Live blogging at NomNomNom 2010
>> Sunday 11 July 2010
Silly o'clock - some early morning tweets from finalists making their way to Cookery School
Follow #nom10 for tweets from the day!
9.30 - Finalists arrive - all amazingly on time or early.
![Finalist huddle](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4782645536_262f496889.jpg)
Finalist Huddle
![Recipe for Disaster](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4096/4782013917_56beea3951.jpg)
![Team Grate Grate Grate](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4782013387_6c55e3deed.jpg)
![Team Summer Stew](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4782013635_17696e3523.jpg)
![Katman & Robin](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4782645886_8a04578c08.jpg)
Katman & Robin
![Team Greedy](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4782646230_e38f0b2b90.jpg)
Team Greedy
10.00 - Finalists off to the market
![Farmer's Market picture by Food Urchin](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4782676634_7a9dd329a7.jpg)
![Ginger Pig Shopping by Utku](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4782682084_ac9885c717.jpg)
![Meat by mseasons](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4782054033_db87fb9f9d.jpg)
Meat by mseasons
10.15 - TikiChris does photography of the amazing goodie bags which all the finalists will get to take home.
![TikiChris photographing goody bag](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4782647320_68906a8110.jpg)
![NomNomNom Goody Bag](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4782648698_5662385c98.jpg)
11.35 - Finalists huddle for Health & Safety talk & team briefing from Cookery School
![Cookery School Briefing](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4784079854_93398ea9a5.jpg)
![photo](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4782734146_c548183a5a.jpg)
11.45: A twitpic from Tarragons of Virtue: "And so it begins #nom10 - @mseasons presents our ingredients" from Cowfish
![Rachel McCormack by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4782791146_d988c08d8a.jpg)
That's a large watermelon from Pilleulo and The Catalan Queen
12.15 - First injury of the day - just a mild cut as Tom from NomNomNom De Plume soldiers on
![Tom by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4782175465_2269973a15.jpg)
12.20 - Serious concentrating on chopping up tomatoes by FoodUrchin from Pilleulo and The Catalan Queen
![FoodUrchin by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4782809782_b3277b494f.jpg)
12.30 - Lots of Magimixing from Jia and Victoria
![Jia and Victoria at the Magimixes](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4782164853_12f6d58fbb.jpg)
12.45 - Cowfish and mseasons in chopping mode as Tarragons of Virtue
![Tarragons of Virtue by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4782176183_8654f2ea3a.jpg)
Utku from Like Mother, Like Son, resplendent in "cookery whites"
![Utku resplendent in 'cookery whites'](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4782175063_996d48c7ef.jpg)
12.50 - Carla from Cultural Hotpot preparing potatoes
![Bribed with Food](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4783460037_3b0d894012.jpg)
12.55 - Cooking seems to be going by in a bit of a blur.
![Chris from NomNomNom de Plume by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4782152267_8e8acbaf83.jpg)
13.25 - Time is flying by as Katman and Robin cook
![Katman and Robin by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4782881398_88d44a31cd.jpg)
13.30 - Team Greedy preparing vegetables
![Team Greedy by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4782882652_d205c0bae7.jpg)
13.32 - Tom assures us that's not blood from his finger on his apron but berry juice
![Tom from NomNomNom De Plume by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4096/4782296593_f931c673b5.jpg)
13.45 - Only 30 minutes of cooking time remain as Cowfish and Utku look deep in thought
![Utku & Cowfish by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4782297519_aa72df60f0.jpg)
14.00 - Kitchen is a hive of activity with 15 minutes of cooking time to go
![15 minutes to go by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4782992548_e869dc38cf.jpg)
14.15 - Food being plated up for the judging
![Food being plated for by Izabel_Blue](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4783045320_f9c355c3b5.jpg)
14.30 - The finalists get ready for a meal of all of the dishes
![Almost lunchtime by mseasons](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4783456675_a8101e5f52.jpg)
15.00 Much discussion and scoring from the judges
![Judgely Huddle](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4783466395_9bd0b9c6f3.jpg)
![Judgely deliberation](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4783464723_42c8671e90.jpg)
16.30 - After a lot of judgely huddling, counting of points and deliberating, the winners of the day were.....
World Cup Spirit of the Day Prize to Recipe for Disaster (good job Jon loves cheese) who won a World Cup Goody bag - with Dutch cheese & Spanish snacks.
![Kai & Jon Celebrate by Tiki Chris](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4785198770_98a84c834f.jpg)
Honourable mention to team Summer Stew - aka Jia & Ben
2nd place: Katman & Robin - aka Kate Lord & Robin Clark who each won a Robust blender from Philips
![Katman & Robin Celebrate by Tiki Chris](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4784559307_4ddd099ed6.jpg)
Katman & Robin Celebrate by Tiki Chris
![DSC_3794](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4785210612_571ff126d8_m.jpg)
![DSC_3793](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4785208906_7b8991e78a_m.jpg)
1st place: Pilleulo and The Catalan Queen - aka FoodUrchin & Rachel McCormack - who won an Artisan Food Processor, an Artisan blender from Kitchen Aid and bottles of Champagne from Vintage Roots
![Rachel & Danny by Tiki Chris](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4785195980_4d7715705c.jpg)
Rachel & Danny by Tiki Chris
![Rachel & Danny looking very chilled](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4784074504_95031169b1.jpg)
We'd love to thank everyone who took part in an AMAZING cook-off today, with special thanks to TikiChris and Izabel Blue, the judges - Susan, Xanthe, Nick and Flori and of course a HUGE thanks to Cookery School, Ros, Claudine, Hugo, Marcela, Juliander, Ian and Paloma who did the most sterling job in hosting the event and their very tireless help and assistance to all the finalists today.
![Group Shot by Tiki Chris](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4784602077_ff875051b8.jpg)
Group Shot by Tiki Chris
Watch this space in the next two weeks for the Action Against Hunger raffle and the Viewers' Choice voting. There's still a lot at stake with fantastic prizes for the overall online winners including a Magimix, a set of five star knives from Henckels, 2 bottles of Gin Mare gin, £50 charity donation from Justgiving AND a masterclass for five people from Chilango.
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