“Perfect Dinner”: “That Was a Long Time!”: Anna’s Dinner Lasts After Midnight

Anna (34) has a practical, eclectic nature: the extensive residential complex at Wat, ten kilometers south of Mönchengladbach, is proof of this. Once the workplace of Anna’s grandfather, a local celebrity as a former greengrocer and the “cauliflower king of Reydut” (“people still come here and want to buy cabbage”), three generations of the green stuff dynasty now have a terrace here. live under. The preference for regional clay products is also reflected in Anna’s menu:

Appetizer: Mixed Turnips / Jerusalem Artichokes / Shrimp

Main course: Beef fillet / Carrot / Potato and spinach / Cassis

Dessert: Wine Foam / Walnut / Red Peach

“It’s going to be a really, really wild number,” Chatterbox Stephen (37) is convinced, and: “Definitely the root.”

“If the man ever cleans the dishwasher…”

But first the group has to identify the names of the vegetables. “Jerusalem artichokes? I know them as muffy potatoes,” says Martina (54) with a little local color from the Lower Rhine. “Is he green?” Madeline (33) asks herself, but knows all about beets: “I heard they turn urine pink.”

However, what emerges from the ominous tubers goes far beyond the end result: as a starter, Anna (“I only ate sachets”) served a colorful beetroot with Jerusalem artichokes as both a salad and toasted chips. Carpaccio served. The crowning glory is a spicy shrimp, which Marcel (30) immediately falls in love with: “The flavor explodes! I’ll be dreaming of her tonight.”

“Marcel will go down today,” predicted Steffen before the second day of the “perfect dinner” in and around Mönchengladbach.

But after the start, which sparked a storm of excitement, things became difficult for Anna. Firstly he lacks vital equipment (“If the man ever cleans the dishwasher…”), then he has to leave the potato and spinach fritters for the main course before cooking due to paucity of time. It is also complicated to make a roasted crust made from pine and walnut kernels, then glazed with carrots and poured over cassis juice.

“I’m usually asleep by this time”

Meanwhile, she parks her guests at the “Party Bungalow”. An aperitif of whiskey and hibiscus puts her in a good mood, but when the main course isn’t on the table before 11 p.m., at least Martina (“I’m usually asleep by then”) and Stephan (“I’m usually asleep by then”). Got such a thing Kohldampf”) A little outrage.

At the start of “The Perfect Dinner” in and around Mönchengladbach, things didn’t go as planned for Madeline.

Will she adjust to the dessert a little? Well: Martina and Marcel think the nut parfait is a bit sweet, and Stefan has a “wine foam trauma” from childhood: “Which grandmother gives seven-year-old wine foam for dessert?, she remembers with a shudder. does.

But when the digestive glasses are still ringing after midnight, Anna is especially relieved: “It was all a little tight.” Nevertheless, it received 31 points for its menu and was second only to Marseille. and revisits her casual character: “It is as it is.”