john torode opening the show

The final stop of the 2009 tour saw us at BBC Masterchef Live at Olympia in London. We came to this show last year when it was known as BBC Good Food London so we did have an idea about how popular the show was, but it still exceeded our expectations!

Each day the show was opened by John Torode and Greg Wallace – presenters of TV’s Masterchef series. Alongside this, there were demonstrations all day, every day by past winners of Masterchef and Celebrity Masterchef. This brought many familiar faces such as Wendi Peters, Liz McClarnon and our old friend Steven Wallis (Mastercehf winner 2007 who worked with us on the 2008 tour).

Our demonstrations, led once again by our very own Simon Woodhouse, went down a storm

Simon's Grilled Pork with Blackstick Figs

with every show being a sell out before lunch time! Simon prepared Smoked Salmon Crostini with Savoury Cranachan, followed by Grilled Pork with Blackstick Figs. Both recipies were fantastic, with many visitors commenting on how they will be trying to recreate these dishes at home – something they had felt wasn’t possible with some of the other demonstrations they had seen at the show.

We had many different products to offer samples of at this show. These included – pate with melba toast, mixed olives with feta

products we were sampling

cheese, peppadews with cream cheese, cheddar cheese with black pepper served with chutney, stilton cheese, mince pies with brandy butter and truly irresistable crisps and crushes. Once again we had the team from Head Office offering samples of Co-operative wines and we also had one of the suppliers of apples and the supplier of salads on the stand who were also offering samples of their products.

We once again had smoothie bike sessions running throughout the day which were a huige sucess, especially on the first day of the show as there were a number of schools visiting the show and who all enjoyed peddling their way to a smoothie.

Masterchef Live Team

This show was the last of the 2009 tour and what a fantastic time we have had!

me meeting and greeting

On behalf of Chris and Chrissie I would just like to thank everyone who has been part of our team for 2009 – the tour has been excellent and we have met some really nice people along the way!

I would also like to thank anyone who has taken the time to follow my blog and hopefully there will be more to come soon!

Bye for now!

Christine xxx

Brand Ambassador and tour blogger 2009

Caro giving out samples

This was the second time we had taken the Roadshow to Westmorland and what a fantastic show it was! This show is only on for one day and a good day was had by all! The sun was shining, and everyone was in high spirits.

children on the Plan Bee stand

There were many schools in attendance at this show as a large number of them close for the day and bring the children, which meant Plan Bee and the Smoothie Bike were in high demand!

The cookery demonstrations throughout the day were presented by Simon Woodhouse who prepared Spiced Elmwood Chicken with Homemade Bramley Apple Chutney along with our favourite Barbequed Fruit Kebabs. Every session was full and Simon received many compliments…with one gentleman having never tasted curry before, commenting how nice it was and that he would definately be having it again!

The sampling at this show consisted of tomatoes, Truly Irresistable cookies and shortbreads, Truly Irresistable crisps, fruit crushes and cider, all of which went down well with the crowds and sold out in the shop by the end of the day!

This was  a great show to end the tour of county shows with and we were all sad that the outdoor leg of the tour was over for another year. However, we still have the two Good Food shows to look forward to and I hope to see you there!

Bye for now!

Christine x

Brand Ambassador and tour blogger 2009

our samplers with a range of the products

Simon Woodhouse in the kitchen

This was our second time at the Dorset County Show and this year there was a lot less mud than we had the year before!! This time the weather was lovely and encouraged people to come to the show! In fact, we had many vistors returning who had been to the stand last year. They commented how we had improved with notnonly the addition of the Plan Bee unit, but our professional approach to food sampling.

Simon Woodhouse prepared Prawn Pasta Arrabiatta and Barbequed Fruit Kebabs which went down a storm with all audiences over the course of the 2 days.

We sampled Truly Irresistable Mature Cheddar Cheese, tomatoes, Truly Irresistable crisps and Tillington’s cider.

woody the one man band

Woody the One Man Band was a regular vistor to our stand and even gave us a few performances! He was fantastic! He really attracted the crowds and put a smile on everyone’s faces.

Brand Ambassador and tour blogger 2009