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

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GetOrfMoiLand · 11/01/2011 14:08

Bless her, I love her an all but some of her food is rank.

I tried those gnocchi roast potatoes and they were inedible - spongy and foamy tasting as well as rock hard on the outside.

Marmite pasta - well bloody hell it tasted like the devil's own excreta. Anne del Conte my arse.

DD made the sweet and sour from Kitchen - vile.

I think she has lost it slightly. Compared to How to Eat (food in the real world) I don't think her latest recipes come up to scratch at all.

I do love the way she writes but I think her recipes are so hit and miss it is not worth attempting any more.

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TrillianAstra · 11/01/2011 16:35

I agree with AB12 - Nigella books are good to read.

StormInaCCup · 11/01/2011 16:30

Just reading the tattoo thread now. AbsofCroissant, I laughed so hard at your comment re the name Tayo:

"It does kind of make me think about the "day-o" song, which is not necessarily a bad thing. "

...that a bit of wee came out Blush

I'm heading back there now for more incontinence funtimes

mathanxiety · 11/01/2011 16:19

I like her Heritage recipes, can't remember which book they're from, but those are mostly her mother's. And the Vietnamese chicken salad, probably from the same book, is lovely. And gingerbread with lemon glaze was the first thing DD3 ever baked and it was lovely. The very slow roasted pork shoulder wasn't as brilliant as advertised though.

AB12 · 11/01/2011 16:12

I rarely cook Nigella now, but I very often buy and read her books, as books, IFSWIM. Sometimes I say 'she should stick to food writing', because she writes about food in such an engaging, attractive, wholly personal way. I LOVE that about her.

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GetOrfMoiLand · 11/01/2011 16:11

maury name crossword

3 across - Sharonda
4down - Tyrelle
2 across - Mironeeq

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DilysPrice · 11/01/2011 16:10

How did the racist chicken thread start anyway? I have visions of a David Cameron-style "I have met a Black Man and invited him to dinner Shock What should I cook?" why on earth would the ethnicity of your guests come up on the thread anyway? Confused

But anyway, I think that I will forgive Nigella little foibles like inedible recipes because she speaks my language. Whenever I open a book and think "Blimey Nigella, that's a bit of a twee/camp/contrived recipe title, even for you", I can guarantee that the first line of the recipe will be "I apologise for the title, I know it's a bit twee/camp/contrived, even by my standards, but I couldn't resist it". Self-awareness excuses a lot in my book.

JetLi · 11/01/2011 15:44

OMG am wetting myself at the racist chicken Grin Grin Grin - thats a classic Aitch

Will be sniggering all afternoon! >

BTW the fresh gingerbread (DomGod) is fab as is the Guinness cake which I have done for a few birthdays now. The frosting on that is to die for. Love the low fat section in HTE.

ShirleyKnot · 11/01/2011 15:44

"mummy why am I not on daddy's special name tattoo?"

MAURY POVITCH

AbsofCroissant · 11/01/2011 15:42

I just wish she'd told us what the letters were, so we could work it out. imagine, all the brains of MN solving your crossword tattoo puzzle.

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GetOrfMoiLand · 11/01/2011 15:40

I am actually quaking at myself hoping that the racist food police don't come on and flame me for Harlesden Chicken.

Re Crossword tattoo:

'mummy, why am I not on daddy's special name tattoo?'

'well, son, there is no easy way to say this, but he.is.not.your.real.father'

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ShirleyKnot · 11/01/2011 15:38

DO IT

AIBU to think that serving Ghetto Chicken is racist?

DuplicitousBitch · 11/01/2011 15:37

imagine the uproar a 'racist foods' thread would cause.

ShirleyKnot · 11/01/2011 15:37

I think everyone was too busy racking their brains to come up with amusing "T space Y space" names

Jules was funny as well with her tomato suggestion and the lovely idea of a little drawing of a tomoato. HAHAHA

DuplicitousBitch · 11/01/2011 15:36

to be fair goml, the whole thread was hilarious would have be hard to comment on everything

DuplicitousBitch · 11/01/2011 15:35

love the tattoo thread, i remember when all threads on mn were pretty much like that. [sighs and runs back to twitter]

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GetOrfMoiLand · 11/01/2011 15:35

Haha - laughing so hard as well at DAYLIGHT COME AND ME WANNA GO HOME. NOBODY commented on that post of MamaLazarous, it is a travesty.

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AbsofCroissant · 11/01/2011 15:35

Oh crap. I served that chicken once to a friend who's half Jewish/half black Shock
Imagine! If only she'd known! (she would have pissed herself laughing)

Thank freaking GOODNESS I was not on your thread Aitch

AB12 · 11/01/2011 15:31

[edited to add that i am supposed to be doing the vacumming while Dbaby sleeps. Instead reading MN and searching for old threads. ] Blush

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GetOrfMoiLand · 11/01/2011 15:30

Racist chicken.

I mean HOW the hell can anyone see offence in that? It's not as if you would serve it up to said black man and go 'here you are GHETTO (knowing winks to other diners) chicken'.

You could just change the name and call it Venetian chicken. Or Harlesden chicken, whatever you want.

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AB12 · 11/01/2011 15:29

Aitch, i have been searching for the ghetto chicken thread. Do you have a link?

Found the crossword tattoo thread. [snurk]

ShirleyKnot · 11/01/2011 15:28

I am laughing so so hard at "MamaLazarou Wed 29-Sep-10 15:17:17
DAYLIGHT COME AND ME WANNA GO HOME!"

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GetOrfMoiLand · 11/01/2011 15:27

Thanks Abs

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AitchTwoOh · 11/01/2011 15:27

the irritating thing was that the poster concerned was looking for a meal that would be easy to serve, make people happy, not contain anything too unusual and not require much slaving in the kitchen. (she may not have used word slaving, being sensitive to such issues).

all i did was say 'oh you should try this, it's great'. cue pillory.

oh it DOES feel good to get that off my chest. it's been about two years, lol, and i sweat about it every time i cook that dinner now. (dh calls it 'racist chicken' now, which is not particularly helpful).

ShirleyKnot · 11/01/2011 15:27

Oh Shit. I remember now, I bloody love YunoYurbubson and all.

AbsofCroissant · 11/01/2011 15:26

Here you go GOML

It started off as a fairly normal "weirdy made up name" thread, and then a bit further in she reveals her true reasoning.

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