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.

I came on this thread to staunchly defend St Nigella of Cooking but my, MN you are really spoiling us tonight - this is a 3 in 1 thread extravaganza! Racist chicken AND Tatt names have made my day.

PS there is no greater recipe in the world than Nigella's grasshopper pie.

Oh dear Aitch. Maybe you need a little lie down - and a lovely big bowl of marmite pasta! :)

I think the MNers on this thread should release a cook book and give Nigella a run for her money

• Marmots pasta (literally can not stop giggling at this)
• Aitch's Racist chicken

That's a great idea Abs I think it will be a best seller!

what about tattoo soup, made from alphabetti spaghetti?

That "How to eat' book (or whatever it was called) is truly dreadful - I binned it.

I just think she is just not a proper cook. Her recipes often don't work.

I love pasta and I love Marmite which is why I can tell you that the two really do not go together - in ANY scenario!

And - having seen her in real life ladies I can tell you that there is a reason she is only filmed from the waist up nowadays.

LOVE it

i think the thing with nige is that her taste is the same as mine (although she likes her baking more sweet and vanilla-y, right enough).

her flavours are good and tasty and strong and very more-ish, nothing filigreed or cheffy-dainty, and the recipes that work are great. have never cooked much beyone htw and dom god, though. will take another look at feast on your collective reco, however.

"having seen her in real life ladies I can tell you that there is a reason she is only filmed from the waist up nowadays."

Is that because she has a leaky fanjo like someone GOML according to LeQueen does?

i am perfectly happy for her to be overweight, personally. it reflects only that when she says she is greedy, she means it. and i like that.

Having just read this whole thread, plus racist chicken and tattoo baby name spin off threads. I thank you all for a most entertaining hour or so.

I do feel the need to admit that I really quite like marmite spaghetti.

And the next time anyone comes for dinner they're getting Racist Chicken followed by Grasshopper Pie.

if you pronounce it 'glasshopper' then you'll be two for two.

what is grasshopper pie btw?

jesus mary and joseph

I know it looks wrong but something that green must be a bit good for you.

I have no idea about the leakiness or otherwise of her 'fanjo' (I didn't get that close to her!), but when they were handing out arses she was definitely first in line.

However, that is neither here nor there. She can't cook and her recipes are shit. That's the problem really.

Oh and the simpering - "ooh I'm so greedy, but it's naughty and I'm so sexy and plump and gorgeous" - that's very irritating and absolutely not the case (well, she's probably greedy).

WTF re leaky fanjo according to LeQ?

I swear to god mumsnet gets stranger by the day.

A prefectly innocent thread about Nigella cookbooks. I mean how middle class 30-something mother is that?

Corrupted by Maury tattoo crosswords, racist chickens and now leaky fanjos.

Wasn't like this in the days of Cod, was it

doesn't everyone have a leaky fanjo?

This thread is brilliant :D I'm sat here giggling away to myself at the racist chicken and tattoo name threads.

cod had a sweaty fanjo

I was asking why you changed your sheets every day, and that's the reason she gave.

True story.

Yes, but she is a bit greedy, sexy, plump and gorgeous. If I look like her when I'm fifty I will be most unconcerned about the square acreage of my rear.

And once you've tried the profiteroles with the burnt caramel custard you cannot give a blanket 'all her recipes are shit' because that one is possibly the nicest thing I have ever tasted.

Thank GOODNESS DP is out tonight, otherwise, he would be very concerned. I cannot stop laughing at this thread. HILARIOUS

Mmm that looks nice AitchTwoOh

Ha! She is just jealous because I outclass her on clean sheets.

Mind you I did start a thread some time ago re post bath water gushing out of fanjo (usually 2 hours after your bath, when you are in the yoghurts aisle of sainsburys)