to think that Nigella doesn't taste half the horrible food in her cookbooks?

What I know we've had from Express - and never really had a 'failure' from Nigella as tend to only make things that we know we'd like and also tweak a bit if we taste / think it needs it!

Mustard pork chops
Quick calamari (squid) with garlic mayo
Steak Slice with Lemon & Thyme
Chicken Liver Salad
Mirin glazed salmon
Butternut & Sweet potatoe soup
Apple Green Martini
Potato Cakes with Smoked Salmon
Duck breasts with pomegranate & mint
White chocolate mint mouse
Quesadillas
Flan (and a coconut variation made with tinned coconut milk)
Sesame noodles - without peanuts
Hokey Pokey - and chocolate dipped too
Linguine with Lemon, Garlic & mushrooms
Snowball
Marshmallow crispy squares

Now you've made me read through it and will make a few more things..

And, back to the main point of the thread, I have Nigella's Express I think but never used it - is there a recipe in there guaranteed to work, and worth cooking? Am concerned at the high failure rate!

Getorf I know exactly what you mean re post-bath gush. But it usually happens to me about five mins afterwards, so never have embarassing supermarket issues I thought it was fairly normal? According to others on this thread it appears not... apart from Foundwanting

Aitch can you share your racist chicken recipe? Sounds interesting...

All you ham in coke people, I highly recommend the pasta alla Medici with left-over ham. We love it even though it has become known as 'Poisoners' Pasta'.

Also loved by dcs are chocolate malteser cake and (since New Year) Toblerone fondue.

GetOrf I share your post-bath swoosh issues. Unfortunately it is more likely to occur within half an hour of a bath, which shows how completely shot my pelvic floor is. To compound my shame, DS2 has announced to the household "Mummy's doing a wee on the kitchen floor!"

Blimey this thread has moved on a bit since last postings.

Can't comment on leaky fanjos as I don't have one .

There is an autobiography on Nigella - well its unauthorised by Gilly Smith but has lots of lovely pictures of her.

Was going to go to a Kitchen autogrpah signing in Bristol but work got in the way so never met the lovely Nigella...still prefer curvy women to sticks anyday.

gnocchi roasties and leaky fanjos in one sentence just sounds wrong

Loving Aitch's racist chicken - maybe the leftovers could be put into some fascist fajitas...

Ham in cherry coke is really good. We use the liquid for parboiling potatoes before roasting them sometimes.

at this thread

Used to love Nigella until I tried her butternut squash and sweet potato soup with buttermilk

It was emulsified vomit

Boak at the memory

And the "first night" pasta - recipe for two and it could have fed 400.

I don't have a leaky fanjo either (the joy of the cs )

I wanted to try the gnocchi roasties. Obviously I shan't bother now.

That mustard sauce she did with gnocchi in the Express book was all right. Not brill. But Ok for a change.

Have you found her yet?

I can't comment on the gnocci roasties, having never had them, but when an MNer was suggesting roasting gnocci, a 'la Nigella instead of boiling them in the normal way, I did think "that can't be right".

PS Getorf, if you grit your teeth your fanjo won't leak! (every tried weeing while gritting your teeth??? Impossible unless you have a hooooooge bucket of a thing)

Now I adore Nigella, but have to say her chocolate Christmas cakey thingy (with the edible gold stars that I went and bought from bloody turkey gobble neck Jane Asher) was, erm, interesting, not exactly unpleasant, but it sure as fuck was not a Christmas cake. It was sort of shiny and puddingy and very very very sweet. It will still be in my Mum's cake tin next year, missing only the bits we had on Christmas Day.

Someone on the poncey Christmas thread said that Nigella has an obsession with bicarb and I now miss out the bicarb in everything because it tastes of soap.

Dp vomited over the very idea of marmite pasta. (and I love Marmite, but no, no no)

I wish I was Nigella, MoldyWarp - but the only similarity I share with her is a laaarge derriere - and I suspect mine's square acreage is greater than Nigella's!!

Davidtennantsgirl methinks you do protest too much

Are you NIgella?

Would never have happened if you'd posted in food OP

yeah and i only wanted to know what to do with leftover coke - now i can't sleep as thoughts of name tatoos/racist chicken and GOML leaky fanjo are keeping me up

it is all a bit disturbing

Good god, is this in classics yet?

Through my tears of joy and mirth (and some sympathy for leaky fanjo/sainburys incidents, although has never happened to me )

I just wanted to add that the pork chops and gnocci in cider & mustard sauce in Express is lovely. Although I do add extra mustard, and mushrooms, and cook it for longer than Nige. Lovely though

And I only opened this thread to see if there was anything I should try and cook

I don't gush water after a bath either, and have never leaked bathwater (or indeed any other fluid, bodily or otherwise) whilst going round a supermarket - and my pelvic floor has all the strength and elasticity of a wet paper bag!! GetOrf - I'm sorry, but it sounds like it is just you.

I use Nigella's recipe for pavlova too - and since watching her programmes, I now stuff chicken and duck carcasses in the freezer until I have enough to make stock (the duck stock that I made for the christmas gravy was out of this world), and I freeze the egg whites that are left over when I make carbonara. BTW - did you know that you could defrost eggwhites in the microwave (on low power) and they will still make excellent pavlova? And if you use raspberry vinegar in your pavlova mix, instead of white wine vinegar, it gives it a delicious taste that complements strawberries or raspberries perfectly.

Oh - and the pasta with marmite is DELICIOUS!!! So there!!

In Express I tried her tuna and cannellini beans. It was the first of her recipes ever i tried. I have a pencilled note beside it 'don't bother'.

Get away with your ham in coke talk. It's not right and you know it.

It wasn't just me who saw Nigella. Mr Biscuits was there too and his verdict was "Bloody hell .." (and not in a good way).

I will NEVER eat ham in coke or pasta with bloody marmite - not while they are really lovely things to eat.

I don't have a bath, or children, so my fanjo is not leaky at all. And I do internet shopping so there is really zero chance that I will gush bathwater all over Sainsburys.