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.

Down.

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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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Miz Prawn Crackers

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the queens scruffed it up for a masc for masc mini challenge before turning their attentions to making over social media influencers for the mainstage. Finally Miz Cracker shone, in no small part to Chester See who lived for himself in drag like the second coming of Alyssa Edwards and turned it out as Cracker’s Cookie. On the flipside, Monét and Shortchange relied on glasses for family resemblance which led to her landing in the bottom two with Kameron, who was basic. Once again, Kameron turned out her lip sync and sent Monét packing from the competition, breaking my heart in the process.

Back in the Werk Room the queens lamented their loss, though didn’t seem interested in missing her and the damn sponges. As the queens anointed Kameron this season’s lip sync assassin, she shared that TBH she would rather be eliminated rather than have to wipe off her message. This got Asia riled up, since she would rather Kameron just quit if she would rather be in Monét’s shoes. Cracker being the sweetest, told her to focus on doing Monét proud before chucking her a sponge and getting her to wipe away the message. I assume in honour of both her entrance look and first runway. The queens took some time out to congratulate Cracker, well except for Asia who kinda felt like she is lacking that star power and as such, needs to go. Eureka was proud to still have Kameron, Aquaria was proud of herself and Cracker appears to have found her confidence.

The top five returned to the Werk Room for this week’s Drag Brunch mini-challenge where the queens were tasked with dragging up a pancake and giving it an absurd backstory. So, kinda like this place? Anyway Ru was joined by guest judge Cheyenne Jackson, who was tasked with eating the girls cakes and all of a sudden, I wish I was there with he and Kameron. Speaking of which Kameron’s pancake Patty Puta was a sex-positive queen, Miz’s Miss Wedding Cake was a trashy hen, Asia’s girl Panquisha was a glorious junky, appearing inspired Eureka’s Cindy Ann was thirsty and loves heroin while Aquaria was artsy with Pancake’s Labrinyth and I love her, despite it not looking overly edible. Once again Asia took out the mini-challenge, though Cheyenne’s twins are the true winners getting to smash Panquisha when he got home.

With Cheyenne ushered out, Ru announced that this week’s maxi challenge would pit the queens against their inner-saboteur – Nina Bonina Brown forever – strutting the runway as both their best and worst selves, complete with killer commentary. Bravely Eureka asked the queens to help her identify her best and worst qualities, leading to all the girls helping each other out. The takeaways being Eureka looks expensive though doesn’t shut up and Miz Cracker never lets her guard down.

Ru returned to kiki with the Queens, with Asia proudly wearing only outfits she made and sharing that her bad side will highlight her comfort being angry and dark. Eureka too was working on a look for her evil twin, who spends her time berating herself for her weight and being talentless. Aquaria was focused on looking glorious and having an evil twin that encourages her to drink to work through being shy, which, preach … however Ru was not sold, forcing Aquaria to get introspective and up her self-loathing game. Cracker and Ru worked through her desire to produce how people see her and letting go of control so the judges can see her for who she is. Kameron was focusing on staying out of the bottom – damn – using what she has left in her suitcase to get her sab-o-tore dressed up. She and Ru then did a deepdive on her shyness and tried to add some depth to her reads. RudePaul then joined RuPaul to talk some smack and show the girls how it is done. With Ru gone, the girls started working on their monologues before Miz Cracker had a breakdown over her issues with a sewing machine. Thankfully Eureka gave her a pep talk, got her head back in the game and told her to style something she already has rather than force herself to make something.

Elimination day rolled around with Kameron and Cracker terrified about lip syncing, showing that their inner saboteurs were firmly in control. The rest of the queens agreed that Michelle Visage just may be their inner saboteurs. The girls spoke about how their confidence was affected by doing drag, with all of them agreeing that their confidence as men had taken a hit. Aquaria then spoke about the magic of peeing clear, with Cracker admitting to being close to death since her pee is fluro. No joke. That is where we left off.

