Pizzastarah Silverman

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Let me start by getting the obvious out of the way first – while my dear friend Sarah Silverman wasn’t able to get me a role in Wreck-It Ralph 2, the rough cut she showed me is hilarious. Though I stand by the fact I should have been in the princesses scene as the queen.

But whatevs.

Thankfully I’ve been friends with Sez for such a long time, that I was able to look past the slight and join together for a nice date. I’m a damn saint, I tells you.

I first met Sare while skulking around 30 Rock trying to get Lorne Michaels to lift my life ban. She was finishing up her one-and-done run on the show while I was being escorted from the building, and Clive the kindly security guard threw me into her path. I call him kindly because that harsh toss from the door led me to my best friend, and for that I’ll always be grateful.

I took advantage of her post-SNL pain, and drove her to show them what a big mistake – HUGE – they had made, and in turn ride her coattails to fame, fortune and success.

While we had a brief period of vicious feuding after her edits on Fucking Matt Damon made me lose out on an Emmy – yeah, my version was pretty X rated – I moved past it because I knew my life is better with Sare Silv in it.

Who am I? That was so earnest and sweet.

Anyway – as I am wont to do, we laughed, we cried, we watched the movie, we watched the random swingers party happening in the rooftop pool in the building across the street and we smashed a deliciously confusing hybrid Pizzastarah Silverman.

What is better than pizza or pasta? Yes, you guessed it – a pasta made out of pizza ingredients! Ten points to Gryffindor! I mean, nothing can possibly give your pasta a pep in its step quite like pepperoni. Add in olives, mushies, parm and all the usual pizza suspects, and you’re in for a world of joy.

Enjoy!

Pizzastarah Silverman
Serves: 4-6.

Ingredients
olive oil
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 onion, diced
1 tbsp chilli flakes
a handful of mushrooms, sliced
½ cup black olives, sliced
½ cup sundried tomatoes, sliced
½ cup chargrilled capsicum, sliced
100g pepperoni, sliced
2 cooked Italian Sausage, sliced
400g can diced tomatoes
½ – 1 cup cream, to taste
2 cups baby spinach
salt and pepper, to taste
½ cup grated parmesan, plus extra for serving
500g pappardelle

Method
Start by getting a large pot of water boiling over high heat.

While the water is coming to a rollicking party, heat a lug of oil in a frying pan over medium heat Add the garlic and onion and cook for a couple of minutes, or until soft and sweet. Add the chilli, mushrooms, olives, sundried tomatoes and chargrilled capsicum and cook for a further minute before stirring through the pepperoni and sausage.

Add the tomatoes and cream and bring to a simmer for a couple of minutes, reduce heat to low, add the spinach and a good whack of salt and pepper and leave to bubble, covered, while you cook the pasta as per packet instructions.

When the pasta is ready, add the parmesan to the creamy tomato sauce and stir well. Toss the pasta into the pan and stir until coated. Serve immediately, slathered in additional parmesan for optimal devouring.

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I’m also f-*&ing Matt Damon

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

I had an extremely hectic weekend, quickly dropping by the Berkshires – visiting Dorind, obvi – before getting an extremely patient and thorough lesson in how to play chess by my seven year old nephew. Obviously I was exhausted by the time Sunday afternoon rolled around, so I lay by the pool drinking Jimosas and watched movie trailers.

Don’t worry, I’m about to get to the point.

I was wondering how The Meg differed from Jaws III before I was distracted by the trailer for Wreck-It Ralph 2 and realised I had about twenty missed calls from Sarah Silverman over the past fortnight.

Thankfully she bought how busy I claimed to be and accepted my invite to drop by and catch-up later this week. What do I make for one of my dearest friends that happen to be a Disney princess?

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Tabboulea Michele

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I’ve finally caught up on listening to all of Danny Pellegrino’s podcast in the last couple of weeks – not a paid endorsement, but it is perfection – and he has mentioned the importance of the Wicked movie moving into production ASAP with Lea Michele starring as Elphaba. It reminded me how desperately I needed this to happen, so I reached out and decided to push the point as hard as I could.

I’ve known Lea for years after meeting while sharing the starring role in Spring Awakening, opposite my ex-lover Jonathan Groff. You see, she and i were extremely busy chasing down roles and men respectively, so the producers allowed us to share the role if I became a Lea Michele drag impersonator and never spoke about.

NDA, shmemDA.

