Masterchef 5...Nonna's pasta.... Ballontine......and John's Bon Marche trousers!!

[Pebbledashery]

Here we go chuffians

Anaemic looking sweetbreads.

a Persian stew that no one has heard of

Coming late to the thread and dodgy connection, but that is one of my very favourite things. I am not Persian. I am a fat and aging Sarf Lunnoner with access, in normal times, to ingredients
It really is delicious.

Not even pastry can make sweetbreads attractive

That Botox is glinting under the light

The desert looks easier than the other two dishes - or am I talking sweetbreads?

I wouldn't eat sweetbreads if you paid me.

Sweetbreas expensive? When living in a garret just off Portobello Road with my 1st husband we had them regularly as they were so cheap (1978).

@awesomekillick stop talking sweetbreads 🤣

Link recipe weevils please

An interesting challenge for Mike. Desserts are a very different proposition and he needs a completely different skill set here.

Has Mike ever needed to cook a dessert before? I can’t imagine anyone would ever have room for pudding after one of his multi meat feasts.

Oh dear, never cooked veal, never cooked sweetbreads. Eek.

Mike probably wants to throw a pork chop into that dessert.

Me neither, Pebble. My Dad is a meat inspector and the way the talks about them is very offputting.

Come on, Alexina. Don't mess up.

@GrouchyKiwi meat inspector!! Bet thats an interesting job?

@EsmaCannonball

There are doctors who've heard the words 'bone marrow' less than the average Masterchef viewer this year.

Bone marrow has been this seasons nasturtium leaves. Both equally disgusting.

Tom really needs a better primer.

It's quite eery how quiet the kitchen is, makes me quite sad (and excited for things opening up again).

Pancreas pie

Ugh no thanks!

[quote Pebbledashery]@GrouchyKiwi meat inspector!! Bet thats an interesting job?[/quote]
He definitely has stories.

I wouldn't cope in a service kitchen. I'd literally fall apart.

Blimey, just looked at our local posh gaff. £205 per person! Wine £115 per person. Fuck me!
Mike can’t be serious if he thinks “that’ll do” will do.

Why is fine dining basically eating the most disgusting parts of meat.. 🤮🤮

Mike is making a mess

Michel is lovely.