Ready Steady Cook Hive Challenge Results!

What fun! We thoroughly enjoyed the Ready Steady Cook Hive Challenge ... except for the judging which was fairly impossible with so many incredibly creative and delicious looking dishes!

We had four countries and all ages represented! It was so much fun to have friends with us from Vancouver, Canada, North Carolina, USA, Ireland, and various places across the UK. Unfortunately our friends in Tanzania couldn't make it, but Tanzania was well represented with people who had lived there! 

The very international Hive Challenge!

I know you want to see the amazing things these chefs all came up with...

Everyone had a limit of 5 ingredients and the dish had to include HONEY.

Getting Ready...

Everyone had 60 minutes to make their dish before we all came back together to share the results. Zoom is fantastic for bringing people together from all over the world, but it really doesn't work when you want to taste all the amazing things you see on the screen!

This beautiful Honey Cake with only 3 ingredients won the Challenge!
They invincibly lived up to their name as the Honey Badgers!

Honey Bunny scored a super close second with this super creative display of
Honey Bee Buzzy Flappy Jacks! (Honey Bunny gets Best Ears Award)

Susannah gets the Youngest Chef Award for Original (and most colourful) Creation 
with her Blue-Berry-Stablein-Scream with the Berry-Stablein Team

It's Buzzing Grange Girls Group made these delicious
Honey Flapjacks which disappeared quickly with the boarders giving it top marks!

HoneyCache (avid Geocachers) produced a candle-lit gourmet meal
with their Honey Glazed Salmon (Fastest Chefs too)

 Honey Bee Biscuits from the WeBeeLong Team (Best Name Award!) 

Berry Merry made this dazzling Honey Cheesecake!
We love the decorating!

These beautiful Honey Waffles were made by the Honey Brothers
(they would make a perfect Mother's Day Treat!)

Beautiful and Most Unique were these Persian Sohan Asali
from Team Asal in Canada

And finally our Honey, There's a Chicken in the Bee-n Hive

So all in all, some really incredible results and such a lot of fun! We can't say enough how grateful we are for all the support to HelpTheHive! And to see all these fabulous friends tonight buzzing in kitchen ... it was just amazing! Thank you so much! 

We really missed Rachel, from Basingstoke, who had planned to join us and sadly ended up in hospital. We are praying for you, Rachel! But what was amazing, was communicating with Rachel as the Challenge was about to begin, and with her nurse, Nuru, who was from Tanzania! So we had Swahili going back and forth through Rachel on What'sApp and were chatting about Tanzanian cooking! It turns out Nuru's sister lives in Mwanza and so we were giving Nuru directions for The Hive for when she goes to visit! What a lovely connection!

Thank you! Almost Halfway!

Thank you!

Thank you so much to everyone who is supporting The Hive! We are now two days away from the Ready Steady Cook Hive Challenge, almost halfway through our month of fundraising for these amazing women and incredibly, we are almost halfway to our goal! 

Thank you so very much to all of you who have already donated! Thank you to everyone sharing our story with others ... we love that in celebrating the story of the women, we have celebrated Emma and Farhad's wedding and also Heather's birthday!

It is going to be wonderful to see Aikande able to continue in her role with the women with albinism at The Hive in Mwanza. And to see Bhatendi expanding her work training more beekeepers in community groups around Mwanza who can bring their honey to The Hive! So please help us get there! If you would like to donate, please head to our Hive Fundraising Page! Every bit helps!

Ready Steady Cook Hive Challenge

We are excited for Saturday's Ready Steady Cook Challenge and look forward to seeing what interesting concoctions emerge from the creative chefs that are zooming into The Hive from the UK, Tanzania and Canada! 

If you are not able to join us (or just a bit zoomed out!) we would love it if you can share a photo of something you have made with honey and a few other ingredients ... you can give it a good name and even share the recipe. If you can tag in #helpthehive and share the Hive Fundraiser Page it helps to spread the word. We look forward to posting photos and results here next week! 

Spoiler Alert ... Amisadai, Louisa and I are calling ourselves Team Topbar and our dish will be named "Honey, There's a Chicken in the Bee-n Hive!"

Inspirational Women

The girls and I have really enjoyed thinking about and celebrating women who have inspired us! We realise just how much we appreciate community. We are so privileged to know so many wonderful people, who we can learn from in so many different ways. To see how we all have different gifts and callings and how important that uniqueness is! And then also reading and thinking about women in the past who have blazed trails and overcome challenges is so encouraging.  We hope you have also been inspired by their stories and we look forward to sharing some more with you next week! 

Also coming up we want to share some exciting news for the Mwanza beekeeping project... but we will save that for next week!

Jo Hobson

Zoe Willford

Rhobi Samwelly

Aikande Sam

Laura Kelly