Acratastrophe and sweetgrass! | The Press

The maple, the incredible maple. Jean-Luc Boulay claimed the sweet sap with loud cries and grumbles, Monday evening, during another sizzling episode of Chiefs!who brought back their star recruit for the second week in a row: sweetgrass.

We are not talking here about the vulgar barn hay with which Janette Bertrand stuffed her cauldron to cook her famous Easter ham. Nenon. The sweetgrass in The Chiefs ! delicately threads its way through a piece of meat with a giant needle, as demonstrated by chef, seamstress and mentor Colombe St-Pierre, whom I adore.

Last week, sweetgrass flavored the dripping heart of monochromatic spheres of raspberry iced parfait assembled by 25-year-old Anthony, which looked more like a gourmet pop-art sculpture than a quiet Monday dessert.

So, to look chic during your next méchoui/BBQ, empty the bag from the mower, generously sprinkle the contents on ground beef patties from the Maxi and, yay!, here are browned beef tiles over a wood fire and their bouquets of fresh herbs from the garden. You’re welcome.

Back to the sugar shack challenge in summer mode, the aspiring chefs of the yellow team, who didn’t skimp on the syrup – neither cane nor pole – triumphed. “It tasted of maple and that’s what we wanted in a sugar shack,” said judge Jean-Luc Boulay in front of an Élyse Marquis who had nevertheless told him, a few minutes earlier, and in a more refined language, it’s beautiful, Jean-Luc, as we know, picks up.

But he is right, our Jean-Luc, to agitate his culinary fads for so long. Despite their overflowing talent, the young cooks still season halfway, don’t taste their dishes and don’t pour enough sauce on their plates. Result ? In the third episode, the duel of cod acras turned into an “acratastrophe” (thank you!) much too salty for poor Marie, 26, who hung up her apron.

This 11^and season of Chiefs! reached stress levels as high as the number of times Normand Laprise said the word “worries” on Monday. The episode is barely beginning and already, things are burning in the studio, a mess is spreading on the floor and the host Élyse Marquis, on the verge of a panic attack, declares that they will never have time to to finish !

Like a good Bordeaux, and not a little farmhouse juice covered with a label funky, this Radio-Canada program is aging very well. The production has taken the sting out of the mid-run “unexpected twists” and it’s perfect.

We like to see the brigade buzzing, helping each other and sweating over a rack of pork to be muffed. It’s not necessary to always force them to cook a steak by candlelight, let’s say. Amine is one of the friendliest competitors, while the three AAAs, Anthony, Andersen and Adrian, pull their comrades up.

On Monday evenings, we watch them get busy and we feel like donning Crocs and black gloves to shout “hot, it’s hot” while taking out a pie shell from the two-door mega-oven.

The anti Euphoria

To watch Euphoria on Crave, we imagine that all teenagers of 15 or 16 sniff their parents’ pharmacy, skip school and lose their dignity (and many other things) in immense parties where the police never intervene.

The Charming British Miniseries Heartstopping Netflix, offered in English and French, shows a more tender and realistic facet of adolescence, that of emotions, questions, butterflies in the stomach and self-discovery. It’s written with finesse and carried by talented young actors who, unlike Euphoria Where Watatatoware not 15 years older than their characters.

Heartstopping details the encounter between two dissimilar high school students, Nick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke). Nick plays rugby and gravitates in the popular clique. A drummer in the school band, Charlie has been bullied since coming out as gay.

Chance seats Nick and Charlie at the same table in a French class. A friendship develops between the two and Charlie quickly develops an attraction for Nick. Charlie’s friends warn him: don’t flinch for Nick the heterosexual who will surely crush your heart.

But redhead Nick is sending mixed signals to, say, Charlie, and he’s growing more attached to this sensitive teen with curly brown hair. Heartstopping does not show any sex scenes – only kisses and hugs. On the other hand, the protagonists reveal everything that beats in their hearts and everything that torments them. It’s nice to see teenagers with so much emotional maturity and openness.

Also, short animations embellish the eight half-hours of Heartstopping, which address issues of the LGBTQ+ community without seeming forced or didactic. And the soundtrack is chiseled to perfection. And Olivia Colman (The Crown) plays a small part in it that will make you love it even more.