Saturday, January 30, 2016

BMN Celebrity Superfan New Orleans: Episode 3

For this episode, the teams come together to work on the backyard.  It will include playground equipment, a ball pit, a bounce house, tables, chairs, and a fire pit.  Shandi stops the work to make an announcement: Each team is now tasked with decorating the planters that will go outside!  The winning team in this part of the challenge gets the advantage for the dinner challenge.

Team Sadie's "patriotic" design of red roses and white and blue tulips is judged better than Team Shawn's hydrangeas in a vase shaped like an ancient Egyptian urn.

The week's dinner challenge asks the team to cook and serve a Cajun-inspired meal for 150 clients of the Bluebird Fund, who are attending a national convention in New Orleans.  The Fund pays for funerals, memorials, and living expenses for those who have suddenly lost loved ones or close friends.  Brenda Barefoot will attend the event, and will decide the winning team with help from guest feedback, and the losing team has someone who goes home.  As the advantage, Team Sadie has access to modern cooking items; Team Shawn can only use traditional cooking implements like pot-bellied stoves and fireplaces.

Both teams started with gumbo appetizers.  Sadie Robertson's menu is then followed by crawfish etouffee and bananas Foster.  Meanwhile, Shawn Michaels' team makes open-faced po'boy sandwiches, Cajun-style French fries, and pralines.

It was a close vote, but Team Sadie wins and gains immunity for the second week in a row.  Brenda cites her leadership skills and consistent plating and taste.

At judging, Shawn Michaels calls out Nick and Brooke as the weakest competitors.  Brooke, he complains, put too much salt in the gumbo and placed too few fish in the etouffee.  As for Nick, Shawn calls him out for misreading the recipes, forcing them to correct some of the items just in time for service.  "What could I really do differently," Nick insists.  "I couldn't really cook the food."  In response, Brandon McLamb plays back his audition video in which Nick's wife details how he sometimes help his wife cook.  Nick shoots back, "Not complicated food like that."

In the end, Nick's attitude problem is deemed worse than Brooke's complete lack of cooking sense, and the limbless one is sent home.  In the confessional, he says, "If I learned anything from this, it's that I should always be grateful for what I have and take pride in who I am and what I've done.  Very unfortunately, I made a critical mistake in the judging and I accept what I did and move on."

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