The Recipe: Shell Baked Scallops

We recently featured the adventures of Jan at the Good Food Show and her work creating Shell Baked Scallops. Taking part in this endeavour with Jan was the Gourmet Chick,

“Part of the day included the opportunity to cook with Martin Blunos, previously the chef at two Michelin starred Lettonie in Bristol. The part I wasn’t aware of when I signed up was that this cooking would take part on stage… in front of a crowd. Cue extreme nerves.”

The Gourmet Chick needn’t have worried, overcoming her anxiety and creating an excellent seafood dish (even if the veg was a little more ‘rustic’ than intended). She has posted the recipe for the Shell Baked Scallops so anyone fancying giving it a go can,

“This is not an every day recipe but a real winner when you are out to impress.”

Out to impress over the festive period? Then this dish could be what you’ve been waiting for. Everything you need to know to create the Shell Baked Scallops is through the link.

My Cooking Hut’s Invention Test!

ForeverBetter has been full of Good Food Show goodness recently, and next in line is My Cooking Hut who took on the Invention test when the event was in the capital,

“It has been a great experience this time round going to BBC Good Food Show in London. It was different and very interesting as one of the highlights was the MasterChef Live Invention Test, which I took part in!”

If you read yesterdays post on Anne’s participation in the competition you’ll know the format, and that Masterchef winners Steve Groves and Mat Follas were mentoring the contesting chefs. Despite nerves My Cooking Hut turned her bag of ingredients into citrus grilled prawns served with mint and raisin couscous - sounds delicious. The cooking was done on a Miele hob and left her wanting one in her own kitchen.

My Cooking Hut describes the trip to the show as a ‘great outing’, especially meeting the TV chefs. And as for the frenzy of Invention Test,

“Even though I wasn’t one of the winners […], I still think the experience of cooking in the public in 30 minutes was something that I will never forget!”

Miele Good Food Show - and this time there’s wine!

Another day, another host of interesting posts delivered about the recent Miele-sponsored adventure at The Good Food show – from wine samples by the bucketload to hob-nobbing with celebrity chefs, causing no end of jealousy to those who weren’t there: blog commenters and this correspondent alike!

Sylvie from A Pot of Tea and a Biscuit  was particularly impressed with the free samples, as well as the Miele products on display “We [went] for an introduction to a range of fantastic Miele appliances, which left me wanting a new fridge, a new cooker and a steam oven”. Naomi from Milk for the Morning Cake was particularly impressed with the producer’s village “Like a breath of fresh air, the real food shone with authenticity”.

Jan from What do I Want to Cook Today was impressed with the “absolutely fantastic range of Miele kitchen appliances. Miele steam ovens are just amazing - we all wanted one”. She enjoyed the wine samples too, as long as she never drunk more than a glass of course!

More fun at the Good Food Show with Miele

Two further updates from the intrepid team of bloggers who attended The Good Food Show with Miele at the weekend, who both seemed to have a lovely time. ‘Best of all’ for Anne from Anne’s Kitchen blog “though I will admit I was slightly terrified leading up to it, was taking part in the Miele Cookery Experience, which was new to the BBC Good Food Show this year.”

Sunita meanwhile has crafted a particularly visual treat for her readers, with a collection of photographs so spectacular that it provoked one reader to claim “it’s like dying and going to heaven and living the life I’ve always wanted to”. For a tour of the event within her images, you should really go and take a look.

Miele off to the Good Food show to meet The Hairy Bikers!

All was excitement in the foreverbetter.co.uk camp on Saturday, as we headed off to the Good Food Show with some particularly passionate food types in tow – to experience not only ‘the gorgeous Gino D’Acampo’, but also The Hairy Bikers who we were reliably informed are ‘lovely folk’.

“It was lovely meeting & cooking with you yesterday” said Domestic_jules, while JanBenn had “a fantastic day”. More information and reports to follow, but meanwhile take a look at the photographs our Steph took on the day in the Flickr group. 

Did anyone else pop down to the Miele Cookery Session. If so let us know what you thought by leaving a comment below.