Blog/Audio: #GreatSausageRollOff 2013
#GreatSausageRollOff 2013
Chef’s from across London and further a field gathered at The Red Lion in Barnes and pitted their culinary wits against each other at the inaugural #GreatSausageRollOff. ‘Sausage’ rolls of all shapes, sizes and fillings were scrutinised by the wonderful panel of judges, Chef, presenter and author of Pig: Cooking with a Passion of Pork, Johnnie Mountain, journalist, style blogger, broadcaster and documentary-maker, Kate Spicer, and Charles Campion renowned food critic, who has written in The Times, The Independent, the Evening Standard and Celebrity MasterChef, supported by the incredibly talented host someALEiere Melissa Cole. She knows how to control an unruly mob!
Charles Campion’s review of the #GreatSausageRollOff
The sausages arrived in groups of four in four separate heats. The sausage rolls were judged blind, so the judges didn’t know whose sausage roll was whose.
The Contenders
Below are the entrants, heats and their sausage rolls and many of them will be serving them at their pubs and market stalls. Get in touch with them to find out more.
1.The Lawn Bistro – Wimbledon Village – Chef de Cuisine Ollie Couillaud @olliecouillaud
Decadence – Pork with black truffle
2. The Victoria, East Sheen – Chef Charlie Boyce @chinaboyce
Morcilla, smoked rhubarb & vanilla
3. The Lamb at Angmering –Chef Dan Catford @DanChef
Venison, apricot & Pistachio
4. The Masons Arms – Battersea – Chef Thomas Fabre @masonsbattersea – Winner 2013
Wild Boar (and a lot of French love!)
5. Black Lion Hammersmith Buzz Cousins & Chef Dee Whooley @allblacklion
Pork, Watercress & Green lip Mussels
Heat 2
6. The Gun – Docklands – Chef Quinton Bennet @thegundocklands – 2nd place 2013
Wild boar, foie gras, apple and chorizo
7. We Eat – Craig Ballinger @we_eat
Pork and beer braised pulled venison with black pudding
8. The Glasshouse New Malden – Chef Lionel Jouanet
9. The Stonemasons Arms, Hammersmith – Chef Neil Reid @djbigtwist
Pork & Toulouse
10. Daffodil Soup/African Volcano (collaboration) Chefs Linda Galloway @daffodilsoup & Grant Hawthorne @GrantHawthorne
Peri Peri Pork
Heat 3
11. The Hampshire Hog – Chiswick @TheHampshireHog
12. Charlottes Place Ealing – Chef Gregg Martin @CharlottesW5
Pork & Fennel
13. Chef Peter Frost (private chef) @Frosticals
Lobster
14. Shaws Booksellers, City of London –Chef Tim May @shawsec4
Pork, black pudding & apple
15. The Hand & Flower, Olympia – Chef Jon Pellew @HandFW14 – 3rd place 2013
Hampshire Large white pork
Heat 4
16. The Swan – Bampton , Devon – Chef Paul Berry @theswanbampton
Pork cheek, apple & blue cheese
17. The Red Lion – Barnes – Angus Mckean @RedLionBarnes
Shin of Beef & Mackerel
18. The Ship – Wandsworth– Chef Shaun Harrington @shipwandsworth
Free range Somerset Pork
19. The Rib Man/Egg_Boss (collaboration) Chefs Mark Gevaux @theribman & Sean Lawson @Egg_Boss
Pork with a little heat
