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RuPaul’s Drag Race 9

Trinity theking Duck Pancakes

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After nine grueling weeks of All Stars gag and goopery which saw the iconic Jasmine Masters herself freestyling a comedy routine and becoming the first boot, Farrah g’oooooohhhhhhhhing in ninth, Gia absolutely finishing in eighth – yep, dis happening – Valentina’s fantasy following her out the door before Naomi boldly felled Manila before the other half of Latrila, Latrice, followed her out the door – for the second time this season which only bears repeating for link purposes – leaving us a final four of Monique, Naomi, Monét and Trinity.

The Tuck, no longer a Taylor.

After the top four appeared on Ru and Michelle’s podcast, they were challenged with dropping a verse on Ru’s Super Queen before Todrick arrived to choreograph the live performance. The Queens then brought their All Stars Extravaganza to the mainstage and despite slaying the game, Naomi and Monique were cut ahead of the final lip sync.

Which ended with the gag of the season to end all gags of seasons – even besting the queens eliminating each other, Bebe – with Monét and Trinity both taking out the season and landing a spot in the Hall of Fame.

Full disclosure, I hated Trinity when the season 9 cast were released. Call it the cast photo or my judgemental nature, but I assumed that I would hate her and looked forward to her disappearing in the first few weeks. Then I saw her perform and week after week, she wore me down and by the time it came to lip sync for the crown, I desperately hoped that she would somehow take out victory.

While we all know how that ended, Trinity did win and fan and I was thrilled to see her come back to the competition and slay another season. And most importantly, finally snag herself a crown. So condragulations on your long overdue win, Trinity. I hope the Trinity theking Duck Pancakes honour your victory and keep you fed while locked in the Hall of Fame.

 

 

Delicate pancakes, melt in your mouth duck that packs a punch and some fresh cucumber? Sign me up, these babies are glorious.

Enjoy!

 

 

Trinity theking Duck Pancakes
Serves: 4.

Ingredients
1 tsp tamari
1 tsp Shaoxing wine
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp Chinese five spice
4 duck breasts, skin on, rinsed and thoroughly patted dry with a paper towel
1/2 cup plain flour
2 tablespoons cornflour
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons butter, melted
2 shallots, thinly sliced, plus extra for serving
sesame oil
1 cucumber, de-seeded and julienned
hoisin sauce, to serve

Method
Combine the tamari, shaoxing, salt and five spice in a bowl, and rub into the duck breasts. Leave skin side up on a plate and transfer to the fridge to marinate and leave the skin to dry out.

Flash forward to the next day and blitz the flour, cornflour, water, milk, egg and half the butter in a blender until smooth. Transfer to a jug and fold through the shallots. Cover and leave to rest for fifteen minutes.

To make the pancakes, brush some of the remaining butter in the skillet and pour a couple of tablespoons of batter in the skillet, spread to form a thin pancake and cook for a couple of minutes, flipping once. Repeat until done.

Preheat oven to 180C.

Bring a lug of oil to heat in a skillet and once scorching, place the duck breasts skin side down and cook for five-ten minutes, or until the fat renders. Flip the breasts and transfer to the oven for 5 minutes, or until cooked through. Remove from the oven and leave to rest for fifteen minutes.

To serve, transfer the duck to a cutting board and cut into thin slices. Place some duck, shallots and cucumber on the centre of a pancake, slather with hoisin and devour like a winner.

 

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BLTina

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Previously on All Stars the eliminated queens gooped everyone by returning to the Werk Room for another shot at the crown. Valentina too technically had another shot at the crown since Ru suspended All Stars rules before either Manila or Monet had the chance to take her out. It all started to make sense though – maybe – as Manila and Monet received immunity for the week while last week’s bottom four were forced to lip sync to the death with the four eliminated queens, with the winner of each staying slash returning to the competition and the loser sashaying away. Sadly try as they might, Jasmine, Farrah and a killer Gia lost their lip syncs, while Monique was gagged and gooped by Latrice who returned to the competition. Thankfully without eliminating Monique after Ru declared the lip sync a tie.

Back in the Werk Room Latrice and Monique celebrated their double win, despite the former disappointed she didn’t get revenge to go with her redemption. Everyone else was congratulating the girls on a job well down, while Monique was sad to have to put up with Latrice’s joy inspired ego speech. Thankfully Valentina cut her off to chastise Monet and Manila once again for destroying her fantasy by trying to ruin her fantasy. Seemingly unaware that there are still seven queens left in the competition and she needs to step up reality if she wants to make it to the end.

The queens returned the next day with Manila still giddy to have her girl back, while Latrice was nervous to become just another returning queen statistic by heading home this episode. Ru arrived to explain that this week the queens would be heading into the club world purse first by designing their own club night in teams, complete with entertainment and a signature cocktail. Feeling super generous, Ru tasked Latrice with pairing up the queens before joining the duo of her choice – Monet and Monique joined up, Trinity and Manila were a pair leaving Valentina and Naomi together. Obviously Latrice joined Trinity and Manila.

Naomi and Valentina got to work excited to combine their fun, fashion, fun, glam and youngness, though they seemed to struggle to figure out a theme with Valentina kinda echoing everything Naomi said … but they are weird and cute and I love it. Despite Naomi’s fears. Monique and Monet quickly settled on the Black Hole theme, where anything goes in a sci-fi fantasy complete with alien babies and slime. Rounding out the planning, Trinity noticed she and Manila both had yellow and black outfits, so suggested a bee theme. Which the three jumped on, motivated by the confidence of Manila thanks to her passion for graphic design.

The queens then moved to the warehouse where they would build said clubs, with Monique shocked that they would be required to paint themselves. Valentina was ready to paint and play in her panties, while Latrice struggled to get into her painting overalls and Monet and Monique tut-tutted as they focused on the task at hand. Though Monique isn’t painting to the word of the lord and Manila turned up with full blown schematics, so who is really going to slay? Particularly since Manila is working hard to get Latrice a win. Oh and Naomi is terrified about their showing, given Valentina has no interest in preparing anything and can only focus on the painting. And touring the other queens’ clubs.

