Once the meal was done though it was fab! All the elements were really easy to cook and tasted great, but we loved the dressed potatoes and Portuguese tarts best and will definitely make them again. I was in a familiar kitchen, didn’t have cameras breathing down my neck and didn’t have the stress of plating a half finished dish to serve to the judges – I can’t even imagine how difficult it would be in that situation. Setting yourself a cooking time trial certainly gives you an appreciation for what the contestants of Masterchef go through. Now, I won’t take you through it blow by blow… but at the completion of the meal: Masterchef was already 10 minutes in (70 minutes cooking time) the kitchen looked like thieves had searched the pantry for precious metals and I was looking less than cool, calm and collected. I mean, it’s not like I wasn’t organised… I had gotten all the ingredients out and sectioned into their dishes, had the oven on, the stove top heating and a clear bench before I started. Lucky for me, I had all this pegged, so I gave myself a generous 60 minutes before the start of Masterchef to get it all done.Ībout 20 minutes in, the kitchen was an absolute mess, I had 3 dishes going at once, ingredients all over the place and was screaming for Scotty to “HELP ME!” by putting away some of the mess I had created. your oven cooks quicker at the back than the front, your cooktop is electric not gas, and you aren’t using the world’s best blender), then from the outset you will realise that 30 minutes is ambitious. I will just start by saying that if you don’t move at the speed of light, and your kitchen is not state of the art (eg. The meal from the recipe book I settled on was as follows: Piri Piri chicken, rocket salad, dressed potatoes and Portugese tarts to finish. In the show, Jamie makes “knocking up” three to four dishes in 30 minutes look effortless so I decided that trying one of the 30-minute meals on the night of the premiere would be a perfect tribute. I had recently bought Scotty the Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals cookbook by Jamie Oliver after we watched a few of the episodes together. To celebrate both the premiere of Series 3 of Masterchef Australia on 1 May and my lovely friend Tanja over at i (heart) my food appearing in the show, I decided to try a little cooking time trial of my very own!
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