The Next Food Network Star-Rachel Ray

Five down, five to go. This time it's a full on demo on how to whip something up in four minutes, this time before a live audience and with the help of an assistant, a brownie and not the chewy fudgy kind. I mean the little girl scout kind. Finally Kelsey has someone her size to help her. Each contestant is asked to cook something to appeal to the taste of their little brownie. Lisa is trying to convince her brownie that she likes horseradish cream sauce and flat iron steak. Poor kid, no wonder she had such a perplexed look on her face, what's horseradish? Lisa says you don't have to dummy down the food. I guess she's never been a mother. Yes you do have to dummy down the food or they won't eat it. Shane's girl doesn't like to eat anything and about the only thing she does likes is ham so Shane decides to make chicken cordon blue coated with puffy rice cereal, good choice. Aaron decides on meatball and broccoli pizza, good kid food, while Kelsey does a breakfast meatball sandwich with yogurt fruits and Adam decides on BBQ chicken pita. First up was Aaron on the Rachel Ray live audience show. The first thing Aaron says to his kid is that they need to wash their hands and turns his back to the cameras and audience, wrong! He immediately knew that was the wrong thing to do and quickly tried to recover by engaging his over zealous brownie to roll out the pizza dough. In the end he did pretty well and what kid doesn't like pizza? Kelsey makes the huge mistake of asking Rachel Ray to cook the only thing that needed cooking, the eggs, while Kelsey gave directions like she was the one hosting the show, hello whose show is it? You could tell Rachel was not happy cooking Kelsey's recipe. Shane was robotic like in his dealings with his brownie. You could so tell he's not into kids. Adam really did a great job hosting and handling the cooking with his kid showing high energy and making smooth transitions winning the judges over and their votes as the best hosting audition. I think the worst one was Lisa as she totally blanked out two minutes into it. Her mouth stopped working and Rachel had to carry on the show, you could almost hear the crickets in the audience and she had the look of Pinocchio caught in the headlights. Poor Lisa, you just wanted to scream snap out of it! The judges narrowed the field of elimination down to Shane, Kelsey and Lisa. Shane for his lack of personality, Kelsey for her too much personality and Lisa for her blank personality. I so totally think that Shane has no life experience to contribute at his tender age of what 21? Same with Kelsey except that her personality saves her life every time. You can tell Lisa has the most culinary experience out of everyone of the group, now if she can just pull it together in front of the cameras she would be great and someone I would watch for the recipes. My vote to go this week was Shane and I think the judges heard me as they send Shane back home for some more life real experiences and a little more culinary practice .-Single D