Byron, Top Chef and color me Green

For Valentines Day this year Byron took Scotty to Universal Studios. For the record, Scotty loved it. I stayed home because I was too, too sick. When they called me from Universal Studios the next day, I got even more sick. Look what was filming there!

The FINALS for the Top Chef summer competition between professional chefs and judges from the show. Have I mentioned that this is my FAVORITE show? In my dream world, I am a chef. I dream of whipping up some exotic dish with spices I have never heard of. I make the best chocolate everything I can imagine. I cook scallops with perfection, I am sought after and praised for my skills, talents and creativity. That's the wonderful thing about daydreaming, you can be what ever tickles your fancy. Until reality hits and slams you back into the real world. HATE that.

So anyway, I digress...Byron and Scotty were just walking around and saw the sign. Being the Mr. Nosy that he is, Byron asked what was going on. Next thing he knows, he has a wrist band and is going to be inside where the competition is, tasting the food and JUDGING it! Color me green with envy. (just make it a pretty shade please.) Scotty got to go in also, but he couldn't taste the food because he was under 13. BUT...they liked him so they set him in places and told him what to do and filmed him. Scotty's TV debut will be sometime this summer.

I guess I should mention that there were signs everywhere..."No Photography". I think if you take the pictures on your i-phone, and do it very secretively, it doesn't count because technically, it's not a camera, per se.
Do you agree?






The four finalists, narrowed down from 24. It was hard to get pictures from the front, too many guards.

When Byron told me what the competition was about, I was a little less green with envy and a little greener around the gills. Maybe it was a good thing I wasn't there. The competition was the finals and the ingredients were ORGAN meats. Like, as in, Hearts, Tongue, Stomach and something else gross. The chefs had to make a "street food" using one of the organs. Ew.
So Byron tasted everything and Scotty even took a couple of bites of Byron's stuff. (I tell you, that kid is a stud.) They LOVED the tongue tacos. (It grosses me out a bit JUST to type it....!)Byron got three helpings of the tacos so they interviewed and filmed him. The whole thing took about two hours because they had already done the cooking.




(It cracks me up how appetizing they make the food sound!)

For me, even though I think Bacon is natures' perfect food, even bacon wouldn't disguise the fact that I was eating a cow tongue. Gives me the heebie jeebies!! ew.

So, I missed my chance for Top Chef. I think I'll stick with Project Runway, it's safer than my other two favs, Survivor and Amazing Race, and no gross food is involved. ( Just measurements, which are also scary). The grass is always greener somewhere else isn't it?


PS. We love Top Chef, life stands still around our house at 7:00 on Wednesday. This year we are all rooting for Carla, who is the new background on our desktop. Thank you Jeff, now change it immediately. It's driving me crazy.

Doesn't that just make you dizzy?