If you were on Come dine with me...

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Just for fun (and for inspiration) If you were to go on Come Dine with Me, what would you cook for your starter, main and dessert?

I'm planning to cook a 3 course meal to celebrate something with DH and I'm in need of some inspiration.

I try to add some variety to our weekly meals anyway and I enjoy cooking but I'd like to do something a bit special and perhaps make an effort with the presentation.

Winner!

This starter sounds amazing...I might make that anyway!

@DiamondGazette forgot to tag you! Goat’s cheese and figs 👌

You're asking for all the cock innuendoes

Goats cheese and beetroot salad

Roast salmon, potatoes dauphinois and green beans

Trio of homemade chocolate desserts - brownie, ice cream and mousse

Seared pork dumplings on top of coleslaw with orange sesame dressing

Gochujang buttered noodles with soy braised mushrooms

Make your own ice cream sundae bar with all the fixings

Ice cold Veuve clicquot and Heineken to drink

Id be the worst to go on that show my dinner list below.
Starter - chicken hot pot oven meal.
Main- curry and rice oven meal.
Dessert- fresh apple turnovers .
All asda smart price.

Starter- seafood platter (oysters, crab, prawns, cockles, ceviche, whelks etc)
Main steak of some kind- large joint to share at the table
Dessert-scoop of raspberry or blackcurrant sorbet with a glass of champagne poured over it

Starter. Homemade pate on tiger bread toast with a handful of salad leaves/rocket and a few of the coloured cherry tomatoes cut in halves. Drizzle of Balsamic on side of plate.

Main. Chicken chunks and bacon lardons in low fat crème fresh with a blob of dolcelate cheese melted with a small handful of frozen petit pois. Serve it over fresh tagliatelle.

Dessert. Fresh lemon cheesecake.

Don't suppose you'd like to feed me? Please? 😁

And cheesecake. So many contestants do cheesecake!

Things I never get about CDWM (or some of these menus):

Fussy eaters
Serving puddings like crumble, posset, trifle, key lime/banoffee pie or cheesecake in a cooking competition. Let alone fruit salad 🙄
Sticky toffee pudding - belongs in a pub menu
Baileys anything (chavvy)
Any kind of mushrooms on (shop bought) toast/bruschetta starter - again, no cooking involved.
Any kind of 'parcels' or 'tartlets' as starters - makes my heart sink as usually tasteless and almost everyone just uses shop bought pastry.
Variations of a Sunday roast for a dinner party
Black forest gateau, roly poly, roulade and especially prawn cocktail belong in the 1970s
Soups like carrot and coriander, leek and potato or celery and stilton which are low rent pub food or belong in a tin.
Warming cheese and serving it as a starter.

But then I am a horrible snob.

Forgot stuffed chicken breast - the breast is the least tasty part of a chicken and stuffing it with some minging soft cheese is not going to improve matters.

Hold the rhubarb wine though!

(outtakes on the dvd of that special are my favourite thing to watch)

I’m going to be awake now, pondering my menu.

I refuse to do entertainment though. Sod. That.

I admire your commitment to snobbery! Need to hear your menu though, which are the high rent soups?!

Starter - home made chicken liver pate (I once made this in 2004 and it was nice and it's the only thing I can think of to actually cook as a starter).
Main - pheasant with cream and apples, so long as I could get a pheasant - have made this often so I know what I am doing.
Pud - I'd make a Victoria sponge with a fresh cream filling

Yes it's a cooking competition, but it's not really.. it's a hosting competition! Sometimes the winners win on personality alone. And if everyone served dishes from bake off, it'd be bloody boring.

@Jook 😂 love it!

DuchessNope I guess if I served a soup I'd do something like bouillabaisse or a borscht.

willsandnoodle Fair points! And on the hosting front I think I'd fail miserably as I couldn't hold back if someone said they don't like fish or mushrooms or whatever at my table...maybe I'd just point to the door!

What I Would Serve

Smoked salmon mousse on homemade rye bread

Pheasant and chanterelle mushroom stew & mashed potatoes with foraged herbs

Wild blueberry semifreddo with a cardamom biscuit crumb and blueberry compote

Beat that! 😉😂

Confit duck and orange salad
Steak frites
Chocolate brioche bread and butter pudding, homemade icecream

Creamy garlic mushrooms on sourdough but this could be risky as lots of people dislike mushrooms.

Beef wellington with roasted carrots, potato gratin and a fancy jus.

Warm chocolate brownie with ice cream.

I wouldn't do anything fish. There's always some bugger on there who hates fish. Same with mushrooms. Too risky. Also doing beef as a main everyone will say it's just a posh Sunday dinner. And you have to make a proper dessert, no cop out with some chopped up fruit!

And don't serve bread, ice cream or pasta you haven't made yourself!

Langoustine & scallops lemon butter
Rib eye steak & chips & Greek salad
Chocolate fondant with raspberries