CDWM: Lauren’s dessert

24 July 2010

With the way I’ve loaded my recent photos to Flickr, you could be forgiven for thinking that Lauren had provided the The Red Arrows as mid-meal entertainment. She did not. But she did have a handy-dandy sofa in the kitchen onto which we could collapse between courses while she whipped up the next culinary delight. A tip for anyone doing a Come Dine With Me evening: provide comfy seating for your sated guests and they will mark you well. True, they may also fall asleep and whine about having to get up for the next course, but that’s the chance you take.

Lauren’s dessert was a New York baked cheesecake with a delightfully palette-cleansing raspberry sorbet. Mmm, raspberries. The story she told us of how carefully the cheesecake had to be treated – please to pull on your kid gloves and lay out a red carpet before it – put me off ever baking a cheesecake myself, but the result was great.