NOW CLOSED Are you a cooking enthusiast? Waitrose.com are looking for MNers to attend a Michelin-star cookery masterclass - sign up here!

[KatieBMumsnet]

Waitrose.com are offering 12 Mumsnetters (plus one guest each) a chance to attend a Michelin-star cookery masterclass at Waitrose Cookery School in London. They're looking for cooking enthusiasts who are interested in learning Michelin-star cookery skills from a professional chef and are keen to share their passion for food with like-minded Mumsnetters.

The event will take place on Saturday 12th May from 11am - 4pm at Waitrose Cookery School in North London. The venue is easy to get to using public transport (close to Finchley Road tube station on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines).

Throughout the day Mumsnetters and their guests will be cooking a three course dinner party menu with all ingredients provided by Waitrose.com. Each course will be served in the dining room and you will have a chance to enjoy the menu you have prepared with a glass of wine specially selected to go with each course. The aim of the day is to inspire you to create your own Michelin-star-inspired dinner party menu!

The day will be filmed and the video will appear on Waitrose.com and possibly elsewhere. Please only apply if you're happy to be filmed. After the event you will be asked to leave written feedback on a thread on Mumsnet. Everyone who is selected to attend and adds their feedback on MN will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 voucher for Waitrose.com.

If you would like to attend please sign up here. When signing up, please vote for the starter, main course and dessert you would most like to cook (and eat!) on the day. The three most popular dishes chosen by Mumsnetters who apply to go along will form the menu that attendees will be cooking on the day. Here's a few of the choices on offer to whet your appetite!

~ Roast scallops, potato gnocchi and truffle emulsion
~ Rack of lamb with braised peas, bacon, lettuce and mint. Dauphinoise potatoes
~ Inverted lemon tart, summer fruit salad and lemon yoghurt sorbet

Please let us know about all dietary requirements when you sign up to take part. As you'll see from the menu choices, all of the starters and main course options include meat or fish. If you're a vegetarian, apologies - this probably isn't the event for you, sorry.

Attendance is by invitation only - we'll be in touch with full details if you are selected.

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

Can I just clarify how good at cooking everyone who is going actually is. Am a bit worried I am going to embarrass myself

nosey I am no michelin star chef, that is for sure - although I could hold my own with Gordon Ramsay in the swearing department.
I can cook, just not very good at fancy schmancy stuff, which I think we will learn to do.

I did google what inverted lemon tart was - and came up with a vair naice dessert!

Well, just after reading the email I was so busy thinking about the day that I managed to leave my thumb under DS's cheese on toast that I was cutting with a very sharp knife. Luckily I only cut the nail rather than my thumb... but I think it indicates my knife skills at least are not very good!

I can cook normal standard family food but nothing fancy.

I love cooking and think I'm ok at it, and I love following instructions/recipes :o

That looks vair posh Lulu!

DP is a bit worried that he might have to cook.

I think everyone has to cook obv isnt that part of the deal?

I'm absolutely gutted that I didn't get on to this.

I am very of you all.

It is part of the deal indeed Jax! I'll make sure he eats what he cooks. That might focus his mind :o

Holy crap that pudding looks amazing!!! Ho fab I am going to learn to cook something to that standard!!!!!!!!

DP is working on his Greg & Jon impressions. Flava!

From the Waitrose site re: what to wear:

"Please wear comfortable clothes and comfortable shoes (no flip-flops or open toed shoes). A chef jacket and apron will be provided on the day. We will provide you with the recipes for each dish from the course, however, please bring a pad and a pen if you would like to take more detailed notes."

Oh yum, that pudding looks fab. Bang goes the diet.

I was just going to wear jeans. Is everyone else going smart

I shall have jeans on too. We are going to be in hot, sweaty kitchens so wont be wearing my wedding dress.

jeans, sneakers, naice bra

(that's a joke, as a BF Mum of 1 year old I've forgotten what a naice bra is)

Jax the kitchens don't look too hot & sweaty - have you seen the piccys on the Waitrose site? DP & I will think we have woken up in MasterChef

No it looks very swanky. I'm hoping not to get too sweaty!

No top hiphop?

Oh god, the "what to wear" quandary. Depends if my naicest jeans fit properly by then

Poor BIWI :( but think of the carbs. Def more than 20g and ingredients >3 carbs in that menu

Might get me hair dun too

They'll probably want long hair tied back FourThousand - will that affect your hair choice? :o

I thought everyone was nekkid under those white chef tops?

Obviously... I work in the technical dept of a food manufacturing factory... I know all about attractive hairnets

I just need a trim really otherwise I may frighten people

I am bringing my sister. She is very very excited too . I did think about bringing DH but only after the following conversation (more or less):

Me: Who shall I bring?!
DH: Er..
Me: I thought maybe my sister! Or how about [friend]. Or [other friend]. Or do we know someone else who might really like it as a treat? Has anyone got a birthday coming up? Or I could bring a random Mumsnetter - that might be fun!
DH: Er, I could come?
Me: Think I'll bring my sister.

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Oh I'll be getting a trim too fourthousand, before my image is preserved forever on the Waitrose website

Wigeon you are mean :o