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So, one day down, and where have we got to on our live cooking extravaganza?

For those of you just tuning in: for our first live streamed event, we’ve decided to attempt to make not one but two massive three-Michelin-star style recipes, in a normal kitchen, using the full power of Alex and my Mad Cookery Skillz. AND we’ve decided to do the entire thing live on the Internet – for all of the ways you can watch the second half tonight, see our earlier post.

The US contender for our recipe is Cream of Blueberry Soup with Yoghurt Charlottes", from Thomas “I was the cooking consultant on Ratotuille, you know” Keller, maestro of the French Laundry, regularly rated as one of the best restaurants in the world. We’re cooking from his "French Laundry Cookbook.

Meanwhile, in the blue corner, the plucky contender is Perfect Chicken Tikka Masala" from Heston “I once cooked an entire pig sous-vide” Blumenthal, ex-repo man and proprietor of the "Fat Duck, which is not only another contender for the best restaurant in the world but also more or less the reason Kamikaze Cookery exists. This recipe isn’t from his restaurant, but from his book Further Adventures In Search Of Perfection.

As a backup, in case we found both recipes too easy, we also had the “Emergency Ravioli”, aka the “Fava Bean Angolotti with Curry Emulsion” from Thomas Keller’s book. We were going to leave it up to our noble viewers to decide if we needed to undertake that additional challenge. Guess what they chose, the bastards?