I Love Dinner Date On Telly

[joggerjayne]

People have other people round for dinner.

The food all goes wrong.

They burn things. Nothing rises. Pastry is flat and stodgy. Things don't set properly. It's too bland, or too spicy. The flavours don't work. The kitchen looks like a bomb site.

It's life affirming. It's like ... Yes! ... It's not just me!

Cooking is not like MasterChef, with lots of amazing creations, all turning out perfectly. It's a minefield of booby traps and disasters.

I love Dinner Date. It tells it how it is.

[jno]

off topic, but I don't know if you've seen this sad story

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/07/susanna-reid-good-morning-britain-ratings_n_5278177.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

couldn't you pay Olive to watch and boost the figures?

[gness]

I can tell it how it is too, JJ.....☻

[Psybbo]

You mean the contestants have to cook??

[joggerjayne]

Leaving the Beeb was a big mistake for Susu.

[jno]

presumably ITV offered more money. They may have to sell a few franchises.

[Psybbo]

I think so too, but the money!

[joggerjayne]

She was a serious journalist.

Now she's a well paid, gimmick presenter.

[stewey]

You're saying ,JJ, that it's sort of like life wrapped up in a nut-shell...Or would that be a pastry-shell?

[stewey]

Or a taco-shell.

[stewey]

Or even a pasta shell.

[Psybbo]

I'm sorry Charlotte left Sky News

[joggerjayne]

Susanna was the glamorous one on the BBC.

ITV have teamed her up with some blonde tart who steals her limelight.

[EcclesCake]

The more SuSu threads I see the happier I am listening to the Today programme on R4 :-)

Cooking is easy, just remember it isn't burnt......just well caramelised!

[joggerjayne]

Cooking is easy?

:0/

[Psybbo]

Charlotte is NOT a blond tart!

[joggerjayne]

She's called Charlotte?

[Psybbo]

Charlotte Hawkins, smart cookie

[jno]

tart or cookie, whatevs, is she rare or overdone?

[jno]

oh no, now Pippa has been dropped by the Telegraph

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/readers-just-werent-it-pippa-middletons-column-dropped-telegraph

Thiese are hard times for the young and pretty.

[shoota]

Tell me about it jno, tell me about it.....