Luiz of The London Foodie has been running a cooking club for a few years and The London Foodie Supper Club, serving homestyle Japanese cuisine, for the last year. Formerly an investment banker but now a Grand Diplome student at Le Cordon Bleu, Luiz obviously loves his food and I can attest that he’s a fantastic cook. He’s currently teaming up with unearthed® with a special series of dinners featuring their products.
One of the dishes for these dinners has been developed by Tim Anderson, Masterchef 2011 winner, to create a “culinary tour around the world on one plate”.
I received these details about the dish:
Inspired by a snack from Anderson’s childhood in America, the ‘Around the World on One Plate’ dish features a savoury marshmallow on a biltong twig, served with loin of lamb and dressed with a rich chocolate and port sauce. The dish boasts an eclectic mix of unusual ingredients from countries such as Greece, Italy, Iberia, China, New Zealand, Ecuador and South Africa.
It sounds good and will only be available at Luiz’s The London Foodie Supper Club! Luiz and unearthed® have offered me the opportunity to run a competition on my blog and the winner will get the chance to try this dish at The London Foodie Supper Club in Hoxton on June 28. The prize is two tickets to the four course dinner (accompanied by wine) as well as a hamper of unearthed® goodies (charcuterie, cheeses, dips, olives).
Now for all those pesky Terms and Conditions.
- The prize includes a pair of tickets to The London Foodies Supper Club, (each ticket is worth £20) and a hamper full of unearthed goodies worth £60
- The supper club tickets are valid on 28 June 2012, 7.00pm-10.00pm.
- Sadly, Tim Anderson will not be present at the supper club that night.
- Prizes are non-transferable and non-exchangeable and there is no cash or credit alternative available In the event of circumstances outside its control, the promoter reserves the right to substitute an alternative prize of equal or greater value should the prize be unavailable for any reason.
- Prizes can only be delivered to a UK address and entrants must be 18 or over.
- Winners are responsible for arranging their own travel and any costs incurred.
To enter, just leave a comment here on your favourite childhood snacks! Comments on this post will close at the end of Thursday 21 June, 2012 and I’ll use a random number generator to select a winner. Do ensure that the email address you use is valid!
For inquiries on tickets to this collaborative supper club, please tweet @foodsunearthed.
Good luck!
Sat, 16 Jun, 2012 at 20:49
My favourite childhood snack? Blackjack sweets…! Gorgeously chewy and sweet and sickly and as a bonus left your tongue black.
Sat, 16 Jun, 2012 at 21:01
Ensaimada – sweet pastry from Majorca where I lived when I was a kid. In the morning, fresh and warm from the bakery with chocolate milk!
Sat, 16 Jun, 2012 at 22:15
Rabbit milk candy (da bai tu nai tang). I’m sure you know it– sweet chewy milk candy wrapped in edible rice paper, and wrapped in that old-school blue and white packaging with the rabbit illustration. Later made more (in)famous by threats of melamine-poisoning heh.
Sat, 16 Jun, 2012 at 23:37
I used to eat all sorts as a kid, no different to now, really. One of my faves was to have a block of marzipan in the fridge and cut myself off a small piece when I fancied, and walk about the house nibbling it…
Sun, 17 Jun, 2012 at 10:49
Raspberry flavoured slush puppies for sure.
Sun, 17 Jun, 2012 at 19:30
popping candy, loved the way it felt, thank you Heston for reviving it in adult forms
Sun, 17 Jun, 2012 at 19:53
Fizzy coca cola bottles – my downfall, then and now!!!
Sun, 17 Jun, 2012 at 20:15
Haw Flakes! Otherwise known as San za pian! They are made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn. The discs just intrigues me and so easy to nibble on!
Sun, 17 Jun, 2012 at 22:46
What a great giveaway! Big fan of Tim Anderson.
Favourite childhood snack has to be Hello Panda…partial to the strawberry flavour but chocolate does the trick as well.
Fri, 22 Jun, 2012 at 17:00
Congratulations, Jo! #9 was drawn and you’re commenter #9! Hope you have a fantastic time at the supperclub next week!
Mon, 18 Jun, 2012 at 08:54
technically it is not a snack, as you don’t eat it, but I used to love HubaBuba orange flavour. I use to enjoy blowing bubbles
as for a proper snack, one you actually eat, it used to be Planters salted peanuts.
Mon, 18 Jun, 2012 at 10:37
iced gem biscuits! I’d never realized till now that they were made in Reading though…
Mon, 18 Jun, 2012 at 13:10
Great competition!
Two latchkey teenage snacks:
Toast pizzas – toast thinly spread with tomato paste, grated cheese and ham and shamefully blitzed for 30 seconds in the microwave
And buying a breville sandwich toaster gave birth to the dubious joy that was instant mashed potato, strong cheddar cheese and salad cream toasties. Molten, triangles of amazingness, which i fear will never again be so.
Mon, 18 Jun, 2012 at 13:53
My favourite childhood snack was the ramune candy – little white powdery sweets that dissolve on the tongue that taste like the Japanese fizzy drink and comes in mini replica plastic bottles. I often pretended I was popping them like pills…
Mon, 18 Jun, 2012 at 17:34
Crab sticks! My mum would trek me around the food market in Bradford where inevitably I would moan ‘it smells’ and then later ‘but I’m hungry’. She got me these as a treat from the fishmongers to shut me up. I still eat them all the time now and still unpeel the layers…
Tue, 19 Jun, 2012 at 13:21
Caramello Koalas and Peppermint Freddo Frogs. Scoffing too many on a warm Australian afternoon where the chocolate goes a bit goey. Bliss.
Tue, 19 Jun, 2012 at 19:02
So many to remember from banana sandwiches to boiled eggs mashed with butter in a mug to tons of penny (and half-penny) chews but a particular favourite was sneaking glace cherries out of the pot in my mum’s baking cupboard- those and crystalised peel were a sneaky treat
Tue, 19 Jun, 2012 at 20:56
I must have been an odd kid because i absolutely adored raw rhubarb dipped into a sugar bowl!
Wed, 20 Jun, 2012 at 07:40
Those “Japanese” Koala cookies with chocolate fillings inside! One time I thought it would be fun to feed them to my fishes and Daddy got really mad when he caught me, cos they were really expensive and he had gotten them from Japan. And Kinder Surprises!
Wed, 20 Jun, 2012 at 21:58
I used to love acid drops. Tried them again recently and they weren’t half as tangy as I remembered.
Aniseed balls were a close second. That little seed in the middle was a secret treat.
Thu, 21 Jun, 2012 at 11:37
I used to love white mice and those atomic fireball sweets – though from what I can remember none of my friends liked them at all!
Thu, 21 Jun, 2012 at 11:39
Not very classy but I loved pickled onion Space Raiders, especially as I could afford to buy my own with my 20p per week pocket money! Fig rolls were another favourite.
Thu, 21 Jun, 2012 at 12:55
For a very long time I would only eat philidelphia – on rice cakes, in sandwiches, on toast, as a dip with carrot sticks. Nothing else, including the primula ham squeezy cheese that my brother would only eat! Still love it, but I’ve graduated to slathering it on marmite too, more grown-up, no?
Thu, 21 Jun, 2012 at 14:43
For me, has to be babybel!
Thu, 21 Jun, 2012 at 20:54
pineapple fritter in a bag from the fish and chip shop with icing sugar sprinkled all over it!
Fri, 22 Jun, 2012 at 09:08
Thank you everyone for your entries! This competition has now closed and I’ll announce the winner in a few hours.