masterchefs poh & julie plus adriano zumbo's auction
SPOILER ALERT! don’t scroll down if you don’t already know the winner of masterchef!
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being the host of an online realtime masterchef chat for the past coupla months has taken its toll with dinner invitations turned down and late dinners for the boy who jokes that i spend too much time talking to my imaginary friends heh but the masterchef JOURNEY has finally come to an end. poh. julie. my 2 fav girls in the masterchef competition made it thru to finals. and oh boy was i happy about that! i was devastated when poh lost her taste test challenge to sam and so i turned my support to julie whose unbridled enthusiasm and honesty won me over.
if anyone noticed the Daily Telegraph’s news website so thoughtfully released the results before the conclusion of the masterchef ep even finished! and they released the WRONG article! at 8.57pm an article titled poh’s winning recipe was posted causing an immediate howl of outrage on twitter. the post was eventually taken down and a new post on julie’s win was replaced. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. good work daily telegraph. NOT. the article on poh supposedly winning can be found here followed by julie’s win article here. enjoy.
the question i have been asked so much this week was “who do you think will win?’ followed by ‘who do you think SHOULD win?’ and it annoyed me to bits because i was so emotionally invested in these two ‘characters’. both had flaws in their stress or time management, injuries and just random brain explosions that was both endearing and frustrating.
and so the final episode of masterchef aired and the first challenge- a taste test that had more ‘suspenseful’ pauses than i could poke a stick at managed to eat up half an hour of the 2 hour show. the second challenge was an invention test where the core ingredient was a whole chicken. predictably poh went with hainan chicken rice causing all the malaysians in ‘straya to alternate between cheering and jeering. julie pretty much just copied her challenge with adrian richardson but it was pretty and i guess tasty. challenge three was a pressure test on matt moran’s sexy chocolate dessert which was the undoing for poh who decided not to follow the instructions. but man how sexy looking was the dessert. betcha aria will be booked out now with everyone ordering this dessert. julie wins with the judges giving her an awesome score of 36/40 and will receive the moolah plus the cookbook. poh gets offered a food styling job by curtis. congrats to all the contestants and hey if you guys are interested, masterchef aus have begun accepting applications for the next season here
and on the weekend there was a super last minute auction of the masterchef cakes at zumbo land. returning home from an afternoon of high tea, karen and i made a slight detour to adriano zumbo, knowing we most probably had missed the auction but hoping for a glimpse of everybody’s favourite pâtissier.
and glimpse we did! standing in the doorway of his cafe he notices our wide smiles and bulky dslrs and exclaims foodbloggers! hehe we catch up with lorraine who has been watching a photoshoot for the masterchef cookbook and mel who has organised for the photoshoot cakes to be auctioned off and over $1000 was raised for the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. by the time we have arrived the crowd has dispersed and zumbo smiles his oh so cheeky smile before whipping out a platter of tonka bean pannacotta with macarons. oh yes it was so very good.
bwahahaha ignore me im a little too happy looking here
