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"Justice 97"
Liv: "I am serving up "Justice 97", and the inspiration is Anne Williams and the Hillsborough disaster. She campaigned to bring justice for the 97 who unfortunately died."
Liv: "I'm going to be doing a take on a lobscouse pie. So we've got mushroom, which is going to act as the kind of meat, beetroots, which are going to be pickled. And then there's also going to be some baby beetroots that are going to get roasted and then glazed in a beetroot juice reduction."
Paul Ainsworth: "And it looks like you're making your own pastry as well."
Liv: "Definitely. Typically on (football) match day, people used to have scouse, or lobscouse pies. So that's kind of another, like, play on it."
Notes taken during cooking
Paul Ainsworth: "Hi, Liv. Smells amazing. What can I taste?"
Liv: "I've got a little black garlic ketchup."
Liv: "I'm most worried about the pickled beetroots. That's a big one for me. Just making sure that they obviously come off with enough time to then pickle them."
Plating
Liv starts plating with black garlic ketchup.
Liv: "And then I've got my beets that are just glazed in their own juice and carrots."
Paul Ainsworth: "What have the carrots been cooked in?"
Liv: "They have been blanched in a little bit of veg stock and then bleached in a carrot juice caramel."
She adds the maitake mushrooms and the smoked potato espuma.
Liv: "And just a few little wild garlic buds."
Paul Ainsworth: "What's the sauce?"
Liv: "A mushroom gravy made for a little bit of the mushroom garum. And mushroom stock."
Paul Ainsworth: "The maitake mushrooms? Happy with how that's turned out?"
Liv: "I think I would have liked a bit more even color over the grilling of it and the barbecue."
Peers, talking behind the scenes
"Smoky mushrooms. Great."
"A lot of smoke on there. Yeah."
"For me, I love high seasoning."
"I think it's right on the edge, but I think it's okay."
Back in the tasting room
Paul Ainsworth: "And the pastry?"
Liv: "Yeah. Happy how the pastry came out."
Paul Ainsworth: "And the beetroots?"
Liv: "Beetroots I was really happy with."
Paul Ainsworth: "Do you feel you've got the pickle into them?"
Liv: " Yes. Yeah.
Peers, talking behind the scenes
"Personally, I'd like to see something a bit more pickled on there."
"Agreed."
"Is the beetroot pickled?"
"I'm not getting the pickle."
Back in the tasting room
Paul Ainsworth: " If you were to score this dish, what would you give yourself?"
Liv: "I'd probably give myself an eight."
Final Judging
Paul Ainsworth: "Liv, for your dish. Justice for the 97, you have a really strong link to the brief, and I love your reimagining of scouse pie at the football. Your maitake mushrooms, that's a wonderful umami flavor, but they were just a bit dry. The pickled beetroots lack that acidity. They just didn't have long enough in that pickle. The tiny bit of vegan pastry was so delicious. You've called it a pie. I do think you need to introduce more of that pastry. Yeah, I really think you've got something here, but you've got to make some changes."
