Elisha Penman is not letting her gastric situation forestall her from profitable Season 2 of 'The Big Family Cooking Showdown' along her boyfriend and Nan Ann.
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The show's premise is rather easy: Sixteen families of cooking hobbyists compete towards every other for bragging rights and the ability to call themselves the most productive family of cooks within the U.K. Which, take it from us, is a big feat for the Brits.
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The competing households run the gamut in terms of their makeup and residential town. We've got Indian fanatics who taught every different the best way to cook dinner over FaceTime, vegan twins (one of two twin sets, in fact), and a Kent-based family whose cooking is encouraged via their Nigerian heritage.
Meet Elisha, Chris, and Ann Penman
But perhaps most endearing of all of the Family Cooking Showdown groups is the Penman family, made up of Nan Ann (who hates to be called grandma), her granddaughter Elisha, and Elisha's boyfriend Chris.
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Nan has been teaching Elisha cook dinner ever since she used to be a child, and now the family is hanging their talents to the check by making an attempt to make all the hearty dishes they revel in from their house county of Lincolnshire.
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The 21-year-old is very inventive and experimental when it comes to cooking. Since we meet her in the first episode, Elisha's bobbing up with tactics to spruce up traditional recipes by adding her personal touches or take on seasonal restaurants.
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Elisha can not at all times style her culinary creations on account of a gastric condition.
Elisha was once once a competitive swimmer, however she needed to give her hobby up at thirteen when she was once recognized with a gastric situation that leaves her frame unable to properly digest food. She infrequently eats via mouth, however extra regularly than now not she wears a feeding tube to make sure she's getting all of the nutrients she wishes.
The blonde attractiveness has a heartening humorousness about her condition and describes herself on Twitter as "the blonde girl with a tube coming out of her nose." When she's now not cooking for Chris (unclear if they are nonetheless in combination, by means of the way) or her Nan, Elisha runs a domestic cleansing and ironing provider called Maid to Shine and Iron. She caters events under the moniker Countryside Catering and could also be recently learning to be a paramedic — what a schedule!
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Follow Elisha on social media and e-book her on your subsequent match.
Although Elisha keeps her personal lifestyles private on social media (she's personal on Twitter and Instagram), her Facebook and catering page are guaranteed to make you hungry. "I offer catering services for all events," she writes — and we simply want she would fly out to the States so we could take her up on the offer.
The homemade recipes she shares vary from vegan burgers, Moroccan lamb tagine, and of course local Brit faves like fish and chips and Yorkshire puddings. She's additionally working on a food blog, where she'll publish directions on the best way to make her mouth-watering smoked tomato cheesecake and chocolate walnut fudge. Stay tuned on that!
Honestly, now we are ravenous. If you are hungry for more Elisha creations, stream Season 2 of The Big Family Cooking Showdown on Netflix now.
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