To think that if you want to go on Masterchef you must cook the following dishes:

[muminthecity]

Starter:- Pan fried scallops with some sort of slop puree, preferably cauliflower. For extra points add a lump of black pudding.

Main:- Pan fried duck with some sort of fruit, orange, plum or redcurrants always go down well. Serve with either fondant/crushed potatoes and a red wine jus.

Pudding:- Chocolate fondant. Doesn't matter what you serve with it, if it works you will be hailed a genius regardless, if it doesn't, you will be sent home anyway.

If you want to be the wacky, 'inventive' one, add a bit of fruit to the scallops (apple maybe?), change the fruit you serve with the duck to a less conventional one (nectarine, perhaps?) and add some chilli to your chocolate fondant.

I love Masterchef but I'm so bloody sick of seeing the same dishes rehashed all the time!

Did you see the guy years ago who fried a pork chop and poured a bottle of Amoy sauce over it? Best round ever.

skid marks I ALWAYS wondered what they were called....

I like Marmite on plain chocolate digestives. Do think that would tickle their tastebuds? What chance of having both of them available for the invention test?

So just trying to get my head round this everything has to be deconstructed. Even a fondant potato (i've just looked it up) is basically roasted/ fried before being boiled - hence a reverse roast potato.

You've just coined a new term MisForMum:

"Red raw lamb with Reverse Roast Potato on a bed of pea and parsnip puree."

Mmm, my tastebuds are salivating right now.

meddie

love the "deconstructed Angel Delight"

Mis

re: Marmite and digestives

That is very much along the lines of the salted caramel craze.

What next?

Chocolate and anchovy mousse?
Nutella-stuffed olives?

Jamie, two outstanding ideas. I'll report back.

I want my food on a plate, a good old fashioned honest plate.

Not a dry ice smoking fish bowl

Not a chopping board where all the sauce runs off and

Definitely not a cocking slate

Meddie
Yes what is a scallop without black pudding?

This is hilarious.

Who is watching tonight? Apparently John's dish that they have to re-create involves....scallops! I keep thinking about the microwaved prawn ring - surely that's a massive food poisoning risk?

My Grandad used to put butter or jam on weetabix and eat them like biscuits. They could be served with the weetabix stacked in some fancy way and a little pot of jam or butter next to it

MrBloom - I'm watching! Was very impressed by Barry's 80 different shit smears on one plate - he will go far.

Am also that John's scallops are in pasta rather than pan fried with a puree. Has he lost his mind?

You mean in paarsta?

I am eating pan-fried fillet steak on a bed of creamed Savoy cabbage and wilted kale while watching. It is bloody awesome (Dp is away and I'm treating myself)

I loved the retro smears

Why would you go on masterchef if you've never cooked pork?

Disaster! James' ravioli has split open!

I'm about to eat some homemade chicken soup with a buttered roll. 'Rustic home cooking' I believe it's called .

They all did shit in that round, didn't they? Mind you, I didn't much like the look of John's dish either.

Oh good, shit smear Barry is still in. His final round should be fun to watch

What is the point of the professional kitchen round, they never take it into account at the end

A fecking trio ffs

A trio, a quenelle and a bisque all in the first few minutes of the professional kitchen. A hat trick of stupid, unnecessary things with silly names. Brilliant!

Its to see if they can perfect their shit smears handle the heat of a professional kitchen. But you're right, they never seem to consider it when picking their winners.