The culinary competition comes from Portsmouth: the landing place for England's first ever shipment of potatoes, in 1586
The first host, straight-talking supermarket sales manager Kate Hibbert, is dreading meeting the guests, in case she has snogged one of them! Confident Kate is an ingredients snob and has planned a simple menu using only the finest seasonal produce. But her preparations go down in flames...
With 10 years' experience staging first-class dinner parties in the sky, air steward Lee Stafford reckons his hosting and presentation skills will fly him to the top of the leader board. But Lee has an open-plan kitchen/ diner, so his guests are watching his every move and he is cooking the dreaded, tricky soufflé.
Ultra-confident restaurateur, Maria Wilkinson, works with the best chef in Portsmouth, so her guests' expectations are extra high. Maria has three steps to success for the perfect dinner party: get the hairdresser to pay a visit; dance after every course; and rope in your best friend and business partner to play waitress. But her plan unravels in more ways than one.
Unconventional policewoman, Sheena Ives, hopes that her Scots-Mexican fusion night will give her the perfect birthday present and win her the £1,000. But her daughter's warning that her mum can 'burn salad' proves prescient when Sheena frazzles the oats for her Cranachan, a traditional Scottish dessert.
The last day of the culinary competition in Portsmouth is therapist Lynne Derry's turn to host. After a difficult start to the week, she's bounced back to become one of the favourites of the group. Expectations for her evening are high, but Lynne is worried about an extra guest that might make an appearance: a mouse! Can she pull it back from the brink? And if not, who will scoop the £1,000 prize?
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