CDWM: Lauren continues to feed us

By now, we were full of crudités, soup, fish pie, cheesecake and sorbet. But there was more! Lauren brought out a plate of her trademark dark chocolate truffles to finish us off. As we enjoyed them the tealights along the centre of the table began to burn out one by one – Suzy hastily rearranging [...]

At night

A couple of nights ago I went out into the garden to photograph the moon. There was a lot of cloud around, so it would tantalisingly appear and disappear on me. I made a complete hash of putting the tripod up in the dark, but eventually got it about right and settled myself in a [...]

CDWM: Lauren’s dessert

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. [...]

CDWM: Lauren’s main course

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 [...]

CDWM: Lauren’s starter

While 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 evenings. You get to just kick back and watch someone else work. Maybe that’s why restaurants sometimes have open kitchens: to really underscore the patrons’ enjoyment of [...]

Come Dine With … Lauren

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 [...]

CDWM: Suzy’s dessert

So to Suzy’s dessert and the quiz. The multi-page quiz. It was stapled! But it was multiple choice, so that was good – and there were no essay questions. It was of course a quiz on all things English – and a lot of it seemed to be based on alcohol. Which explains the identity [...]