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Come Dine with Me - Season 53 - Episode 28: Sheffield, Leon (3)
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00:00Na-na-na-na-na-na.
00:01On today's show.
00:03It's over.
00:04Meddling mums.
00:05Can you put them into cubes, please?
00:07All right.
00:07Not chips.
00:09Thank you!
00:09Nuclear nosh.
00:11Let's jerk it up.
00:13Dunpire.
00:14I can feel my face flushing,
00:17my body temperatures rising.
00:20And cringy-crooning.
00:21Oh, oh, happy day.
00:25Properly gives me the ick.
00:26As five culinary contenders
00:28clash for the coveted cash fingers crossed i execute it out of the park
00:40it's the third day in sheffield the capital of bells hankies and sticks that's morris dancing
00:46for those not in the know and hoping to rattle and roll his way to the top of the competition
00:51is tonight's host child care practitioner leo i would describe myself as a little bit of a
00:56tasmanian devil i'm always on the go here there and everywhere my mind is at rest and when i've
01:01got something to do or i'm excited i'm just buzzing all over the place getting the party
01:07started on monday with her mexican fiesta was content creator lizzie tuck in go for it mine
01:14i didn't go quite as well as i thought it would i think it all just kind of fell apart
01:18when it came
01:19to serving cold did you want nutted ears i wish i did i wish i did i don't think i'm
01:26gonna win this
01:26competition if i'm honest i don't think my food was up to scratch and ultimately this is a cooking
01:32competition ambrose agrees if i lost to lizzie i would be absolutely devastated i would question
01:38my ability completely sally is definitely my competition let's the evening begin tuesday
01:45saw fashionista law lecturer sally out to impress with her authentic old shanghai menu
01:50whoa lovely beautiful beautiful presentation i think my evening was pretty refined i was very
02:00attentive and um i think i met everybody's needs and more lecturer lindsay was all compliments
02:08the flavors are really subtle it's really nice last night was stupendous sally's food was so good
02:18on presentation really tasty the percentage chance of me winning went down significantly after sally's
02:25night uh she's going to be a tough act to follow you're not wrong she notched a very impressive 33
02:31points
02:32so what's everyone expecting from leon i would assume leon is an absolutely abysmal cook
02:38high hopes then i'm hoping that leon gives us some very authentic jamaican food i'm bringing a taste
02:45of the island vibe and jamaica and the caribbean culture to my menu and it's definitely a good take
02:51on it i feel i want to bring loads of flavor loads of energy loads of color and i think
02:56i'm going to
02:56execute it well you've got the enthusiasm part covered leon kicks off with his main jerk chicken and
03:08i'm really looking forward to this and i'm hoping it's going to be very very well seasoned and spicy
03:14this is a dish that needs to be spicy traditionally it's a spicy dish and i love spice
03:19so this is what we call the jerk seasoning loads of fire and spice and knock you off your feet
03:28no man
03:28i'm not holding back anyone that knows jerk it's got to be fiery if you go to an event and
03:34the jerk's not
03:34jerking you might as well jerk off because you want your money back you know i mean oh i do
03:39and
03:39will your veggie guest get the full jerk treatment i'm hoping it's not an afterthought i'm hoping that
03:44you know i'm just as much of a priority as my other guests what's her name again it's lizzie
03:49if i do crispy tofu that would be really good and jerk actually that could be good either that or
03:55he's
03:55gonna buy a packet of fake chicken from the supermarket i know where my money's going so this is my
04:01foreign vegetarian drumstick especially for my meat free guest lizzie at least he's finally
04:08remembered your name jerk sauce is slathered on with a liberal lashing of all-purpose seasoning
04:14i can smell the jerk i love it when a plan comes together jerk chicken always tastes better on a
04:20barbecue at least on an open flame so maybe he's got his own bright no such luck it'll be blasted
04:25in
04:25the air fryer later and served with rice on to the starter reggae sunshine soup
04:32come on mom mom have you got a bigger pan i need a bigger pan for the soup can you
04:38bring me a bigger
04:38pan please okay i'm coming right okay hurry up hurry up reggae sunshine soup uh brightly colored uh
04:48vegetables in there so maybe some sweet potato or some butternut squash what's yellow i can't think
04:56of any yellow vegetables right now turnips they're white and i don't think they're very jamaican
05:02well neither are potatoes and yet here we are here you go oh thanks mark how nice of you to
05:08come
05:08round about time at all time do you call this i've been waiting so i'm just about to chop the
