Come Dine With … Lauren

15 July 2010

Early on Saturday morning I received a text from Lauren, who was feeling the pressure somewhat having had to restart her dessert after a flop the evening before. A few hours later she sent me a video reporting on her progress thus far, which I was allowed to watch as no secrets were revealed. The reason for being asked to wear pink and white wasn’t to be revealed until we got to her house later either.

A few hours later we were being welcomed by our hostess (wearing a pink dress) and shown to the kitchen, where the table was so beautifully set. Suddenly it was clear why we’d been asked to dress in pink and white: everything was pink and white.

As I had expected Lauren had not just been busy at the stove, but also with needle and thread. On each plate lay a personalised, hand-embroidered napkin, which we were to keep as a memento of the evening.

While we raked through a pile of Lauren’s clothes that she had thinned out from her wardrobe, we whetted our appetites for the meal ahead with miniature bread rolls and puff pastry sticks with pine nuts and goat’s cheese with a tomato and olive dip. It should give you some indication of the amount of food we all put away that evening that I’m splitting this Come Dine With Me report into 5 separate posts! For now though, our first impressions:

Posted in: CDWM, food, friends, photos, video

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4 Responses to “Come Dine With … Lauren”

bethany actually
16th July 2010 @ 4:33 am

I’ll admit I have not watched the videos, but (1) those napkins are insanely awesome; (2) the appetizers sound scrumptious; and (3) you three ladies in the bottom video look like you’re having a great time. :-)

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lauren
16th July 2010 @ 7:47 am

your video made me chuckle :)

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CDWM: Lauren’s starter : dreamdust
17th July 2010 @ 11:31 am

[...] we were nibbling our nibbles and then talking about them Lauren was busy at the stove preparing our starter. It’s so nice being a guest at these [...]
Beth
19th July 2010 @ 6:08 am

Those napkins! I am dying of envy! :)

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