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Mulled Wine
Hot on one side of the glass, cold on the other
Edible baubles
Blown from sugar and filled with smoked salmon mousse
Gold, frankincense and myrhh
Langoustine, onion and vermouth stock cubes, wrapped in edible gold leaf and dissolved in frankincense water, served with a spoon carved from myrhh
Babe in a manger
Communion wafer sprayed with the aroma of freshly washed baby - you what?
Flaming whisky sorbet
Served amid the perfume of a wood-panelled room with a roaring fire and leather armchair
Hand-reared roast goose
Fed on apple powder, Paxo stuffing and essential oil of Christmas tree, accompanied by sherbet fountains made from the powdered goose feed with vanilla straws
Pommes purées with goose, chestnut and bacon velouté
Served in a bell jar containing the smoky aroma of roasted chestnuts
Reindeer milk icecream
Frozen in liquid nitrogen
Saw his perfect chilli this week - three different cooking processes - complete idiot
Posted by: SP at December 7, 2007 09:57 AMJeez... my grandmother would have beaten him to a pulp with her Wooden Spoon of Death
Posted by: Eugenio at December 7, 2007 11:52 AMThat's one - the only? - thing in Jamie Oliver's favour. He doesn't over-refine food or fuck around with the ingredients too much.
Baby onions confited in olive oil? Fuck off.
Posted by: hakmao at December 7, 2007 02:46 PMIt was the amount of burnt mince which didn't even make it into the final pot which did it for me - could've fed a family of 4 for a week on that - and as for the three of them fucking around tasting chilli powder - trio of twats
Posted by: SP at December 7, 2007 04:01 PMas for the three of them fucking around tasting chilli powder
which resembled nothing so much as three 8 yr old boys looking a pictures of boobies.
Posted by: hakmao at December 7, 2007 04:40 PMJust being shown over here now. I assumed from the promos that it was more of a "science of food" thing. Thanks for the warning.
Posted by: Robert G. at December 7, 2007 10:46 PMI assumed from the promos that it was more of a "science of food" thing.
Nup - an I'm so posh and bored I don't know what to do sort of thing.
Good comedy value though.
Posted by: hakmao at December 7, 2007 11:39 PMThe U.S. Gordo series isn't so hot. Don't know if you've seen across the pond.
Posted by: Robert G. at December 7, 2007 11:49 PMHell's Kitchen USA? It's shite.
Posted by: hakmao at December 7, 2007 11:55 PMYes. More about personalities than running a restaurant. He also does makeovers and such which make it seem like a friggin' game show.
Which I guess it is really.
Posted by: Robert G. at December 8, 2007 12:00 AMWhich I guess it is really
This from a country where you can't even order a (medium-)rare burger.
Posted by: hakmao at December 8, 2007 12:45 AMHuh?
Posted by: Robert G. at December 8, 2007 12:52 AMI was informed in BC that the only legal burger pattie was a well-done burger patty.
Posted by: hakmao at December 8, 2007 12:55 AMI meant that it's a game show in the sense that the "contestants" apply and, if they go along with the host, get something out of it (Gordo's expertise, the publicity, etc.).
I don't see how Provincial Health & Safety regs enter into it.
Crank.
Posted by: Robert G. at December 8, 2007 01:03 AMhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEPPw5Jd2M
Posted by: Will at December 8, 2007 02:29 AM