Anyway, given I had to develop a deep understanding of her psyche and perfect her mannerisms and vocal style, we became the best of friends. Even after I was kicked out of the cast in a blaze of scandal.

“You do a perfect Lea Michele impersonation, can’t you just play Elphaba and share your beautiful talents with the world?” she said as I sat her down to talk about the movie.

“Yes, obviously! But I feel it is the role you were born to play. I mean, my dear friend and OG Elphaba played your mum on Glee. And it would make Danny Pellegrino so happy,’ I pleaded.

I don’t know which part softened her but by the time I was serving up my Taboullea Michele, she vowed to Elphaba hers. Thank goodness!

While most people would argue that tabbouleh isn’t a meal, we aren’t most people. Plus – it is green people! How else do I convince her other than a big bowl of fresh, tasty salad that packs a delicious punch?

Enjoy!

Tabboulea Michele
Serves: 6.

Ingredients
⅓ cup fine burghul
2 lemons, zested and juiced
2 tbsp olive oil
2 bunches flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
1 small bunch fresh mint, finely chopped
2 tomatoes, finely diced
2 shallots, finely chopped
salt and pepper, to taste

Method
Combine the burghul in a bowl with the zest and juice and leave to soften for about ten minutes.

While it is softening, combine everything in another bowl, then add the softened burghul and stir to combine.

Devour.

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Don’t stop believin’

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

She was just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world until she took the midnight train, found me willing to go anywhere … and I jumped on her coattails and vowed to make her a star.

Oh – FYI, I’m talking about Lea Michele.

Now I know – I KNOW – Journey are the reason that we all know to never give up on your dreams or to not stop believin’, if you will … but my dear friend Lea is the reason we started believing in the first place.

So what should I make to thank her for giving me something to believe in?

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Aguaria Fresca

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race, 14 new queens descended on the Werk Room. Miss Vanjie became a pop-culture icon as she backed out of the mainstage first, followed by – yep, doing this again – Kalorie, Yuhua, Dusty Ray, Mayhem, Blair, Monique, The Vixen, Monét and Cracker, leaving us with a battle royale for the crown between Texas, a Tennessee duo and the sole remaining NYC queen. Poor Asia committed the largest mass butterfly homicide on television to finish in fourth place, leaving Eureka and Kameron to battle it out with Aquaria for the crown.

Which they sadly lost, keeping the crown in NYC and returning it to the Haus of Needles. Where, TBH, it rightfully belongs.

Despite an extremely soft start in the first round of the finale, Aquaria was given a save – in my opinion – due to her slaying the mainstage competition from start to finish. Even at times when you thought she would fail – read: Snatch Game – she played to her strengths and shined bright. I mean, any hole is a goal is essentially now Melania’s motto, am I right?

I pulled Aquaria into my arms as soon as she walked off stage and praised her on her win, particularly given she didn’t push the gimmicks so far in the finale that they overwhelmed her. I held her hand high, congratulated her and then toasted her victory with a fresh Aguaria Fresca.

Fresh, zingy and totally delicious, agua fresca is the perfect drink to fill you with joy, remind you of the positives of summer – aka on a beach, not at work – and quench your thirst after slaying a competition.

Prance my queens, then enjoy!

Aguaria Fresca
Serves: 6-8.

Ingredients
¼-½ seedless watermelon
3 limes, juiced
¼ cup raw caster sugar
1 cup mint leaves, roughly chopped plus extra to garnish
ice cubes, to serve
4 cups soda water

Method
Chuck the watermelon, lime juice, sugar and mint in a food processor and blitz until completely juiced. Sieve into a jug and place in the fridge to completely chilled.

When chill add ice and soda water to the jug and stir to combine. Serve immediately, garnished with additional mint like a victorious crown.

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Kameroni Michaels

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Following Asia’s butterfly genocide and a high octane final lip sync which Aquaria came prepared to slay, she proved that turning looks and stunting pretty were enough to keep the crown in New York City and as such, Tennessee had to settle for a pair of runner’s up in the form of Eureka and my dear friend and part-time lover Kameron Michaels.

While Eureka may have had the better track record, I held Kameron over for the typical second place slot as I felt she has gotten a lot of unfair hate for her performance. I mean, she was shy and quiet, but she always turned the hell out of a look and killed every lip sync she participated in.

More importantly, she lip synced rather than relying too much on stunts. Though, let’s not forget that Monét’s death-drop fake-outs will forever by my favourite lip sync moments.

