We had SUCH a good time at last year’s Home Chef of the Year competition that we’ve decided to do it all over again, and we’d like you to join us!
“The future of the county’s culinary scene is in safe hands, as The Assembly House’s Richard Hughes has launched an apprenticeship initiative to foster talent in the sector.”
Prue managed to get through an entire day without revealing the winner of The Great British Bake Off before the show aired, so really, we were all winners says EDP guest reviewer Richard Hughes of the cooking competition’s grand finale.
"Why are people laughing about hump?” Rahul was puzzled, Ruby came out fighting, Briony mistook salt for sugar and Kim-Joy piped more rabbits on cakes. But who made it through to finals week? Guest reviewer Richard Hughes has all the answers.
The bakers didn’t give a fygge about hygge this week as they struggled through Danish Week. Tears for sneers in the tent and a controversial exit, says guest reviewer Richard Hughes.
"It’s Vegan Week, there’s no dairy or meat, why don’t you chop up a leek, because it’s Vegan Week.” It was baking hummus-cide in the tent for one of the last men standing, says guest reviewer, chef Richard Hughes.
It’s pastry week and the judges rolled out some new challenges for the bakers which included a Tudor-style banquet pie. Ironically Manon struggled on the French technical challenge, Jon revealed pastry has ‘cannibalistic tendencies’ and there was plenty of red-hot steamhole action.
It’s week five and spice week - as Scary, Baby, Sporty, Ginger and Saffron (posh Spice) said, time for two to become one. And that was just the judges. In the case of the contestants, nine became seven. Confused? Not half as much as the contestants during this week’s technical challenge were.
Lucky escapes, a four-horse race, complicated little tarts, a cake in a tutu and a chocolate planet stuffed with choux space turtles: dessert week on the Great British Bake Off was sweet to watch, says guest reviewer chef Richard Hughes.
By week three on the Great British Bake Off, we are starting to sort the wheat from the chaff, quite literally, as this was bread week.
Ding Ding! It’s Round Two of The Great British Bake Off and our high hopes that the bun fight will hot-up with the addition of tears, hugs and handshakes are realised, despite it being Mundane Cake Week.
Meet the seven finalists battling for the title of Norfolk Home Chef of the Year.
Guest reviewing for the EDP throughout The Great British Bake Off, Richard enjoys a surreal week in which contestants made Mount Fuji, Bristol, the London Marathon, Kilimanjaro and Las Vegas out of ... biscuit.
The workload is relentless, the pressure intense, your work colleagues and customers can be unforgiving, the rewards are reaped only after years of ‘paying your dues’ and a thank you from the chef is often way down the list of two-word send-offs. Yet, in many ways, kitchens are remarkably enlightened environments.
I've always loved a challenge, and so have always been a chef who embraces a customer who chooses a vegetarian diet.