Food Glorious Food ...

We mentioned our love of food in our last blog - as if you didn't know this already! You therefore probably won't be surprised to hear that when we heard there was a cookery demonstration going on in one of the hotels we were visiting, we made a beeline - or should that be a bearline? - for it, reckoning there should be some free samples if we smiled our winning smiles at the chef.


We managed to get seats on the front row of the audience and immediately caught the chef's eye - off to a good start we thought as we gave him a smile and a wave. Unfortunately having two bears in the audience was clearly an unusual event for him and put him off his stride as very early on in the demo he put what looked to us an alarming amount of garlic in the pan and then seconds later admitted that he'd added pineapple instead of garlic and so had to start all over again. Being the helpful bears we are we ensured he had a fresh supply of pineapple even though this required us to pop outside and harvest one - good job we had our swiss army knife to hand!

After that our chef friend recovered his composure and cooked two lovely dishes. They had some technical Keralan names but we forgot them immediately and all we can remember was that there was a fish curry and a pineapple curry. As we had helped out with the pineapple replacement we got to have first taste and have to admit we didn't leave too much for the rest of the audience.

We had a long chat with the chef who shared with us a number of tips for cooking some traditional Kerala recipes which we are now trying out on our Bears Unlimited colleagues to much acclaim - Wherry consumption is going up which must mean we're making them hot enough!

Hope you like our picture taken with our chef friend. Please don't ask what I (George) am doing with my leg though.


Love George and Yorkie xxx