On the mainstage, Kameron’s good side served comic queen realness though her evil side put her in her place and TBH, looked better. Eureka’s good side served Cher Horowitz realness, while her bad side also slayed however her eyes kinda showed she was going through liver failure. Cracker’s good side was glorious Marie Antoinette while her bad side didn’t seem to work for the challenge, though as a prehistoric look slayed. Aquaria served pastel realness for her good side while was a bloody vicious diva for her bad side. Asia’s good side was a cross between a calippo and a cat, but in a good way while her bad side slayed in all black and bald head.

The judges felt Kameron looked good but didn’t seem to go in hard enough, they ate up everything Eureka was serving, they loved Cracker’s good side though felt the bad side felt completely detached from the competition and her voiceover was still too produced. Aquaria received universal praise and the judges couldn’t get enough. Asia slayed the runway, with the judges loving everything and Michelle going so far as to admit she was wrong to critique her balloons. Ru asked the good twins to exit before asking the bad queens to identify who should go home, with Kameron wanting Aquaria to go home, Eureka thinking Cracker should go home, Cracker thinking she would be in the bottom with Kameron, Aquaria wanted Kameron out and Asia thought it was Cracker’s time to go as she wasn’t a star.

As expected Kameron landed in the bottom two while Eureka and Asia were deemed safe, leaving Aquaria to take out her third challenge of the season and Cracker to see if she can fare better against Kameron in a lip sync. Both queens served their inner nasty girl in the lip sync, however once against nothing and no one could complete with Kameron’s acrobatics as Cracker was sent from the competition and Kameron lived to lip sync another day.

Poor Cracker only seemed to be able to get out of her head for one glorious moment this season, so I focused on lifting my dear friend up and reminded her that she is beautiful, she looks like a model. Did she stone those … sorry, Valentina tangent. Anyway – I’ve known Crack for years and while she admittedly is thin white a salty, I decided she needed something more to cheer her up. Like a Miz Prawn Cracker.

Melt in your mouth, these babies were the absolute joy of my childhood until I discovered that prawn crackers contain prawns. Then they were dead to me until later in life, drunk, I let them back in and have never looked back. While manhandling the prawns and making them from scratch can take away from some of the magic, they are even more delicious. So thanks to Oh, The Things We’ll Make who I shamelessly ripped the recipe from.

Enjoy!

Miz Prawn Cracker
Serves: 8-12.

Ingredients
250g prawns, peeled and depoop-shooted
250g tapioca flour
¾ tsp salt
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp onion powder
½ tsp black pepper
½ tsp Chinese five spice
½ tsp baking powder
vegetable oil, for fryin’

Method
Place the prawns in a food processor and blitz until completely pureed. Add the flour and spices and blitz to form a thick dough. Remove from the processor and knead on a clean working surface, dusted with tapioca flour and shape into a thick, large sausage shape.

Get a steamer going. Once rollicking, place the dough-sausage on baking paper and steam for an hour, or until rubbery … making sure to add water as required. Remove and allow to cool.

Cut the dough into thin discs and allow to completely dry into hard discs. I used an oven at its lowest heat.

When you’re ready to rock, get the vegetable oil nice and hot and cook the crackers a couple of time until they pop up to surface and expand like a poppadom. Remove to kitchen paper and repeat the process until done.

Then, obvi, devour.

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Honey X Changken

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the queens ventured to Breastworld where Monét, Asia and Aquaria shone brightly. On the flipside, Kameron struggled with the lead role – despite the greatest Yetta to ever grace the mainstage – and Eureka faded into the background. That was until they were forced to lip sync for their lives where they well and truly bought it, pounding the ground in unison and slaying Ru to the point they both shantayed … which was convenient since I watched the episode with Laganja.

