Hairy Bikers Pilot With The Fernandez

By Leluu

Photography/ Copyright Alfie Hitchcock 2010

Photography/ Copyright Alfie Hitchcock 2010

Photography/ Copyright Alfie Hitchcock 2010

Photography/ Copyright Alfie Hitchcock 2010

We did a pilot for The Hairy Bikers Cook Off at the BBC a few weeks back. Here was the post and Simon cooked paella (recipe here). We were The Fernandez Family.

It was great fun. Now that the series has started to air, we can publish the photos. It was such a great day out and being in the studio for the first time in our lives. It was really wonderful to see how everyone worked as a team, how everyone had a job to do and worked so hard and to be under all those lights - how extraordinary!

Simon had to make a paella in 30 minutes and his mum Susan and I helped him. It didn't look like anything would cook but it did and boy - it was the best paella I have ever tasted - I'm not kidding - the Fernandez - knows how to make paella! And we won that challenge. Yay!

Although, sadly, we didn't win any of the other challenges like make pasta in 4 minutes and things like that... : ) but we didn't care - it was just such a great experience.

Thank you Hairy Bikers. Thank You BBC. Thank you Ben Walton, Ingrid O'Reilly & Neil Strawson