Series One: The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers were as diverse in the kitchen as they are with their music. The Kindness’ dark folk-pop songs are fantastical stories, and with instrumentation including ukelele, mandolin and flute, they paint a picture with a twist of good humour … and bubbles. Yes, bubbles.

Brigitte and Alice threw down the gauntlet with a bold statement about their superior cooking abilities, and from there, it was girls against boys in Ali’s kitchen.

Waiting their turn, Glen and David hung outside as Ali struggled with hard butter in the making of her densely packed poppy-seed cake. Concern over Ali’s deviation from the recipe was sparked when Brigitte spotted bi-carb soda in the mix. Is bi-carb good for cakes as well as smelly shoes?

When dinner guest, Hoges arrived, the idea of scoring was introduced, and the division between camps turned into an actual competition, prompting Brigitte to create scorecards.

Densely packed with all the goodness of opium, the cake went in the oven, and the boys entered the kitchen. David on drinks; Glen on mushrooms. i.e. Mushrooms à la Glen.

As Glen read his recipe and prepared the random ingredients for the mushies, David got the sugar and water boiling for his Stab-berry Daiquiri.

Glen painted pesto on his mushrooms, before filling in the holes and getting them in the oven. Meanwhile, Dave added frozen strawberries (stab-berries) to his hot sugar syrup in a bid to create an icy effect to his blend. “High quality” gin & vodka were added and the daiquiris were shared ‘round.

Entering a now messy kitchen, Brigitte cut up her halloumi – finding a mystery something in the middle - and explained the goodness of fried blocks of cheese in a diet-friendly salad.

The band remained unconvinced about the success of in the daiquiris; in particular, the illusive “icy effect”. Dave sought counsel in Hoges, and round two of the Stab-berry followed.

The food came out and the competition came to a head as Hoges mediated the scoring. Roly looked on, and in the end, it was each muso for themselves, as Dave’s wild scoring left the others in a spin. But did it change the end result?

Viewer Comments

Luke

22nd May 2007

That was a really good episode to watch. The band really looked like they were having fun and their music was good to listen to. I like the recepie for that suicide coctail thing,,, Alcohol, more alcolol, heaps of sugar and a bit of flavor. Sounds like my kind of drink!!! Keep up the good work.

Joel

24th August 2008

Very entertaining show. Lots of fun. Relaxed music, genuinely funny people, and mounds of grub. Well done!

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