The continued top six returned to the Werk Room with Kameron and Eureka thrilled to still be alive in the competition, much to the chagrin of Aquaria. Who. Was. Well. Pissed. She then when to town talking about how disappointing it is for her to not be in the top five now since she has slayed the competition, while someone who is obviously Kameron has skated by. Though since Kameron won last week and Monét and Cracker have never had a win. Thankfully this pissed off the rest of the girls, particularly Asia who was annoyed by how rude she was being and just didn’t want to hear it.

The queens ruturned to the Werk Room the next day with Aquaria immediately taking the time to apologise to both Kameron and Eureka, and thank Asia for checking her. Boo. Damn gurl … is she playing for Miss Congeniality? Ru dropped by for this week’s mini challenge where the queens would be required to masc it up and pose for the campaign for his new body spray trade. Kameron was up first chopping wood, while I was obviously getting … even before he spoke about coming and taking off his shirt. BRB, I need to go … do … something. Aqauria obviously struggled, Monét was hilarious though couldn’t seem to take his flair out of his butch look. Eureka was eerily masc, Cracker has a tight body and while Asia struggled to be masculine, the lip licking near did me in. Once again poor Kameron was robbed of his victory, with Eureka taking out the win.

We weren’t allowed to dwell on Kameron’s robbery for long with Ru introducing six social media influencers and challenging the queens to make them over into their drag sisters. On account of her win, Eureka was tasked with pairing up the girls and the influencers and based of Ru reading Aquaria for being nice last week, she is going to be shady as hell with these partnerships. Monét was paired with Tyler Oakley, Chester See was given to Cracker, Aquaria was paired with Kingsley, Anthony Padilla and Kameron were paired to give us some sexy fan-fic, Asia was given Raymond Braun which left Eureka with the closest one to a drag queen already, Frankie Grande. Much to everyone’s concern since they’re both as loud as each other.

The influencers got to know they’re queens, with Asia putting her pageant coaching skills to good use bonding with Raymond immediately. They then looked through Asia’s wardrobe and Raymond fell in love with a large sequinned jacket – which is amazing – and since Asia is glorious, she vowed to make a matching jacket for Raymond and use it as a base for their look. Monét and Tyler were getting on famously, lining up a name – Short Change – and laughing a lot. Much to the nerves of Asia and Raymond, since they believe they need to focus. We then checked in with Miz Cracker to discover that – gag of the season – Chester See is straight which made me extremely uncomfortable … but I’ll be inclusive. Cracker was nervous about how she will do, on account of being quiet, reserved and having a beard – on top of the heterosexuality.

Meanwhile over with Frankie and Eureka, Frankie was giving the not-so-brief history of his life on Broadway, trying to make it in LA and Big Brother. We then learnt that our fan-fiction is gone to shit as we learnt that Anthony Padilla is also straight which made Kameron as nervous as me. Kameron tried to explain hyper feminine drag and they both just seemed super awks. Lastly we checked in with Aquaria who still struggles to assemble sentenced, though part of me think that this time it is because of a crush on Kingsley. Though … maybe that is my replacement fan-fic? The queens put the men to work trying to walk in heels and it was glorious.

Ru dropped by to see how Chester and Cracker were getting along before praising Chester’s junk in the trunk. Ru was concerned about the fact that both of them are hyper reserved before sharing that Cracker needs to get out of her head and just let go. Meanwhile over at Tyler and Monét, Tyler was also praised for being thick and / or juicy which made him hella red. Though they don’t seem to have a gameplan for family resemblance, so it could be interesting. Anthony was scared about letting Kameron down due to his straightness, before Kameron said he wasn’t attractive leading to Ru wanting to beat him down and me beat him off. They then named her Kelly Michaels and Ru wanted to key her car. Raymond was still living his best life in Asia’s jacket by the time Ru arrived to check-in with Asia sharing that they are really similar and are getting along famously. Frankie continued to be way too much which is perfect for familial resemblance since Eureka is also too much. Eureka then admitted she was crafty when pairing up the queens and hoped to send some of the girls home. Speaking of which, Aquaria was making it appear like the plan backfired, full of confidence and ready to own the challenge.

