Who’s for MasterChef Judy’s volley vents?
AS A no-nonsense tennis coach focused on guiding her sons to the very top, limited time meant Judy Murray’s cooking never ventured much further than fish fingers or sausages.
But the 60-year-old mother of Jamie and Andy, who has already appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, will test her culinary skills on Celebrity MasterChef later this year.
She will have her work cut out if her homecooking recipes are anything to go by, and judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode might have their toughest contestant yet.
Speaking in the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine, she reveals her special family dessert recipe – which involves melting mini-rolls in a microwave and topping them with ice-cream.
On cooking when her sons were growing up, she said: ‘I was so busy it was never a priority. Cooking was a chore rather than something to enjoy.’ She admits her family found it ‘hysterical’ that she signed up to put her cookery skills on very public display on TV.
With filming finished, Mrs Murray found herself in lockdown, where she put her new-found skills to use. She said: ‘I set myself a target of making a new recipe every three days.
‘I started with baking, but I had to stop because I was eating everything. One day I made a lovely coconut cake with jam in the middle and icing on the top. Unfortunately it was so nice I ate it all, myself, in a day.
‘I could feel my waistband getting tight so I had to say, “B ***** that” to the baking, and I moved on to cooking healthy things.’
She added: ‘I’ve been cooking more than I ever have in my life. I’m loving it.’