Grosvenor Shopping Centre celebrates great Cheshire food recipes

Apr 9 2009 by Gil Lightfoot, Chester Chronicle

Chester Food & Drink Festival

ARE you proud of your local food, keen on your cooking, and do you have a great Cheshire recipe that you would like to share?

In support of this year’s Chester Food & Drink Festival, The Grosvenor Shopping Centre Chester has teamed up with The Chronicle to help celebrate the glorious food of Cheshire.

Over the next four weeks, they’re inviting you to send in your favourite ancient and modern Cheshire recipes, and be in with a chance of getting them presented on-line, and printed in a special Cheshire-themed recipe booklet.

Whether you make a mouth-watering Cheshire apple pie, warming pheasant casserole, or your steak and ale pie is the talk of the town, we would like you to share your version of your favourite recipes with us.

All recipes should contain at least one of your favourite Cheshire ingredients – from bread, vegetables and cheese, to mouth-watering Cheshire-brewed ales, venison and fruit.

The competition features seven categories: Best Starter, Best Main Course, Best Pudding, Best Dish from a Young Person (aged 17 or under), Best Student Dish (aged 18-24 years), Best Cheshire Cheese Dish and Best Vegetarian Dish. Readers can enter as many categories as they wish.

All recipes will be judged by celebrity TV chef from Ready Steady Cook, Richard Cawley, along with some of Chester’s top chefs, The Grosvenor Shopping Centre and The Chester Chronicle.

Judges will also select one overall winning recipe, with the winner receiving a luxurious overnight stay for two at The Chester Grosvenor Hotel and Spa, five star hotel.

Worth more than £500, the winner and their guest will stay in a superior executive hotel room, enjoy a delicious three-course meal in the award-winning La Brasserie restaurant, along with champagne on arrival and a full English breakfast the following day.

All seven winners will also receive £100 to spend at any store of their choice within The Grosvenor Shopping Centre, with all seven runners-up having the option to win a prize of £50 to spend in The Grosvenor Shopping Centre or a seasonal case of fine wines.

The commemorative recipe booklet will feature the recipes of the seven winners and seven runners-up in each category.

Julie Webb, manager of The Grosvenor Shopping Centre, said: “We are delighted to team up with The Chronicle to help celebrate all that’s best about Cheshire food and drink.

“Whether it’s an old family recipe or your own unique version, we want to hear all about it and get the people of Cheshire celebrating the glorious food that’s on their doorstep.”

Readers can submit their recipes via either The Grosvenor Shopping Centre website www.thegrosvenorcentre.co.uk or The Chronicle newspaper website www.chesterchronicle.co.uk All submitted recipes will appear on both sites for a limited period.

Alternatively, take a trip to The Grosvenor Shopping Centre and pop your completed entry into the Recipe Post Box. The entry box will be located beside the main promotional area next to Costa Coffee.

Readers can also send their entries to Recipe Competition, The Chester Chronicle, Chronicle House, Commonhall Street, CH1 2AA.

To enter simply send in your recipe to us and tell in no more than 50 words why you have chosen your selected recipe, clearly stating your name, age, address, email, daytime telephone number and the recipe category you have entered.

The closing date for entries is May 8.

For terms and conditions, visit www.thegrosvenorcentre.co.uk