I took Kam into my arms as she walked off stage and congratulated her on a job well done in the competition. While she didn’t admit to picking Asia in the first lip sync to try and euthanise herself to avoid backlash for doing well, she did say that she was proud of all the finalists and was just lucky to place amongst them.

We then chatted and laughed for ages – unlike how she allegedly ignores other queens on the circuit – before sitting down to fill our mouths with a nice, thick and juicy Kameroni Michaels.

There is nothing I love more than a big, hard cylinder packed full of warm creamy liquid, that melts into your mouth. Thus my passion for cannelloni. Add in some rich tomato sauce and I’m in heaven.

Enjoy!

Kameroni Michaels
Serves: 6.

Ingredients
olive oil
4 garlic cloves, crushed
1 onion, diced
800g canned crushed tomatoes
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried thyme
2 tsp raw caster sugar
salt and pepper, to taste
500g ricotta
250g frozen spinach, defrosted and drained
¼ cup toasted pine nuts
½ cup grated parmesan, plus extra to top
250g dried cannelloni tubes
grated mozzarella, to top

Method
Preheat oven to 180°C.

Heat a lug of oil in a saucepan and a large skillet. Sweat half the garlic and the onion in the skillet until translucent and sweat and remove to a large bowl. Add the remaining garlic to the saucepan and cook for a minute before adding the tomatoes, oregano, basil, sugar and good whack of salt and pepper. Reduce heat to low and simmer for ten minutes , or until slightly reduced.

Meanwhile add the ricotta, drained spinach, pine nuts and parmesan to the bowl of onion and garlic. Stir to combine with a whack of pepper.

To assemble, spoon half the tomatoes into the base of a baking dish. Pipe the filling into the cannelloni tubes and line the base of the baking dish until covered. Top with the remaining tomato sauce, sprinkle – generously, obvi – with parmesan and mozzarella and bake for half an hour, or until golden and bubbly.

Leave to rest for ten minutes before serving and devouring.

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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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Focasia O’Hara

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race we experienced an interesting reunion featuring walk-outs, breakdowns, Regina George-ing of Kameron and enough scolding and screaming on RuPaul to fill his Emmy sizzle-reel for years to come. Oh and something, something, something Miss Vanjie, Kalorie, Yuhua, Dusty Ray, Mayhem, Blair, Monique, The Vixen, Monét and Cracker.

We kicked things off by going all the way back to the start of Drag Race with the Season 1 queens – tragically sans Tammie Brown – appearing in HD for the first time. Well, except for BeBe and the girls that appeared in All Stars 1 … but you get what I mean. Stop calling out my season 1 filter shade.

Anyway with the queens of season 1 out of the way, Michelle introduced the queens of season 10 with Yuhua, Monique in brown cow – stunning – Monét and the damn sponge, Aquaria and Asia slaying the runway before Ru and his dancers packages graced the stage. And Mama Ru nearly damn well broke a hip breaking it down and pounding the runway like Eureka’s pussy in split-sweep mid lip-sync.

Before getting to the lip sync battle royale, Ru sat down with each member of the final four. Aquaria was first up and seemed to learn how to string together a sentence our two since filming the show, making bottoming jokes and tickling Ru’s fancy once again. Aquaria admitted that Asia would be her biggest competition going into the lip syncs – duh – delighted in the dancers and OH MY GOD IT IS MA’ FUCKIN’ OPRAH. I woke up from my Oprah induced faint to discover Aquaria was answering audience questions with quotes from the season and damn I need her to win. Before she even mentioned stanning Nina Flowers.

Next up was Asia who made it nice and awkward by saying she was marrying her boyfriend – much to his (delighted) surprise – before admitting to being catfished and not needing to tear someone down to stand tall. Given she was being far too kind and positive, Ru brought up how Asia’s deceased parents would feel about her now leading to the sweet queen breaking into tears and talking about how proud they would be and how they shaped the person he is. It was sweet and touching and thankfully Ru broke it up by offering Asia the chance to return the slap from earlier in the season before I broke down in tears.

HOLY SHIT IT IS MY DEAR FRIEND JUDI DENCH AND SHE CHOSE TO SHARE THE VIDEO WITH FINTY INSTEAD OF ME? Also – can you imagine being Michelle Visage and having Judi know who you are? And can Judi play Ru ASAP?

