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Important dates Prizes Entries can be submitted from: National prize National school prize Monday 19 May 2014 The school with the national winning entry Closing date for entries: will receive a $2,000 voucher to stock up Last mail on Monday 27 October 2014 your kitchen from ExecutiveChef.com.au. Winners announced: $2,000 Plus an HEIA one-year school membership Tuesday 18 November 2014 Voucher (for up to 6 teachers at the school), valued at How to enter $330. Visit heia.com.au for full membership benefits. Obtain your competition pack and entry form by emailling Neredith at National student prize [email protected]. Complete the The individual or team that submits the entry form and submit with a hard copy of national winning entry will receive $500 requirements, along with a CD or USB, if worth of EFTPOS cards. If a team wins, the submitting images as a multi-media $500 will be distributed evenly amongst presentation, to: team members. Flavour Forecast 2014 Recipe Challenge State/territory school prizes PO Box 404, Kew East VIC 3102 The winning entry from each state/territory Your entry should include the following: (ACT/NSW, NT/SA, QLD, VIC/TAS, WA) School details will receive the following prizes valued at $1442: - School name & address • Tupperware Compact Cookware Set – - School contact person–name, phone, email RRP $379. This set nests together for space-saving storage and includes: Team details - 1 x 1.5L Saucepan with Cover - Team name Every - 1 x 2.5L Saucepan with Cover - Team school year level/s student receives - 1 x 3.5L Saucepan with Cover - Team members a certificate - 1 x Removeable Handle. • Tupperware Kitchen Preparation Tools – Years 9&10 FLAVOUR FORECAST 2014 The recipes RRP $97. These six essential kitchen tools Please ensure you submit one recipe for – KP Serving Spoon, KP Whisk, KP Master each theme, making a total of four recipes. Tongs, KP Skimmer, KP Slotted Turner and Images, justification & reflection KP Ladle – are heat resistant to 200C. State • Tupperware Universal Series Knife Set – The supporting images, justification and RRP $241. This is a seven-piece stainless reflection may be submitted as hard copy prizes steel knife set with ergonomic handles and or as a multimedia presentation. If using protective sheaths and includes paring, digital technologies (such as MS PhotoStory, RECIPE Challenge utility, serrated utility, filleting, bread and Animoto, iMovie, MovieMaker), please chef knives plus a sharpener. save the file on to a CD or USB stick, • Tupperware Modular Mates® Mixed and mail with your entry. Pantry Set – RRP $225. Modular in Terms and conditions design, these virtually airtight containers will save space and protect your food. This challenge is subject to terms and • A supply of McCormick and conditions. Please ensure you have read and for the classroom (valued at $500). understood the terms and conditions, which are found within your Competition pack. + Student State/territory student prize Please contact Neredith at prizes Each team member or individual from the [email protected] if you require winning state/territory will receive a $50 another copy or further clarification. McCormick gift bag of various items. Schools must obtain written consent from the Participation certificates will be sent to all parent/guardian of each student prior to entry. students who enter. www.mccormick.com.au 4 Years 9&10 Flavour Forecast 2014 Recipe Challenge

tien tsin and aji amarillo, and use two - If using the trend 'Mexican world tour', Introduction different techniques for cooking their What has to be Strategic tips Tips for writing your how does the recipe demonstrate ways The Years 9 & 10 Flavour Forecast® 2014 chillies e.g. , smoking, pickling, submitted? 1. Select four flavour trends that appeal to you. justification that the authentic elements of bright, Recipe Challenge is a challenge designed by fermenting or candying. 2. For each of your selected flavour trends, bold and casual can be For each recipe, include the following: • Consider how your recipe has addressed McCormick Foods Australia and the Home 2. Modern masala–Students are to deliver a identify which ingredients you would like embraced by another culture? 1) The recipe (please refer to Tips for the flavour trend. For example: Economics Institute of Australian Inc. for Year dish that is modern, and uses Kashmiri to use in your new recipe. - If using the trend 'Charmed by Brazil', writing a recipe#) - If using the trend 'Chilli obsession', how 9 and Year 10 home economics students in masala and paneer cheese. Note that for options 2 and 3, there are how are the ingredients being used to - Title do the cooking techniques used in your Australian schools. The challenge is for 3. Clever compact cooking–Students are to no choices of set ingredients: demonstrate a melting pot of Amazonian - Preparation time recipe tease out the flavour potential of students, individually, or in teams, to develop deliver a dish that is prepared in only one • If choosing 'Modern masala', Kashmiri influences and another culture? - Cooking time the chosen chillies? four original recipes to support the kitchen appliance such as a microwave masala and paneer cheese must be used. • In addressing the above, you could - Total serves - If using the trend 'Modern masala', how McCormick® Flavour Forecast® 2014. oven, blender etc., and uses tea, noodles • If choosing 'Clever compact cooking', tea, consider, for example: - Ingredients does the recipe take a basic curry to the and . noodles and coriander must be used. - What inspired the recipe? Schools can submit multiple entries and any - Method next level in new contexts that might be 4. Mexican world tour–Students are to - Why did you choose the ingredients that number of students can be part of a team; - Presentation as diverse as food trucks to fine dining? choose at least two authentic Mexican you did? however, any one student can be part of only 2) Two or three supporting images of the dish - If using the trend 'Clever compact ingredients from tomatillos, sauce - Why did you choose the additional one team. If a student enters individually, from different angles (refer to Tips for food cooking', how does the recipe connect or recado rojo, and deliver a dish that ingredients that you used? they cannot also be in a team. Each team/ presentation and photography#). flavoursome food and the efficient use would be served in a foreign country e.g. - What inspired the presentation of the dish? individual can only submit one school entry. The supporting images may be submitted of space by use of only one appliance? an authentic Mexican dish using - Why do you think this recipe would as a multimedia presentation on a CD or tomatillos served Japanese style. appeal to consumers? Design situation USB stick. 