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WIN A £100 HAMPER OF UNEARTHED PRODUCTS OR ONE OF THREE PAIRS OF TICKETS TO ‘TASTE OF CHRISTMAS’ SHOW
unearthed supporter and celebrity chef Silvena Rowe will be demonstrating lots of yummy recipes involving unearthed products at the Taste of Christmas show at Excel in London from 4-6 December, 2009. Silvena’s demonstration will be on the Main stand at 3.30pm on Friday, December 4th.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
- Go to Twitter. If you have a Twitter account, then you’re halfway there. If you don’t have a Twitter account, then signing up for one is easy. Just follow the instructions on the site.
- Find us @foodsunearthed. Then click the button to follow us.
- After you follow us, send the following message in your message box for general display:
I want to win a £100 food hamper or tickets to Taste of Christmas from @foodsunearthed. Retweet message and follow to enter.
Exact prize may differ from this photo, but it is going to be tasty!
Full Ts and Cs can be found below. You can only win if you are following us and have retweeted the message by 11.59pm on Wednesday, December 2nd .
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Entrants must be aged 18 or over and legal residents of the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland. The draw is not open to employees (or their immediate families) of the Promoter, its agents or anyone professionally connected with the promotion .
2. The prize is one £100 hamper plus a pair of tickets to the Taste of Christmas Show at Excel. Two second prize winners wil each receive a pair of tickets to see Taste of Christmas at London’s Excel Centre. The prize will be delivered within 28 days of the draw taking place
3. Only one entry will be accepted per person. Entry to the competition will be deemed to constitute full acceptance of these terms. and conditions.
4. For a chance to win the entrant must tweet the message given by unearthed on their Twitter page. All eligible entries will be entered. The first eligible entry to be drawn at random on the 3rd of December 2009 by an independent party will be the winner. No purchase necessary to enter .
5. The prize is non-transferable and the Promoter reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or higher value in the event that the prize is unavailable for any reason. There is no cash alternative to the prize.
6. The closing time/date for entries is 23.59 on Wednesday 2 December. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any lost or delayed entries. Incomplete or illegible entries will not be accepted.
7. The Promoter’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
8. The winner’s name and city/county can be obtained by sending an SAE after 3 December but before 23rd December 2009 to “Unearthed Hamper Competition’, c/o BOTTLE PR, 33 Acre End Street, Eynsham, Oxfordshire OX29 4PF . The only personal information required will be the winner’s details in order to deliver the prize.
9. The winner will be notified by direct message to their Twitter account. If the winner does not claim the tickets within 36 hours we will draw another winner.
10. The winner will be required to co-operate in reasonable publicity following the draw and announcement of this result.
11. These terms and conditions are subject to English law and to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
12. Entry instructions form part of these Terms and Conditions. By taking part in this free draw entrants are deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions.
13. Please note that the details of the winner may be used for promotional purposes subject to the mutual agreement of the winner and Unearthed
Good luck!
Three delicious panettones.
The challenge: To create a mouth watering dessert with an unearthed panettone at its heart.
The team- Simon, Sophie and I – went head to head in the first unearthed panettone bake off of its kind. Simon took the classic panettone – sticking to the traditional recipe but introducing a modern twist. I chose the classic panettone with sugar nibs, a similar sense of tradition but with a sweeter edge, and Sophie being a serious chocoholic decided to bake with the double choc (obviously!)
The results were interesting!
Simon created a double cheese burger, making discs of melted chocolate and crushed wafers. Raspberry Jam replaced the ketchup and mint leaves as the salad. Obviously the panettone was the bun. Visually this was a master piece, however then texture and taste were not! The classic panettone is renowned for being moist and light, with the fruit inclusions maintaining this texture. Simon’s creation was dry. Very dry. Unfortunately his visual master piece did not work as something you would enjoy eating! I was quietly smug!
Sophie embraced her love for all things chocolate and hollowed out her double choc panettone then filled the centre with a white chocolate mousse. A far more challenging recipe than Simon’s. She served with a raspberry coulis. This could have worked. This should have worked. But Sophie made the fatal mistake of adding too much sugar to her mousse and her dessert was simply too sweet. I knew I now stood a chance.
So, my entry was the third and final one. I decided to draw on the citrus flavours naturally running through the cake and created a lemon cheese cake panettone. I layered ginger nut biscuits, lemon curd cheese and cream and the panettone in a ramekin. I finished with the panettone top and covered in whipped cream and lemon rind. The feedback was that the flavours worked well together but my lemon cheese should have been a little denser. Thinner more frequent layers would have helped. Fairly positive feedback, I knew I was in the running.
The judges were our MD Steven Higginson, and our very own Suitcase Simon. We all knew they were going to be hard to impress as between them they have a vast knowledge of food and have eaten at some of the best restaurants in the world. After immediately ruling out Simon’s entry there was much deliberation. I was nervous, and I could see Sophie was as well. We could see them talking but couldn’t hear everything they were saying. There was one word that kept cropping up: flavour.
The judges approached the table. A verdict had been reached. I WAS VICTORIOUS!!! Good old lemon cheese cake, my staple favourite! Apparently combining the dessert with the panettone created a heartier version, better for winter, and Christmas indeed.
Now I was very smug. My prize you ask?…a whole day of boasting in the office and my recipe featuring here on the website, so check out the recipe pages if you’re looking for inspiration with your pud! I’m off to do a little more “my cheesecake beat your burger” bragging!
Ingredients
- One unearthed classic panettone
- Blackberries
- Custard
- Sugar
- water
- Rind and juice of 2 lemons
Method
- Put the cleaned fruit, the water and lemon rind and juice in the pan.
- Simmer until the fruit is soft.
- Stir in the sugar and boil rapidly until setting point is reached.(or use jam from a jar)
- Scrape out the inside of the panettone, and then add the jam into the hole.
- Add some blackberries on the top
- Then pour custard on the side ready to serve! Delicious with ice cream or double cream to!!
Ingredients
- Pasta or spaghetti
- Half a pack of unearthed chorizo
- 2 large eggs
- 4 tablespoons of pecorino
- 4 tablespoons of double cream
- Salt and pepper
Method
- Boil pasta
- Slice unearthed chorizo and leave to one side
- Next, whisk the eggs, yolks, cheese and cream in a bowl and season with pepper.
- Put onto heat for 10minutes constantly stiring
- Add the chorizo
- Add the pasta to the mixture; stir very thoroughly, so that everything gets a good coating.
- Serve onto plate, and then sprinkle with pecorino cheese and then serve to your guests!!
Why not try these roasted stuffed tomatoes, perfect for a starter or as a quick snack! Could even try it with peppers, if you want it to be more of a main dish!
Ingredients
- 3 tomatoes
- ¼ of an unearthed feta
- 3 slices of unearthed prosciutto crudo
- ¼ red onion
- Parsley
- 1 tsp of pesto
Method
- Slice the top of the tomato off, and scoop out the inside
- Lay out one piece of prosciutto crudo, and spread a thin layer of pesto on it.
- Cut up unearthed feta into chunks
- Dice some onion
- Wrap the onion, and feta in the prosciutto crudo then put into the tomato
- Sprinkle with a bit of parsley then put into the oven for 15minutes until soft
- Remove from the oven and ready to serve!!
