arsed. Currently scoffing a bag of peanut M&Ms while the children finish their meal in front of the TV. I'm hiding out in the dining room with the puppy. #slummymummy #blessed

thanks for the research fourq. somehow I am not surprised.

Evening all! Pleased to have caught up on the previous episodes and lolled appropriately at all the comments on here

Bit sad the skills test is gone. I don’t like the round where they bring in a load of Posh Boring People who aren’t culinary experts in any way and make them sit in a line and then criticise the weird small posh portions of whatever is being served

That’s tonight isn’t it?

Fourque , Sacheverell is probably pronounced Satchel. Satchmo to his (few) friends.

I'm on a train and cannot take part but I will be reading along.