1 step beyond

It appears we has entered the kingdom of snark!

Weh-hell now my son-in-law is a peace officer in a police department for a smaller town on the near south side of Chicago. He is also SWAT trained and doesn't afraid of anything. So I will hereby bury my unofficial feelings about Chicago's finest (cough.. hack...aggg...hooooah...cough) and just smile.

No really peace officers are the salt of the Earth and where would society be without the blue knights. Eh? Huh? Answer me!

The only thing you got to see tonight that was uniquely Chicago was the checkerboard band around the base of our officers' hats. They do that in Britain and we do it here. Now aren't you just ready to croak? See a Chicago cop hat and die. Who needs Paris...

OK enough of that. It's going NOwhere - just like Top Chef's display of Chicago. Like I said - may as well be in freakin' Milwaukee.
SPOILER ALERT FFS!

Very very very smart. Dale and Stephanie really made the perfect choices to fulfill the idea of healthy and satisfying. Dale substituted bison for beef (very low on fat content and fools the rather beefy members of the academy into thinking they can has burger). But as an advocate of antelope, kangaroo, ostrich and goat (all exceptionally low fat and I LOVE them all!), I really thought using a low-fat red meat was pretty smart for the circumstances. Equally smart was Stephanie's hearty soup. Soup - in this town and many other colder climates - is certainly seen as "hearty" and filling. PLUS if you season it right you can chock it full of good-for-you stuff that always tastes better in a soup and - again minding the seasoning - you don't have to pour a mountain of salt in it either. So Dale wins. And I have to say, as much as I wish he'd grow up, he was a good boy tonight. And Stephanie was in the final best again! I think it's cute how, even after all this time, she still gets nervous in the Quickfires. Anyway top group again - Woo. Did I tell you she used to have a restaurant in my...

ahem

They lined up Andrew, Spike and Lisa and MrsRW and I were pretty much saying "oh just shoot them all out of a cannon and let's go." Lisa is incompetent. Sorry to say. WAHing about somebody moving her flame setting? SABOTAGE! You bastards...! If I'm not mistaken this is the second time she said what she was going to do and... basically didn't do it. Yeah that was no stir fry.

And Andrew - forgetting the grain and also that we are TALKING ABOUT CHICAGO POLICE MEN DUDE - serves up sushi. Or at least a kind of sushi. That was a mess. Chicago cops and sushi go together like a tailgate party and a delicate California seasonal mix. And they already sent someone home for that misread.

Then Spike. Well, I saw him go into Whole Foods and say "I'm basically going to screw these people and take all the standard stuff out of their hands." Then, when nailed among the bottom three goes "no, I chose those for me." What a weasel. WEA-sel. You little, big-talkin' hat-wearin punky weasel. WEASEL! A chicken sandwich from McDonald's looked better than his no brainer.

When they were standing there it was like "Attitude Row." None of them ever believed the judges knew better on anything. They argued and bitched and motivated and excused and WAHHH'd like they always have. Get rid of them all, we said. But no - Andrew goes, if only because he didn't really duplicate the challenge.

Looks like the Final Four will be Stephanie, Richard, Dale and Antonia. Antonia's stock has been rising in my estimation. I still can't get over Dale's infantile recidivism. Richard cooks stuff I'd love to try and has been a grown-up throughout. And Stephanie used to have a restaurant in my old neighb...

...is also good.

We're gettin' there!

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