To think Nigella is slightly mad?

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

TabithaTwitchet not if you get a decent brand! The ones I get I just eat out of the packet as they are so yummy! Not good for the diet tho

I love her.

I think she is wonderful.

I read her books for pleasure - to be honest I very rarely cook from them as (a) I never cook/bake sweet stuff and (b) a lot of her savoury stuff is strangely underseasoned, however she writes beautifully, and has a wonderful turn of phrase.

Feast is my favourite of her books. The Georgian feast is truly excellent, as is her Tunisian stew. I cook that a lot.

I also like her diet section in How to Eat where she recommends individual marks and spencer steak and kidney puddings as diet food.

I like her earlier books - you can imagine in How to Eat that is how she ate with John Diamond. The later books recipes are rather contrived - I can't imagine that she regularly eats marmite pasta and dragon chicken wings really.

And look how beautiful she is.

I could smash about forty thousand tortilla chips in my face right now.

As it is I am having pasta and pesto for lunch as I am flipping freezing and cannot even contemplate leaving the house to go and buy proper lunch-stables.

Whats everyone else having?

I have just eaten 2 stale bread sticks with st agur dolloped on the ends.

getorf my wilkos fairy lights have all died a slow and painless death that no duracell battery will cure. I blame you.

I had chilli leek and potato soup and dumplings that DH made yesterday!

Is anyone else GUTTED that its not her own house?

I love the Harry Hill description of her:

"She's come back forgetting what it is she does and has had to watch Ronni Ancona's impressions to learn it again."

I love Ronni Ancona too.

I ate pasta and pesto because there were men with spanners rootling in my back bedroom and I was feeling awkward.

Friend of mine's husband sat near Nigella and John Diamond on a plane once and said they were terribly in-love-looking and she was carrying a hooooooge lump of Parmesan. Bet she kept breaking bits off and nomming it as well.

Are all you Nige lovers the ones who keep outbidding me for the Stockholm crockery?

I wish I still liked her, but I have gradually lost respect for her.

She has become a ludicrous parody of herself (2slightly mad"?! Bonkers more like it, and not in a nice way.

She has become so manufactured and "produced" and FAKE

Her recipes are seriously RUBBISH now, I cannot believe she cooked up some mince and ready-made tortillas with tinned sweetcorn and called a meal ?! that is not even cooking, that is heating up food.

Or what about mixing chorizo with a tin of tomatoes and a tin of chick peas. Is that a recipe or a joke?

The REAL Nigella would have added some garlic and chopped onion, and would have let the "stew" errrrr stew a bit!

I think it is actually not really her, but a robot.

I agree with Chandon about her being a parody of herself.

Trying to look seductive all the time, sticking her finger in her gob in a supposed orgasmic way, ridiculous descriptions of the food.

Even husband has gone off her

Her books are way better than her tv programmes.

But I was very at her dissing slow cookers in her new book. I mean what's not to love about a slow cooker?

I was wondering myself why she had changed so much - she used to be much more natural.

Might be to do with being married to Charles Saatchi.

what Chandon said

Haven't seen a decent recipe of hers in at least 3 years. I hate the fact its presented as her lifestyle and its a set. I often wonder if the people are indeed friends or just actors.

I'm sure she is a lovely person, and I very much approve of shots of her eating from the fridge and scoffing choc in a taxi etc, dispelling the myth of the woman who doesn't enjoy food. I do think, though, her production company have got all the TV series in the past few years very wrong.

I love Nigella too. She's so fabulously over the top!
And the ideas about corn chip and/or potato croutons are fab, especially for those of us who can't eat wheat/gluten.

'Is it a little bit untimely to have a cookery show starring a multi-millionairess, living in luxury in central London, who jumps in a cab to get a drop of truffle oil?'

...I have a friend who did this once because she had the Wrong Rice. In Whitstable

there is more than one kind of rice?

Whitstable to...London, surely not?

I love her.

I am doing her ham in coke this Christmas with pride.

I might even squeeze into a tight, v-necked cashmere sweater, let down my hair and throw saucy looks to an imaginary camera while I make it

'Whitstable to...London, surely not?'

sadly no. Edge of Whitstable to middle of Whitstable.

Still twenty quid, though

What I would not do for the day that Nigella Lawson announces, "F* this cooking lark for a game of soldiers, I am a multi-millionairess who can comfortably afford to eat out every single night of my life in the top restaurants in the world. You don't really think I waste my time poncing about the kitchen thinking up recipes all day, d'you? Suckers"
If only!!!

I heart Nigella so much, her books are wonderful and I want to be her when I grow up :o

PressureDrop Can you video that please. I need a larf

Oh not just slightly mad, OP, totally toally bonkers. But that's a good thing, surely? I deliberately target her most bizarre/implausible recpies just for the hell of it.

I think Nigella is potty...but in a very good way.

Her books are terribly well written, as much social history as cook book.
And the recipes are always fairly easy.

I met her at a party and she was very very beautiful. Her Vivienne Westwood dress made her look like a siren.
She was also warm, clever and funny.
Sigh.