Today I had a half day at work so I went to the city centre, shopped and came home to watch TV and unwind. When I flipped on the TV, I was disgusted with what I saw. 'Ready, Steady, Cook' was on with English export and American deport Ainsley Harriet. In this cooking themed 'game show' contestants bring six "food" items from their cabinets that they like cooking with and a chef whips it up into an elaborate edible. I'm imagine my surprise when a girl brings all the basic ingredients for quesadillas and salsa and the chef says that the "mexican tortillas" will make a lovely tart shell for an onion and creme fraiche tart. Scandalous.

His excuse for the mess he turned these ingredients into was that he was from Yorkshire and that there's not many tortillas in Yorkshire. That would have been a good excuse had the girl who brought the ingredients in not been from Kenya. Not even Ainsley could hide his disgust... to be fair he's not known for hiding emotions.

In the second part they brought out walnuts, pears and meringue nests and one of the chefs decided that it would make a great Baked Alaska. I haven't had a lot of baked alaska in the past, but I always remember it containing ice cream and some sort of cake.