Before getting answers to these important questions Eureka arrived for her Q&A portion crackling with excitement, sassy jokes and a drive to win the competition to support her family. When faced with the most difficult of life’s questions – fuck, marry, kill – she opted to fuck Asia, marry Kameron and kill Aquaria. Which makes sense, TBH.

Kameron rounded out the interviews talking about her becoming the lip-sync assassin of the season and the importance of knowing your words – hey Valentina and Monique! Kameron then spoke about not getting any – literally every thirsty bitch like me will help you out – before Ru played a video message from Kameron’s grandmother who spoke about how proud of her she is and I’m crying. I mean, the sweet old thing didn’t even know he was gay before that and I love her.

Before getting to the battle royale, Sally Jesse Raphael helped Ru go over the history of drag race featuring all the iconic moments like All Stars 2 revenge of the queens, Dela’s self-elimination, Obama getting elected, Bob the Drag Queen as Cookie Lyon, Latrice and her hatred for nuts near her face, Aja deathdropping from a box and well, Shangie being Shangie. The season 1 queens then returned with this year’s batch to do a lip sync extravaganza and if Porkchop and Vanjie dueting isn’t the greatest thing I’ve seen all year, I don’t know what is. Oh wait, no, Ongina and Blair being adorable is. No Monique and Jade. No, Bebe and Cracker. NO, all the queens going at it together.

With the formalities out of the way, the top four arrived to kick of the battle dressed in such obvious, major reveal outfits I honestly can’t imagine what the season 11 finalists will wear next year? Ru then spun the wheel to see which queen would kick of the lip syncs and pick her opponent, with Kameron getting the honours. She selected Asia meaning that Aquaria would battle Eureka in the second lip sync. Ru gave Asia the chance to select a song from her box, selecting the appropriately titled Nasty by Janet Jackson.

Both queens started song, with Kameron pulling out laser sharp moves and Asia pulling out a sponge. Then tragedy struck as Asia commencing her reveals featuring life butterflies which were all dead or frozen and started writhing around the ground trying to stay alive as Kameron continued her acrobatic moves. It was hard to watch, Asia was thrown and Kameron’s focused, straight-forward lip sync carried her through to the final lip sync.

I can’t say anything more as it was hard to watch.

Asia came off stage, dumbfounded, and fell straight into my arms and I held her, in silence. Not knowing what I could say to fix things. As Asia during the reunion, she has a heart of gold and isn’t afraid to stand up for what she believes in and to me, that means she is winning. At life. And as such, I whipped out my Focasia O’Hara and we took comfort in the power of carbohydrates.

As a tween, I was passionately loyal to a focaccia. It was rich in flavour, crisp on the outside, pillowy on the inside and made me feel like cultured. Which I guess you could argue is kinda like Asia? Plus – it is delicious.

So just enjoy, yeah?

Focasia O’Hara
Serves: 4.

Ingredients
4 cups 00 flour, plus extra to dust
¼ cup parmesan cheese, grated
7g dried yeast
2 tsp kosher salt
330ml luke warm water
2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra to grease
½ cup mixed olives, pitted
½ cup cherry tomatoes, pierced
2 tbsp fresh rosemary leaves

Method
Combine the flour, parmesan, yeast and salt in a bowl. Slowly stir through the water and oil. Once combined, transfer to a stand mixer and knead on medium for 10 minutes, or until it is smooth and elastic. Transfer to an oil bowl, cover with cling and leave to prove for an hour or so, or until doubled in size.

Punch the dough back and transfer to a lined baking sheet, pushing and pulling into a large, 1-2cm rectangle. Press your fingers in like you’re playing a piano to form dimples, and fill said holes with tomatoes, olives and rosemary. Leave to prove again for a further half hour.

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Once done proving, transfer to the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes, or until golden and cooked through. Allow to cool slightly before devouring, still warm.

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Ginkx & Monsoonic

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race 14 queens entered the Werk Room, with Miss Vanjie leading the way out, backwards and into our hearts, and a place in pop-culture herstory. She was followed by Kalorie, Yuhua, Dusty Ray, Mayhem, Blair, Monique, The Vixen, Monét and Cracker, leaving us with a battle of the South and NYC for the crown. But that is next week. This week, it is time to re-une. I know that isn’t a word, can we encourage people to reune from now on? Thanks.

