Cooking Doesn't get any tougher than this!

So this is it, BLOGGING!! I guess the first thing I need to really consider is what am i going to use my blog for?

• Am i going to use it as a marketing tool to promote my business?
• Am i going to use it as a way of sharing my inner most thoughts with the world?
• Am i going to use it as a way of having a good old whinge at things that annoy me?

Yes...i think i probably will, and perhaps more!

So that's that bit sorted. Panic Over.

Today I am going to "Blog" about something nice and light hearted as it is after all, Friday.

One of my favourite things is food, especially cooking it. Another of my favourite things is watching the TV. What happens when these 2 personal faves go head to head, Mano et Mano?? Well they both run at each other like stampeding bulls colliding and out of the puff of smoke they create comes....BBC2's MASTERCHEF!!!

I particularly like the current series 'Masterchef : The Professionals'. Mainly due to truly intimidating and menacing performance by Michel Roux Jnr. Getting this culinary powerhouse on board is a true master(chef)stroke by the BBC. I have been watching the entire series and have never seen him blink once - that in itself is impressive. Watching these young chefs cook for him can be truly painstaking, as you see their layered towers of fillet steak & fondant potatoes with savoy cabbage falling down the plate...as their hopes fall even faster, down the sink.

Then you have the best supporting actor Gregg "The Spoon" Wallace. He can be a little annoying when judging these chefs, especially when you bare in mind that he sells fruit & veg for a living and has never cooked anywhere near the level he is supposed to be judging. But...all is forgiven when you see his perfectly spherical face beam with joy as he spoons in the biggest ever spoonful of Tiramisu since records began into his mouth. "That my friend is an absolute joy". Watching him eat is rather like watching a JCB pick up tons of dirt and drop it into a chasm. Not my best anaolgy, granted.

Best newcomer must go to Monica Galleti. Monica is Michel Roux Jnr's soux chef at his Michelin star restaurant in Mayfair 'Le Gavroche'. Her job is to vet the 4 chefs at the start of the episode down to 3 by watching them complete a skills and palet test. She is possibly even more menacing than Michel and I have also noticed she too has the blink less stare down to a fine art! On a recent episode she nearly had a full grown man in tears as she tore apart his rather dismal effort at scrambled egg.

It really is a TV recipe worthy of 3 Michelin stars in my opinion.