Elimination day rolled around and the queens got down to preparing for their big openings, with Valentina anxious though trying to stay focused, Naomi shading her attention span and Monet thrilled about being in the presence of Susanne Bartsch. Valentina admitted that Naomi carried her during the competition, while Latrice was feeling super confident and locked forward to showing off her runway before talk turned to everyone being in the bottom. With everyone realising that Manila has never been up for elimination … and Trinity definitely thinks Valentina should go home.

Michelle and Carson were joined by my girl Rita Ora and Susanne Bartsch to tour the clubs, with Monique and Monet’s slaying with a killer script, sci-fi realness and the new pit crew member strutting the runway. We checked in on Club 96 – Club 96 – where Naomi was prepared though a little flat and Valentina was quirky and TBH it worked. Club 96. As did the repetition of Club 96. Club 96. Make no mistake, these two are in the bottom barring a major bee-mergency. Club 96. Not even the pit crew’s bulges could save it. Club 96. From the poster – strip spelling bee, ya’ll – it was obvious that the top would feature a combination of Trinity, Latrice and Manila. Latrice charmed the crowds, the pit crew had golden bulges, Trinity brought a tonne of puns and Manila played support to pump up her friends.

On the plastique fantastique runway Latrice stunned – literally, since it wasn’t bedazzled – in a bright gown that put the ball in ball gown. Latrice served fruit basket realness, Trinity looked like the hottest piece of gum, Naomi served disc realness, Valentina brought up barbie, Monet steamed up in a clear gladiator number and Monique monkeyed around in a Josephine Baker inspired banana gown. The judges loved everything Latrice did this week, particularly getting out of her comfort zone on the runway. Manila too received universal praise, however Michelle felt she went a bit OTT in the hosting. The judges loved Trinity’s looked and felt her performance was polished from start to finish. Everyone loved Naomi’s general look and the delivery of Club 96, verbally, though felt the hosting fell flat. Valentina’s outfit was read for filth by Michelle – maybe. She tried at least – while the club was praised for looking nice, though Valentina was read for not being prepared. Monet and Monique’s club received universal praise, with Monet congratulated for upping the runway game and Monique’s look read for falling flat on the runway but praised for the club. As such, Latrice and Trinity landed in the top two while Valentina and Naomi were up for elimination.

Back in the Werk Room Trinity and Latrice thanked Manila for elevating their performance and snatching them a win, with Trinity even giving her half of her prize. Latrice was really proud to finally get a win, while Valentina kinda felt like she was ready to go, not wanting to turn into Roxxxy, Chi Chi or Kennedy. Trinity and Naomi caught up, with Naomi nervous that Trinity and Valentina’s friendship will come in to play over the performance. Trinity felt that Naomi has just been there during the competition, while Naomi pushed the fact that she did most of the work. Meanwhile over with Latrice and Valentina, Valentina tried to stay strong though did tell Latrice to trust her gut. Which would play into my theory she wants to be euthanised. Naomi made sure that Latrice knew how much she desperately wants to stay, while Latrice was concerned that safe isn’t enough and she has a stronger bond with Valentina which made Naomi really nervous. Trinity explained that while she loves Valentina, she wants to be fair when making the decision and it sounds like Naomi put in more work in the challenge. Valentina then encouraged her to do the right thing … and Valentina is not in her fantasy anymore, right?

Latrice came ready to slay the lipsync while Trinity came ready to pull the men at the retirement centre. She then ripped off her robe and swung those old titties around like crazy, though it didn’t seem to make much sense. While Latrice hit every lyric, bounced Trinity out of the way and rolled across the runway. As such Latrice snatched victory and with a heavy heart, sent the delightfully wacky Valentina from the competition. Everyone’s favourite little coconut was obviously feeling her telenovela oats as she arrived backstage and fainted into my arms from the shock of being taken out of the competition despite creating the ultimate club, Club 96. Club 96. While I agreed she did create a wonderful space – Club 96 – it was probably her time, considering how strong everyone is … and she has a role in Rent Live to work on. With that, she perked up, we laughed and then smashed a BLTina or two.

 

 

While my relationship with the classic BLT started off soft in the early 00s – tomato and lettuce, vom! – I have well and truly warmed to this delightful little sandy-j. Sweet mayo, tangy mustard and salty bacon are the perfect accompaniment for the aforementioned, formerly unloved fruit and veg. Plus – who doesn’t love bread?

Enjoy!

 

 

BLTina
Serves: 2.

Ingredients
6 rashers streaky bacon
4 slices crusty bread
2 tbsp cup Shayonnaise Swain
1 tbsp dijon mustard
1 tomato, sliced
salt and pepper, to taste
½-1 cup butter lettuce leaves
fries, to serve

Method
Heat a skillet over medium heat and once nice and hot, add the bacon. Cook until nice and crispy before transferring to kitchen paper to drain.

To assemble, toast the bread and smear two slices with mayo and the other two with mustard. Top the mustard side with tomato and a whack of salt and pepper, followed by 3 rashers of bacon and a few lettuce leaves.

Close the sandy, serve with fries and devour.

 

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Farraspberry Macaroans

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Previously on All Stars ten of the most sickening queens returned to the werk room for another – another another for Latrice and Manila – shot at the crown. Everyone was playing to win, except for Gia who was here for causing drama and TBH I live for it. In any event, Monique and Trinity took out victory despite Latrice and Gia’s arguably more showy variety show performances, whilst Farrah landed in the bottom with Jasmine who tragically became the first boot after failing to prepare for her standup routine.

The queens ruturned to the week room, heartbroken to be missing their jush and fully aware that the competition is well and truly on. Trinity warned her fellow queens that eliminating each other is harder than she thought, though Monet countered that that is the game and she is ready to play. After reflecting on the iconic nature of her hair in the rafters, Monique admitted that she too would have eliminated Jasmine if she had one the lip sync. Mainly because she felt she was eliminated before her time in season 10 and wanted to extend some grace to Farrah. Gia however felt it was just delaying the inevitable. Obviously.

