To think Nigella is slightly mad?

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Why use corn chips as croutons when you can just buy croutons

I [heart] Nigella. MN towers - can we have her on a web chat?

What's all this about croutons then?

Why waste all that time twirling your hair for the camera when you could just stir the damn sauce at be done with it?

Indeed. you could well ask 'Why use tiny cubes of roast potatoes as croutons in a caeser salad?'

But that didn't stop her suggesting it 10 yrs ago, in 'How to Eat'.

WWW but then she looks sensual...

I have met her several times when she was engaged to her first husband John Diamond and they were very touchingly in love.

He was also a great guy and very obviously adored her.

A truly lovely person and very genuine.

In an odd coincidence though I lived opposite her current husband's house in London in the early 90's.

Weird.

I want her fridge though.

She's around the same age as Gillian McKeith.
No mung beans for Nigella, but she looks 20 years younger than poor Gillian!

I have gammon bubbling away in cherry coke, thanks to Nigella!

Don't get me wrong she seems like a lovely person and has great cooking ideas. The gammon in coke is really yum but that wasn't originally her recipe. Roast potato croutons sound good too!

What I meant was she was using corn chips as quick croutons when it is just as quick to use a packet of croutons..

Yes it's madness to think she is the same age as Gillian!

She is ... eccentric. thats for sure. they way she talks , even about normal things is all o.t.t.
she does seem to be on a different planet, in a funny kind of way.

Sometimes another planet is the only way to survive.

Yes she is eccentric, which is the main reason I watch her show...she cracks me up!

blimey the gillian/nigella comparison is a shocker isn't it?

I like Nigella too, though dh and I do like to watch her show just to mock...I think she probably is a nice person in rl. though thats a total guess on my part, she could be a total twat for all I know

I love the way she describes the food. Like thinking a bunch of garlic would make a great bridal bouquet

She is clearly very intelligent and not afraid to do her own thing. Yes, she does say some bizarre things - still sniggering about the 'hauntingly briny' olives from Nigella Express, as well as the inner thigh wobble of a cheesecake - but one of the reasons I do enjoy her books is the purple prose, just as much as the recipes themselves. God bless her and all who sail in that wonderful pantry of hers!

She is eccentric, but I love eccentric people!

she makes cooking look like a fun and vaguely intellectual pastime- instead of the domestic drudgery I know it to be in my heart

she's fabby

I love how she shakes her head at some private amusing thought every time she goes to get something out the fridge.

In fairness to Gillian McKeith, I doubt she has seen much botox action.

Nigella sounds like she's just come everytime she puts a finger full of something delicious in her gob. An absolute soft porn hoot is her Sat am show

Beryl I was just thinking the same. Most of Nigella's face looks unable to move.

I heart Nigella too. A bit of a tenuous link, but several a few years ago, the daughters of my then boss went to school with Nigella's children. Apparently, she is a lovely lovely person but no-one had a good work to say about Mr Saatchi.

slightly?

She has such an amazing way with words. I want to be her friend and share lots of yummy suppers with her. I also want to raid her pantry.

I would drink that woman's bath water......