Ever since our Media Centre PC (the one that records all our TV for us) broke recently, we’ve been reduced to scrolling through the NTL guide to find something to watch in the evenings.

We’ve ended up watching quite a bit a bit of Gordon Ramsey and last night we finally caught an episode of the f-word. It’s an hour long and action packed - and swear-word packed seeing that Gordon’s about!

The premise is that they bring in a team of 4 amateur chefs (last night was the firemen) and Gordon gets them to cook a 3-course set meal for 50 people in the restaurant (including celebrities). The people eat the food and then decide if they would pay for it or not. Reasons for not paying can run from ‘took too long’ to ‘badly cooked’, etc.

I felt really sorry for the firemen last night, and I think Gordon did as well - the punters were awful and complaining about foie gras ‘being too fatty’. As Gordon pointed out - it’s the fattened liver of a goose, so how on earth could it be less fatty? But you can never please some people…

They also flick out to other stories, they has Janet Street-Porter going to France to pick out a horse to be slaughtered and then serving the cooked horse meet to punters at a racecourse. What we didn’t hear on the screen was that in the wake of her stunt, representatives of animal rights group PETA protested by dumping a tonne of horse manure outside Ramsay’s restaurant at Claridge’s in central London. In another segment, Gordon taught a busy family how to prepare 5 tasty, healthy meals in under 15 mins each.

They flashed up the program’s website at the end and I took the time to have a look and discovered that they have all the recipes listed from each program, going back for 3 series!! Gordon’s food usually looks to be crammed with flavour and natural ingredients, even if like all celebrity chefs I think he uses a LOT of butter - but maybe that’s why their food has so much flavour!

Check out the recipe collection, there’s something to suit everyone’s tastes - and many of them have video instructions as well.

My favourite recipes from last night were:

1. Butter-roasted rib eye of beef
2. Bacon, pea and goats cheese omelette with a tomato salad
3. Pan fried salmon pea and mint puree and crème fraiche
4. Fillet steak sandwich with a green salad
5. Chicken and mixed vegetable stir-fry with noodles

Holy Focaccia! David Gest’s favourite phrase (used in place of similar swearwords) on this year’s “I’m A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here!” is catching on with all the celebrities, I wonder how long it will be until I start hearing it in the real world??

For your perusal this evening, in case you didn’t catch it the first time round, the first of the ‘Boys v Girls’ Celebrity Chests, thanks to YouTube user imacelebrity2006 , who seems to be one of the best sources for videos of this season on YouTube.

The Background: Phina & Lauren vs Scott & Matt - scrapping, biting, fighting and kicking for a celebrity chest full of chocolate!

The Fallout - the boy’s version:

The Retort - the girl’s version of the story:

And the funniest thing about it all - after all that, they got the question wrong and nobody got the chocolate!

And finally, for all those who are simply watching I’m a celeb to see Mylene Klass showering in the waterfall in her skimpy bikinis - here you go!

I’ve had a lot of hits over the past few days on the blog from people looking for the video of Dean Gaffney’s Bush Tucker Trial as they seem to have missed the best piece of television to date this year! So I’ve sourced it on youtube.com and here is it for your viewing pleasure:

Part 1

Part 2

Enjoy!

Confession: I’m a reality TV addict, I’ll watch pretty much anything that is going!

For the past three years, November has not only meant the beginning of winter for me, time to wear two pairs of socks and wrap up warm against the wind, but it’s time for the annual TV trip to Australia for “I’m a Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here!”

We’ve had some unexpected heroes in the last few seasons, Kerry Katona won everyone’s hearts even if she didn’t win much food for the camp! And last year gave us the implacable Carol Thatcher who was just utter Britishness and staunch to the core.

I’m sitting here stunned, the show I’m currently watching has to be the best yet. Dean Gaffney (ex. EastEnders) has just been voted as the next celebrity to join the camp, but first he had to endure a BushTucker trial - the funniest one I’ve seen yet! Bush Spa was exactly as the name implies, lots of ’salon treatments’ involving the usual bugs and animals we have come to know and love.

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone as scared looking as Dean since the season with Kerry. He looked petrified when he was told about the trial and confessed to throwing up about 4 times before starting it. He did really well though, trying everything that was put before him and got 9 stars out of a possible 11, so the camp will eat really well tonight! I predict though, that a similar thing will happen this year as did with Kerry, the British and Irish publics will continue to vote Dean in for trial after trial - simply because it makes great TV! He should also have a very good chance of winning it overall.