05:14carrot soap don't do any more that's enough because it's not carrot soup the executive chefs arrive
05:20this is where the cookie crumbles but sometimes in life when you put under pressure you've got to rise
05:26to the gauntlet the occasion i like my soups chunky so i'm hoping it would be a broth with chunky
05:33vegetables inside don't worry mom's on the case can you put them into cubes please
05:38not chips thank you i would never serve soup not for a dinner party it's too messy excuse me mom
05:47i need to crack on thank you okay get on with it see ya bye mom hello packet soup base
05:54some extra
05:55seasoning and curry powder that is my soup done i can relax now you've still got bud to prepare
06:02jamaican ginger cake i didn't have him down as a baker i'm not gonna lie
06:07i'm just gonna chuck it in i'm a man of many talents and it's something that i love i've not
06:15really made it before but i think i want to give it a good shot i love my jamaica ginger
06:19cake i like
06:20it stodgy i like it moist i like it dense i like it sticky on the outside that is what
06:25i'm going to
06:26be looking for in your head when people used to have that thought what came first the chicken or the
06:30egg that's me doing this trying to work out what ingredients going what order you could read the
06:35recipe into butter and sugar go flour baking agents and some gravy browning right i like the
06:42firiness of ginger i like to taste ginger in it if it's gonna have ginger in the name make sure
06:46you
07:01it's the answer still a bit dry hmm if they're not terribly rich and moist uh ginger bun cakes it
07:09might be a bit dry to eat that's an understatement uh got it the milk finally a liquid see there's
07:18method in the madness tell you have to take your word for that so what we do instead of weighing
07:22it
07:22up i'm just gonna keep adding it until i feel it's the right amount of milk that i'm adding winging
07:26it
07:27then oh appetizing it doesn't look appetizing at the moment when it's cooked i think you'll be
07:33pleasantly surprised it's dolloped into a loaf tin into bake and that's the prep done i'm so glad i've
07:40done it and i feel a lot more relaxed now and i'm excited for tonight oh come on get a
07:46move on
07:46they'll be arriving soon leon could well surprise us all i hope he does i hope he has a good
07:54night
07:54i hope he makes mistakes but i hope his food is good because i am hungry let's get the island
08:01vibe
08:01started bringing the sunshine and scrutiny it's ambrose what are you saying man are you feeling good
08:10i am leon how are you so you got a bit of taste on the island yeah would you like
08:16a oh yes please
08:17there you go sir thank you very much i like your shirt i'll tell a little secret i went to
08:21my local
08:21charity shop and i thought lord please present something for me and i found this and you prayed
08:26for that i did you know you know what the lord says he works in mysterious ways positively mystifying
08:33next up honorary mum of the group lindsay i am your mother oh lucy wow who's lucy lindsay
08:43whoo how you doing hello i've had to tell i've had a few to drink forget my name wow i'm
08:49loving the
08:49colours just avoided the naughty step here's sally hello hello is she hi hi how are you wow you're all
09:00right
09:00oh solid finally you got one right and last up it's lizzie oh hello i'm looking at you guys wow
09:11wow
09:12wow i'm nervous my heel is just gonna go straight through oh we'll see hello lizzie babe lizzie
09:19i'll give up hello it's been three days you'll get it right by friday unlikely so how do you say
09:26chin chin in jamaican it's like wagwan wagwan wagwan right ready wagwan coming up modeled memories i bet
09:37by now you know everybody's name as well don't we all without any prompting lindsay
09:44you can definitely remember ambrose's name and tongue tangling and again back to the silent
09:49but deadly you just said his name in a different way it still doesn't make it not sound like a
09:53fart
09:56there's definitely code for fart
10:05it's night three in sheffield where child care practitioner leon is bringing the tropics to
10:11south yorkshire i hope they like the food and i just want to be myself and enjoy it fingers
10:16crossed i execute it out of the park execute your starter better than that phrase
10:24i'm happy with that great there it is reggae sunshine soup
10:30delicious thank you thank you so much ambrose thank you very much so this is sunshine soup dig in
10:43i'm really glad you kept the um soup chunky because i love i love champion soups i was kind of
10:49like
10:49hoofing entire carrots into my mouth feels like the kind of thing you'd eat when you were ill the main
10:55thing with me is basically making sure that i didn't overcook it the vegetables weren't soft that's the main
11:02thing for me they're definitely not soft it's like dog sick it actually tasted way better than it looked
