A JCG student is headed to the semi-finals of a Masterchef-style student cooking contest this weekend after winning the Jersey heat and scooping second place in the district finals.
Year 10 pupil Freya Thorogood secured second place at the Rotary Young Chef district finals in Southampton on Saturday 21 February, after winning the Jersey competition in January.
The 15-year-old impressed judges with a two-course meal consisting of homemade gnocchi with a winter greens sauce, and pannacotta with poached pear and a tuile biscuit for dessert.
The meal had to be cooked for for two people in just two hours with an £18 budget.
Freya said she cooked the same meal during the district final as the local heat, but made a “few tweaks” – using both fresh pear and poached pear in the dessert, and a mould for the tuille biscuit.
She will now travel to Maidstone for the Rotary Young Chef semi-finals in Maidstone, Kent on Sunday 8 March.
The next step would be the competition finals, which Freya said would be a “brilliant opportunity”.
Looking to the semi-finals, she said: “I am nervous but I am also really excited. It will be a really good competition.”
Freya will be making the same two-course menu for the third time in Maidstone, but will have to prepare a cost and timings plan for the judges in advance.
