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!

I also like her love of old books. I have several 'house keeping' and 'how to manage your household' books. Love them. Never mind the awesome recipies I could manage a household of staff, starch shirts and if i am ever 'presented at court' i am ready😀

I agree that her books are better than her TV shoes. She's a wonderful food writer. Or writer, full top.

If you watch her earlier shows like Nigella Bits, her persona is actually quite serious. I expect that's closer to the real her than the purring minx who coos over a 'tumble of scarlet cranberries'.

Nigella Bites!

(Nigella Bits sounds like the name of some erotic fan fiction site)

Boobs were MY thing before that beeyatch came along!

This is terribly outing, but my DH once dressed up as Nigella for an event, talked like her and cooked like her. He looked more like her than she did!

I think he'd do your stars. My husband is Janet.

It was a stunt dog?

The barn was a location setting.

(am I the only one that hopes her copper spoons tarnish with the over use of white wine vinegar and bicarb?)

Also did you notice when she put the black treacle in something she slopped it on the hob but when it went into soft misty focus the blob had gone?

she has very old hands.

As if Nigella would have a labrador anyway. If she had a dog I'd picture her with an Italian greyhound or something like that.

The Three Wise Men win stars. Even Nigella can't beat that

That episode was the most cringe inducing ever, what with the borrowed barn, borrowed dog, borrowed guests, kitchen like an explosion in a pound store (not a square centimetre free of Christmas crap), non stop simpering at the camera (and she is very cack handed - it made me wonder if she actually cooks) AND she has ruined devilled eggs for me forever.

Bah bloody humbug.

Matte yet dewy complexion?
That'll be the sweat (hot flush) breaking through the powdered base

Wrapping star-shaped tin?
Get a strip of cardboard the same width as the height of your tin, wrap around outside to make a circle around the star, then wrap that. (Never done it, but seems reasonable)

I made star biccies to hang on the tree with rustic, hairy string DECADES ago. And the beautifully scented dried orange discs I made are still brought out and hung every year. I can do rustic, me.

Nigella? No better than she ought to be. (And her name means 'Onion seed' - nice, parents must have liked gardening?)

I love watching telly progs that have me shouting. Especially cookery ones. And gardening ones. And “Lifestyle” shit.

Nigel Slater’s the best food writer for me. Find him cringe on the telly though. I love shouting yes, we’ve all got time for that, haven’t we, Nige???? at the telly.

Her dad was Nigel, I'm guessing she was named after him.

Her sisters were Thomasina and Horatia! Clearly their parents were thrilled to have daughters

Stars are very 90s. Everything was covered in stars in the 90s. You are bang on trend OP!

I love Nigel Slaters ‘leftovers’ - brown paper wrapped hunks of artisan cheese which cost the same as my weekly shop

@Reppin Humph, I'm retro

Jake you need to change your name to JanetBallardsWife

I've had to ban DH from watching Nigel Slater because he just yells at the TV all the way through "Yeah because we all have left over partridge in our fridge Nigel, you pretentious tit" and it makes it hard to concentrate.

When the programme first started I thought she was in a reclamation yard,...with an empty suitcase,,

I liked the part where she was walking through the 'village'..smiling up at the lights,, while everyone else was made to wait at the end of the street,,, Its all so spam...

I have 2 children where part of their name means '"star" and I wouldn't call myself a star person. Up your game people!

@Sweetpea55

PMSL laughing at that! DH was grumpily muttering 'that's right Nigella, cordon off the plebs so they don't sully your Chrismas Walk' while the general public were gathered 100 yards behind her clutching iPhones - licence to lurk!

I have freeze framed the alleged primark scarf and I don't think it's the same one - the primark one has same size stars and nigella's were different sizes.

I need a life

I have the primark one. It's fab.

The primark one is nice than Nigella's.