The Double-M team get the cream

You're looking at a winning dish! Well, the food sitting on the dishes was a winner. It was prepared and cooked by Martin and Michael, and it was placed as the number one meal above all others by the judges in the Final of the Ready Steady Cook competition. The competition focused on Healthy Eating Options.

Coming in second were Jessica and Jacqueline, whilst Leon and Natasha were third.

Once again it was great fun for everybody cooking against the clock, apart from the fact that those that were knocked out of the first round of the competition had to constantly come round and judge us for preparation and hygiene. We were marked down if we didn't respect the 'law of the kitchen', and they were watching us very closely.

Anyway, here are the lucky winners, and they'll be the first names on a trophy that will be added to year after year as the competition becomes an annual event, and will be attending a special evening prize giving ceremony with their family and friends.

Ready Steady Cook (round one)

Hello from the mega-hot training kitchens down on the Ground Floor.

We're the 'Ready Steady Cook' team!

We've recipes fit for a king.

Well, with no king available we've had to try to please one of the Assistant Principals and Vice Principals alongside our Chefs.

It started by us working against the clock.

We had exactly one hour to produce from scratch a dish that would be judged on taste and presentation.

We were split into teams of two and straight away we started feeling the pressure.

There was a constant reminder from Chef as to just how long we had to go as the minutes ticked away.

We had to keep our heads and work together as a team in order to make sure we didn't finish too early (and let the food get cold) or too late (and leave the plates empty).

When the final whistle blew and Chef rather bluntly turned off the gas, we were thrown out of the kitchen!

It was at this point that the team of judges armed with clipboards took their forks and spoons from dish to dish, and did a lot of 'ums' and 'ahs'.

They had to decide what tasted good and what didn't.

(Here's a picture of one of them taking a mouthful - Dennis, one of our Assistant Principals - he doesn't look too scared, and we hope he didn't drop anything on his tie!)

In the end, we were all shuffled back into the kitchen to be told the results.

Chef called out:

Jackie and Jess (OCN)
Buyo and Oliver (OCN)
Leon and Natasha (Level 2)
Rebecca and Rhiannon (Level 1)
Karl and Eurell (Level 2)
Courtney and Kurvil (Level 2)
Michael and Martin (Level 1)

But is that the end of it? No. These teams have to cook-off against each other next week, to be judged by those whose dishes didn't get through this time. Ouch!

Well, we'll tell you how it concludes next week, here exclusively on the blog.