To start a thread that nobody responds to.

[VanillaSugar]

Boring thread alert.

and in the small independently run deli near Nigella's house

You can't make ratatouille without garlic. This is why me never cleaning the fridge is good. There's always a clove somewhere in there!

Oh, I would say that garlic is pretty well a sine qua non for ratatouille, Vanilla. But Lisa upthread had planted lots of garlic in her garden to ward off vampires so perhaps she could give you some?

Several good suggestions there. My goodness, this thread is helpful!

Thank you thank you thank you BUT I NEED GARLIC NOW!!!!!!

But Lisa just lives two pages back!

If you refer to the final page in one of Nigella's recipe books then I'm sure she can recommend an online garlic specialist who can airdrop some directly into your garden within minutes of placing your order ....the delivery charge may be prohibitive though

But I need it in real life!!!!! wails

This is what the Amazon drones will do. Natch.

Thank you shagged - I'm googling it right now.

I'm impressed, shagged - you know your onions!

Hang on, that sort of delivery is for icing sugar and talc. Well, stuff that looks like it, anyway. And I would like to most emphatically point out that garlic is not a euphemism for anything. At all. It is garlic.

Think you might be protesting a bit too much, Vanilla. People aren't usually this desperate about garlic.

One can only assume that Vanilla's withdrawal shakes have reached a point where she is incapable of typing messages any longer

Yeah, she'll be back later all calm and happy again after having her "garlic".

Either that or she'll end up in the local A&E after a garlic overdose

So so sad

I'm guessing it might be crystal meth - she said she was cooking. Obviously this batch is taking longer than she thought.

So so sad.

Too much Breaking Bad

I've heard that ratatouille is a gateway drug to the hard stuff

Is Crystal Meth a type of mint favoured champagne? Here is my garlicless rat , you horrible lot!

Hmm - that's so obviously taken from a cookbook. The evidence is mounting, I'm afraid.

Mint flavoured champagne? That kind of disingenuous comment is the kind of thing I'd hear when I worked in a rehab. Denial is not a river in Egypt.

Nigella, Nigel and Jamie do not flick Vs in their cook books so there! HA!

Oh Christ, that's mushroom in my fingernail. It looks like something else ...