Nigella has totally stolen my thunder!

[JustCallMeJanet]

I am watching Nigella's Christmas Table

Stars are MY thing - I have star shaped bowls, starry patterned China, I make food into star shapes, I have star patterned furnishings. I have owned a starry scarf for YEARS!

My entire Christmas decor is star themed. How dare she steal my idea.

I OWN STARS!

Rose
How very dare you? Wash your mouth out with xmas soap its real I tell you.

runs away crying into her

Fyi it's all filmed in a warehouse studio. Outside is not outside at all. Her stairs are as fake as her boak inducing smile. Her kitchen IS NOT a kitchen. It's work surfaces and fluffers holding them up underneath with the Calor gas bottle.

And as Ada said up there , our Fanny was doing stars in the 60s.

or seeing them at least

Ach I wouldn’t worry op If he was thinking nigella was lovely. I suspect my husband has a bit of a thing for carol who does the morning weather on the bbc, most mornings I’m greeted with his musings on her attire for the day. 🤣

Well, exactly, who smiles suggestively at egg yolks?

Especially when they've singed their thumbs lighting 2000 tea lights.

Nigellas primark scarf as IF

I loved it when she skipped up to the house with her case and Just paused to take it all in
But I also like how she does all this stuff on her own , it’s a nice message

Apart from the hired friends guffawing away

I bought star cutters from Poundland today, I win

ITS REAL

Where is Fanny this year? This is important because it is not Christmas without a laugh at her singed mincemeat omelette.

Trinity
Feck off its REAL, REAL I tell you.

I always feel sorry for her. She must be fucking exhausted being that sexy all the time. I mean, I can turn it on if needed - I've got the tits for all that lucious leaning over things - but it's bloody knackering remembering to be that pouty. I can't imaging spending a summer's day in a baking hot barn wearing winter clothes under lights and sexifying like that for 12 hours.

Also I own bells. HAH.

According to the song, we are all made of stars, so, we ALL own the stars

@dontcallmeCharlotte Right. If you're all such star experts, how the merry hell do I wrap the star shaped boxes of shortbread I've bought for MIL and DIL?

I wouldn't even try, I'd make some bows out of wired Christmas ribbon (preferably gold with stars on it) and just stick the bows on the middle of the boxes .......

Yes, Nigella has had a horrible time of it bereavement wise - mother, sister, husband. And she was with that horrible man for years.

I liked the beardy friend sitting next to her. He looked kind and friendly. And I love a bushy beard (wouldn't suit DH at all ).

Mary Berry's basically purloined half my Austerity Housekeeping book and website contents.
Baking wasn't enough, she had to make an incursion into houses n that.
Gutted I was.

There is no way that two very pricked ducks fed the yokels in the barn. Unless 75% of them were vegetarian. All a bit Bathsheba Everdene.

I win, I named a star for dh as a wedding present ...30 yrs ago
before Nigella was even cooking

It pisses me off she’s still given prime cooking telly slots, when her shows never actually produce any food that I want to make.

It’s all about Lifestyle, with her regular At My Table shows stuffed full of leafy Mayfair pied a terre shots, over hairsprayed tresses, and arty copper utensils.

I sit and SHOUT AT THE TELLY every Tuesday night whilst the DC look on bemused.

Taffeta
You do know you dont actually have to watch it if it bothers you that much?😉

Taffeta, may i ask WHY ARE YOU WATCHING IT? It's just it eems a bit odd you do.

I've made quite a lot of her recipes and I definitely don't live in Mayfair.

What I dislike is her overuse of cling film, plastic bags and single use roasting tins. I wish she were more environmentally aware.

Just remembered her mentioning the bang on trend Christmas spoons that she just bought gets out every year.

Oh, I can understand Taffeta - we o that to ourselves. For years, I couldn't stand the taste of aniseed or liquorice, yet every other week, I'd spend part of my pocket money on aniseed balls or liquorice sticks just to try and work out why I hated it so much, or to see if it had changed, or just to understand why I hated it so much.

Fortunately, I've stopped doing that now and am free to spend money on gin and Baileys.

I found the lifestyle element a bit tired looking. That surprised me. I'm not an early-adopter by any means, so I'm thinking that ship has sailed.

I think it's time Nigella gets back to what she is so incredibly brilliant at: the fact she is a gifted cookery writer, and really focuses on that in her programmes. She really is brilliant. Her recipes tend to work, and they work with modern lifestyles, and she is utterly brilliant at communicating with her audience/readers.

Every so often, I pull out a Nigella recipe book and read it. She's up there with Claudia Roden in terms of writing.

And what I do love is when she pulls out a recipe book she's been inspired by and comments on it. The English student in me loves the intertextuality and the cook in me loves the research she's done.

I agree thecat. She's a wonderful writer, and she used to be dynamite in front of the camera, but now I think she's lost her mojo (who can blame her? She's had a shit time, must have had her confidence knocked for six by life events bastard husband and is obviously under pressure to keep up the sex kitten role when I imagine she might feel she's outgrown it) The prose that reads so gorgeously and makes her books a joy sounds weird and clunky when she says it in faux-conversation as she's presenting. Add in the no-expense-spared, but still fairly transparent 'lifestyle' set, and the whole things feels a bit tired and try-hard, and a long way from the talent and authenticity which made her deservedly successful in the first place.