Anyway let’s kick the reunion off by congratulating the winner of the night, Yahua, who came dressed as Samara from the ring. Wait, scrap that – the winner is always Vanjie, who was treated to a minute montage of her viral exit before she admitted the fact she didn’t think she would be going home so just said the first thing that came into her head. She then shared that Vanjie is now a multipurpose word and all she cared about after leaving the show was making the most of her fifteen minutes and getting the bookings, and vanjie-ing her way into the zeitgeist was not something she could have ever expected.

Ru casually confirmed that Kameron, Eureka, Asia and Aquaria would be lip syncing for the crown before talking about some of the most iconic lip syncs of the season, congratulating Dusty and Monét on their Nicki Minaj number, and most importantly, Monét’s death drop fake-out. On the other end of the spectrum, Monique and The Vixen spoke about Monique’s Valentina-esque fail of not knowing the lip sync. Though none compared to the battle of the Fine’s between Kameron and Eureka – which infamously irritated Aquaria – and Kameron surviving four lip syncs, thus far.

Monique pulled popcorn out of her bag as they transitioned to discussing The Vixen’s fights throughout the season. The Vixen defended her telling Cracker about Aquaria and Monét’s Untucked discussion about Cracker and Aquaria’s rumoured twinning in NYC. We then transitioned to Eureka and The Vixen’s fight, with both of the queens downplaying their fight and trying to keep things calm. That lasted about ten seconds after Ru probed them about whether they stand by what they said, which The Vixen said she did while Eureka said she only did in the moment and felt bad now. She then denied baiting The Vixen, despite admitting to it on the show which pissed off The Vixen and lead to five other queens joining in to tell The Vixen not to react when baited, without acknowledging that baiting someone is more fucked up. Poor Asia tried to defend her, before The Vixen and Ru started to get more and more tense until The Vixen decided to leave the reunion.

Poor Asia went in to defend The Vixen and her choice to leave the reunion so as not to continue fighting. While Mayhem, Monique, Blair and Ru argued that she needs to pull her head in before poor Asia tried to remind everyone that she seems like she just wants to be acknowledged and heard. As she continued to talk about The Vixen with Ru, she completely broke down about how everyone had let The Vixen down, herself included, and wished that they could help her. Ru and Asia then argued back and forth, though ultimately felt like they cleared the air. Though that could probs be the wine talking.

From one trauma to another, we pivoted to Dusty’s homophobic family and how he was exorcised through a church for being gay. Yep, you read that correctly. It is fucking horrible and once again, I’m crying. Dusty then shared about how his family still don’t support him and see him as equal, despite apologising for the conversion therapy. He then shared his love for his chosen family, though was disappointed not to get support from those that are meant to love him most while strangers approach her on the street to talk about how proud they are of her. We then went back to Monique’s Untucked breakdown about fearing her mother’s reaction to seeing her on the show, with Monique focusing on wanting to inspire the little kids that feel they don’t have a place or are broken and like Vanjie, I’m fucking crying again.

Continuing the tears, we checked in on Blair and how finally admitting being sexually assaulted had improved her life and helped her deal with it. She spoke about drinking to dull the pain and that she has been completely sober since getting home, much to the delight of her fellow queens. Monét spoke about her own homophobic family in St Lucia and her fear that they may disown her, finally bringing some joy back by sharing that her mum has been checking in on how she is going on the show, despite not mentioning it by name. Yuhua spoke about drag making her feel free, though doesn’t talk about it with her parents which made me feel like it was going to get joyous and then I was kicked in the nuts.

Ru then tried to bring some actually levity to the proceedings with a game of Toot or Boot, with Kameron’s bird dress universally beloved, Cracker’s silverfosy loved by all by Eureka and Monét’s sponge dress hated by all but Mayhem. We then say a package of the judges with the takeaways being Monét thought Andrew Rannells was Jonathan Groff and Alex Trebek quoted Detox.

We circled back to the drama, focusing on Asia saying Miz Cracker wasn’t a star which lead to a sincere apology for Asia. While Cracker accepted the apology, she assured her that she wouldn’t the next time.

With that, Ru threw the floor open to the queens to ask questions to each other with Mayhem asking Aquaria and Asia why they were shady about her outfits in Untucked. Aquaria apologised and explained that she was just expecting more and wanted her to stand out, while Asia just told her she didn’t feel it was her place to read her outfits. Monique then asked Kameron why she has so much personality on social media though was silent and stand-offish on the show. Dusty joined in and said she is hurt by the fact she never gave her that personality, followed by Monét and Vanjie agreeing they never really got the chance to know her.

