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Vanessa Kimbell BBC Northampton

March 21, 2011 by Sarah Trivuncic 7 Comments

A quick mention today to let you know about my first ever radio appearance yesterday on Vanessa Kimbell‘s BBC Radio Northampton Kitchen Garden show.

Our first of two shows went out live and you can listen to us from around 1 hour 07 mins into this iPlayer clip (only guaranteed to be available for the next 7 days)…. after that I will investigate a longer term clip I can display and there is also some video footage to come.

Sunday 20th March: BBC Radio Northampton Kitchen Garden

Yesterday we were checking out the reality behind how different stand mixers compare with the humble hand held electric mixer when making cupcakes and whisking egg whites. Shown above from left is Vanessa Kimbell who presented the show, Helen of Fuss Free Flavours who flew the flag for the Kenwood stand mixer, Julie of Angelina Cupcakes who used the iconic Kitchenaid stand mixer and finally myself (still looking slightly wan after this week) who tested the hand held electric model.

Without wanting to spoil it for you – it was a bit of a shock result.

I first “met” the bubbly Vanessa on Twitter and although we’ve chatted on the phone several times this was the first time we’d met. I’ve been one of several recipe testers for Vanessa’s new book Prepped! which is due out early this summer. It’s a cookery book for time short foodies in which each recipe is links to others in the book that you will already be “prepped” for after you’ve made the first one. I think it’s a fabulous concept for family cooking – Ted has even been demanding Vanessa’s lavender ice cream from my freezer.

After the “mix off” we recorded a second show about cake pops as shown above which will be broadcast in a couple of weeks time. I’ll let you know when.

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Sarah Trivuncic has published recipes, restaurant and travel reviews on Maison Cupcake since 2009. She lives in Walthamstow, East London with her husband and teenager.
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  1. Vanessa Kimbell says

    March 21, 2011 at 9:21 am

    Sarah – it was such fun ! .. and I was really surprised by the results !!

    Vanessa
    x

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  2. Arthi says

    March 21, 2011 at 9:59 am

    Sarah…you had so much fum lady ;-)…shld catch up soon…another potluck maybe..

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  3. Fabulicious Food! says

    March 21, 2011 at 10:03 am

    Ah, this sounded like really great fun and what a brilliant challenge! I can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday morning -lucky ladies! Ren x

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  4. nisha says

    March 21, 2011 at 10:32 am

    wow…celebrity an all ๐Ÿ™‚
    i love my kenwood stand mixer:)

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  5. Dominic says

    March 21, 2011 at 11:01 am

    looks like you all had such fun… you need you’re own TV show!!!!! (with me as co-host of course)

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  6. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says

    March 23, 2011 at 11:28 am

    How wonderful! It looks like you had a ball Sarah and here’s to many more radio appearances ๐Ÿ˜€

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  7. Choclette says

    March 25, 2011 at 9:29 am

    Sounds like a fabulous day, although quite scary. I will try and catch up with the programme before it disappears off the airwaves.

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