Sunday, 25 January 2009

FAO: Masterchef contestants

As Gregg tells us in each and every episode, Masterchef is looking for "someone who can turn out EXCEPTIONAL food".

Scallops are nice. More than nice, they are a pure, pearly white delicacy tailor-made for restaurant cooking.

But if you choose - as seemingly every other Masterchef quarter finalist does - to sear scallops and serve them up with a puree (any one from pea/ sweetcorn/ cauliflower/ pumpkin), they are no longer EXCEPTIONAL. They are boring.

Scallops are not the only fruit de la mer.

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