5. Charmed by Brazil–Students are to pick Each year, McCormick identifies flavour trends 3) Costings breakdown for the recipe, but Flavour trend (select four from below) Optional alternative ingredients and tips at least two ingredients from black eye that are expected to drive global innovation excluding the set ingredients, taking into peas, guava, cassava and tempero baiano, Food lovers everywhere are seeking out their Refer to the handy recipe sheet for chilli cooking techniques#. in food. The five trends identified for 2014 account the ingredients are to only serve and prepare a dish that is a melting pot next big chilli thrill. Beyond just discovering are shown in the table opposite. two people. cuisine of Amazonian influences and one new chilli varieties, this obsession has 4) Justification of the resolution to the recipe chilli McCormick Foods Australia is looking for other influence – either European, extended into using techniques like grilling, challenge, which should: four new recipes to support its Flavour African or Asian. obsession smoking, pickling and candying to tease out •be no longer than 300 words Forecast 2014 trends. The four recipes will their flavour potential. Each recipe must incorporate ingredients •include two or three images of work-in- be used by McCormick Foods Australia to Indian food is finally having its moment, Paneer cheese–use firm creamed cottage cheese (available in from the chosen flavour trend, along with progress, with appropriate annotations to promote to consumers how the selected breaking free of its traditional confines with fridge section of most supermarkets) or quesco blanco or queso additional ingredients of choice. Alternative highlight the design and production journey. flavour combinations can be used to develop Modern modern interpretations. People around the fresco (available from gourmet food delis). ingredients are suggested in the table on 5) A brief (maximum 150 words) reflection flavoursome dishes that can be made in the world are taking their appreciation for this Kashmiri masala–Refer to recipe for Kashmiri masala #. page 3 for some of the unusual, hard-to-get on what you did, for example, home kitchen. McCormick Foods Australia is richly-spiced cuisine to the next level, and ingredients in the set ingredients; entries will •What inspired you to chose your theme masala looking for contemporary recipes that exploring more flavours in new ways. not be penalised for using the alternative and recipe? promote a variety of fresh foods (in addition to ingredients. •What did you enjoy most? Proving that big flavours can come from Noodles–use any variety of dried or fresh noodles e.g. egg the set ingredients) and reflect the Australian •What did you learn? small spaces, cooks across the world are noodles, glass noodles, rice stick noodles or miso noodles. Dietary Guidelines released in 2013. Specifications •What did you find most challenging? clever making the most of space that is available to Tea–use loose tea or tea bags. Any variety of tea may be used, Each recipe must incorporate a different food them. They are discovering creative ways to including herbal infusions. • Each of the four recipes must: •What would you do differently next time? trend from the five trends. prepare flavourful meals a single appliance. Coriander–use ground coriander, coriander seeds or fresh - be original–please be aware of penalties compact cooking coriander leaves, or a combination. For each trend, the Home Economics Institute of related to breach of copyright laws Judging criteria Australia Inc. and McCormick Foods Australia - be suitable to be prepared in a typical • Adherence to design brief Mexican flavours are on the move around Tomatillos–use fresh or canned tomatillos or use green or unripe have identified parameters for how these trends home economics kitchen • Appeal of the recipes i.e. how well the the world. From a growing taste for regional tomatoes. are to be represented. These parameters are - be prepared and/or cooked within 100 mexican Mexican food in the United States to early Chamoy sauce–refer to recipe for Chamoy sauce #. ingredients come together to form identified in the Design brief below. minutes or less appealing, quality products exploration of typical Mexican cuisine in Recado rojo–refer to recipe for recado#. - serve two. world tour China, cultures across the world are • Point of difference i.e. the factor/s that make Design brief • The cost for ingredients for all four the recipes and the presentation of the final embracing authentic elements of this cuisine. Four original recipes are required, one each recipes must be no more than $30 in food products stand out from the crowd The world's attraction to Brazilian cuisine Guava–use fresh or frozen red or green guavas or use guava juice total, excluding the set ingredients. charmed by is heating up, thanks to its enticing mix of or guava jam or preserve. for four of the five McCormick flavour trends, • Justification of, and reflection on the as outlined below: • No more than one of the four recipes resolution to the recipe challenge global and native influences. Cassava–use flour or root, or tapioca, corn or rice flour, or arrowroot. 1. Chilli obsession–Students are to deliver a must fall into the discretionary/eat in • Presentation of final food product i.e. Black eye peas–use fresh, canned, frozen or dried chick peas, dish that includes two different types of small amounts food group. attention to design elements such as brazil pigeon peas, red kidney beans, black beans, white beans. chillies such as guajillo, chilli de arbol, colour, texture, placement, focal point etc Tempero baiano–Refer to recipe for Tempero baiano #. 2 # available in the competition pack 3