Come Dine With Me - First Dinner

The first ‘Come Dine with Me’ dinner at Claire’s was a great success and it was nice to have a night in with the rest of the ladies. It was also a good opportunity for all of us to get to know each other.

We talked a lot about careers and having a passion in life. We found out that Kate wanted to be Wonder Woman growing up and that Sarah bought her first house when she was 19. Also that Claire wanted to be an engineer since she was 11 as her dad told her that there weren’t many female engineers.

Lynne let us all know about her attraction to Brendan Cole from Strictly Come Dancing and both Lynne and I chatted for a while about how much we loved ‘Strictly’ and what we thought of the celebrities and who was the best dancer.

We couldn’t help but talk about the weekend away in Bath as most of the ladies there are also going away for the weekend. So we discussed our plans for the weekend and what we wanted to do while we were there.

Claire’s menu was:

Sweetcorn and Butternut Squash Soup with home-made bread

Pan Fried Duck with Cranberry Sauce

Eton Mess

As you can see from the photos the food looked amazing and the girls were equally impressed. We even had a small opportunity to have a wander around the house just like the TV show and to be honest it was all very neat and tidy, just as I thought it would be.

I did have a bit of a difficulty though at the start of the evening trying to get into the estate where Claire lives. It is a gated residence and unfortunately even though I dialled the right number the intercom had other ideas and insisted on dialling everyone else’s number instead. Luckily someone was coming out of the estate so we managed to sneak in after they left.

So with the first dinner out of the way the girls are looking forward to visiting Sarah’s house next Tuesday night. Look out for what she is cooking and the photos of the food next week on the blog.

What the girls thought…

“The food was gorgeous. The soup was delicious and the home-made bread was a bit special. The sauce on the duck was amazing and the vegetables were will cooked. The fruit in the dessert was tart which helped balance out the meringue and cream.”

“I thought it was excellent the food was very well presented. The evening was really nice and Claire was a fabulous hostess.”

“Overall the evening was fantastic I can’t fault it. The home-made bread was absolutely amazing the soup was lovely. The meringue was really impressive that she had made which was brilliant.”