4th Sevenoaks Scouts held a MasterChef: Outdoors evening last night – with each patrol competing for the Top Cook toque (chef’s hat). To avoid everyone cooking pasta – each patrol was given an unusual country and given a challenge to produce a two-course meal for two from that country. All within a budget of £6.

Wolves – Morroco

Menu: Meatballs with a spiced tomato sauce, served with almonds and corriander, followed by fresh orange slices dusted with blossom snow.

Cobras – Thailand

Menu: A starter of fresh melon, followed by thai green curry served with noodles.

Pumas – Skandinavia

Menu: Pork with white sauce served with swede and carrot mash, followed by pancakes with lemon, sugar and blackcurrant jam.

Eagle Hawks- Russia

Menu: Russian burger served with home-made bread sticks, tomato sauce and sour cream followed by a crisp pancake.

SPLs – Japan

Menu: Vegetable stir-fry served with fresh noodles and a teryaki and ginger sauce followed by Ringo Ame (toffee apples)

Winners

The competition was narrowly won by Wolves, with their Moroccan menu. Well done!

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Kelly, Riana, Elizabeth and Sam – collectively known as ‘Team Penguin’ came joint first in the overall rankings at this weekend’s Operation Founder run by Tonbridge District Scouts.  They visited all six bases and the check-point, coming in with a score equalling the best in-district team.  As an out-of-district team this means that they won the Scotney Challenge Shield. ‘Team Icup’ – Harry, Matthew, Peter and Toby didn’t do quite as well – there is always next year. Operation Founder is an incident hike held on a Sunday around the date of Baden Powell’s birthday.  Last year it was held in Knowle Park, this year it was held near Tunbridge Wells. There is full breakdown of the results on the Tonbridge District Site.

We listened to a presentation by Rachel and Carlton from Porchlight this week.  Between them they really brought home realities of homelessness – both the number of hidden homeless (‘sofa surfers’) and living on the streets.  Hopefully we will arrange a sponsored rough-sleep to raise money for them this year.