Legal eagle, Lisa, is the second host to try her luck in Come Dine With Me - South London but the hour she serves dinner at is criminal
Clean freak Lisa's day takes a turn for the worse when her Parmesan crisps drip onto her pristine oven. Cheese melts - who'd have thought it? Her cooker calamities get worse still when the whole thing packs up leaving her lamb shanks on the wrong side of bloody.
The hungry guests polished off their starters two hours ago, and even Lisa's endless supply of grog can't fill the dinner-shaped hole inside. At long last the lamb is ready to go – no wait: "I'll just give it another half hour," says a cautious Lisa. So close. It's nearly midnight when the famished five eventually tuck into their mains - they might have preferred breakfast.
Perhaps all that waiting has lowered the guests' blood sugar because Moni can't stop moaning about the wine. She demands champagne with her starter, then takes the other gusts to task over their clearly inferior palates. A refined wine drinker, Moni likes wine like Chateauneuf-du-Pape and… you know, er, Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Someone else who likes their wine is Judi. In fact, she's enjoyed it so much she's got a little careless with her arm gestures and - oops - there goes a glug of red, all over Lisa's cream sofa. What will Judi do? Deny all responsibility and blame it on her host, of course. That should go down well.
Lisa's king prawn, crab and butternut squash risotto with a Parmesan crisp was a huge hit.
With a working oven, Lisa would have triumphed with a tasty dish of roasted shank of lamb with garlic and rosemary jus, dauphinoise potatoes, mange tout, and sugarsnap peas, tossed with shallots.
Veggie, Moni, had a delicate and elegant supper of seabass instead of the lamb. She still had to wait for it.
Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, we can't bring you Lisa's seabass recipe but try Gordon's super seabass recipe instead.
Lisa promised her guests a chocolate fountain with strawberries but ended up serving chocolate dipped strawberries, followed by cheese and biscuits.
If you're got a hankering for chocolatey, fruity goodness, make these strawberry petits fours.
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