11:11but my carrots like rock hard i do like vegetables al dente uh so that suited me down to the
11:17ground
11:18i would have preferred the carrots to be a bit softer and i could have done with a bit more
11:22heat
11:23i like but it's nice cool i think the group know by now that i am critical and but i'm
11:31critical about
11:32myself so if i can judge myself i can judge anybody have you ever cooked this dish for anyone else
11:38yeah
11:39so i work in a children's home so i support a young black boy that's into caribbean food
11:45so i have cooked it before it must be really fulfilling it is because it's taught me a lot
11:51growing up i was one of those boys i didn't used to listen to people do what i want to
11:56do would you
11:57say that you've had any moments where you've kind of been a bit of a tyrant i was gonna say
12:01i'm sure
12:01ambrose has loads of stories i'm sure you was a tyrant as far as my mother knew i was literally
12:08the
12:08perfect child really yeah really the face of an angel he does he's a good boy ambrose has the face
12:18of a greek god i wouldn't say he's an angel but i would definitely say that apollo would have
12:24been interested in him well he is named after a rice pudding some might say i've got the face of
12:29a bulldog but that's their opinion i love me quite right why a bulldog though ugly oh
12:38i was pretty feral as a child yeah i was crashing on the local golf course with my friends and
12:50pulling
12:50moonies at the posh golf golfers that they're there running away and yeah and then we'd get the
12:59groundskeeper of the local golf club knocking on the door saying he called the police my mum said
13:06you know it's a wonder she's still got any hair i can totally imagine her doing moonies at the
13:12golf course i can imagine her doing it now i i literally wouldn't put it past her after a few
13:16bevs
13:16why not i think my starter was amazing and caribbean food it's got that real spice so they better be
13:23ready for the spice air fried jerk chicken let's hope the spice is authentic all right enough island
13:30rhythm check that chicken let's jerk it up there it is jerk chicken and irie rice with a veggie version
13:39for lizzie thank you thank you stunning stunning i'm assuming this is jerk cauliflower no oh my gosh
13:53please tell me i thought what could i do that looks similar so i decided to do a meat-free
13:58corn drumstick
13:59option okay i will admit i got really disappointed when i thought i had cauliflower because as a vessel i
14:07think it's such a versatile vegetable and then i found out it was just fake chicken from a bag
14:13how are the spice levels wow on fire i could feel my face flushing my body temperatures rising
14:23i get that doing extreme yoga it's got a tingle on my tongue okay and i love it yeah just
14:29a tingle
14:30it's not really spicy yeah you're a hardcore girl the spice level was perfect for me but i definitely
14:36think a few more aromatics would have made the dish better with main course i expected to be
14:42jerk chicken spicy vibrant flavorsome i think leon's dish was just a little bit lacking good
14:50hours how did you cook the chicken obviously i wanted to make sure the flavors and the juices were there
14:54i kind of just used kind of a similar style to an airfryer style instead of cooking in the oven
14:59so you
14:59air fried it yeah yeah and that's quite common with obviously jerk chicken airfryer is not a traditional
15:05jamaican kitchen appliance though is it no it's the way you cook it well i thought you might have used
15:11the barbecue but he might just actually just gone some effort he even had a barbecue stand in his garden
15:16he could have done it i have air fryer myself and it does actually give a very good result but
15:22at the same
15:23time it's kind of a shortcut so me in school i was in the back of my music class and
15:31there was a boy
15:32stood up so i thought you know what let me play a bit of a joke so i pulled his
15:36chair away and he
15:37smashed his head on the cabinet oh dear oh god that backfired i was just very impulsive has anyone else
15:44got any stories of doing things that they wish they never done i really regret auditioning for the
15:48school choir in junior school because because i made it and i was in that choir for the last two
15:54years junior school it was terrible you didn't sing the song you know um oh happy day remember sister act
15:59oh happy day oh oh happy day join it ambrose
16:08hell yeah when jesus was he washed my sins away oh happy day come on ambrose
16:24i find impromptu singing and performing really awkward and a little bit cringy it properly gives me
16:30the ick not my thing at all good of you to hide it though he washed my sins away
16:37oh happy day
16:41you do have such a beautiful voice i know
16:47if leon had a signature tune it would have to be bonkers to be fair because of the work i
16:53do