Ru challenged the queens to read each other one last time, with Vanjie slaying Kalorie, despite Kalorie being the one trying to read her. Eureka did the same thing during Mayhem’s turn before Monét finally landed a joke about Yuhua butchering the english language, Monique and Aquaria did a killer Wakanda joke and Dusty tried to tear everyone apart, from Kameron to Michelle Visage.

And just like that, the reunion reached its crescendo … though not before Mayhem, Dusty backed Aquaria for the win, Kalorie, Yuhua, Cracker and Vanjie professed their support for Eureka, and Monique, Blair, Monét are rooting for Asia.

Womp, womp for Kameron, I guess. Which season 5 victor and dear friend Jinkx Monsoon – who I was reuning with myself – felt horribly about. I first became friends with Jinkx Monsoon in a support group for those who have been personally victimised by Ro laska tox. Despite all being friends now, I will forever be grateful for their clique for uniting Jinkx and I in our pain. Our early catch-ups were marked by drinking and talking, so I obviously whipped out our old Ginkx & Monsoonic to accompany this date.

Tart and earthy, this is the perfect drink for those wanting to work through some pain, reconnect – or reune – with friends, or appear to be a classy drunk. No judgement.

Enjoy!

Ginkx & Monsoonic
Serves: 1.

Ingredients
1 lemon, cut into wedges
ice
2 shots gin
tonic water, to top

Method
Place a couple of lemon wedges in a glass with ice.

Top with gin and tonic water.

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Misso Fame Pork Ribs

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the final five were tasks with battling their inner saboteur head-on – Nina Bonina Brown caught gagged to have inspired a challenge – and walking the runway as their best and worst selves. Despite having the most aggressive inner saboteurs, Miz Cracker and Kameron Michaels struggled while Aquaria slayed the house down. Once again Kameron survived a lip sync and poor Cracker was left to be thin, white and salty on a plane back to NYC.

The final four reconvened in the Werk Room where Aquaria was sad to see her final NY sister go while Eureka pointed out that once again Kameron slayed the lip sync and as such, is fast becoming everyone’s biggest threat. Asia clearly had some remorse for saying Cracker lacked star power on the runway and therefore made a public apology. Which did nothing more than make Eureka terrified of her opinions. Oh … and then Asia shared her opinion with us, identifying Eureka as the least deserving of being in the final three for being too damn much, and just wanting the bragging rights of being the first big girl winner.

The next day the queens were delighted to learn that their final challenge would require them to write and record a verse on her song American, perform it on the mainstage to Todrick’s most difficult choreography or all time and appear on Ru and Michelle’s classic podcast, What’s The Tee? Ru made a quick exit while the girls got to work writing their verses, with Asia hoping to redeem herself after her Cher Rusical disaster. Though given she can’t sing and isn’t a trained dancer, she doesn’t seem hopeful.

Aquaria was up first to record her verse and as is her brand, was full of confidence until Todrick beat her down and – wait for it – called her out for being butch. Oh wait, no, it didn’t dent her confidence, and she was sure that she slayed the challenge despite being read for filth. While that was underway Eureka dropped by What’s The Tee? and made quick work of charming Ru and Michelle, dodging whether being on her second season was an advantage and throwing in some killer emotional content about her mother … which screams winner’s edit.

Sensing Todrick would attack her, Asia was nervous to record the song before being proven correct on the first take, read for her inability to keep on the beat and for sounding like a robot. Aquaria dropped by the podcast and while she usually sucks at stringing together sentences, she was delightful, charming and spun a good story and dammit, I want her to win. Kameron followed her on the podcast and admitted to being shy and reserved on camera and being scared to share his emotions. He then spoke about being similar to his deceased dad and how his passing inspired him for greatness, and I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Speaking of tears, Eureka went to record with the tyrannical Todrick though somehow got away relatively unscathed. Though she was made to add an elephant noise to her verse, so yeah. There’s that. Asia rounded out the podcast portion of the episode talking about losing his parents within a matter of months, building a family of his friends and always being true to himself. Rounding out the challenge, Kameron dropped by Todrick and was quickly told to go up an octave if he wanted to succeed. Which he did, knocked it out of the park and damn I love our quiet queen.

Back in the Werk Room Kameron was proud of her performance, though wasn’t keen to perform for her sisters backstage. While Eureka tried her darndest to get her to perform, Kameron’s will held out long enough for Eureka and Asia to start fighting and deflect from her verse.