The next day the queens arrived where Valentina was serving an interesting outfit, though it ended in her flashing her cakes … so yeah. Tragically before anymore nudity could occur Ru arrived to announce this week’s challenge where the queens would be split into two teams to audition for his new supergroup Henny. As last week’s victors Trinity and Monique got to select their teams, with Trinity snatching Valentina, Latrice and Manilla, while Monique picked Monet, Naomi and Farrah, which sent Gia to Trinity’s team by default. Much to her chagrin.

After bequeathing songs to each group – Don’t Funk It Up and Er’rybody Say Love, respectively – Ru dropped the most important and downright iconic information on the queens. You see, their bands would not just be dedicated to Queen Henny Stacy Layne Matthews, but would be joined on stage with Henny herself. With Manilla far more excited than you would expect after the Heathers and Boogers days.

They broke up into their groups with Farrah dazzling her teammates with a twerk and the promise not to cry. Meanwhile over at Team Trinity she and Valentina were hoping to channel Bebe’s Jungle Kitty verse, while Gia was hoping to include an inspirational message in her verse and Manilla wanted to motivate people to power ahead which sounds boring. What isn’t boring however is the fact Gia shared that she and Farrah had a huge fight prior to arriving in All Stars as Farrah tried to repair a relationship between Gia and a friend … super drunk, while Gia was working. While her teammates encouraged her to use their time in the week room to repair their relationship, Gia was happy to see her go out ASAP.

Team Monique recorded their song first, with Monique proudly crowning herself the best singer in their team. Though Monet was concerned as while Monique has grand visions, the executions generally suck. That being said, she seemed to nail it as did Monet who rapped rather than went with opera. While Farrah wasn’t the best singing, we did learn she worked as a female phone sex operator and I live for it. And am kinda wet, which worries me that I’m straight.

Oh and we saw nothing from Naomi.

Gia kicked things off for Team Trinity, not wanting to do warm-ups and calling people hags whilst missing more notes than Monet last week. Valentina has come back with a delicious brand of crazy akin to Charo and slayed her recording, while Manilla seemed like the girl who was bullied into choir by her alpha friend. We saw nothing of Latrice and Trinity and I’m pretty sad about it.

Henny returned to work on choreography with each team, with Naomi fangirling over her as Monique taught everyone their moves. Well tried, Farrah was way too focused on the fact that there was choreography rather than a series of hair flicks which makes her plea to simplify the moves seem petty, rather than valid. Team Trinity didn’t seem to be doing much better with Gia trying to take control, no Valentina … Manilla, which confused and upset Henny, honestly.

Elimination Day rolled around with Gia quickly getting to work stirring the pot, asking Monique how Farrah is going. And while she tried to be diplomatic in her response, Gia needled her into admitted that Farrah triggers her and makes her nervous. Before taking the information directly back to Farrah. Surprisingly Farrah took it in her stride, didn’t cry and told her to focus on getting ready, rather than stirring the pot. This triggered Gia to confront her about the drunken visit to her job. Farrah was not having it and told her to focus on her job rather than trying to push a storyline as Gia continued to pester her, forcing Monique and Monet to step in and stop the drama and undermining their team. Manilla however just thought it was stupid to pick on the weakest link, as prison rules say you target the strongest. And it didn’t work out well for her with Shangie.

Ciara and Kacey Musgraves joined Ru, Michelle and Ru on the judges table as the girl groups took to the Main Stage. Team Trinity got out to strong start with Latrice, Trinity owning the stage until Valentina arrived and murdered them all with her verse. Despite an infectious performance, Team Monique’s choreography seems wobbly. Particularly with Farrah’s white-girl rhythm. That being said, Naomi and Monet’s verses were lit and I love them. On the Eleguence After Dark Runway Gia looked stunning serving pageant barbie realness, while Latrice was iconic as always in a fitted spangled gown, as did Manilla who was gorgeous. Trinity showed skin in a gorgeous red gown, while Valentina served full blossoming bush and I loved it. Naomi served high fashion mirror, Monique pulled off a reveal, Farrah went classic showgirl while Monet finally served a look in an off the shoulder gown.

The judges sent Valentina, Naomi and Monet to the top, while Manilla, Monique and Farrah landed in the bottom. They loved everything about Manilla on the runway but hated her performance and felt she faded into the background. Valentina received universal praise, as did Naomi. Monique’s girl group look was praised, though the judges felt everything else about her performance was messy. The judges loved Farrah’s runway, but hated her Whitbread performance, while Monet’s rap was singled out as the best of the night, and finally got praise for her runway look. With that Monet and Valentina were singled out as the top two, while poor Farrah returned to the bottom – as per Gia’s wishes – with Monique.

Back in the Werk Room the queens congratulated Monet and Valentina on snatching the win, before Monique requested to please her case ASAP as she can not go home. Instead Valentina wanted to share something with the queens, talking about her need for lip sync redemption after mask gate which drove Trinity and Monique insane. Eventually Monique was able to talk to Valentina, saying that the only reason she was in the bottom was the jacket and her previous win should be taken into account. Though she should avoid talking about the outfit, as Valentina found it offensive to Aaliyah’s memory. Gia decided it was the perfect time to clear the air with Farrah … while she was pleading her case to Monet. Much to the shock of literally everyone in the cast. While the apology seemed kinda sincere, nobody was buying it and Trinity wished she was in the bottom instead just so they could get rid of her ASAP. Monique and Farrah swapped places, with both hopeful that their season-mates would pull through for them if they win. Though Valentina seemed to focus on trying to get an ok to eliminate Farrah for the entire discussion, and Farrah appeared to be successful in guilting her way to safety.

Valentina arrived on stage for lip sync without anything mask adjacent in site. Couple that with the fact she knew every lyric and she owned the lip sync from start to finish. Monet brought comedy, sex and the splits however they proved to be no match, handing Valentina the win and giving her a redemption we will no doubt hear about in next week’s deliberation. While Farrah seemed hopeful that she would be continuing in the competition, Valentina confidently yet heartbroken sent her from the competition, earning one more you don’t love me. This time as a joke. Though her ‘you don’t love me’ to Gia was 100% legit.

Farrah was obviously upset to be out of the competition, and was obviously in tears but boy did her sad little face light up when she spotted me in the Werk Room. She ran and fell into my arms, sobbing and laughing and so grateful that I’ve been there to catch her each time she fell on Drag Race. Well, not last week to be fair but two out of three ain’t bad. I held her until she caught her breath and had composed herself, reminded her that she was a beautiful talented queen and she is and forever will be an All Star. To drive the point home, I served it with a big ol’ batch of Farraspberry Macaroans.

