Welcome to the Kitchen
We hope you’re hungry! It’s time to enjoy some inspiration from our featured chefs plus our competition entries.
Meet our resident cooks…
Harriet Smith
Harriet is the author of cooking blog ‘Harriet’s Blind Kitchen’ and a member of the VICTA Young Ambassador 2020 team! Here she shares two simple recipes to make a delicious main course and dessert.
Chicken Scrumptious
The name says it all! A simple but delicious chicken dish to cook for your friends and family.
Lemon Swirl
Dessert doesn’t have to be complicated to taste great. This pudding is so simple even a novice chef can whip it up!
Roseanne Fish
Rosy is one of our VICTA alumni who loves to cook! She wanted to share the simple way she makes a vegetable soup using a soup maker in the hope it will inspire you to give it a go!
Making soup part 1
Being blind and using a Morphy Richards Soup Maker. Rosy chops her vegetables to include in her soup.
Making soup part 2
The finishing touches for the perfect soup! How to finish off your homemade soup using a soup maker.
THE ENTRIES
Thank you to everyone who entered our Kitchen competition. Enjoy all the foodie inspiration below!
Benjamin Bates, age 5
* Prize draw winner *
“I am making Pizza. I made the dough and then I put on the topping, it was amazing!!”
Image description: Benjamin smiling while spreading tomato puree onto a puffy pizza base. Hes has tuna and sweetcorn in bowls ready to go on.
Eilidh Johnstone, age 13
“I spent the afternoon making carrot and orange muffins with my Mum. We got very messy and they are very yummy.”
Image description: A plastic box full of the muffins with union jack muffin cases.
Megan Dunwell, age 10
“200g plain or chocolate biscuits (I use 12-15 chocolate digestives)
100g (6 ½ tbsp) butter
600g (22 oz) full fat cream cheese
110g (½ cup) icing sugar
1 tsp mint extract
300ml (1 ¼ cups) double or whipping cream
100g (3 oz) Aero Mint chocolate (or your favourite mint chocolate) plus extra for decoration”
Image description: Megan sitting at the table with her cake in its tin.
Poppy Woodhams-Beazeley, age 8
“I’m cooking chocolate crispy cakes and I make a really good date & banana loaf too. My top tips would be to use bright coloured equipment, cook somewhere with lots of light and listen to your mix – it will sound different once it is mixed together.”
Image description: Poppy in her chef’s hat and apron smiling with cupcake cases ready to fill, a big bowl of chocolate and a doll on the table taking part!
Ellie Clark, age 9
* Prize draw winner *
“I made Cous cous with my sister. We put in the ingredients we liked and shared with Mummy and Daddy.”
Image descriptions: 3 photos showing Ellie and her sister chopping vegetable and stirring them together with the cous cous in a glass bowl.
Dexter Ward, age 4
“Pizza is the best food in the world, even better when you make it yourself.”
Image descriptions: 3 photos showing Dexter spreading tomato topping into a large pizza base, the cooked cheese and tomato pizza and Dexter ready to take a slice!
Emma Amos, age 14
“I made a rocky road cheesecake from scratch. It was an easy recipe and the end result was yummy.”
Image descriptions: Three photos showing the cake in stages – the first iced and ready, the second with mini marshmallows and chocolate sauce drizzled over and the third showing Emma smiling holding her delicious cake!
Ellen Woodward, age 14
* Prize draw winner *
“I made a Victoria sponge cake, it’s simple and easy to make and you can quickly memorise the recipe and measurements. I’m also using a talking weighing scale which I would really recommend because it has helped me with becoming independent in the kitchen.”
Rowan Todd, age 14
“I am cooking pizza here with an easy to make naan base. Enjoy :)”
Leo Lake, age 12
“In this video Leo shows you how to make a yummy BLT sandwich.”
Xanthe Maeve Morayo Aboaba, age 10
Quesadillas Step One!
“I am making quesadilla – which I have eaten a lot during lockdown! ”
Xanthe Maeve Morayo Aboaba, age 10
Quesadillas Step Two!
Sasha McBride, age 12
“Sasha has been learning to cook during lockdown. Sasha has made strawberry ice-cream, waffles, cannelloni, apple crumble and a good few more!”
Image descriptions: Each photo is a montage of pictures of Sasha making each item. The first is apple crumble – peeling apples and hand mixing the crumble; the second is waffles and shows Sasha picking her own strawberries and then making and eating the waffles; the third shows Sasha filling cannelloni with mince and the fourth shows her mixing and making strawberry ice cream.
