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

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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.

IO agree that Nigella should just stick with food writing.

She is wonderful when she has a theme - so I think a book about Jewish or Italian food for example would be great (but I think those subjects have been covered in full by Claudia Roden and Anna Del Conte).

I would love to read her autobiography. I think she should do that. Thanks in advance, Nige.

interestingly have just cooked marmite pasta and watched my 3 dc gobble it down faster than anything whilst screaming for more. dh tried it and said that it was horrid (I didn't even try it) but she does recommend it for children and it did work on mine :)

1. don't make nigella's flapjacks, make mine.
2. make the chocolate gingerbread from Feast [drool]
3. lemon syrup sponge is great but Marslady's lemon drizzle is equally good. I make Marslady's cake and use nigella's syrup (double the amount).
4. Nonconformist Christmas pud in Feast is fabulous,

Everything changed for me and Nigella after the girdle buster pie (see other nigella thread).

I think as you get more cooking mileage you can spot things that in all likely hood are going to be foul. I haven't seen the recipe for the marmots pasta but I can imagine the deep horridness of it, and I'm someone who likes marmots.

No more nigella books here for me. Domestic goddess is enough.

I've made the clementine cake on several occasions and pretty much everyone has loved it - mind you, it does need cooking for longer than Nigella says, and when she cooks it on the tv, she completely misses out the stage where she tells you to take the cooled boiled clementines and quarter them to remove the pips before blitzing them 'to a nubbly puree'.

I'm doing her sticky ribs tomorrow - the boys adore these, and ds1 once ate 17 (though they were pretty short ribs, not great long ones).

We love marmite pasta too - ds1 cooks it every weekend for his lunch, and ate so much of it over the christmas holidays that I ran out of marmite - and when did anyone ever see the the bottom of the marmite jar?? It is lovely with a lightly poached egg, or a bit of grated cheddar on it.

DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT

Hmmm

Marmots pasta

1. Lay out snare for prarie dwelling rodent mammal
2. skin and bone creature
3. Sauté with onions and a tablespoon of vanilla essense.
4. Add 2 litres of double cream
5. Sprinkle with Parmesan and serve with fusilli.

Lovely

Sounds delicious, Slubber!

OMG I remember the racist chicken thread - it was bonkers. :)

Please, please somebody link to it!

OMG marmots pasta. I love it Well not literally, obviously. Just the fantastic autocorrect lol.

I love most of her stuff to be honest. I think most cooks will have stuff you dont like in it. I would never make marmite pasta as I am a definete do NOT like marmite.

Look what I found

Actually - you were all much more civilised than I thought I remembered it being. It's rather sweet, actually. :)

Marmot pasta! Fabulous :o

I think nigella likes to stuff her face and she's not too bothered what with.

Her recipes are crapola.

And I agree, aitch. I do like to make a lentil and bcaon soup with the ham stock.

I think nigrella imagines writing about some foodstuff or other and sees pretty pictures in her head and then ham-fistedly cocks about in the kitchen until she has come up with an approximate recipe.

Lol at her hamfistedly cocking about.

I know all her tv series are staged but the low level lighting always makes me doubt her accurate measuring ability. Cooking by fairy lights is bound to result in recipe failure.

The amount of recipe corrections on her website also put me off. You never get that with a triple tested Good Housekeeping recipe. No siree.

I am most definitely NOT a Nigella fan and think she is now veering towards some sort of trans-Atlantic sugar n'syrup kitschy market.

However the two things that I do think are worth making are the clementine cake and the chocolate pavlova.

slubber - in the unlikely event of sharing a campsite with nigella and her gorgeous -rent- -a- -mob- friends, you just know she will be in a yurt fucking about with bunting and fairlylights and yes those tin cans with ickle patterns punched out

God yes DB, the whole set up would be an overdose of glamperesque shitola and naked flame peril with nigella in the middle of it all guzzling butter and 70% coco solids chocolate in a low fitting top and inadequate footwear.

marmite pasta? she should be shot for crimes against food

I just googled the mar-mite recipe.

it's just spaghetti, butter and mar-mite

Hahahahah

I think my marmots recipe sounds much nicer.

lol at that thread, it might look sweet enough but i was seething at the time...

oh, and dh reminds me that it's not just 'racist chicken' he calls it, but 'your racist chicken'. he feels this twists the knife just a little more.

I have eaten marmot [preen] in central asia. It was dried marmot hung for a while and looked like strips of stirrup leather.

i recall very little that was tasty about it.

But I still think I would prefer it to marmite spagetti. [boak]

and NOW i am singing 'compare the marmot DOT com...'