Ever wondered how you’ve somehow managed to get to this point in your life without knowing how to roast a chicken? Or how the minute you lose a button on your jacket you call your mam for help? How about the fact that for you cleaning involves an antibacterial wipe and 5 minutes of your time once a fortnight? Many of us who grew up through the Celtic Tiger years have side-stepped basic life skills in favour of take-away dinners, bringing the washing home to mammy once a week and throwing out anything that isn’t as shiny and new as the moment we bought it. We’re convenience addicts. But real convenience is all about planning.
That’s where Domestic Divas step in. Aisli Madden and Cat Lawlor are here to save the day! Anywhere there’s a week old hoodie with a fraying thread about to be thrown in the bin – they’ll be there. Anywhere there’s a bathroom floor that hasn’t seen a mop since mammy’s last visit – they’ll be there!
Aisli and Cat are on a mission to help the helpless, to demonstrate basic life skills that came so naturally to our parent’s generation and not so easily to 20 to 30 somethings. They will share the knowledge, skills and power to live life better – to eat more healthily, deliciously and nutritiously. To care for a home – like a boss! To take pride in ourselves – inside and out! And they want to do all of this with the least amount of fuss possible.
- Aisli and Cat help a single mother who desperately wants to throw a 1st birthday to remember for her special little boy.
- They meet a social butterfly who has no time to cook or clean but wants to stop relying on his flatmate to do all of the housework and stop spending all of his spare cash on take-aways and expensive lunches.
- They come up with healthy, nutritious and easy ways for a busy working mother of two to feed her family with fresh ingredients straight from her Diva-built pop-up garden.
- The Divas will come to the rescue of a mother and daughter who are struggling to deal with sharing a house as adults when one of them does all of the housework while the other does nothing.
- They’ll help a student throw a lavish dinner party for her best friend who’s moving to Australia complete with etiquette and décor tips.
The brand new six part series Domestic Divas will remind everyone of the comforts of home – a crisp clean bed, the smell of fresh laundry, a sparkling bathroom, a neat and tidy bedroom and a scrumptious hot meal on the table. Domestic Divas will be a masterclass in achieving domestic bliss.
Series 1, episode 5
The Divas meet equestrian loving Dawn who wants to throw a lavish dinner party for her best friend who’s moving to Australia. Aisli visits Declan Maxwell in Michelin star restaurant Chapter One to find out how to set the perfect table and create the perfect ambience at a dinner party. She also gets essential advice on wine from O’Brien’s Lynne Coyle.
Meanwhile Cat shows Dawn how to make individual beef wellingtons, a classic dinner party dish that’s bound to impress her friends. The Divas help Dawn to really push the boat out and throw a traditional, elegant and sumptuous dinner party that her emigrating friend will never forget. Will the dinner party go according to plan? Tune in to RTÉ One on Tuesday 30 September to find out.