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TWO burly blokes on bikes roared up a Blackpool street, pulled off their helmets and put on their pinnies!
Kitchen wizards, Hairy Bikers Si King and David Myers, were making a culinary housecall on Cavendish Road, North Shore, to take a peek into Anjie Mosher's family cook book.
But Si took a diversion on his way into the kitchen when he spotted Anjie's drum kit.
"His eyes lit up and he was straight to it," said Anjie, "he used to be a session drummer and he gave me a free lesson."
Anjie, 40, who is studying professional cookery, will be featuring in the next series of Mums Know Best, trying out some of the recipes handed down from her own mother – and her most cherished inheritance.
The BBC2 series hosted by the bikers, Si and David, is all about comfort food, and that's something dear to Anjie's heart.
She had nursed her mum, Renee Mosher, through the final weeks of her battle with cancer.
"During one of our many chats, mum asked if there was anything of hers I'd like. I said I would like her recipes and she wrote them out for me."
Anjie had already discovered how the taste and scent of a dish can bring to mind a special moment from the past.
"When mum was in hospital, before it became clear that she would not get better, I felt so helpless. I was feeling so low and like everyone, no matter how old, when things go wrong, you want your mum. I picked up her recipe book, went out and bought the ingredients for one of the recipes and came home and cooked it.
"It was the strangest experience. I felt as if my mum was there cooking it. And it tasted exactly as if she had made it.
"It felt just like I'd had a hug from my mum."
After Renee died, Anjie appealed to other people to send in their mum's favourite recipe, and the story behind it, for a cookery book called A Hug from Mum, which has raised 1,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Cooking and chatting with the Hairy Bikers about their shared passion for food was great fun for Anjie: "We were cooking all day, and I'd had to buy three lots of ingredients because, for continuity, you can be chopping a carrot three or four times for one shot."
They cooked up Renee's curry, sweet and sour potatoes, spicy cauliflower plus an assortment of homemade chutney.
It was a family day for Anjie and her partner, Debbie Lovatt, with Anjie's sister, Mia, her niece Abigail Gee, her grandma Lynda Murray and Debbie's mum Sheila Lovatt.
"Mia was a bit upset when she tried Mama's Curry, she hadn't eaten it since mum died and she felt just like I had. It was exactly as if mum had made it, like a big hug. It's that emotional feeling you can get from food," said Anjie.
Discovering a passion has taken Anjie, formerly a hairdresser, down a different career path. She is studying professional cookery at Blackpool and The Fylde College.
She has also founded the Farmers' Market at Fleetwood and, after securing funding, is running pilot after-school cookery courses for kids and their carers at Fleetwood Sports College.
Anjie said: "It's been a very diverse group, It's not just been parents and children, but grandmas, foster carers and a teacher who volunteered to bring one child.
"They love coming, cooking something from scratch and taking it home at the end of the class for their tea.
"Learning how to cook means they'll have something to pass on in their families. You can't hand down a jar of sauce can you?
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