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

[GetOrfMoiLand]

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.

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

Found the crossword tattoo thread. [snurk]

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.

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

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

Thank freaking GOODNESS I was not on your thread Aitch

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

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.

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

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

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

DO IT

AIBU to think that serving Ghetto Chicken is racist?

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'

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.

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

MAURY POVITCH

OMG am wetting myself at the racist chicken - 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.

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 What should I cook?" why on earth would the ethnicity of your guests come up on the thread anyway?

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.

maury name crossword

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

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.

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.

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

I'm heading back there now for more incontinence funtimes

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

I'm so glad I read this thread - racist chicken and the tattoo crossword have made me wee with laughter :o

I've just googled the recipe. I had no idea it was that one - I love that (although my fingers are so pathetically unasbestosy that the chicken is virtually cold by the time I can rip it off the carcass)

Thanks Storm

It isn't a bad thing. I really like Harry Belafonte and the Banana Boat song(though my favourite is "Get an Ugly Woman to marry you". Tis awesomeness in song form).

Fecking cheek of it. I use Baileys for my tiramisu. I've been doing so for decades. Bloody copycat

It's not the cake or the butterscotch that's minging. It's the cheesy frosting on top .

I've only read the first page of replies but I have to both agree and disagree with the OP. Kitchen does feel a bit like Nigella is scraping the bottom of the barrel, even in terms of the book's layout (not that I dislike it, the quirkiness somehow appeals to me) - but it must be a big challenge, 5 or 6 cookbooks down the road, to come up with something new and innovative each time.

On the other hand, I have found Nigella very inspiring over the years. When I bought How to Eat (just before I had children), it was my lunchtime reading for weeks and weeks (work from home). Feast has recipes which are now the only way we do that dish in our house - the chilli with cocoa powder, ham in coke, granola, etc. Nigella Express came at the perfect time where I was juggling several children and a busy job. I missed the TV series but caught up on YouTube and have a lot to thank Curry in a Hurry for!

I felt the exact same about the marmite pasta, could hardly choke it down (but had to in front of the children because the cupboards were bare that day, no back-up plan!). I think though that I used much too much marmite and would've had a different result with (much) less. I might actually try again sometime.

DH and I are in love with her Jumbo Chilli Sauce. Made last week for first time, and a couple of times since. Try it, but add the lime juice and salt cautiously first to your own taste. It's fab, as a dip for tortilla chips or veggies, we also had it with giant fusilli, and parmesan on top, super-quick meal so full of zing and freshness.