Now Casting: Recipe To Riches For Network TEN
Not a great all round cook but have one cracker recipe? Then Recipe To Riches could be the reality show for you. The show will be made by Fremantle Media for Network TEN and they are currently casting for it.
The blurb:
You don’t need to be a gourmet cook with a broad range of skills, we simply want your ONE best dish. Your best of the best.
It’s time to share your cherished home cooked creation with Australia and put yourself on a path from Recipe to Riches.
Bring us your pies, your cakes,your spaghetti bolognese, your secret marinade, your casserole, your pav, your exotic desert, your chocolate bar or your ‘need one more’ party snack, in fact bring us any single recipe you are most proud of, so long as it’s delicious and original.
In return, you’ll have the chance of turning your unique recipe into riches. We will tease, taste and test your recipe and ultimately put it onto the supermarket shelves of Australia for others to enjoy. You get a chance to win $200,000 and the joy of sharing your recipe with Australian families as it goes on sale around the country.
Applications close on 24 August so if you are interested in applying go to the website here.
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Ah, bravo Fremantle Media ….the undisputed Masters of mediocrity.
First up, $200,000 is much better than the chicken feed the cheapskates at $hine use to attract “the best amata cooks in Australia”.
Now this is the show Jimmy from MCA2 should have tried out for.
Better $ maybe bdd, but you’d probably have to sit through one of those heart-to-hearts with Alenka.
You’re right Morgan, Jimmy only had one good recipe – curry!
True, Georgie, you would! Guess that counts you out?
Don’t forget to ‘paint a better picture for them’ by telling the truth when you hand out your advice Alenka.
Thank you for the advice. I’ll certainly do that.
Hm, $200,000? I assume that would mean something like signing away all further rights while Freemantle, TEN and Coles get rich on your recipe. Might be better to come second and get lots of publicity for your recipe and then do a Marion. The kitchens of Australia are going to be very busy over the next few weeks as every amata and his or her dog tries to come up with something they can pretend is a long-standing recipe.
I’m over these shows that aim for the stars – best tastin’ dish ever since man grilled his first mastodon steak – and then give us rolled gold mediocrity (to borrow from BDD).
For the sake of pure entertainment I’d much prefer to see the most ill-conceived, badly cooked, gut-wrenchingly disgusting recipes this nation’s home cooks have to offer. Surely the masters of reality TV mediocrity – Freemantle and Shine – can manage this.
In the meantime, here’s a retrospective of the worst line-cooks ever to appear on Hell’s Kitchen – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxwTx2nc_0
I’m currently working on my winning Dude Food recipe, weiner surprise#.
That’s a hot dog that I:
* sous-vide in Dr Pepper for one hour,
*bang on bun (bought at Coles)
*smother with Kewpie mayo
* immerse in liquid nitrogen
* smash to bits with a hammer
* and use as a topping for me bacon ice cream (**the recipe of which is a trade secret).
They might as well send me the $200,000 post haste.
# I’m hoping for a celebrity endorsement from Stephanie Rice.
Here’s a famous American explaining my concept:-
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2012/08/08/1226445/514275-kobe-bryant-chats-with-steph-rice.jpg
@ CB’s sous-vide in Dr Pepper. In a weak moment a week ago, I tried Matt Preston’s Coca Cola chicken. If you have any respect for your taste buds, DO NOT EVER try this recipe. It took hours to cook. The texture of the chicken ended up like spam and the taste was like I’d wiped my mouth out with the sludge at the bottom of my petrol tank. I wonder if these recipes are tested in the real world rather than in the minds of their conceivers.
Suziekue,
One of my favourite cookbooks of the late ’80s, more for its photos and novelty value than it’s recipes, was ‘The White Trash Cookbook’. This was the first introduction I had to the concept of marinading a whole chicken in a ‘master stock’ of Coca Cola and Heinz ketchup. And then roasting the shit out of it. If I recall correctly the resulting dish was called “Chicken Ketcha-Cola”. Good to see Matt P is embracing his inner trailer trash but sorry to hear you had to waste your time making diesel flavoured chicken.
Me?
I’m looking forward to some cooter!
Cooter Pie (The Hunter’s Delight)
The process of catching the cooter, or snapping turtle, seems more exciting than actually cooking it. “First you take a live cooter and wait for him to stick his head out from under his shell. When he does, you grab it and whack it off.” Poor little cooter.
“We might tell stories that others think are vulgar or sad but we make them tales to entertain ourselves and anyone else who will listen.” (from “White Trash Cooking”)
I found this on the ABC’s website. Unfortunately I lost the cookbook I had years ago.
Whilst on the subject of ‘white trash’, my 2 favourite white trashians…
http://www.geekosystem.com/beavis-butt-head-real-life-terrifying/
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