Two home cooks compete to impress four of the country's toughest and most feared food critics. Their aim is to convince this panel of culinary judges that home cooking can knock the spots off sophisticated restaurant food. Eating with the Enemy's presenter, top TV chef James Martin, mentors and monitors the amateur cooks both at the cook-offs and at their homes, before they take their dishes on a journey from their own kitchens to a hot house professional kitchen. The home cooks facing the Enemy today are flamboyant Kentish cook Stephen and down-to-earth mother of four Julie from Surrey. Critic Kate Spicer is outraged by one dish. Is it Julie's curry or Stephen's salmon?