Come Dine With me! Part 2!

Come Dine With Me- Part 2

Hi Guys!

I’m very sad to say, we have now finished our fantastic version on ‘Come dine with me’ It’s been really fun and I definitely recommend doing it with a small group of friends if ever you can organise something.

So, we went to Linda’s dinner party on Friday. The final stage of the competition!
We had no idea what the theme or the menu was going to be, so we were all really excited!We walked in and were greeted with the soundtrack from the musical… ‘Fiddler on the roof’ to be told that Linda’s theme was one of a Jewish Dinner Party! Fantastic! Definitely different to the 80’s theme we had the previous Friday!

The dinner table was beautifully presented, a pristine white tablecloth with white folded napkins. Beautiful in its simplicity. Looked very professional indeed!
We started off with double of Linda’s home made Mojito’s, which we then decided we wanted more of even though it wasn’t traditional and didn’t go with the food, we didn’t care because they were lovely!

Here’s how the menu looked:

Starter
Mixed Hors D’oeuvres

Home made chopped Herring
Egg and Onions
Chopped Liver

I stuck to the egg and onions and chopped liver, I don’t do fish, although it did look lovely….for fish! Everyone else seemed to really enjoy the herring however, A really nice light appetiser before the other courses. 2

2nd Course

Lochshen soup
Chicken soup with very fine noodles, these balley things that were apparently made from Matzo meal and ground almonds. Yummy!

3rd Course

Salt Beef
which was really sweet and tender, Latkas (these are grated potatoes, apples, onions and stuff, all mixed together and fried. To die for!)
Home made sweet pickled cucumbers.

We had a couple of bottles of Austrian White with dinner, I could explain what it was called but by this point we had had quite a tipple so I’m slightly unsure! But it was goooodd.

Dessert

Apple Strudel with a Calvados mascarpone cream. We had this with instant coffee – she drew the line!!!

Overall, what a night! Fantastic food, great atmosphere, everyone really really enjoyed themselves. Food was amazing, theme was interesting and different, Mojito’s were great, wine was great, we were in need of the coffee at the end!A night to remember.

And, surprisingly enough, Linda was the winner! It was quite unanimous really I think. She really did deserve it though. I wasn’t jealous in the slightest.
All drinks on Linda next time round!

Looking back, it certainly was something that we will be making the effort to do again. Hope you have all enjoyed reading up on our experience, we hope we have inspired you with some good ideas for either having a crack at it yourself, or stealing a few foodie ideas!
Let us know what you think!