An early bird winner

Congratulations to Michele of Mooroolbark who has won an early bird prize, a copy of the Allan Campion and Michele Curtis book In the Kitchen: more than  1000 recipes for every day. Michele submitted our very first entry.

There's still time to get your entries into the Let's Cook competition.

Download the entry form (PDF 306KB 2 pages)

What's involved in the cook-off?

I enquired with The Powers That Be what was required in the cook-off for the 3 finalists.

Basically our celebrity chefs will be cooking the recipes and the finalists will be assisting e.g. a bit of chopping here, or stirring there.

Sounds like a lot of fun. Worth checking out. The cook-off will be held at The Good Guys (Greg Rako), Canterbury Road, Bayswater on Saturday 26th June.

Have you figured out what recipe you'll be entering?

Cheers, webgurl

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.

cheers, webgurl

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.

Cheers, webgurl

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)

Cheers, webgurl