16:53shift work i don't really have a lot of time to spend time with people i genuinely want to spend
16:59time
16:59with yeah and i feel like you're the people that i would love to spend a lot more time with
17:03oh that's
17:04so sweet it's lovely and i bet by now you know everybody's name as well don't you leon oh yeah
17:09without any prompting why don't you just get around and name everybody around the table
17:15yeah you name everybody first lindsay no don't you know your own mother jane knows i'm gonna wear my
17:23work lanyard next time he can definitely remember ambrose's name he has addressed ambrose by name
17:30so many times leon and ambrose do get on really well it's a bit of back and forth we just
17:38bounce
17:38off each other it's easy it's comfortable you've obviously made your tableware was that to go with
17:43the theme i made the mats but not the who made those my dad made those oh sweet and if
17:51you met my dad
17:53i would call him silent assassin this sounds like a fart and i'll explain that i really think you
18:02should i'll explain that please do oh heavens lindsay's lost it he's very quiet but he does a lot
18:10for charity and again back to the silent but dead layer you just said his name in a different way
18:14it still doesn't make it not sound like a fart silent but deadly i don't know if leon knew what
18:25silent but deadly meant that is definitely code for fart i think he's not doing his dad a justice
18:31i think it does more like a really guardian angel more than a silent assassin i think my jerk chicken
18:37went down a storm it did give him a kick to begin with but as they started getting through it
18:41i think
18:41they really enjoyed it and the compliments were fantastic just pudding left to go as we say in
18:46yorkshire it's other ganders less ganders more gobble marks out of 10 10 out of 10 10 out of 10
18:5510 out of 10
18:58let's see if your guests agree jamaican ginger cake
19:07have you got any more of the kind of drizzle i didn't want to put too much on because i
19:10didn't
19:11want it to take away from the ginger no it's stunning no worries yeah i just like it to be
19:15a
19:15little bit more moist i was really hoping for a dense gooey saucy sticky cake and i just i didn't
19:23get that unfortunately it was just a little bit dry and what about the ginger yeah so i basically use
19:29the ginger paste the reason why i use the ginger paste is because raw ginger can be very strong
19:34and obviously i didn't want to overpower the cake with raw ginger and i thought it was
19:39a happy medium i really could not taste any ginger in the cake i literally thought he made it with
19:46molasses i would have added maybe a cream because the golden syrup is very sweet yeah yeah yeah
19:53i would have like preferred more ginger flavor and maybe an additional sauce to improve it it was
19:59very dry it needed the syrup it needed a custard it needed a cream it needed something it needed saving
20:05so guys i've got a bit of entertainment outside so come and follow me oh my god oh yes the
20:12party
20:13has reached its climax and i want you to get down one two three follow me
20:18to the left to the right to the right to the left take it back one two of all the
20:26nights leon would
20:27have been the one to bring out a dance party look it up don't split your trousers now leon's clearly
20:34been part of a a dancing troupe and and then performed clearly
20:47it was nice to see everybody just enjoying themselves being a little bit more relaxed
20:51and just taking the night as it comes we haven't had that yet so it was good
21:03everyone was bumping and grinding and getting down feeling the island vibe the love and the dance
21:09moves to top it off what can i say absolutely smashed out of the park let's get some schools
21:16the starter and the dessert were a bit of a letdown the main i loved but i wish he served
21:22more of it so
21:23i'm going to give leon a five tonight was really good fun really high energy however the cuisine
21:29wasn't quite up to scratch so therefore i'm giving leon a six tonight i'm going to score leon a six
21:37his jerk should have been spicier his pudding should have been moister but we had a great time with a
21:43good laugh so i scored my seven which means leon's caribbean cuisine gets him 24 points leaving him
21:49middle of the pack in second next time
21:56perplexing poetry now with your laughs and your tips and your snores
22:02what the heck is going on in that man's brain and tussling toes
22:13absolutely horrific
22:14i can feel it when you walk even when you walk it takes over me you're so down there
22:26i want to know
22:28i want to know
22:28can you feel it too
22:29just like i do
22:34this is that it's starting now
22:36it's the same feeling
22:38i always seem to get
22:40it's the same feeling
22:41it's
22:41it's
22:41it's
22:42it's
22:42it's
22:42it's
22:42it's
22:44it's
22:44You
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