 

 

Like Farrah, macarons may appear delicate but they do pack a punch amongst all that sweetness. The raspberry and poppy seeds work together beautifully to delight your taste buds, and your soul. I guess?

Enjoy!

 

 

Farraspberry Macaroans
Makes: 16-20.

Ingredients
¼ cup Mahersharaspberry Coulis, plus 2 tablespoons for the macaron
2 tbsp double cream
125g white chocolate
75g almond meal
75g icing sugar
1 egg whites
a few drops red food coloring powder
1 egg whites (from about about 2 small eggs)
pinch of salt
75g raw caster sugar
4 tsp water
¼ cup poppy seeds

Method
Combine the coulis, cream and chocolate in a small saucepan over low heat, and cook stirring until melted and well combined. Transfer to a small bowl and place in the fridge to chill.

Preheat the oven to 150C and line two baking sheets and prepare a small, plain tipped piping bag. Sift the icing sugar and almond meal into a large to remove all lumps.

Place one the egg whites in a bowl with a pinch of salt, the remaining coulis and a few drops of red food colouring, and whisk until well combined and starting to thicken. Add the bowl with the almond meal and fold through.

Place the remaining egg white in the bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attached, while you combine the raw caster sugar and water in a saucepan. Dissolve the sugar over low heat before cranking to high and bringing to 112C. Start whipping the egg on medium-high speed while you continue to cook the syrup until it reaches 118C. Remove it from the heat immediately and slowly pour into the still whipping white. Continue to whip until the bowl is cool enough to touch and you’ve achieved silky, glossy stiff peaks. Gentle fold the italian meringue through the almond mixture until combined.

Transfer to a piping bag and pipe 3cm circles onto the lined baking sheets, leaving space for their inevitable expansion. Tap the sheets on the kitchen bench to remove air bubbles and sprinkle each with poppy seeds. Transfer to the oven to bake for 20 minutes before removing and allowing to cool completely, transferring to a wire rack a couple of minutes after removing them from the oven.

To assemble, place the ganache in a piping bag and pipe onto the base of half of the biscuits, sandwich with a ‘clean’ biscuit and place in a container to set. You can either eat after half an hour, or allow to chill overnight to really drive the flavours home.

Then devour.

 

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Eurekataifi O’Haracels

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With the mass genocide of butterflies over and the janitors finished sweeping their corpses off the stage and Kameron’s crotch, the show went on and Ru announced that Aquaria and Eureka would battle it out to Janet Jackson’s If.

Aquaria dropped her goon-sack look straight up to reveal a skin coloured spike number while Eureka channelled Roxxxy and did a wig reveal before high kicking around stage and revealing not one by two outfits while Aquaria owned the stage. By the time it came to Eureka watersprinkler-ing the ground with her koock and Aquaria writhing between Eureka limbs, it was near impossible to figure out who won. For both Ru and me it seems, as Ru sent them both to the final. Turns out Aquaria didn’t avoid getting saved.

As the queens went backstage to prepare for their final lip sync, Ru brought Nina Flowers and Valentina – via satellite – to the stage to announce this year’s Miss Congeniality. Unlike previous years the online votes were hacked slash rigged – Russia, obvi – and Ru handed the voting rights to the season 10 queens, which TBH feels right. Particularly when someone as delightful as Monét snatches the title.

Sasha arrived dressed like the love child of an alien and Eve in the garden of Eden – in a good way – which means but one thing – the final lip sync has finally arrived. Aquaria, Eureka and Kameron arrived on stage to learn they’d be lip syncing to Bang Bang by Ariana Grande, Jessie J and Nicki Minaj.

Aquaria kicked things off with fireworks coming from her gloves and owned the stage from that moment on. Well until all three landed the splits at the exact same moment. Eureka was doing her usual moves but somehow felt flat and Kameron threw herself around the stage like she usually does while Aquaria dominated them both with killer moves, hitting every lyric and shooting off multiple confetti cannons.

As such Aquaria was handed her well deserved crown and proved two things without a doubt, any hole is a goal and the Haus of Needles is a force to be reckoned with. And Eureka followed in fellow O’Haras, Asia and Phi Phi’s footsteps – aka the O’Hara curse – to become a runner-up. Thankfully she wasn’t too cut up when she found herself backstage, thrilled that she had the opportunity to come back and slay the competition after her knee injury. And given the way she frequently smashed those knees into the ground this season, I’m still shocked it didn’t happen again. Which I obviously didn’t tell her as we sat down to share some Eurekataifi O’Haracels in honour of a job well done!

 

 

Creamy and rich chicken, wrapped in the flakiest of flaky kataifi, these little babies are the perfect little partyh treat. Mainly because they’re deceptively filling and hella moreish, so you gorge without anyone really picking up on how crazy you’ve gone.

Enjoy!

 

 

Eurekataifi O’Haracels
Serves: 8.

Ingredients
6 rashers streaky bacon, diced
1 onion, diced
3 garlic cloves, minced
500g chicken mince
250g button mushrooms, finely sliced
¼ cup sundried tomatoes, roughly chopped
2 tbsp flour
2 tbsp seeded mustard
2 cups chicken stock
½ cup thickened cream
3 sprigs thyme, leaves picked
¼ cup parsley, roughly chopped
salt and pepper, to taste|
300g kataifi, or finely shredded filo
150g butter, melted

Method
Preheat oven to 180°C.

Place a large skillet over medium heat and cook the bacon for five minutes or so, or until starting to crisp and the fat is rendered. Add the onion and garlic and cook for a further couple of minutes, before adding the chicken mince and cooking, breaking up with the wooden spoon, until browned. Add the mushrooms and sundried tomatoes and cook for a couple of minutes.

Sprinkle the flour over the pan and cook until the flouriness has gone and it is instead more paste-like. Add the mustard, stock and cream and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for fifteen minutes or so, or until thickened. Remove from heat, add the herbs and a good whack of salt and pepper. Less so of salt.

