Have you guys been watching Top Chef? I've been watching but got a little behind on the blogging, unfortunately.

Last week, the contestants split into teams and created dishes for a fund-raiser at a zoo. There were some highs and lows, but in the end, Valerie was sent home. She was teamed up with Stephanie (who she already knew before the show) and Antonia. She made a blini dish that didn't really go anywhere, and her departure wasn't a huge surprise, but for me the most unfortunate thing was the relationship among the members of the team. The three women got very middle-school on each other. I felt like Antonia came in and became the alpha (the queen bee, perhaps?) and kind of pushed Valerie aside, and she never really recovered from that. Plus, it would have been nice if Valerie's teammates had told her they didn't think her dish was going to work, but they seem to have kept that to themselves. Oh, well.

On last night's show, the chefs were split into two teams to cook food for a block party in Chicago. The twist was, they had to get all their ingredients from the homes of the people on that block. Thankfully, many of them had already shopped for the party, so it wasn't like they got stuck with wilted lettuce and old sour cream or something. But still, much different from heading to Whole Foods.

The red team went for classic picnic type of foods (pasta salad, sliders, corn dogs), and blue decided to go a little more gourmet. Unfortunately, despite a whole lot of posturing, it didn't go that well for anyone.

At eliminations, the blue team got called in first and was taken to task for its problems, so the team members assumed they'd lost. But no, Stephanie's awesome drink and interesting dessert barely bought the team the win and Stephanie another personal challenge win. The red team went in to defend its choices, and it seemed like Zoi was toast (I'm no cook, but even I can make pasta salad). But Erik's corndogs -- which de-crispified during the trip from the kitchen to the party (sounds like Valerie's bellinis last week) -- put the target on him.

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