Frankie proved to have something likeable, with Eureka identifying he has massive balls. Which TBH, is enough to make me give him a chance. The queens put their drag babies to work practicing in heels, except for Cracker and Chester who instead focussed on practicing and solidifying their bond. So that Cracker can finally snatch a win.

Elimination Day rolled around with the influencers being glued, shaved and snatched for the runway. Anthony and Kameron continued to bond about being quiet, Tyler shared his lack of self-confidence and that his fear on The Amazing Race was having to show body. Raymond questioned Eureka about her plan when pairing up the queens, with Eureka admitting she was hoping to lead someone down the the path of elimination. Raymond – kween – then asked why that included herself. While that made the queens cackle, it was interrupted by the unveiling of Miz Cookie who was loving herself sick like Alyssa Edwards. But damn, was she beautiful.

On the runway Ru brought the Vanjie references back after a one week hiatus, Vanjie-ing off said runway to make way for the queens and their drag family members. Asia and America O’Hara looked glorious in their jackets, Eureka and Eufreaka – which sounds like a certain salad, no? – looked like Ursula does Dynasty with a mini side-kick. Aquaria and Capricia Corn were both wearing red, but that is kind of the only thing looking the same. Despite having matchy make-up. Cookie and Cracker slayed and let’s just hand them this week’s win. Monét and Short Change didn’t really pull of family, but they looked fun and Monét looked great sans the pussycat. Kameron looked great, obviously, though Kelly wasn’t really selling the family resemblance. Though I wouldn’t have messed with them in High School.

The judges loved everything about Asia and America, and Eureka and Eufreaka, they didn’t get Aquaria and Capricia and rightfully felt Cracker and Cookie slayed the competition. They felt Short Change was beautifully thick and Monét looked stunning, though that they had missed the point of having a familial look. They didn’t love Kameron and Kelly, feeling the looks were basic and that they also missed the point of having a family resemblance. Ultimately Asia and Eureka were safe – much to Frankie’s disappoint not to win – before Cracker snatched her well deserved first win. Once again Kameron found herself in the bottom two before Aquaria was saved and Monét sent in to lip sync, much to Tyler’s annoyance. As they are wont to do, both Monét and Kameron turned the lip sync out. There was hair tossing and both girls channeling their drag essence before Kameron started cartwheeling and doing the splits, and Monét slid down the runway and busted a light. Ultimately Aquaria was correct that there would be no more saves as Kameron was once again lived to sync another day and poor Monét sent from the competition in sixth place.

As a close personal friend of the ‘the Drag Queen’ drag family and its broader circle, I knew Monét would be heartbroken to have been eliminated. And have to cop the shade of previous reigning Bob. So instead of dwelling on her robbery, I focused on how she slayed the competition and should be a shoo-in for the finale in the inevitable All Stars 4. Lest there be no more rigga morris, amirite Shangie? Anyway – we laughed, we death drop fake-outed and smashed a shit tonne of Honey X Changken.

Like my girl Mo, this Australian Chinese take-away favourite is sweet, beloved and totally delicious. I mean, crispy fried chicken, slathered in sweet honey – name a more iconic duo.

Enjoy!

Honey X Changken
Serves: 6.

Ingredients
¼ cup cornflour, plus 1 tsp for the sauce
¼ cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup water, split between the batter and the sauce
1 egg, lightly whisked
salt and pepper, to taste
500g chicken breasts, diced
vegetable oil, for fryin’
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp ginger, minced
6 garlic cloves, minced
¼ cup honey
1 tsp cooking sake
sesame seeds, to serve

Method
Combine the quarter-cup of cornflour with the flour, baking powder, half the water, egg and a good whack of salt and pepper, to taste, until a smooth batter forms. Fold through the chicken pieces, cover and leave to rest for an hour.

