Well, admittedly it's been a while since the last installment of my personal nocturnal 'Come Dine with Me' series, but luckily last night's belated episode more than made it up for it though, as for the first time in subconscious televisual history, 'Come Dine with Me' actually combined with 'The Apprentice' to deliver up the ultimate in competitive dining reality TV...
Basically, in the tried and tested format of 'The Apprentice', the legendary Sir Alan Sugar set two pre-selected teams (one of which included me as a member) a business task to complete in the course of an episode - in this case having each team prepare a four-course meal for a large group from scratch, an endeavor which ranged from the sourcing of quality ingredients at value prices to the choosing of appropriate menu options etc, before as a team collectively preparing, cooking and serving up the food to a ten-strong select panel of Sir Alan's personal business acquaintances. Unfortunately I was not designated Project Manager for this task, however, and ended up having to follow some other cretin's illogical menu choices - namely to serve omelettes as a main course for ten people, but with only me (equipped with just the one pan) appointed to cook them. Inevitably, this ended up with me desperately trying to chop up the fillings and fry the omelettes one by one at the last minute, knowing all the while that this was nothing more than a pointless exercise in sheer and utter futility imposed by some up-their-own-arse, full-of-shit, Donald Trump wannabe, 'Apprentice' contestant, who despite all their business bravado still lacked the basic common sense to know that it would of course take ages between starter and main to get out ten omelettes individually, and that by the time the time the tenth was done, the first eight or nine would already be stone cold...
Inevitably my team ended up losing the task (though not from want of sheer physical effort on my part), but I defended myself eloquently to Sir Alan, Nick and Margaret (a great loss to the real life version of the show, btw) by citing my original menu that had (on film) been blindly overruled by the puffed up Project Manager. In contrast to the PM's haphazard, ill-thought out menu plan, my options relied instead on both fresh, simple ingredients and sensible pre-prepartion: namely an easily pre-prepared, simple roast vegetable soup as a starter, followed by grilled goat's cheese salad on toasted ciabatta as a quick and easy second course, with a butternut squash and pancetta risotto (simple to prepare in bulk while the first two courses were being served) next as the main, before finally rounding off with a decadent chocolate cheesecake (again easily pre-prepared earlier in the afternoon) for dessert.
So that's one episode survived despite being on the losing room - just hope I survive the Boardroom in the next round!!!!!!!! Until then, Sir Alan Sugar's search for his Apprentice... continues.
Basically, in the tried and tested format of 'The Apprentice', the legendary Sir Alan Sugar set two pre-selected teams (one of which included me as a member) a business task to complete in the course of an episode - in this case having each team prepare a four-course meal for a large group from scratch, an endeavor which ranged from the sourcing of quality ingredients at value prices to the choosing of appropriate menu options etc, before as a team collectively preparing, cooking and serving up the food to a ten-strong select panel of Sir Alan's personal business acquaintances. Unfortunately I was not designated Project Manager for this task, however, and ended up having to follow some other cretin's illogical menu choices - namely to serve omelettes as a main course for ten people, but with only me (equipped with just the one pan) appointed to cook them. Inevitably, this ended up with me desperately trying to chop up the fillings and fry the omelettes one by one at the last minute, knowing all the while that this was nothing more than a pointless exercise in sheer and utter futility imposed by some up-their-own-arse, full-of-shit, Donald Trump wannabe, 'Apprentice' contestant, who despite all their business bravado still lacked the basic common sense to know that it would of course take ages between starter and main to get out ten omelettes individually, and that by the time the time the tenth was done, the first eight or nine would already be stone cold...
Inevitably my team ended up losing the task (though not from want of sheer physical effort on my part), but I defended myself eloquently to Sir Alan, Nick and Margaret (a great loss to the real life version of the show, btw) by citing my original menu that had (on film) been blindly overruled by the puffed up Project Manager. In contrast to the PM's haphazard, ill-thought out menu plan, my options relied instead on both fresh, simple ingredients and sensible pre-prepartion: namely an easily pre-prepared, simple roast vegetable soup as a starter, followed by grilled goat's cheese salad on toasted ciabatta as a quick and easy second course, with a butternut squash and pancetta risotto (simple to prepare in bulk while the first two courses were being served) next as the main, before finally rounding off with a decadent chocolate cheesecake (again easily pre-prepared earlier in the afternoon) for dessert.
So that's one episode survived despite being on the losing room - just hope I survive the Boardroom in the next round!!!!!!!! Until then, Sir Alan Sugar's search for his Apprentice... continues.
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