If you were on Masterchef, what would your calling card be?

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 06-04-2016 10:13PM #1

Mine would be chicken and mushroom tartlet served with a mushroom, spinach and potato bake mmmmmm.....

Eta might add some sort of onion jelly too

Shenshen · 07-04-2016 10:49AM

A mezze platter with falafel, aubergine cevapcici, houmous, tsatsiki, chickpea salad with lemon and tahini and flatbreads.

BuffyBot · 07-04-2016 07:00PM

Really depends on my mood, but right now I'd probably dish them up a bowl of linguine with crab, rocket, tomato and chilli sauce and a pangratatto topping.

HeidiHeidi · 07-04-2016 07:01PM

Shenshen wrote: »

A mezze platter with falafel, aubergine cevapcici, houmous, tsatsiki, chickpea salad with lemon and tahini and flatbreads.

Can I come over to yours for dinner?

That's just about all my favourite things on one plate!!

Keane2baMused · 08-04-2016 08:14AM

Perfect (hopefully

) chocolate fondant with softly whipped cream and macerated strawberries with mint.

Speedwell · 08-04-2016 08:40AM

"Eggplant Napoleon" made the way I learned from a famous restaurant deep in the Cajun section of Louisiana. Lightly breaded aubergine layered with crawfish, scallops, and shrimp in a white wine/shrimp stock veloute, and double-sauced with more of the veloute and a simplified Creole sauce puree, garnished with a few fried oysters in season or lightly cooked diced mirliton out of season.

Not a clue where I'd get mirliton over here though

If you know, please tell me. I love mirliton.

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 08-04-2016 06:47PM

Ooh these all sound amazing

No idea where you'd even start to look for mirilto! Has anyone else noticed that they're gone mad for samphire on Masterchef this year? I've never seen it in a shop or on a menu here

HeidiHeidi · 08-04-2016 06:51PM

There's always one "thing" each series.

(Can't actually remember any of the others, which shows how much attention I pay... too busy typing on the MC thread

- but I remember noticing that in many of the previous series)

ETA - for example, the water bath seems to have fallen out of favour.... no doubt it'll be used at some point, but there was a point where every single meal seemed to involve it

L1011 · 08-04-2016 08:10PM

Thats ^ the original and correct definition of meme, before it got taken to mean "photoshop some text on to an image". There will always be something that everyone does on a series like that, or every wanky restaurant has on the menu briefly, etc.

Shenshen · 08-04-2016 08:30PM

Ismael Dirty Sandblaster wrote: »

Ooh these all sound amazing

No idea where you'd even start to look for mirilto! Has anyone else noticed that they're gone mad for samphire on Masterchef this year? I've never seen it in a shop or on a menu here

I've noticed it on British cooking shows for a few years now.
The only time I got to try it was in Cornmarket in Cork. I really liked it, sort of like a cross between seaweed and asparagus.
I've never seen it in any shop, though.

If you were on Masterchef, what would your calling card be?

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