CDWM: Lauren’s main course

21 July 2010

Does anyone spot the reason that Lauren was so good at matching flags to countries in the quiz at Helen’s Come Dine With Me? This world map hangs on the wall by her kitchen table and serves as a great talking point and impromptu “find X” on the map competition. It’s fun to see how far we’ve travelled over the years and to plan where we might go next.

Lauren’s main course was fish pie with spinach and carrots. Not just any old spinach and carrots though. The spinach was cooked with garlic and lemon and the carrots with orange zest and rosemary.

Our fish pies were not just in individual portions, they had been personalised to suit each person’s particular taste – for me there was less chili, because I’m a complete baby when it comes to levels of spiciness and for Helen, her fish pie was devoid of prawns, prawns just being too far along the weirdness scale of seafood for her liking.

Then having suffered so very much walking from the kitchen to Lauren’s room on the top floor to record the video about the starter we moved filming location and I carried the laptop outside. You may have noticed how our videos have developed over the course of this food venture. We started with very organised videos at first and always listed exactly what we’d had to eat. Now we don’t repeat ourselves as much in that regard and instead use the energy saved to heckle each other more.