to really cringe at the bits in nigella's kitchen..

[fluffles]

.. where her friends and family perform a little vignette?

is this all jamie oliver's fault???

it's just so cringe....

[but i will be trying her fried gnocci thing though ]

I thought Bruno must be an actor. Surely he is not really her kid. Really. What teenage kid would want to go on their mum's show?

Celery in a vase made me chuckle. Maybe my kids are fussy, they wouldn't eat it with all the leaves hanging off it (not sure I'd be keen either, dripping all over my plate).

Wry smile at pepperoni in foil not a plastic pack.

Like the sound of the lagerita though. And the fried gnocci, but I think I'd bake it, not ruining my frying pans!

not only putting celery in a vase () but putting it in a vase for teenage son's supper.

Well I am sure that Bruno expects these little refinements. After all, even when he was in nursery school, his mum used to hand him a huge lump of parmesan to grate over his supper when he had friends round.

Well I have to hide behind a cushion t o watch her, but I do have a celery vase

Anyone can make Fajita's but I thought she said that her Vagina's were messy to eat to her friends around the table

Last weeks reference to "a bit of inner thigh wibble" on the chocolate peanut butter cheesecake was an absolute classic!

All that messy eating.

I can't watch any of her programmes without laughing my head off. She thinks she is SOOOO sexy, but it all comes off as a bit 'camp'.
Can women be camp ?

I find myself watching and wanting to throw something at the blasted TV. I don't want to see her fake friends, or her fake kitchen, or hear how she uses one less pan for the washing up - for God's sake, she lives in Belgravia and can afford a room full of dishwashers and professional kitchen staff. I've also noticed she is doing a show that will be saleable to the American market with barely an alteration of voiceover, due to the use of those American cups when she is measuring out, and steadfast refusal to refer to madeira cake - it was just cake, which was also a giveaway.

The annoying thing is that she occasionally comes up with really good recipes, especially her savoury ones. Her ham in Coke and the maple chicken and ribs have now entered our stalwart recipe section, along with a few others. Her cake recipes though are disastrous - usually find quantities and temperatures are way off, so generally avoid now and stick to Mary Berry, who is less dramatic but does turn out reliable cakes, thank goodness.

Bruno really is her son - he looks very much like his father, the late John Diamond. Can only guess that appearing on the programme probably earns him an appearance fee - got to beat giving him pocket money!

It's the SMILING that does for me.

Give over woman.

And stop that weirdy flat-fingered pushing stuff about thing as well.

But v impressed that a teenage boy would willingly eat celery.

Oh, and forgot the blasted alliteration. It was driving me crazy tonight. Golden globules, and bosomy balls, and nippled nuggets, and sapphire squeezes, and pearlescent pomegranates, and, and, and please stop, just stop and tell me the ingredients and stop trying to bloody flirt all the time.

And.... breathe......

Bruno v v sweet.

Nigella v v random.

Yes, I'm often scrabbling around for the orange liqueur during the breakfast rush.

Most normal teenagers would require danger money for the celery. I would too - 'tis the Devil's vegetable.

How the hell did her boobs look so good in that dress with no bra?? (I'm referring to the oh so practical grey shift dress that she had chosen to wear for her casual , fajita supper!)

Who in Gods name has fairy lights in the pantry/larder? And, who wears a bra and full makeup for their midnight raid of the fridge......"cut, Nigella darling, that was fabulous, I just think your boobies shouldn't be so uplifted next time under your o-so-real-silky-dressing-gown".

If the camera caught me raiding the larder at midnight, I'd be wearing non matched pyjamas, would have on DH's knackered old grey dressing gown, mascara down me face and no camera crew following my every steal.

I thought she was particularly hammy this evening.

And I roared at her trifle. Shop bought cake, cream and berries on top.

I hear next week she nips into Marks and does 3 courses for a tenner...

I didn't watch this but my Granny puts celery into a vase every week at tea

If my Grandad gets there first he puts breadsticks in it so the celery goes in a glass jug but mostly it's a vase.

I just can;t watch withutshouting at her to tie her hair ack and put a pinny on. Dirty girl

Woah, mumble, easy girl! Lots of people don't wear pinnies or hairnets and our families are alive and well

I do love Nigella, even though I don't actually believe she serves these hundreds (thousands) of recipes regularly.

If you can get past the boobs and hips she has a great approach to food.

In the last series, a couple of her classics were, "the haunting brininess of olives", and somewhat creepily, "the nursery sweetness of lamb". Barf

Does she have a tick in her ear?

Our dog had one in his ear and he kept shaking his head just like Nigella does.