Top 10 Meals you would cook for Celebrity Chefs
With the Good Food and Wine show making it’s way across the country, we’re asking you to unleash your inner gourmet chef and describe to us, in mouth-watering detail, what you would whip up if you had the chance to cook for a celebrity chef.
We have already judged the Melbourne entrants of the competition, and their gourmet creations sounded so delicious that we thought we’d share some of them with you. Use these winning entries as motivation if you have not yet entered the competition.
For those of you in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, you still have until 15th June to get your entries in and you too could be on your way to the Good Food and Wine show!
1. Three-course delight Celeste Aguado
I would sit Gordon Ramsay down and place a dish a of freshly opened sweet and tender coffin bay oysters in front of him, totally plain, except for a glass of a good dry white table wine. Next would come a small avocado and lettuce salad, with a special dressing of tamari, chopped red onion, soybean oil, an anchovy, lemon and fresh pepper whizzed together and poured over. Lastly would be some finely carved slices of rare roast king island beef with one or two tiny new potatoes, a tiny yorkshire pudding, new peas and a sublime cab sav gravy with a dot of creamed horseradish. This would be accompanied by a good cab sav (that made the gravy). This meal is perfect for Gordon - no one could lose their temper after a meal like that!
2. Traditional roast lamb Angelique Frrugia
I would cook my special slow cooked roast lamb which is marinated in a anchovy, garlic, fennel seed, italian herb and olive oil paste for 24 hours, seared on the outside on a very hot bbq grill and then slow cooked for 3 hours and then served with a sauce made from the marinade and verjuice. This would be placed on the table with a scrumptious three cheese, spinach and caper filo pastry - some lovely roasted turnip and sweet potato and a salad of baby spinach leaves, fresh beetroot, red onion and feta.
3. Secret family recipe Ming-Aen Nambiar
I would cook my parents’ satay chicken recipe. Good, authentic satay chicken is hard to come by and I have not tasted anything like it in Australia, even in restaurants. You would have to travel to Malaysia to taste satay as authentic as my parents’. I would carefuly cut up the chicken into perfect portions, marinate the meat overnight not leaving out any of the fragrant spices, painstakingly string each piece onto a skewer and crush up the oven roasted peanuts for the sauce.
4. Lobster with a twist Angela Hansen
I have a sauce that I created myself. I use this with lobster made with sauted shallots, butter, wholegrain mustard a splash of whiskey then at the end I add cream to it and toss in the sliced up lobster. This with be served with a light salad made from baby spinach, rocket, sauted sweet potato, pine nuts and cherry tomates with a balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing and just a sprinkle of salt.
5. A perfectly tailored menu Matt Taylor
For Jamie Oliver. I would make veal osso bucco with goats cheese mash and greens (I love slow cooked food). If it was Gordon Ramsay I would do a sushi platter with blue fin tuna white sordfish calamari and prawns. Would also like to cook green chicken curry for Kylie Quong I learn’t to cook curry in Thailand and still havent had a beter curry than my own or manybe red duck curry.
6. Aussie BBQ (with a difference) Lesley Pike
I’d cook Gordon Ramsay an Aussie BBQ with a difference. BBQ Emu Mediallions. Tender, low fat emu medallions marinated overnight in red wine, onion, carrot, leak, celery, juniper berries, orange juice and thyme then cooked quickly on a hot bbq.
7. Foreign flavours Charmaine Domingo
I will cook chicken pork adobo (popular Filipino dish) served with Jasmine rice to Gary Mehigan of Masterchef. I think he’s a nice guy who wouldn’t mind trying different international dishes.
8. A very sweet treat Zaya Bekirovski
Curtis Stone would be my guest, and I would serve up a gateau with whipped cream, chocolate, cherries, marshmallows, and a sprinkle of me.
9. The perfect eye fillet Jason McKenzie
An eye fillet steak cooked to perfection served with a semi-dried tomato risotto topped with a delicious goats cheese and blanched broccolini.
10. Soup-erb tomato soup Suzanne Warner
Tomato Soup because of its soup-reme taste and soup-erb flavour - winning would sure tickle my taste buds from my head, to-ma-toes.