Come Dine With Us!

There's a British show that we watch here called "Come Dine With Me." It's about a group of 4 or 5 strangers that are grouped together to host dinner parties for each other. The show follows each person as they prepare, cook and serve the meal. When the meal is over, each of the other contestants rates the host on a scale of 1-10. At the end of the week, the person with the most points wins a prize.

Bas decide that it would be fun if we conduct our own "Come Dine With Me" experience - so we are going to take turns cooking dinner for each other on Saturday and Sunday nights. Since all cooking is pretty new for him, I will be cooking things I've never cooked before to make it more fair.

So last night was his night. In the morning he spent time looking through cookbooks and picked out his recipes. Then he made a list of what we would need, and we got it later at the store. He made...
1. Beer Can Chicken
2. Sesame Roasted Asparagus with Garlic & Soy Sauce
3. Roasted Garlic and Onions with Honey, Balsamic and Soy dressing.

And I must say - apart from seriously burning his dressing for the onions (it turned into Balsamic and Soy Hard Candy in the bottom of my pot, and was smoking like Mt. St. Helens when I found it...) he did a really good job! He got the timing right, and everything was done very well and tasted scrumptious!

Here we are sitting down to dinner. The sauce had just burned, and we hadn't tasted how good everything was yet, so I think Bas was feeling a little unconfident here! He was all smiles later.

And here's Luna patiently waiting for the food to show up!

So - it was a first great attempt, and everything tasted great - but he needed a little help in timing and preparation, so I scored him a 7! Scoring will obviously be a little subjective since we only have 1 person scoring the other... but hey it's the experience that counts!