To assemble, break up the kataifi and brush with half the melted butter. Divide into 24 rectangular piles. Place a dollop of mixture in the middle of each and pull the edges in to enclose and transfer to a lined baking sheet. Once they’re all assembled, brush with the remaining butter and transfer to the oven to bake for twenty minutes, or until golden and crisp.

Devour immediately.

 

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A’ja

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, the queens were joined by the ultimate queen Kristin Chenoweth for this season’s Snatch Game. While BenDeLaCreme and Shangie continued their dominance, Trixie’s RuPaul fell flat and Chi Chi introduced Maya Angelou’s little sister Mya to the world. In the werkroom, Shangie and Trixie had some capital-D drama after Shangela found a hate note from Thorgy in Trixie’s station … making it the ultimate gag that Shangie joined Ben in saving Trixie and sending Chi Chi out of the competition.

Back in the werkroom Trixie was in complete shock after Shangela saved her, despite making it sound like she was giving her the axe. After vowing to move forward and get closer, DeLa spoke about her logic behind eliminating people based on their track record. Shangela felt that wasn’t going to be the way it goes down, Kennedy was grumpy about something and Trixie advised they all just keep the mirror messages polite. Looking at you Milk and Thorgy.

Ru dropped by the next day, in full Warhol regalia to announce this week’s challenge – the Warhol Ball! Which means sewing … which means Shangie is hella screwed. Before that, Ru gave the girls a mini-challenge to create a Warhol image in quick drag. While I’d like to say it was close, it wasn’t … as Aja slayed her portrait and the rest of the queens.

The Warhol Ball required the queens to each design a wearable soup can inspired by their charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent. While their second outfit needed to be a Studio 54 inspired disco look. Trixie was feeling super confident about the challenge, given her ability to sew and killer mind for branding. Aja was planning to do a candy soup, while BeBe was inspired by sneezing.

Despite not knowing how to use a sewing machine, DeLa was confident a hot glue gun could hand her another design challenge win. The true gag of the season however was finding out that BeBe was like Shangie and DeLa and couldn’t sew, enlisting the services of Aja to sew the base of her outfit. Proving their friendship was moving forward, Trixie tried to help Shangela work the sewing machine … until they discovered Shangie’s true weakness was her inability to identify stretchy fabrics.

The next day Aja was feeling confident, finally getting some recognition for being stylish. Given she is a millennial, Kennedy was pissed off and didn’t want to hear it. Thankfully her anger was cut short as Shangela polled the room about how the confident girls would eliminate the bottom queens, I assume to check if there was any hope for her. DeLa came up with an equation to try and make it fair with people’s track records, which brought grumpy Kennedy back out as she railed against DeLa’s opinion. Likely because she has the worst track record of the remaining queens.

Trixie owned the soup portion of the ball, with Ben not far behind. For the disco looks, Aja continued her looking flawless. Shangela, well, fell hard, Trixie was perfection, Kennedy looked full disco queen, BeBe looked gorgeous in Aja’s gown and DeLa looked good, but was overshadowed by her amazing voiceover.

During judging, Aja was read for filth – despite having one of the best looks IMO – for not having a soup that reflected her persona and not researching the era, even though it looked ‘70s to me. Shangie’s soup was praised, though her outfit was rightfully torn to shreds. Trixie was rightfully lavished in praise, and thanked for finally waking up ala Pearl. Kennedy’s soup was a shoot, but her look was a boot. BeBe also received universal praise while denying the fact Aja helped at all and poor DeLa was given lukewarm praise for just giving 100% this week. Ultimately Trixie and BeBe took out the challenge, while DeLa was just safe for the first time along with grumpelstiltskin, leaving poor Aja in the bottom with Shangela.

Backstage Trixie was stripping off while kicking off the one on one’s with Aja, who spoke about the fact she was going for high fashion disco. While Trixie agreed that she was one of the most beautiful, the judges hated it and her soup was mis-branded, adding to her confusion. Meanwhile BeBe was debating whether to reward Shangie’s track-record or Aja’s killer growth between seasons. After a brief interlude of Ben and Kennedy talking about the challenge owning the former, in the latter’s grumpy opinion, we were treated to Trixie and Shangie’s one on one where Trixie was feeling Shangie shouldn’t be expecting her to save her, just because of last week though conceded she has knocked it out of the park, week after week and wasn’t sure she should eliminate her for glue a record to her head. On the flipside, BeBe gave Aja a pep talk which sounded like she should have used the time to back her bags if BeBe wins, pushing Aja to tears.

While Trixie completely dominated the lip sync, it was to Diana Ross meaning BeBe had the upper hand. With her parlaying that hand into victory and sending Aja out of the competition, I assume to keep the secret that she helped BeBe make the outfit. Thankfully … she may not be down for long, as Ru’s Kitty Girls Chad and Alaska brought three eliminated queens back to get their revenge.

Was one of them Aja, though? That you’ll have to wait and see … but you can always enjoy some a’jas while you wait.

 

 

I had no idea what the hell a’jas were until Ottolenghi, after which I fell deeply in love with these perfect little bread fritters. Then I tinkered with his recipe and made then even better, if I do say so myself.

Enjoy!

 

 

A’ja
Serves: 6-8.

Ingredients
8 bread slices, crusts removed
6 eggs, whisked
1 ½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp sweet paprika
¼ cup chives, chopped
¼ cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped
2 tbsp tarragon, chopped
100g feta cheese, crumbled
1 tbsp chilli flakes
zest of a lemon
salt and pepper, to taste
olive oil, for frying

Method
Soak the bread in water for a couple of minutes before squeezing as much liquid out as possible. Roughly chop the mush and transfer to a bowl. Add the eggs, spices, herbs, feta, chilli, zest and a good whack of salt and pepper, and stir well to combine.

Heat a lug of oil in a skillet and add about half a cup of mixture into the pan and flatten to form a fritter. Cook for a couple of minutes, flip and cook for a further couple of minutes. Remove from the pan and repeat until the batter is done.

Devour immediately, filled with glee.

 

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Sashwarma Velour

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And just like that, we have a winner!

After being robbed of countless challenge wins throughout the competition, Bob reluctantly handed the crown over to Sasha who vowed to change the world before a ceremonial victory prance.

