How to invent recipes yourself

I was doing a bit of research on the Internet for tips on adapting recipes to create new ones and stumbled upon the following interesting articles:

How to invent recipes yourself
How to invent a family recipe

For the competition there must be 3 significant changes to the original recipe in either preparation or ingredient for it to become an original recipe.

Have you ever created your own recipe e.g. adapted a family recipe or one you've seen in a cookbook? How did it turn out? Let us know via the comments.

Next week I'll share a recipe I invented from scratch....bear in mind I'm not a very good cook so its pretty basic.

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Literary lunch with Ann Creber

Belgrave Library are hosting a literary lunch today with Let's Cook! judge Ann Creber. Ann is not only a food writer, journalist, stylist and editor, she hosts The Good Life on 3MDR. She spent many years as a regular on ABC programs and still has a slot on Radio National. The Good Life is a sought after program for authors to wanting to talk about their books. Ann attracts many of Australia's best known names as her guests.

This talk is a must for people wanting to hear about some of the latest names on the Australian literary scene.

Where: Belgrave Library, Reynolds Lane, Belgrave
When: Thursday 25th March 12:30pm
Cost: $10 includes lunch

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So, what's an original recipe?

A recipe will be defined as original if it has three significant changes in ingredients or preparation steps from a previously published recipe. 

The original recipes must be developed for a main course and take no longer than one hour to prepare, cook and serve. The must be created by the entrant and not previously been published nor won a prize or award.

All ingredients must be listed, together with exact flavours/measurements/weights (in standard metric measurements).

Complete preparation instructions must be given including specific types and sizes of any cooking equipment used.

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Launch of the ERL Let’s Cook! Competition

Do you love to cook? If you can create a main course that takes one hour from preparation to presentation then this is the competition for you.

Let’s Cook! launched on Monday 15th March will run until the end of May. You may enter as many times as you like. Recipes should be original and not have been previously published or entered in previous cookery competitions.

The judges for Let’s Cook! are:

• author, reviewer, broadcaster and ‘foodie’ Ann Creber
• chef Ben Higgs from ‘Wild Oak’ 
• food writer and editor Lucy Rushbrooke (Malouf). 

In June our judges will select the three finalists for the cook off on Saturday 26th June at the Good Guys Store in Bayswater.

Finalists will assist three celebrity chefs to cook their dishes after which the winner will be announced. Our chefs for the cook off are Scott Pickett, Allan Campion and Greg Malouf. The event will be hosted by Channel 10 star and Melbourne icon Denise Drysdale.

Prizes for the event will include kitchen appliances from the Good Guys and Baumatic, Salton products and cookery classes.

Pick up an entry form from any of our branches or download a copy from the top of this blog

Download the entry form (PDF 306KB 2 pages)

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