Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Donal Skehan (mini episode)

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today’s guest on The Dream Dinner Party is Donal Skehan who is so much fun and who has been on Desert Island Dishes before – a few years ago but defiitrly worth having a listen to his main episode as it’s a goodie. I think he was in the very early days when I just turned up with basically a little Dictaphone recorder and hoped for the best. Donal has a new book out called Home Kitchen and honestly Donal’s books are really great – I don’t know how he does it, I tried to get him to give me all his secrets but instead I did persuade him to tell us all about his dream dinner party and this is a very fun one. I’m also going to be posting Donal’s Little Black Book on instagram which is a new little feature we are trying out and I thought might be fun so keep an eye out for that and show it some love if you like it.

You are listening to our side dish: The Dream Dinner Party. This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us all about their dream dinner party. This is a game I know a lot of people have played on long car journeys or maybe first dates so it’s really fun to sit down with a different guest each week and hear who they would invite and what they would serve. You’re allowed to invite 4 people – anyone you want, and I think it’s impossible to listen without thinking of your own answers!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to another episode of our side dish, the dream dinner party.
0:08.9	This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us all about their dream dinner party.
0:14.0	This is a game I know a lot of people have played, perhaps on a long car journey, maybe even a first date, and definitely around the dinner table.
0:22.3	So it's really fun to sit down with a different guest every week and hear who they would invite
0:27.2	and what they would serve. Today's guest is Donorskien, who is so much fun and who has actually
0:33.7	been on Desert Island dishes before a few years ago now, but definitely worth having
0:38.4	a listen to his main episode if you haven't heard it yet as it's a goody. That was right in the early
0:43.8	days when I turned up with a little dictaphone recorder and essentially hoped for the best. Donnell
0:50.3	has a new book out called The Home Kitchen and honestly, Donal's books are really great.
0:55.7	I don't know how he does it.
0:57.2	I tried to get him to give me all of his secrets, but instead I did persuade him to tell us all about his dream dinner party, and this is a very fun one.
1:05.5	I'm going to be posting Donal's Little Black Book on Instagram, which is a new feature we're trying out, and I thought
1:12.1	it might be quite fun. So keep an eye out for that and show it some love if you like it.
1:17.1	Really hope you enjoyed today's episode.
1:21.4	I am a big proponent of the dinner party, and I always have been. My mum was a great host of
1:27.0	dinner parties, but I have been. My mum was a great host of dinner parties,
1:28.2	but I have inherited her level of anxiety that comes with dinner parties. So as much as I love
1:34.9	them and I love the pomp and ceremony and I love, you know, the planning of a meal and the
1:38.2	menu and everything and all the little details of laying the table, I also have inherited her
1:43.2	flapping around the house in the hour or so before
1:47.1	guests arrive. And I have that innate desire to have everything perfect and want it to be right.
1:52.4	So over the years, I've become much better at hosting them because I have got better at trying
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