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[PotterHead1985]

So I had a look and I couldn't find a thread for this series (apologies if there is one already and if someone could link me!) so I thought I'd start one.

Who is looking forward to the new series starting tonight at 8bells on BBC2??

No it hasn't been good. Very few wow dishes and few that hit the brief.
I hope it picks up once the regional rounds are over.

That last dessert looked a puny portion, but it also sounded disgusting.

I am not impressed by any of these.

Remember Lorna's amazing chocolate dessert from the NHS series? Now THAT was a pudding.

I was thinking about the Olympic series where they got shouted at for not being on brief and were crazy competitive.
And the war one, where the brief was hard and half the dishes seemed to be based on growing stuff at home or the national loaf, but more effort seemed to be made to fit it.
Bah humbug.

The Olympics one was the first series I watched and I loved how cutthroat it was.

They don’t seem to be nearly as creative as in previous series, overall.

Another Fantastic Mr Fox dish. I prefer it when they use something more obscure.

That's funny, I prefer when they use well known books. Mainly because if i went to a banquet based on childrens literature and the books were all ones I had never heard of, I would be disappointed. Also I often feel that the obscure books have been chosen to match the food, rather than the other way around.

They don’t seem to be nearly as creative as in previous series, overall.
I think so too. A lot of the creativity is using a fancy bowl or plate, rather than creative cookery.

I really appreciated the Northern Irish person who did the Oliver Jeffers book. (My children love Jeffers.) I do agree that the most obscure ones seem to have been shoehorned in.

it's such a great brief!

why, oh why do they make such shit meals?
have they never read a book?

I also think someone should have taken the dishes from The Gruffalo, and made scrambled snake and owl ice cream.

And Roasted Fox!

Obviously not actually these things, but something to approximate them.

and plenty of inspiration in 'worst witch', pirate next door.
hell, even hunger games, war horse, never ending story...

They could have been so much more adventurous with all elements of this brief.

Raw food shock!

The pie is a good change, if it's all cooked properly, and those roasties look EXCELLENT.

That dish still looks like plastic food to me. I find it terrifying.

Definitely the right decision.

I thought that was a bit rubbish, except for the Golden Egg, really. Right decision but very meh.

Ooh yes the Oliver Jeffer’s book was fabulous. It was the right decision but the evictee was suffering from small mean face syndrome!

there is some fabulous food in astrid lindgren books as well.

I've developed a bit of a crush on Hywel

Was the guest tonight there because they were in the Harry Potter films or had they actually written a book?
Struggling to understand why children's authors don't want a free meal and a chance to publicise their books. Or why the bbc hasn't asked them.

Just because he was in Harry Potter, jay. And Game of Thrones, that well-known children's series.

The stereotype of authors is that they're shy and retiring so maybe that's why? I'm surprised Neil Gaiman didn't jump at the chance for more airtime.

Shmithecat2 he is a tad brooding. Personally I think a night out with Richard Corrigan would be a blast!

@QualityFeet I was mainly hoping he'd win last night so I could watch him again 😂. The accent and red hair is a treat.

Oh blimey. Imagine a night out with Richard Corrigan. Messy!