Enter our Competition to win a copy of Jamie Oliver’s latest cookbook
‘Jamie at Home’.
To enter: Create your own ‘Themed Fruit Salad with an edible decoration’ . Write a short recipe or description of how to make it, stating the ingredients and basic instructions. Take a photograph of your finished creation. Send a print of the photograph, plus a copy on cd, plus the written recipe or description, together with your name, age, address and telephone number to:
Themed Fruit Salad Competition, Castle Lane Day Nursery, 9 Great Bowden Road, Market Harborough, LE16 7DE by 20th August 2008
Competition rules
The competition will be judged by Sainsbury’s Community Food & Health Advisors. The judges’ decision is final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
There is one first prize of a ‘Jamie at Home’ cookbook.
The winner and runners-up will receive a certificate of merit and have the photographs of their entries published on HFM’s website credited with the names and ages of the winning entrants.
Entry to the competition implies that you assign copyright of your entry photograph to the competition organisers, for it to be used in a positive way to promote Active Kids Get Cooking activities such as the AKGC holiday cooking club.
Closing date is 20th August 2008
The Winner will be announced on 27th August 2008
Top Tips!
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These are just a few ideas to get you started. You can adapt these suggestions or dream up a completely original theme of your own.
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Limit your fruit salad to 1 or 2 colours. You will be surprised when you do this how many fruits you can find that are just green, or just red, or just white etc.
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OR Limit your fruit salad to a country or region such as tropical fruits only, or English fruits only
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OR Limit your fruit salad to fruits from one group such as citrus fruits only (eg oranges, grapefruit, lime, kumquats), or berries only (grapes, strawberries, blueberries), or tree fruits only (peaches, apples, pears, cherries)
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OR Create a decorative fruit platter. Slice and prepare your choice of fruits in different shapes and thicknesses. Some can be sliced thinly and fanned, others can be cut into sticks or chunks, etc Arrange them in an attractive design on a platter.
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OR Finger-fruit-in-a-tub for a picnic: cut fruit into finger-size pieces so thecan be eaten in the fingers without making a mess. Arrange them attractively in a portable tub suitable for packing with a picnic.
And for any of the above:
Edible Decorations: presentation is incredibly important with food. If it looks beautiful, people are much more likely to be tempted to eat it!
Suitable decorations for your Themed Fruit Salad could include fanned fruit slices (eg orange, apple, strawberry, kiwi, lime etc), sprigs of herbs such as fresh mint or basil leaves, or even edible flowers (eg rose petals, lavender, pansy, geranium, elderflower, violets etc) - as long as they have not been sprayed with any chemicals. Always ask a knowledgeable adult before using any flowers in cooking, to make sure they are suitable for eating.
