It's another Super Saturday!

It's another Super Saturday here at Rebeckann's Random Thoughts & Recipes!  I've got another SUPER list of things for you:

1. Again, I must welcome my SUPER new followers!  So many of you have hopped on board thanks to Tarole's giveaway!  Thank you. :)

2. I've been watching the SUPER show, The Taste on ABC Tuesdays at 8/7c.  On Tuesday night, I won a gift card from Whole Foods thanks to my "snarky" tweets.  No seriously, that's what they said:

A @wholefoods giftcard for @rebeckann2 for being so snarky :)

— Influenster (@Influenster) February 27, 2013

It was pretty SUPER to win something.  There is just one problem....the only Whole Foods store close to me is about 2 hours away.....suggestions?

3. I am SUPER excited to have another SUPER sponsor on my sidebar!!  Welcome to Elizabeth from The Young Retiree.  Check her out below:

 

"Hello! My name is Elizabeth and I write a little blog called The Young Retiree! After getting married and moving to the west coast, I became a stay at home wife, but my retirement has been busier than I thought it would be! I've recently begun living the dream of selling CHOCOLATES through Lindt Chocolates R.S.V.P! YUM! Over on my blog I'm talking all about my main goal of getting healthy this year, my weight loss journey, training for my first 5K, my other huge goal of having a weekly date night with my husband- our crazy adventures and fun times! You'll find random recipes, tips, and tricks in there too!"

Keep up-to-date with Elizabeth!

 

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Also, stay tuned for a guest post from Elizabeth in the future.  She'll be sharing something chocolately, I'm sure! :)

Don't forget, you can get featured in a SUPER Saturday post, share a guest post, get social media shout-outs, and have the option to participate in a giveway, too!  Just visit my sponsor shop now!

That's all for this week's SUPER Saturday!

My Review of "The Taste"

I love food!  So when Influenster asked me to unlock The Taste badge and get involved with the show The Taste, I thought it would be a fun idea!  The Taste is a cooking competition show that airs on ABC at 8/7c on Tuesdays. 

The show is similar to The Voice in its setup.  There are four judges: Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre, Brian Malarkey, and Anthony Bourdain.  Each judge has chosen a team of cooks who are asked to make different food creations each week.  The first task is a team competition.  Each team works to create a specified food.  The team decides on the best dish, which they serve on a spoon to the guest judges.  These judges pick a winner out of the four, and the winner earns immunity from the elimination and the team gets the advice of the guest experts throughout the next challenge.  After the team competition, the cooks work to make their best food to fit the theme for the show.  Again, these are served up on a spoon, and their coaches do a blind taste test.  The coaches taste ALL of the foods and pick their best and worst.  The contestants who made the best and worst meals are revealed.  Sometimes the coaches are thrilled that one of their cooks made a best meal, and other times, they are sorely surprised that their cooks made a worst meal.  The "bests" share their creations, recieve feedback, and are sent to safety.  The "worsts" discuss their dishes and the judges choose whom to send home.

The Taste is fun to watch!  Although I like to cook, I know nothing about creating my own dishes or how to combine these flavors for this effect....basically, I can follow a recipe and make relatively decent food.  So sometimes, I get a little lost as to what they're actually doing.  haha  Last week's episode, "The Art of the Sandwich" took the simple idea of a sandwich and made it advanced!  You would think that making sandwiches would be easy, but it didn't really turn out that way. The two eliminated contestants, Mia & Huda, made some pretty big mistakes.  Mia chose to make her own bread for the sandwich, but it was burned.  Huda used chicken for her sandwich, but it wasn't fully cooked.  This elimination sent Anthony Bourdain's first contestant packing (Mia), and Huda's departure leaves Nigella with only one cook in the kitchen. 

Nigella is my favorite judge, probably because she's the underdog at this point.  With only one cook left, she could easily be out of competitors this coming week.  There's just something about rooting for the underdog!

All in all, if you haven't seen The Taste, it's definitely worth checking out!  :)  Tune in on Tuesday at 8/7c on ABC for Episode 6: Nose to Tail.  THAT should be interesting....