LEON cook5/Times prize weekend!!

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remember a few weeks ago I told you about the cookery competition I won. It was with LEON restaurants and there cook5 website and the Times newspaper. Well it was great. I am going to tell you about it.

My mum went with me. We went on the plane and a few taxis an we eventually got to the hotel witch was great - we stayed at One Aldwich I loved the underwater music in the pool. We went for lunch at Wahaca. And then gone to Hamleys and Fortnum and Mason.

The next day I got a taxi with the other winners Mia and Poppy to the cooking school Food at 52 and it looked fab. You should see it for yourself! first i found all my ingredients  and then everybody started  to arrive. Henry Dimbleby, John Vincent and Beth from LEON, Giles Coren and Tony Turnbull from the Times newspaper, and Raymond Blanc.

Me cooking the dish

 

Raymond Blanc was rely  kind.  He showed me how to prepare squid, he told me to add the salt to my risotto first (which I have never done before). Raymond  has a HUGE Love of food. IT was great to see Raymond   like my food so much. my recipe was a barley risotto with asparagus and lemon juice, and squid. I was pleased how it turned out ( because it was the tastiest I have ever cooked it!). 

HENRY AND JOHN were rely nice and they gave me a basket of goodies from LEON.

My finished dish

The tasting

Me with Mia and Poppy

The day finished with a cookery demonstration from Raymond of pistou soup and chocolate mousse. I think they are rely beautiful. some day I want to have my own restaurant like Raymond. It would be nice to cook for him again in his restaurant!

 the weekend was a life time experience.

        

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new chicken recipe by Donal Skehan

hello I made a new chicken recipe last night. It was chicken roast on a bed of tomatoes, potatoes, garlic and asparagus. Here is the recipe:

Link to recipe

Serves 4
800g baby new potatoes, halved
1 garlic bulb, cloves separated
1 lemon, sliced
Handful fresh thyme sprigs
3 tbsp rapeseed oil
1.5kg free-range chicken
Large knob of butter
1 large bunch of asparagus, woody ends snapped off
1 125ml glass white wine
Handful of flatleaf parsley, finely chopped

20 cherry tomatoes

preheat the oven to 200c put the garlic cloves, new potatoes and lemon slices into a large roasting tin. Sprinkle the time spring and drizzle with olive oil. Seoson well and toss to combine 

put butter under the chicken skin and put the chicken on top of the vegetables. roast for 45 mins.         

remove from oven, remove chicken and add wine, mix asparagus an tomatoes in and pop chicken back on top. put back in for 30 minutes. rest for 10 mins covered in foil then serve. 

I think it it was very lemony and I love lemon.  It is good for sunday dinner.

BEST EMAIL EVER!

Today I got the most surprising emal ever. I have won a competition I am going to a professional kitchen. It is in London. I an going to be cooking for a few professional chef's. I am so exited. 


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LEON and cook5

HELLO! Sorry I haven't been in touch recently but I have been doing allot of things though. 

I have entered a competition on a website called cook5 by the people from Leon restaurants in london. I WON the first monthly prize for most liked dish and the prize (don't say I was betting) was one hundred pounds! It made me feel astonished. Here is my dish: http://www.cook5.co.uk/dishes/laura/257/coconut-chicken-and-petit-pois-curry

This is a list of what I did with it 

1. I gone to a very posh food shop when I was in Edinburgh and bought a vanilla pod

2. Got some food for a fancy dinner party

3. I had my friends round and made this:

MENU: crostini with cannelini beans/bruschetta topping; gnocchi with aubergine and tomato sauce; floating islands (but we had them the next night because we were all too tired). Floating islands are poached meringues in a vanilla custard. The starter was a Jamie recipe and I had used his alla norma sauce recipe on my home made gnocchi.

Erin and Nicole had helped a bit, Iain helped me with the gnocchi

Goody good goodbye

THE KITCHIN

Hello  Two days ago I went to a very fancy restaurant in edinburgh called The Kitchin http://www.thekitchin.com/

thats the link!

All the food I liked except one thing and that was a chicken jelly.

My starter was a ravioli  but with seafood inside it . It had a lemony sauce drizzled round it. Its green pasta 

Then for mane course I ate plaice with squid and mussels and a buttery sauce.

then for dessert I had a giant soufflé with lemon and I LOVED  IT!

the best bit of it was meeting TOM KITCHIN. He is a very famous chef. He was reely  nice! I talked to him about cooking.

the day before I made his pasta with mussels.

Italian dinner party

HELLO I had my first dinner party at the weekend ! we invited Daphne. It was hard to choose but I done it. I chose Italian food! We had Caprese salad followed by home made ravioli  then for pudding it was lemon sherbet. I made a zebra cake that was better than Mary Berry's one on sunday!!!!

CHRISTMAS

Hello! sorry I was not blogging I was to busy cooking. Here are some pictures of our christmas cooking

Here is what Santa brought me