Come Dine With … Helen

31 May 2010

On Saturday evening it was Helen’s turn to host “Come Dine With Me”. Suzy picked me up and on the way over we shared a few preliminary thoughts on the evening:

We also discussed history and current affairs, but l thought I’d keep video on the subject to food – our speciality, I think you’ll agree.

We’d been told in advance that there would be a theme for the evening and when we arrived the elegant table was decorated with an EU flag. Wait, the theme is bailouts? No, it was the Eurovision Song Contest! The show was on television that evening and Helen had organised a few quizzes based around the event. Had I known this was to be the case, I may have studied a little and perhaps looked a little further into the rather odd “Euro” definition that includes countries that are not even a little bit part of the European Union.

There were also challenges to link the country to its flag (or not, in my case) and to link the country to its capital (thank you, Hubert, for touring eastern Europe – that helped!). While we worked, swapping pens for each round, Helen prepared the starters and the Song Contest began to entertain us.

Out came the first dish, each plate beautifully presented. The starter was smoked trout and watercress, with an egg, dill and cornichon salad, served with a thick slice of toasted bread.

Our verdict on the start of the evening:

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4 Responses to “Come Dine With … Helen”

Ricki
31st May 2010 @ 10:57 pm

Very cool! I love that you’ve both served very elegant dishes. Can’t wait to see the rest of the meal!
Suzy
1st June 2010 @ 1:25 pm

Hee hee this is so great, what would we do without Meg!
I have no idea what I said as I entered stage left on the starter judgement video, I’ve lisened to it several times and can only guess I was speaking Serbian while gesturing at Lauren..
Douze points!!
Meg
2nd June 2010 @ 3:15 pm

I really love this idea. I’m looking forward to settling in a new area (we just moved) and really establishing friends like this so I can do things like this. Amazing. It seems like you have really great connections.
Jersey: Peacock feathers and chocolate drops : dreamdust
21st August 2010 @ 5:18 pm

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