From the start of the finale, the crowd went wild for Sasha who was thrilled to finally lip sync, having made it through to the finals without ever being in the bottom. After addressing the urban legend, which I can confirm is true (that she appears behind people that look sad in the mirror to give them a lecture on queer herstory), my nemesis Katy Perry appeared via video to declare herself as part of Team Sasha before filling out the Velour Dynasty and introducing Papa Velour to us, who was absolutely adorable.

On paper, she may have only had two challenge wins up her sleeve, but there is no denying that she was a front runner from the start. She had a clear artistic vision which she never wavered from, but at the same time was able to expertly work into her performance in every challenge.

There is no denying that while some of the other girls competed up to the finale, Sasha continued to werk it until the crown was firmly on her head. Both of her lip sync performances and their gimmicks were iconic, and she finally made me feel ok about Ongina losing out on season 1. Because yes, all bald queens look the same (or something).

With Bob eventually crowing Sash, she took a page out of fellow winner Sharon Needles’ book, declaring herself the future of drag … meaning Ru will appear in Sasha inspired outfits from season 10.

In honour of our eventually drunken celebrations of her victory, I whipped up a ‘uge serve of my Sashwarma Velour.

 

 

Meaty, spicy and full of a delicious white nectar, my shawarma fills all the right holes and you with joy. I mean, I know Sash is vegetarian and all … but at least it wasn’t a year’s supply of Hamburger Mary’s? Plus – vegetarians eat chicken, don’t they?

Condragulations Sasha – while the surprise of the finale may have upset some people, you truly slayed the competition and are more than worthy of your crown. Enjoy!

 

 

Sashwarma Velour
Serves: 4.

Ingredients
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 tbsp ground coriander
1 tbsp ground cumin, plus 1 tsp for yoghurt dressing
1 tbsp ground cardamom
1 tsp ground cayenne pepper
1 tsp chilli flakes
2 tsp smoked paprika
salt and pepper, to taste
1 lemon, juiced
3 tbsp olive oil
500g chicken thighs
6 flatbreads or pitas
1 cup Greek yoghurt
tomato, sliced
lettuce, roughly chopped
100g danish feta, crumbled

Method
Combine two garlic cloves, the spices, a good whack of salt and pepper, a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice and the oil in a large bowl, and stir to combine. Add the chicken thighs and toss through to coat. Cover and leave to marinate overnight.

Flash forward to the next day, an hour or so before you’re ready to eat.

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Combine the yoghurt, the teaspoon of cumin, a bit of lemon juice and a whack of salt and pepper in a jug and stir until well combined. Cover and transfer to the fridge.

Transfer the chicken to a wire rack over a baking sheet and bake in the oven for about twenty minutes, or until just cooked through. Allow to rest for five minutes before roughly chopping the meat.

To serve, heat the flatbreads/pitas in a dry frying pan for about 30 seconds before transferring to a plate. Smear with some yoghurt dressing, top with some salad, chicken, feta and another drizzle of dressing. Then devour, greedily, in triumph.

 

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Peppermint Slice

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With the two front runners knocked out of the competition, the reigning queen slash my dear friend Bob the Drag Queen dropped by for a brief interlude pre-final lip sync. Despite wanting to keep the crown on her head, Ru was able to convince her to hand it over to the victor of the final lip sync.

Bob and Ru had fun throwing shade at Valentina for a little while longer before Peppermint and Sasha ru-turned to the stage … the latter wearing a mask. If I didn’t know better, I’d think that Sasha was hoping to fake her way to the crown like a talented Val, by way of Whits’ It’s Not Right But It’s Ok.

But oh how she didn’t – I mean sure, both queens started out extremely strong but after wearing the top half of the mask for the first half of the lip sync, Sasha cracked it open like a damn egg and stole the show … something poor Peppermint’s glitter-bit couldn’t top.

It was obvious during the first lip-sync that Sasha had come to snatch the crown, no matter what … but it was a mean feat to finally take out the lip sync assassin – as Ru declared during the interviews – at her own game. Despite what people say about Pepp’s record throughout the season, she was a charming and hilarious star week after week, excluding Snatch Game.

As Laverne Cox spoke about during the interview section, Peppermint is an effervescent star and watching her perform truly is an absolute joy. Plus, she is the drag mother of season 10 victor, Wintergreen, who returned to the stage to wish her well, and that instantly keeps her iconic.

Say what you will about her in-competition track record, Peppermint is a fierce queen and turned out her performances and was THE narrator of the season. I don’t know about you, but that is more than deserving of my Peppermint Slice.

 

 

Peppermint Slice fill me with so many happy memories of childhood, and these babies more than live up to the expectations of their pre-packaged inspiration. Sweet, fresh and crisp, they are the ultimate treat for an afternoon coffee … or sneaking them with your Nan in her kitchen with a Lemon, Lime and Bitters without your parents knowing.

As a child, I was a fancy bitch with great taste. Enjoy!

 

 

Peppermint Slice
Serves: 1 runner-up and her pal, or thirty individual biscuits.

Ingredients
100g unsalted butter, at room temperature
½ cup raw caster sugar
2 eggs, 1 whole the other separated
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup plain flour
⅓ cup cocoa powder
400g dark chocolate, melted|
500g icing sugar, sifted
1 tbsp peppermint essence

Method
Combine the butter and caster sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat on low for a couple of minutes. With the mixer still on, add the vanilla, whole egg and yolk, and mix until just combined. Sift in the flour and sugar and stir until it is combined enough to avoid causing a dust cloud before mixing on low until the dough just comes together. Shape it into a disc and roll it out until ½ a centimetre thick, and transfer to the fridge for half an hour to chill.

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Cut out 30, 5cm wide rounds, re-rolling the dough until all used. Place them on two lined baking sheets and bake for 10-15 minutes or until just starting to firm. Remove from the oven and cool on the trays for five minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

While they are cooling, work on the filling by whisking the egg white in a bowl while gradually adding the sugar and peppermint. Knead with your hands until completely combined. Break the mixture into 30 – or enough for your biscuits – individual balls and press on top of the biscuits to form a slightly domed top.

Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or the microwave. Dip the base of each biscuit into the chocolate and transfer to a lined baking sheet, drizzle over remaining chocolate and smooth to cover.

Leave the biscuits to stand for a few hours, or until set … before devouring.

 

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Shea Cannouleé

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With Trinity experiencing the unkindest cut of all it was time for the second lip sync of the tournament. The pit crew returned to help Ru announce Sasha and Shea’s song – So Emotional by my girl Whitty Houst.

From the start Sasha slayed the performance, showering the stage with rose petals with a stunning combination of glove and wig reveals, leading to poor Shea’s shocking elimination from the competition.

Whilst during interviews, Shea was quick to point out she was ready to bring it in the lip sync and didn’t mind if it was against Sasha because the drama would be beautiful. It was tragic to see the girl with the best pedigree stumble at the final hurdle, but damn, SASHA.

We found out earlier in the show, when Ru wanted shit to get way too real, Shea spoke about her father and sister dying within a month of each other just before the season premiered, breaking my heart. We then heard from Reverend Coulee and Blac Chyna – inciting the rage of Nina Bo’Nina Brown – perking me up slightly, before the travesty of the queen that slayed the competition missing out on the crown at the very last minute.

Shea was heartbroken to sashay away, but was thrilled to see her fellow hot-dog fan – aka me – waiting for her side of stage. Without a doubt, Shea completely dominated the season from eating chocolate broccoli, to killing it as Aja’s nightmare role of Grandrea Zuckerwoman, equally Sharon’s record for four in-competition challenge wins.

Given she couldn’t taste the sweetest thing – victory – I knew that I had to whip her up a Shea Cannouleé to dull the pain of her loss.

 

 

You just know how passionate I am about anything that looks phallic, but there is something special about these cannoli. Sweet, creamy and crunchy, there is nothing better than wrapping your lips around these and swallowing them whole.

Enjoy!

 

 

Shea Cannouleé
Serves: 8-12.

Ingredients
160g butter, melted
680g plain flour
6 eggs, 2 whole plus 4 yolks
1 cup icing sugar, plus extra to dust
250ml marsala
300g ricotta
100g caster sugar
200g mascarpone
200g nutella
sunflower oil, for frying

Method
Combine the butter,  flour, eggs, yolks, icing sugar and marsala, before kneading in an electric mixer to form a dough. Wrap clingwrap, transfer to the fridge and rest overnight.

To make the filling, combine the ricotta, caster sugar, mascarpone and nutella, until well combined. Chill until ready.

Heat 2 inch deep sunflower oil in a large pot over medium heat until hot. Remove the dough from the fridge and roll until until 1 mm thick. Cut into 10cm wide discs and wrap around a cannoli tube. Deep fry a couple at a time for about a minute, or until cooked and crisp.

Drain on a paper towel, remove tubes and repeat the process until cooked. Once done, leave to completely chill. Once chilled, pipe in the filling, dust with icing sugar and devour.

 

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Terrinity Taylor

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race, Lady Gaga kicked off the season with Mama Ru and granted poor Jaymes Mansfield a one week stay of execution, before Kimora sent her out of the competition in after bringing zero pep to the cheerleading challenge. Kimora soon followed her out the door after creating a dull princess and sidekick. Charlie then gave the worst lip sync performance of anyone’s life, Eureka was medevaced due to her ongoing cheer-related injury giving Cynthia a one week stay of execution and us the sight of Cucu’s horrific Snatch Game.

Aja then put the no in 9021-ho, Farrah’s roast was par cooked, Villaintina – who was crowned Miss Congeniality … or fan favourite – tried to scam her way out of a lip sync, Nina’s inner saboteur finally won out during the makeovers and Alexis Michelle was eliminated because the other queens wouldn’t tell her she looked like shit, leaving us with a final four that rapped so well, Mama Ru couldn’t bring herself to eliminate any of them.

That or he needed four queens in the finally to spice it up … with the lip sync battle-royale for the crown!

My gurl Michelle kicked off the show introducing all the eliminated queens back to the stage – Charlie barely mustering any more energy than her fateful lip sync – before the finalists graced us with their presence, Trinity looking the best by far. Mama Ru then came through with some pantless dancers leading to me coming through my pants.

Oh and fuck off Todrick, I don’t care if you’re friends with Nico Tortorella.

Ru reminded us that the top four would be lip syncing for the crown, before getting down to interviewing the queens. After Pepp, Sasha and Shea had a chance to shine, Ru was quick to point out that Trinity had little support before the season began … but quickly turned it around and became the fan favourite. I would like to pause here to admit that I had zero interest in her pre-season and now think she is a lock for the finale of All Stars 3.

Bobby Moynihan  quickly video-ed in his support for Trinity, breaking her heart in the process given her dream of climbing Chris Pine like a tree.

After a brief costume change and an unnecessary but charming explanation from Ross about how the battle-royale would work, Ru spun a wheel to decide who would be lip-syncing first. It ultimately landed on Trinity who decided to be the best, you had to beat the best and opted to battle the assassin Peppermint. In turn, Ru gave Peppermint the chance to choose from her boxes to decide their song, landing on Stronger by Britney Spears which should favour the latter given her killer performance during the Kardashian musical.

Despite a soft start from Peppermint and a killer tear away from Trinity, Pepp slowly built the song, ultimately turning out an epic wig and skirt reveal that sent the crowd wild. Sadly for my surprising fave, Pepp took another victim, forcing Trinity to sashay away right into my pop-up kitchen side of stage.

While she was disappointed to not make the final two given her stellar track record this season, Trins was eternally grateful to the public for embracing her like they have. I’ve known her for years after meeting in a plastic surgeon’s office – I had Jennifer Aniston’s OG nose, no T, no shade – and despite not warming to her straight away, we became the best of friends. That is until she beat Lys for Entertainer of the Year in 2014 and I went into a tongue-popping rage defending my girl Lyssy Eds which could only end by this season reminding me that Trinity Tuck is a damn saint.

Given the tragic nature of performing well all season, only to be cut at the final hurdle, I knew Trins needed something delicious, dignified and delightful to bring her back to her gorgeous self … which is something only my Terrinity Taylor can fix.