When you’re ready to get super-fry, heat 1-2 inches of oil in a dutch oven until piping hot. Working a couple of pieces at a time, cook the chicken for a couple of minutes, or until crisp, golden and most importantly, cooked through. Transfer to paper towels on a cooling rack and repeat until done.

To make the sauce, heat the sesame oil in a pan over high heat. Add the garlic and ginger and stir-fry for a few seconds before adding the cornflour, followed by the honey, sake, remaining water and a good whack of salt and pepper. Remove from the heat, toss through the chicken and serve immediately, garnished with sesame seeds.

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Lasanja Estranja

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race, Kameron finally awakened the beast in Cher: The Unauthorised Rusical and slayed the queens with her spot-on Cher. Meanwhile The Vixen had a breakthrough and spoke to Asia about her feelings and why she behaves the way she does – spoiler alert: fear and pain, like everyone. Sadly for her, her performance wasn’t a breakthrough, nor was Asia’s awful Moonstruck-era Cher as the new friends landing in the bottom with the third time not proving a charm for The Vixen, and she was sent from the competition.

The remaining queens returned to the Werk Room to discover that The Vixen channelled the All Stars 3 girls, leaving a cryptic, nasty message for Eureka. Thankfully Eureka knows how to play the game and said that while they didn’t get along, she was impressed by her talent. Eureka for Miss Congeniality?! JK Kimora. Anyway, Asia too was putting on a brave face saying that she desperately needed to lip sync to wake her up (Pearl) and recharge her drag batteries. The queens then congratulated Kameron, who still seemed to be shocked by her win and just seemed so awkward and endearing and I love her even more. Someone who isn’t lacking confidence however is Aquaria who argued that her bottom three placement was not a bottom three placement … despite being a fucking bottom three placement. She then acknowledged her confidence and shared that she wanted them all gone, so she could win which led to an argument with Asia about sportsmanship which you just know is going to come back and bite her. Bottoms up, I guess. For Kameron, swoon.

Back in the Werk Room the next day the queens joked about how empty the Werk Room is and how boring slash young Aquaria. Proving to be the latest gag of the season, Stephen Colbert interrupted their Kiki to issue this week’s challenge tease before Ru joined them to announce this week’s glorious mini challenge. Which required a super sized pit crew in long shorts. With the queens tasked with finding the Pit Crew-ers with matching underwear. And just like that, I passed out from dehydration. Sorry – I’m typing one handed, so you won’t get a full run down though Ru – praise the gay gods – made them all twerk before Aquaria won.

With victory under Aquaria’s belt, she was given the option to assign the roles in this week’s main challenge, where the Queens would act in the premium cable drama about a theme park full of drag queen robots – yas bish, it’s Breastworld! Shocking everyone, Aquaria allowed them to pick their own roles as a way to form a friendship and behave in a sportsmanlike manner. Miz Cracker snagged herself the main, while Asia picked one of the smallest making her nervous. Though not as nervous as Aquaria who took the scrap role that nobody wanted, quickly discovering why nobody wanted it.

Ru returned for his walkaround with Aquaria sharing that she gave everyone the chance to select their role to make friends, with Ru questioning why that makes sense before encouraging her to make the few-lined role her bitch. Monet was mixing up her wigs and was hoping to finally take a win, Eureka was confident in playing herself – essentially – while Kameron appeared nervous before Ru gave her a pep talk to bring more personality. Asia felt she was playing the role of her aunts before Ru brought up her shocking performance of Beyonce and gave her one hell of a pep talk, putting the one for Kameron to shame. Rounding things out, Ru rubbed Cracker’s face in her inability to snatch a win and encouraged her to be less rehearsed.

Ross and Michelle joined the queens to direct the girl’s Breastworld shoot which, TBH, was kind of an epic mess with Cracker and Eureka playing it flat and Kameron was just bad. Thankfully Monet and Aquaria were there, otherwise there would have been zero joy. Though Michelle and Ross seemed to enjoy Asia, so that is a thing. But we really only saw a line … so maybe it will be good?

