Nigella's helpless carrot act

[BaylisAndHardon]

Don't get me wrong, I do like Nigella Lawson and her cookery programs, however:

Has anybody else noticed that she pretends not to have proper knife skills and flails around in a sexy, helpless, becarrotted damsel in distress any time she has to chop something?

It reminds me of secondary school when some of the girls would pretend to be ditzy and thick so boys would like them.

It's 2020 fgs.

AIBU?

@RuffleCrow

Well food, sex and enjoying onself are hardly distinct. There's a reason chocolate is said to be "better than sex"! There are plenty of po-faced "food is fuel" chefs around. Maybe just switch over and watch one of them instead if Nigella is so offensive?!

Don't be ridiculous. Noone needs to see someone gurning through a fish finger hash.

When she started she was very attractive (still is) but she was really interested in the food, her recipes worked, they were really good.

This new show makes her look like an idiot and the food is awful. Carry On Nigella.

"Ridiculous" "idiot"

@mrsmiawallace your kneejerk language is saying a lot more about you than anyone you're being judgemental about.

I love her recipes, they’re foolproof for me. Every time I make her recipes they come out amazing and the portions are huge which I really like. I find her receipts easy to tweak to adjust to different tastes & everthing tastes really good.

I don’t get on with Delia recipes and I tried for years.

I like her. She doesn’t have failed marriages, she was widowed very young and her second husband was abusive so she LTB.

Her coffee and walnut cake is amazing and I love her carrot and ginger cake. I made her chicken sandwich me for dinner today and the only complaint was ‘I want to eat another but I might pop’.

Re the banana skins - I agree I wouldn't fancy them in curry, although I've got a cook book (Meera Sodha I think) that has a plantain curry with the plantains chopped up & chucked in skins'n'all. They're perfectly edible apparently!

I've a vegan friend who uses them to make 'pulled pork', which was edible but not great, & fake bacon which is actually really good. You basically marinade them in something smoky & sticky before grilling them to cool & crisp up.

To be fair, you could arguably create a similar result with marinaded & grilled plimsolls, as it's all in the marinade & the grilling, but they did make a decent vegan bash at a BLT. Tasty enough that I'm going to give them a go ( am in ME - no bacon here).

O leave her alone, she's had a horrible life, I wouldn't swap for her looks or her money. I don't slink around my kitchen mishandling knives though, get some scissors, the answer to many kitchen dilemmas.

Nayida's cookery series have been great. Really good recipes, quite a few of which I have cooked and they have been delicious. She comes across as lovely, friendly and down to earth.

I used to love watching Delia too. I have a couple of her cook books and use them all the time.

I would like to see Andi Oliver have her own series

@the80sweregreat

She hasn't had two failed marriages. Her first husband died and the second was an abuser and they divorced. He was horrible , so good luck to her for getting out of that toxic relationship.

Ok so her first husband died. I didn't know that but her second marriage still ended.

I would rather be happily married than have her money

lynsey91 I would rather be happily married than have her money

What point are you trying to make exactly? Do you think Nigella chose an abusive husband because he was rich? Do you think you are better than her for not having an abusive marriage? Your post is senseless.

Lot of love for Nigella. She taught me to use scissors to chop spring onions and to make ones own rocky road to take and eat in an independent coffee shop 😂
She’s absolutely class. I want to be her.(Can’t sit through any of her tv shows now, far too cringey, but she knows what works and fair play to her).

I don't like Nigella much but she's suffered a lot. She's lost her sister, her mother and her first husband to cancer. Her second husband was an arse.

Being happily married and rich are not mutually exclusive.

I want to be happily married and filthy rich.

Lot of love for Nigella. She taught me to use scissors to chop spring onions and to make ones own rocky road to take and eat in an independent coffee shop 😂

Her rocky road recipe is amazing. My go to for every school Xmas fayre.

And her semolina tip for roast potatoes...Best ever

Yes, her roasters. How could I forget. My (single) dad used to make them all the time!

Thinking back, the only time I watched her, was when I was living with my dad. Always his choice 😂

I love her and think she is fabulous. So there.

@lynsey91 what the hell relevance does your marriage have on a thread about a tv chef? Are people supposed to applaud the fact that your DH has (fortunately) not died young or turned out to be an abusive arsehole. Well done you! But Nigella’s rich so I’m sure she’s ok.

At the risk of sounding a bit Bridget Jones, is there anything worse than a smug married? 🤦🏻

I have never noticed her doing that. She is very knowing re the innuendo though. I'm sure they've told her to ramp it up deliberately as it's now at least 3 or 4 times a episode, whereas before it was occasional. In person in interviews, she seems a bit detached if anything, not coquettish. She's quite educated I think. I saw her on some intellectual late night discussion shows way back in the day & thought her a bit icy.

@lynsey91
That is a truly horrid comment.
Do you think unmarried women are lesser? How sad ( for you).
I am a widow too and had to read your comment twice to actually believe someone could be so crass.

Nigella is awesome. I have cooked so many amazing meals using her recipes. Yes the tv shows are over the top really - but that’s why they put the outrageous recipes in the first episode to get the media and internet all frothed up, it’s just clickbait really. Who cares? Her books are a joy!

Well I'd happily swop being married for being a gorgeous, intelligent university educated woman with my own fuck load of money in the bank and a beautiful £5M townhouse in London. Oh yes, I'd take all that over a live-in partner any day of the week.

John Diamond, Nigella's first husband, was a columnist on The Times. He wrote a book called 'Cowards get cancer, too'. They had been married only 5 years and had two small children when he died.

He had cancer of the throat and eventually had to have his tongue amputated. Afterwards, he not only couldn't eat, he couldn't talk either and he was a very witty man. When he went into hospital for his surgery, there was a choir singing carols in the foyer. He said they should be singing Welcome to the House of Fun.

This was when Nigella was trying out the recipes for one of her early books. Imagine that.

Btw someone said she was teeny, tiny. and starry. I wonder if she's got the right person. She's 5'7" and v unassuming when I saw her at a book signing.

I like Nigella, especially with the sound turned down.

She’s absolutely class. I want to be her.(Can’t sit through any of her tv shows now, far too cringey, but she knows what works and fair play to her

How do you know her apart from her tv shows?

Also without looking at viewing figures for the 2nd episodes, I'm not sure she does know what works sny more.

@ThePluckOfTheCoward

Well I'd happily swop being married for being a gorgeous, intelligent university educated woman with my own fuck load of money in the bank and a beautiful £5M townhouse in London. Oh yes, I'd take all that over a live-in partner any day of the week.

What an odd comment. None of that buys happiness.

I would rather stay married to DH than have all of that and be lonely. She has had a lot of unhappiness in her life.

A lot of people here are "married to dh" and unhappy though. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. I'll take the money, please