This Post was written by Lynn fromLynn's Cooking Blog.

Fame is indeed a fickle mistress, and one that I'm afraid I'm currently courting. Today is an important day in the Spencer household. For both Andy, my wonderful husband, and I, start new jobs / careers. His is as an internet radio station manager, producer, writer and broadcaster, mine..................as a food writer and broadcaster. Yikes.

http://www.flagradio.com/

I've got a show!!!!! A weekly 1 hour program about food - what else? I'm going to put links on the radio website for suppliers and also suggest recipes for featured foods that tie in with the topic being discussed.

The radio station goes 'live' today at 12.00 noon and my first show will be broadcast on Monday at 15.00. It's called 'Lynn's Cooking Show', and for my first program, I'm exploring the world of wine, along with someone who I think you'll find a familiar name. They could have offered me Jilly Goolden and Oz Clark , but no, I held out for........Antonia Lloyd . Antonia has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of wines, and the best way of matching them to foods - especially important for the upcoming party season. And if you don't who Antonia is......shame on you!!!!!! She's only a wonderful fellow blogger who's blog 'Food, Glorious Food' should be one of your first ports of call when you're browsing the web. After mine, of course.

Wish me luck.

Child Poverty Day

This Post was written by Anne from Annes Kitchen http://anneskitchen1.blogspot.com


What are you doing for lunch on the 17th October? Chances are even the most planned of us haven't even thought that far ahead yet!

Well this year why not do something different and instead of buying your lunch in, take a packed lunch to work / school / university etc and donate the money you would have spent to Child Poverty Day, you can find more information here: http://www.actionaid.org.uk/childpovertyday/


Why not get your family, friends and colleagues involved too? You can register on their website and download posters, fundraising tips etc, I currently have a pile to blu-tack around my office!
I will be posting my favourite lunch recipes in due course to give you some ideas!


I am also planning to bake and auction them off to raise further funds, is there anything you could do maybe in your place of work? An interesting idea on their website is ask the Police very nicely to 'borrow' a cell for the night and sponsor your boss / director etc to spend the night!! Am sure if you pay enough and ask very nicely they might even keep them longer!

Another competition - the Cuisine Cup

This Post was written by Niamh from Eat Like a Girl

Hi all,

Another competition, I think this will be of enormous interest to alot of members here (including me!).

I was at L'Atelier de Chefs yesterday for one of their lunchtime cooking classes and they mentioned a competition that they are running - the Cuisine Cup. Basically, to enter you need to create a salmon dish and enter it, 12 finalists will battle it out in their kitchen in London for the UK heat, and the winner of this, gets to go to Norway for 4 days. there are also prizes of a £75 gourmet gift vouchers for all of the London finalists.

I found this info on their blog and there's more info here: http://www.atelierdeschefs.net/cuisinecup/en/node/269

After the success of Cuisine Cup last year, L’atelier des Chefs launches the second edition of Cuisine Cup!

• What is “Cuisine Cup”?

Cuisine cup is the first free “European” cookery cup for amateurs (because it happens in France, Belgium and here...)! It is a contest during which non professional cooks compete by cooking their most amazing recipes!

If you love cooking, if you are an advanced cook or just a beginner do not hesitate to dash into the adventure of Cuisine Cup 2009! Have no complex: everybody can participate at any level. There is one exception: Professional Chefs are not allowed!

This challenge appeals to your culinary creativity, your capacity of improvisation and your speed of execution in cooking. Products and cookery subjects are chosen by the jury.

• How does it work?

This is really simple to participate in Cuisine Cup! Log on to www.cuisinecup.com and apply before November the 10th by posting the recipe of your choice around the "Salmon" ingredient.

12 candidates by city will be held and will participate in the days of qualification which will take place in the closest atelier from your home: Paris Lyon - Bordeaux - Brussels - Nantes - Lille – London

The 23rd of November is the day of the qualification of the best cook by the jury in London.

From January you will be able to follow the episodes of this contest on internet

After the tests, only one candidate by city will be held by the members of the jury to participate in the big final. The semi and grand-final will happen on the 8th of February in Paris!

• What to win?

The cooks who will be qualified will win L’atelier des Chefs' aprons. Gourmet Gift Vouchers of the amount of £72 will be offer for the quarter-finalists. The 8 semi-finalists will win a wonderful 4 day-journey to Norway! And our finalist will win amazing household appliance!

• Who is the Jury?

We will have 2 famous Chefs in London: Pascal Aussignac from le « Club Gascon » (1 star) and Will Torrent who is an English pastry champion at the world championships.

Trish Deseine, the famous cookery writer, will be our president of honour!

Then, ready to take up the challenge? Log on right now to www.cuisinecup.com .

After Eva last year, why not become the winner of this cookery cup?