The top six returned for elimination day, with Kameron 100% sure that he will be lip syncing. As was Eureka, who selected her runway outfit sorted partly based on its comfort for a lip sync. The queens then discussed aging before Aquaria spoke about her mentor, Amanda Lepore and respecting the elders of their community. Which is literally all of the other queens. There was kiki-ing about dating as a drag queen, sisterhood and it was just really nice.

Ru, Michelle and Ross were joined by my two favourite kweens – YAS YAS YAS – Illana and Abbi. Yas kween, le Broads de Broad City. I am in heaven, damnit. Miz Cracker kicked off the Silver Foxy runway, channelling Devil Wear’s Prada Meryl. Asia brought comedy to her future old drag queen, Monet was hilarious as a drunk mess with her titties dragging on the floor, Aquaria tried to look like a fierce old queen before Eureka and Kameron pulled out a killer one-two punch – well Kameron did – as Sylvia and Yetta Fine. I mean, he bombed the challenge but damn did Kameron slay the runway. Meanwhile Breastworld – expertly narrated by Stephen Colbert – played out exactly as you’d expect with Kameron, Cracker and Eureka bombing while Monet and Aquaria owned the performance before Asia turned her third act role into a shining moment.

The judges loved Cracker’s look though hated the fact she got caught in her head in the challenge. They loved Kameron’s runway though as expected, felt she was the worst in Breastworld. The judges brought everything Monet was selling, felt Aquaria was participating in a different runway though loved her performance in Breastworld and though Eureka fell flat in both instances. Rounding things out, they loved Asia’s performance in Breastworld though weren’t sure about her look.

Ultimately both Monet and Aquaria were robbed of a win by Asia, while Kameron and Eureka landed in the bottom two as Cracker avoided the lipsync by the skin of her teeth. Both queens slayed the performance, as Kameron came out of her shell and Eureka mopped the floor with her kooch despite the busted knee. By the time it came to their synchronised lip syncs and Kameron’s vogueing while splitting, the judges were whooping and cheering before Ru declared both queens safe due to their killer performances. Not before pranking Eureka though.

While I was gagged to see a double shantay, I started to feel very attacked by the scheduling … until I remembered I was sitting next to my dear friend Laganja Estranja and I could post about her instead. Which is particularly convenient since she was quoted by Aquaria, okkkkkkkkkkkrrrrrrr?

Anyway as you know, I have a close relationship with the Haus of Edwards – when will Ganja join Alyssa (and again) and Shangie as a robbed goddess of All Stars? – and as such, have known Laganja since she was knee high to a drag-pig’s eye. And worked as part of the team to push her onto Drag Race.

Her run on Drag Race was hella exciting, with the highest of highs – not in the way she’d like – and the lowest of lows (see: untucked) but make no mistake, Ganja is an icon and she needs to return. Whether she likes it or not. Which I reiterated over and over while whipping up a big fat Lasanja Extranja.

Part sandwich, part cake and part whatever else the screenshot of a tweet I saw on Instagram said, lasagne is quite possibly the greatest meal. And this classic version, is so damn good. Also – shout out to Fame Hungry superfan – I said what I said, and don’t make me change it – Glenn X / DeLaCreme who suggested this needed to happen.

And as it was tweeted, so it be done. So enjoy … particularly you Glenn.

(How could you not when you’re devouring meat and creamy sauce, though)?

Lasanja Estranja
Serves: 6.

Ingredients
1 quantity Dolognese Parton
80g butter
¼ cup flour
¼ tsp nutmeg
salt and pepper, to taste
1L milk
¾ cup grated parmesan cheese
250g lasagne sheets
¾ cup grated mozzarella

Method
Make the Dolognese and set aside while you get saucy, okkkkkkkrrrrrrr?

Preheat oven to 160°C.

Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until foamy before whisking in the flour, nutmeg and a good whack of salt and pepper. Cook stirring for a minute or so, or until the flouriness has left the mixture. Remove from the heat and whisk in the milk until no lumps remain. Return to the heat and cook, stirring, until it starts to thicken. Stir in the parmesan and remove from heat.

To assemble, spread a quarter of the dolognese over the base of a baking dish. Layer with lasagne sheets and spoon over a quarter of the bechamel sauce. Top with another quarter of dolognese and repeat the process, finishing with the last quarter of bechamel. Make it feel very attacked by smothering with mozzarella and transfer to the oven to bake for 45 minutes or until the pasta is tender. Unlike the way Untucked treated her.

Allow to rest for ten minutes or so before devouring, mawma.

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The Sexon the Beach

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Previously on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the queens were put through their paces on Snatch Game with Eureka, Aquaria and Monet slaying and Asia and The Vixen doing the worst mother daughter duo as Bey and Blue. Thankfully for Asia her Shape of Water inspired mermaid look saved her and sent a subpar Monique into the bottom two to be slaughter by The Vixen and sent from the competition.

The girls returned to the Werk Room to discover that Monique firmly blamed herself for not knowing the lyrics, which is good because at least she doesn’t make excuses. Asia was upset to lose her friend, while The Vixen was upset that literally everyone else wanted her to go airing her grievances like it was Festivus. As such, it didn’t take long for her fight with Eureka to start up again with Eureka confused about what happened and The Vixen dancing around just being upset. Thankfully it kind of fizzled out, allowing Monet to congratulate Aquaria on her win and then shade her by saying how shocking it was, and she thought it would have gone to her or Eureka.

Back in the Werk Room the next day, Kameron was proud to have made it as far as he did and was proud to have found his place in the competition. He then sat down to arm wrestle Asia, only to be interrupted by my dear friend Chad Michaels implying that this week’s challenge would involve Cher, bitch. Before we could get any details, Ru joined the queens for this week’s mini challenge where they were required to snap out of it and bait Ru until they have to take a big ol’ bitch slap. While all the queens – minus Eureka, TBH – were hilarious, they couldn’t compete with Asia. Though since Ru actually connected with her, it kind of gave her an advantage.

With that out of the way, Ru announced that this week’s maxi challenge would see them doing a live unauthorised musical based on Cher’s life, with each queen allocated a different era of her career. Kameron got ‘60s, Monet and The Vixen followed with the ‘70s, Aquaria will do disco, Asia snagged moviestar Eureka will be rockstar and Miz Cracker would serve comeback Cher.

Kameron was feeling anxious based on the fact she is a lip syncer not a singer, though based on the queens singing to themselves, she shouldn’t be. Ru arrived to chat to the girls, with Asia admitting that she also could not sing and felt this would be a lot of work since it isn’t her most iconic era – her victorious Oscar look begs to differ – and her only experience acting was bombing Snatch Game. On the flipside while Kameron wasn’t confident in her voice but seemed to have her head in the game and was ready to finally snag a win. Please do, my love. Monet was feeling confident based on the fact she is a trained Opera singer … though was concerned by the fact she is a baritone. She was planning to channel Carol Burnett’s version of Cher though, so I’m feeling confident. Eureka was concerned about singing live, Mix Cracker concerned Ru when suggesting making age jokes and The Vixen was semi-confident based on lip syncing to Cher previously, which TBH, hasn’t everybody? She then told Ru that everyone hates her and I am over listening to it. Aquaria then gave everyone a laugh, confident in her five notes and giving Ru a teaser. As soon as Ru left, Cracker asked her if she felt nervous after seeing Ru … which she was not. Though she probs should be.

