Aileen Dunn
Speciality: Iced Raspberry Souffles
Sporty 72-year-old Aileen Dunn loves throwing parties and taking risks, so she's decided to gamble with her menu: she's kicking off with bloody Mary terrine followed by a course of hare. To help out with her unusual recipes, she's decided to organise all her ingredients well in advance. But that doesn't stop her forgetting to add a vital part of the starter.
Speciality: Iced Raspberry Souffles
Sporty 72-year-old Aileen Dunn loves throwing parties and taking risks, so she's decided to gamble with her menu: she's kicking off with bloody Mary terrine followed by a course of hare. To help out with her unusual recipes, she's decided to organise all her ingredients well in advance. But that doesn't stop her forgetting to add a vital part of the starter.
Paul Lydon
Speciality: Smoked Trout Pate
Paul Lydon takes the competition so seriously that he goes fishing for the ingredients to make his trout pate. But it looks like his hopes are set to sink when the fish won't take the line. Eventually he has to buy a trout from the farmer and pulls out all the stops by hiring a kilted Scotsman as a waiter. Will Paul's female guests be hooked?
Speciality: Smoked Trout Pate
Paul Lydon takes the competition so seriously that he goes fishing for the ingredients to make his trout pate. But it looks like his hopes are set to sink when the fish won't take the line. Eventually he has to buy a trout from the farmer and pulls out all the stops by hiring a kilted Scotsman as a waiter. Will Paul's female guests be hooked?
Christine Thornton
Speciality: Roast stuffed Monkfish
Glamour puss Christine Thornton unveils her glitzy guide to how to pocket a grand. Sophistication is her middle name, and as the only Sassenach of the group, she's determined to put her Scottish rivals well and truly in their place. Christine's formula for success is fine surroundings, top quality food and glamorous hosting; and she reckons she's got the lot.
Speciality: Roast stuffed Monkfish
Glamour puss Christine Thornton unveils her glitzy guide to how to pocket a grand. Sophistication is her middle name, and as the only Sassenach of the group, she's determined to put her Scottish rivals well and truly in their place. Christine's formula for success is fine surroundings, top quality food and glamorous hosting; and she reckons she's got the lot.
Sharon Eaton
Speciality: Sushi Nibbles
Businesswoman Sharon Eaton is laying on a mammoth ten-dish Thai banquet in her bid for Glasgow gourmet glory. Her guests are impressed, but Sharon's soon tied up in knots by her complex menu. So can her oriental feast tie up the first prize for Sharon? Or has she bitten off far more than she can chew?
Speciality: Sushi Nibbles
Businesswoman Sharon Eaton is laying on a mammoth ten-dish Thai banquet in her bid for Glasgow gourmet glory. Her guests are impressed, but Sharon's soon tied up in knots by her complex menu. So can her oriental feast tie up the first prize for Sharon? Or has she bitten off far more than she can chew?
Ishrat Gazala
Speciality: Kofta Burgers
It might be Britain's most popular dish, but authentic Indian curry appears on the Come Dine With Me menu for the first time in this episode. And it promises to be a memorable one for the diners, with cook Ishrat Gazala vowing that she'll make her food hot enough to burn the house down in the final meal of the week before the Glasgow gourmets discover who's won.
Speciality: Kofta Burgers
It might be Britain's most popular dish, but authentic Indian curry appears on the Come Dine With Me menu for the first time in this episode. And it promises to be a memorable one for the diners, with cook Ishrat Gazala vowing that she'll make her food hot enough to burn the house down in the final meal of the week before the Glasgow gourmets discover who's won.