 

 

Since she has the tightest tuck in the land, I like to give Trinity as much meat as I can to test her skills … and there is nothing more meaty than my terrine. Pork, pancetta and chicken, this baby is stuffed even further with cranberries, pistachios and a dickload of spices, that truly gives you life.

Enjoy!

 

 

Terrinity Taylor
Serves: 6.

Ingredients
200g pancetta slices
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, diced
¼ cup craisins, roughly chopped
1 tbsp brandy
500g pork mince
½ tsp nutmeg
2 tbsp parsley, roughly chopped
2 tsp thyme, roughly chopped
¼ cup pistachio, roughly chopped
200g chicken breast fillet, slice in half lengthways

Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a loaf pan with pancetta slices, leaving enough to overhang the sides and a couple to enclose the top.

Dice the remaining pancetta and fry in the skillet with the oil over medium heat. Add the onion and cook for five minutes, or until the onion has sufficiently sweated. Add the craisins and brandy and cook for a further minute. Remove from the heat and allow to cool.

Once cool, add the mince, nutmeg, herbs and pistachio, season and stir to combine. Take half the mixture and pack into the lined dish. Top with the sliced chicken and add the remaining pork, pushing to close it all in. Fold in the overhanging pork and layer the extra to cover the top.

Cover tightly with foil and place in a roasting pan filled with enough boiling water to come halfway up the pan, and bake for an hour. Remove the foil and bake for a further 10 minutes. Remove from the oven, drain off the juices and re-cover with foil before weighing down with canned food. Transfer to the fridge and chill overnight.

Remove from the fridge and allow to cover to room temperature before cutting into thick slices and devouring.

Devour.

 

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Violet Crumblchki

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race, Ru put the girls through their paces to write a verse on the remix of Category Is, had them guest on his podcast What’s The Tee?, lip-sync to their aforementioned verses on the mainstage and kill the runway. They all slayed which made me extremely relieved when Ru, Michelle et al opted to stick with the final four rather than a final three for this year’s finale.

Oh … but this week is the reunion which means we’ll either get some interesting tee or an hour to catch up on emails ahead of next week’s finale.

Ru started things off asking Alexis why she was happy to read people but couldn’t take it, at all. While she desperately tried to defend herself, the other queens called bullshit. To test if she had learned to take it, as she had said, Ru declared the library open and had the queens read each other, with Charlie and Jaymes actually doing well mocking Aja and Valentina respectively.

As far as reunions go, we’re running at a B- thus far.

We then found out Charlie broke her rib during the cheerleading challenge which she used to justify her lame lip sync. She also blamed diarrhoea, lack of sleep, Trump, not making sushi often, lack of covfefe, the situation in Syria and the song being about masturbation, or something. No one was buying the excuses and while I love me some Charlie, I’m definitely on the side of the other queens. We’ve dropped to a C rating though.

Farrah reenacted her infamous post-Eureka-elimination reaction, instantly giving us a bounce back to a B+. We then got to relive the shitshow that was maskgate before Shea and Sasha started laying into Valentina, which lead to Alexis trying to defend her … earning the wrath of Shea. Valentina’s intense fans were brought up before the queens once again got angry at Valentina for letting her fans viciously troll them.

Rise Villaintina and thank you for making this ru-union worth it.

We then learnt Valentina was a standoffish, aloof psycho, Nina still felt that people other than herself were sabotaging her and Kimora stepped up and became the most rational voice of the reunion, telling Nina to air her issues or shut the hell up. My girl Kris Jenner then called in to congratulate Alexis on how well she played her in the musical challenge, Farrah told some funny jokes … and Valentina was crowned Miss Congeniality by reigning cucu-congeniality.

And this is where it started to earn its A+!

Aja was inspired by my boy Kanye calling out Tay-Tay and called bullshit on Valentina being congenial and told her she is the fan favourite, not Miss Congeniality. Farrah then told Valentina that she was hurt by the way she just stopped communicating with her after the show, despite being so close. Then literally everyone jumped in to talk about how horrible Valentina was to work with, before Trinity pointed out that whatever the title is, taking out fan favourite is like being the true winner of the season. Once again, Trinity is life.

Then … THEN, Mama Ru dropped the bombshell. Instead of next week’s finale being a couple of pre-rehearsed personalised lip syncs and filler performances leading up to the crowning, Peppermint, Sasha, Shea and Trinity would all be involved in a four-way, lip-sync battle royale to decide the winner of the season, putting the fear of yes gawd into Shea – who despite an unrivalled track record, now has an actual hurdle to claiming the crown – and I assume, got Peppermint thinking she should start writing her acceptance speech, given she is a lip sync assassin.

It also made my girl Violet Chachki – who I was watching the episode with – extremely happy that this rule wasn’t in place back in season 7, given Ginger Minj’s abilities. I was quick to point out that she, my dear friend V could still turn out a lip-sync, we both sat silently for a minute, shook, wondering if she had dodged a bullet two years ago.

Not wanting to dwell, I quickly pointed out that her two-in-one runway is an example of how she can create a breathtaking spectacle, and got to work on a breathtaking spectacle of my own – a Violet Crumblchki.

 

 

Now I know Violet Crumbles are such a big thing outside of Australia, but they are essentially the same thing as a crunchie. And by that, I honestly could not tell you a difference outside of their names. And the brands.

Either way, you can’t go wrong with honeycomb, cut into pieces and coated in chocolate. Ever.

Enjoy!

 

 

Violet Crumblchki
Serves: 12.

Ingredients
1 recipe of / store-bought honeycomb, which I’d give you if it weren’t going to spoil a later date – mine makes a 30x40cm baking sheet’s worth
400g chopped chocolate, I went dark but you can do milk if you’d rather

Method
Break your honeycomb up into bite size pieces, I don’t really care about going for the perfect store-bought look.

Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl suspended over a pot of boiling water, ensuring the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Aka a double boiler. Remove from the heat when the chocolate has just melted.

Line another baking sheet and working piece-by-piece, dip the honeycomb into chocolate and place them on the tray. Once the bases are done, spoon chocolate over the top and smooth out to completely coat them. Place in a cool dry place to set for about an hour, before devouring.

 

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