Before I could figure out how serious they were, the queens returned to the mainstage to learn the choreography with Todrick who quickly spoke about raising one’s bar. Which he does not do for me. Anyway, Aquaria slayed the choreography in one go and then started to cry about how great the final performance is going to be. On the flipside, Asia struggled despite giving it her all, Kameron also had trouble getting down the moves and Eureka was stuck in her head. The queens learnt the last section together with Asia and Aquaria well and truly up to the challenge while Eureka had no idea what was happening.

The top four walked into the Werk Room for the final time this season to discover a tray of cocktails to toast to their achievements. The drink must have had some sort of effect on Kameron who decided to come and get dressed with the girls … no, wait, it was too hot and she wanted to look good so went back to get dressed solo. The other queens spoke about their biggest moments from the seasons with Aquaria shocked to have won Snatch Game, and Asia and Eureka focusing on their failures. The top four all spoke about the likelihood of their victories, with Asia getting it right by saying Vanjie – who has been name dropped every damn week – is the winner.

When it came to the performance, Aquaria killed her choreography, Asia worked the moves she was given – and looked to be channelling Monét and the damn sponges she hated, FYI – Eureka brought her special branding of crazy and Kameron slayed the freaking house down. On the runway Aquaria was once again stunning and a little slutty, Asia served pageant Cleopatra realness, Kameron served lavender nude glamour and Eureka made sure we remember her name by emblazoning on her body.

The judges loved everything about Aquaria tonight and well everything she has done throughout the entire competition. They loved that Asia showed a piece of herself and her joy in the challenge, and how she has killed most of the competition. Eureka was praised for her performance in the challenge and bringing the silly, and praised her for being super fun, enjoyable and bringing it all season. Finally Kameron received well earned praise for dominating American, looking stunning on the runway, nailing the choreography … and killing all of the lip syncs.

Ru asked the queens to talk to their younger selves, with Aquaria concerned about the quality of her three year old self’s feather boa, baby Asia wearing the season one filter, Eureka reminding herself that being big is beautiful, just like Mika said and Kameron brought all of the feels and nailed the episode. On the flipside, Ru questioned why they deserve to win with Aquaria focusing on the fact she dominated the competition and did the Haus of Needles proud, Asia vowing to be America’s Next Drag Superstar whether she wins or not, Eureka is proud to be extra and Kameron is damn resilient and, TBH, if it is a lip sync for the crown, she is a shoe-in and that is all that matters.

With that, the queens got to their final mainstage lip sync to Mama Ru’s Call Me Mother where Kameron continued her dominance and Aquaria finally showed why she is the front runner. As was the case last season, Ru opted not to eliminate any of the girls and instead sent all four through to the finale to lip sync for the crown. Which makes it lucky I was catching up with Miss Fame while watching this week’s episode!

Fame’s career has gone from strength to strength since Divine-ing out of Violet’s winning season of Drag Race. I mean, modelling contracts, rocking Cannes and still being a chicken loving boss? I don’t know how she does it and still fits in time for her friends like me. That alone makes her worthy of a pick fat helping of Misso Fame Pork Ribs.

There is nothing I love more than a meaty bone melt in my mouth, and these ribs more than fill me up. With joy. Spicy, sticky and full of zesty punch, they are, quite simply, delicious.

Enjoy!

Misso Fame Pork Ribs
Serves: 6.

Ingredients
1 cup miso paste
½ cup muscovado sugar
1 ½ tsp Sichuan peppercorns, ground
2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
1 ½ tbsp tamari
1 tbsp sesame oil
6 garlic cloves, minced
2 shallots, minced
1 chilli, sliced
2 oranges, zested and juiced
1 onion, sliced
2 yuzus, sliced
2 racks of pork ribs

Method
Combine the miso paste, sugar, peppercorns, vinegar, tamari, sesame oil, garlic, shallots, chilli and oranges in a bowl and stir to combine.

Preheat oven to 150°C.

Layer a baking dish with the onions and yuzos, generously brush the ribs with the marinade and play on top of the onion-yuzo bed. Add a cup or so of water to the bottom of the tray, cover the tray with foil and place in the oven to bake for two hours. Re-slathering the marinade throughout the cooking.

Remove the foil from the pan, slather the last of the marinade on top and bake for ten minutes or so, or until gloriously sticky. Devour immediately, obvi.

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