You don’t have to be a tattooed back-packing forager but it helps. Masterchef: Professionals Thread 3

[Halsall]

Cooking doesn’t get any tougher….. me on a plate…..you all get the idea!

Those bloody sausages are so fat!

Heck yes

He has a way with a sausage

I've been trying to think who Mark looks like and I've come up with a young Brian Blessed.

DP is ranting about their tiny knives.

I think Mark and Anthony are my two top bets in this group. I like Ismael too. Polly is impressive but she’s the youngest and most inexperienced, she’s had a couple of close shaves when someone else was slightly worse than her. I think this round might be her last.

Bit like when you were a child and someone in your family would come back after a night out with a big bag of chips. Bliss.

Oooo love the sound of ismail - reminding me of mullagatawny

We used to go to an amazing Brazilian restaurant in Fulham years ago when we were young and OMG, the caipirinhas were amazing. Hopefully Caroline's Nonna has a good recipe for those with all that cachacha.

Yes small knives seem to have taken over from big ones.

All off that

Evening all! I’m watching but I’m about 5 minutes behind I think.

Love the pop-up challenge though.

I'm worried because there are a lot of people I like in this group.

My dad used to have proper Kentucky and I used to get a bit of the skin - proper KFC back I. The day

I’m beginning not to like polly…find her a bit immature and she keeps laughing all the time

gosh do I sound like a grump 😂

Heinz Mulligatawny Soup! Another childhood memory. We thought we were being so adventurous.

Toffee banana

I think we have a bottle of cachaça in the back of the cupboard - I’ll send you over a caipirinha @Halsall 😊

I remember those fritters but not sure I really liked them.

Agree - sorry all but Polly should have already gone

I used to get Banana Fritters from the local Chinese takeaway. It was covered in golden syrup and would probably give me palpitations now.

That would be superb but alas, I don’t drink alcohol any more! 😭 (damn you, migraines)

Ooh, jalapeño cornbread, yum!

I do love banana fritters drenched in syrup

Love cornbread.
Made Ottolenghi's cheese and chilli one last week.