We took part in an exciting children’s cookery competition
run by LEON Restaurants called ‘Cook 5’. You have to cook a savoury dish and explain
how to make it. This is put on the LEON website, and people vote on their
favourite dish. The child with the most
votes each month wins a prize. Christopher and I were winners of the month last year.
It is called
‘Cook 5’ because LEON would like you to cook five savoury dishes.
This
year LEON put all the children’s names who cooked five dishes in a hat
and my
name was drawn out and I won £2500! I then got invited to LEON’s
restaurant in Bankside, London for lunch with Rachel and Orla, who helped organize
the 'Cook5' competition. From the new menu, I had a Fish Finger Wrap,
Christopher had The Chicken Burger and Matthew had the Brazillian Black
Bean Salad. We also had lots of lovely treats. It was delicious.
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| Photo by Leon Restaurants |
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| Photo by Leon Restaurants |
After that we took a trip to the head office,
where the boss John Vincent taught my family how to make his special pork, apricot and onion meatballs from one of the LEON cookbooks.
I cooked my ‘Cheesy Bacon Parcels’, Christopher cooked his 'Super Swirly Pizza Whirls', and Matthew did his 'Jewelled Salad' (which was an adaption to LEON's original recipe), and they were all gobbled up by us and the LEON staff! I then got presented with my cheque (In a Golden Envelope!!) and my brothers and me got a goodie bag. We had an amazing day with LEON. We finished our day by going to Kings Cross LEON, just to meet one of our favourite LEON people, Claire, who was delighted to hear my news.
You can take part on
http://leonrestaurants.co.uk/cook5
Charlotte
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| Photo by Leon Restaurants |
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| Photo by Leon Restaurants |
