And to kick off the launch of Table Talk we have two tickets to Hospitality Action’s dinner cooked by last year’s finalists from BBC Two’s Great British Menu including Jason Atherton, Tom Kitchin, Nigel Howarth and Glynn Purnell on 18 May at the London Marriott hotel, Grosvenor Square.
To win these tickets, all we want you to tell us what your "taste of home" is here, and if you'd like, post a photo of the dish on Table Talk.
Good luck!
Closing date is 13 May so hurry, tell us your favourite dish and upload your photos!
Hi Katherine
I'd like to enter the competition, I'm a real foodie and love watching the programme, it's my birthday on the 17th May and it would be a fantastic treat, so here goes:
My 'taste of home' is the dish that my mum always cooks when I go home, every since I was a child (and I'm now 45!) she would make a delicious homemade creamy fish pie with peas on the side. I would request this for my birthday, a day when i was feeling down (after being to the dentist etc) or just when I was coming home for a few days to catch up with the family. it always made me feel warm inside and safe. I'm sure it would be a perfect dish for this occasion, easy to eat curled up on the sofa with a fork!..perfect
Kind Regards
Sally
Dear Sally,
Thanks for your post. And I must say that does sound like a perfect taste of home dish... I bet you were rooting for Kenny Atkinson on this year's GBM!!
Good luck in the competition!
Kx
Living across the world from my family (them in South Africa me in UK) makes you very homesick at times.
Whenever I smell a chicken roasting it reminds me of Sunday at home in the kitchen with the family, my mom encouraged us from small to help out in the kitchen - peeling potatoes, someone laying the table etc
Nothing says home to me now more than a Roast Chicken, roast poatoes, carrots with honey and peas all drowning in gravy! Makes you feel happy and loved even on the coldest darkest English winters day! :)
Miche: Living across the world from my family (them in South Africa me in UK) makes you very homesick at times. Whenever I smell a chicken roasting it reminds me of Sunday at home in the kitchen with the family, my mom encouraged us from small to help out in the kitchen - peeling potatoes, someone laying the table etc Nothing says home to me now more than a Roast Chicken, roast poatoes, carrots with honey and peas all drowning in gravy! Makes you feel happy and loved even on the coldest darkest English winters day! :)
Thanks for your entry Miche! I hope that you are aren't feeling too homesick, and having lots of roasts to keep you happy and loved! I too am a fan, but must admit I love cold roast chicken!!
Good luck in the competition
Has to be toad in the hole - spicy sausages hiding in laods of of thick batter. Not a healthy meal in everyone's book but us kids used to love it. Bring on the meal for two and more of the same!!!
Cheeky
x
I've just found out who will be cooking what course and they are as follows:
Canapes – Jason AthertonAmuse - Tom Kitchin Starter - Stephen TerryFish - Danny MillarMain - Nigel HaworthPre dessert - Chris HorridgeDessert - Glynn Purnell
There's still time to enter!
If I was cooking for the troops I would go for some real comfort food as I don't think they would want anything too fancy. Having said that the meal is in late spring so it would have to have a light element to it.
How about crayfish cocktail, roast leg of lamb with cheesy, dauphinoise potatoes and roasted seasonal vegetables and summer pudding.
My taste of home would be ox`s tongue with piccalli prepared from scratch by my Dad who grew up on afarm in Lancashire. Followed by rib of beef cooked medium rare with carrots and turnips mashed with butter, cauliflower cheese roast spuds and new potatoes prepared by my auntie Marge with individual yorkshire puds. My Mum would make the most scrumptious Sherry Trifle with sponge from a local baker,homemade vanilla custard , tinned fruit cocktail ,lots of sherry would be added to offset the very rich double cream that stood an inch on the top with marachino cherries to decorate. This would be the family celebratory meal all year round enjoyed by family,friends, and anybody who happened to be invited. My true taste of home. Sheils
Thanks Coco Chanel & Sheils for your entry! Both sound fantastic!
Good luck
I love GBM and especially liking the theme this year.
I spent 18 months living in Spain, and whilst I adore the spanish culture for food with the delights of tapas and paella, nothing beats a British Roast dinner. It may be an unoriginal choice as I'm sure many people would opt for this as their taste of home but in my mind this makes it the definitive "taste of home". On the few trips home from Spain I would make sure I had a roast dinner with all the trimmings; honey roast parsnips, creamy fluffy mash, yorkshire puddings and everyones favourites "pigs in blankets, which in our family are not just reserved for Christmas Lunch.Nothing compares to a proper gravy either and supplies of Bisto were flown out to me in Spain just to alleviate the cravings!!!
I'm sure the troops will end up with an amazing menu which will not only be a taste of home but also be a meal they never forget.
Haggis for the Black Watch, laver bread for the Welsh guards, champ for the Royal Irish, pie and mash for the Blues and Royals. Then trifle for everybody, and a stick of Blackpool rock with coffee.
Home is where the heart is ... and my taste of home would definitely have to be the most delicious apple and cinamon muffins that my boyfriend gets up early to make me for breakfast , to put a smile on my face when he knows I have a tough day at work ahead , and just because he knows how much I love them.
Sadly I am not much of a cook to be able to reciprocate, but when I saw this prize was on our anniversary, what better way for me to show how much I appreciate his home cooking - (particularly the morning muffins!) - than trying to win this treat. :)
Hi Katherine :)
I would love to win the tickets so that my husband and I could have a well earned break from cooking for the children :) !
I would have to say my "taste of home" would have to be the comfort foods that I would miss the most when away from loved ones:
Fresh fruit : melon and forest berries
A beautiful rare fillet of Welsh Black Beef served with three times cooked chips (Stephen Terry thanks - they are simply lush!) and seasonal veg i.e. fresh picked garden peas with mint and a fresh british garden side-salad of lettuce, onion, tomato, cucumber, grated carrot and cress - with Heinz Mayonnaise to dip your chips in
The pudding to end just has to be a moist chocolate sponge drizzled with thick chocoate sauce, a liberal sprinkling of real honeycombe crunchy bits with lashings of beautiful creamy cornish vanilla ice cream and topped with fresh whipped cream and cherries
Katherine