The queens arrived to rehearse on the mainstage and were met by my frenemy Todrick Hall. Kameron struggled with singing live and couldn’t get out of his head, The Vixen nailed her choreography but also struggled with singing while Cracker was overwhelmed by her requirement to dance with a microphone timed to the beat. Thankfully for all of them Asia was worse, forgetting her lyrics and not channeling Cher at all. Well, until Eureka who spent the time negotiating to only focus on choreography and not sing until she gets it. She then shared a story where her dad asked her to sing for his friends as a kid, got nervous, stopped and it lead to an altercation and while I’m confused, seemed extremely sad.

Elimination day rolled around with Aquaria rolling her make-up station closer to the other queens to try and solidify their friendships. Seeing that Eureka was still feeling down, Monet pulled her aside to try and get her head in the game. The queens then threw some shade and kikkied before Kameron asked then all to fall and trip and give her a win. Miz then shared a heartbreaking story from her childhood when they were desperately poor and lived off shiners, unlabelled cans, and would have to guess if dinner would be food or condiment. Asia pulled The Vixen aside to see if they could work through her issues, with her expertly identifying where she is coming from and helping her out. And now I want to watch a spin-off where they hang out and Asia coaches her to victory in an All Stars. It’s almost like she has experience dealing with someone that’s extremely talented but gets into their head and takes it out on others? Off topic, her daughter is Phi Phi. Just remember.

Ru, Michelle and Carson were joined by Andrew Rannells and Billy Eichner for the first and last performance of Cher: The Unauthorised Rusical. Kameron kicked things off extremely strongly, followed by Monet who slayed the performance further exacerbated by The Vixen struggling to match her. Aquaria was ok as the disco queen, though looked a lot better when Asia performed. Eureka had chutzpah but struggled with the notes while Cracker brought down the house before the queens united for the finale, further highlighting the fact Kameron had Cher down.

While it honestly isn’t just my thirst speaking, Kameron also looked stunning on the runway while Monet was body positive, though he looked just seemed to be missing something. The Vixen looked beautiful in her jagged cardboard number, Aquaria showed up this year’s Met Gala attendees and Asia channeled Bianca Del Rio in her clown look. Eureka looked like a disco ball and I was confused by Cracker, but I kind of loved it. The judges loved Kameron’s look and performance, feeling like she was the most ‘Cher’ of the queens. Michelle and Carson felt let down by the nipple covers and tape in Monet’s look, but loved her performance. Everyone loved The Vixen’s runway, though thought her performance was ok but was nothing like Cher. They loved Aquaria’s look but felt her performance was mixed. Asia’s look was ok, though hated her performance. Michelle hated Eureka’s make-up – note, she hates stripes as well as dots … RIP Dusty – and the judges felt like while she started off slowly, her performance warmed up well. The judges liked everything Cracker did but I don’t feel they loved it.

Poor Monet just missed out on victory with my dear love Kameron finally taking out her first win of the season. Eureka and Cracker were declared safe, before Aquaria narrowly avoided the bottom two leaving Asia and The Vixen to lip sync. To Deee-Lite and NOT CHER, BITCH. While both queens slayed said non-Cher lip sync, Asia was saved (or appeared to be) by her superior track record and The Vixen was tearfully sent from the competition.

Given the fact that both The Vixen and I are passionate about what we believe in and like to stand up for said beliefs, we’re the best of friends despite often feuding for weeks after screaming at each other. While you may love her or hate her, we’ve all been gagging for some drama and my girl has brought it week after week and made things exciting, whilst also providing some killer, smart drag. As such, I held her close while she sobbed about the lost opportunity and toasted her performance with a The Sexon the Beach.

Is the name clunky? Sure. But fuck my drag if it isn’t damned near perfection. A little bit sweet, a little tart and packing a killer punch, it is everything The Vixen is and more.

Enjoy!

The Sexon the Beach
Serves: 1

Ingredients
2 shots vodka
½ shot peach liqueur
2 shots orange juice
2 shots cranberry juice
orange slices and maraschino cherries, to garnish

Method
Fill a highball with ice.

Top with the ingredients.

Garnish with a slice of orange and a maraschino cherry.

Down.

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