In thinking Delia has a death wish for us all?

[mamhaf]

Just watched the Delia Christmas cookery programme on BBC2.

I know she always does this, but I haven't seen her on the tv for a while - everything was crammed with heart-stopping cholesterol - either butter or cream/creme fraiche. And then liberal amounts of nuts, cheese, fatty bacon etc.

It made me feel ill watching it.

And, wearing loads of rings on her horrible liver-spotty hands while preparing food - I hope they chucked the stuff away afterwards.

Admittedly some of the recipes looked delicious in small quantities but AIBU in thinking a full Delia Christmas is a ticket for the morgue?

have to say i find delia an annoying dreary typical frumpy middle england old woman .... BUT annoyingly....HER RECIPES ACTUALLY WORK. hence i am a bit of slave to some of her recipes - the ones that you absolutely have to get right - christmas day with the mother in law and that sort of thing...

BUT she is about as "inspiring" as brick so i like to balance her out with healthy doses of both the nigels....stuff the midnight mass and mulled wine... i'd rather have champagne cocktails and haloumi cheese bites...

and actually, might set up a mums net poll. whose house would you rather chave hristmas lunch at? nigella, nigel,delia, and lets throw in jamie for good measure.

cant decided between nigella and nigel at the moment, myself.

I can see there are a lot of Delia fans on here, so will expect to be shouted at, but i find Delia incredibly irritating. Its the prissiness, that sort of grown-up-little-girlyness, I can't stand.

Plus she's obviously a competant business woman or she wouldn't be where she is. No need to come over all simpering and little womanish.

That said,the woman can't help her hands, but rings on while mixing is manky.

Don't mind Nigella, she looks like she could be a good laugh.

Definitely Nigella's house for me. To pinch the crockery and fairy lights.

I bet Delia never has the heating on.

Oh I would go round to Nigel's - I think he's lovely and love his recipes too. I bet he would be very funny and a bit risque.

I would like to go round Nigel's house, his would be very warm and welcoming. Plus think he would have a very wicked and dirty sense of humour, especially after his quite in Appetite when he says 'best way to eat a papaya is like you're...oh, better not'

I would like to go round Nigella's to (a) go for a rummage round her bedroom a la Come Dine With Me and (b) half inch some easily portable artwork.

At Delia's I would be given some vile Cranberry juice concoction and will knock it over all over her antimacassars.

If I was invited to Jamie and Jools Oliver's I would probably take some blue pop, Irn Bru flavoured sweets and popping candy and give it to the (helicopter reared) kids.

getorf i can see your point. nigella and saatchi would probably make me feel a tad inadequate.

If I had to pick, probably Nigella. She seems the easiest to get along with, as long as you keep the food coming. Nigel Slater is weird. Delia has constant cat's bum mouth, and Jamie Oliver is a bit too labradorish for my liking.

My Christmas day:
Delia's house for canapes/her sausage rolls and a drink late morning.
Nigel's house for the main meal and funny conversation.
Dessert with Nigella. I have a sweet tooth (that I have to control!), but would feel totally free of guilt if I were sitting at her table with her getting stuck in next to me.
Jamie would be good with the kids though - maybe round to theirs for Christmas tea (imaginatively made turkey sandwiches maybe) and childrens entertainment/game playing.

I'd go to Jamie's except I don't think I'd get on with Jools, from what I've read. Probably Nigella's crowd would be most interesting though judging by the recipes the food might be a bit hit and miss.

Can't we have a Hugh F-W option?

I'd invite Delia to mine, then sneak out and squat her house while she was standing on the doorstep wondering where I was.

And Delia would serve up everything in individual little (too little) pudding dishes, whereas Nigella would just chuck a hoooge bowl in the middle of the table and everyone would at it with a tablespoon.

I agree with Kathy I want a Hugh option please. Now there is a man who can cook.

Rick Stein for me.

I quite like that northern bloke who does puddings, whatsisname.

-good looking bloke with ability to cook
-yorkshire accent
-apple crumble

What more do you want?

Oh God yes Bucharest, its the teeny, tiny, weeny little girls fairy utensils and crockery, aaaaargh. I am not rational on this topic.

GetOrf, that guy makes me puke my skin off ever since fronting a show called 'Sweet Baby James' [bleurgh]

Oh yes. To James for "afters"

Sweet Baby James???

I'm with Cyteen on the puking at BabyJames and his faux Jamie-ness. (I mean, how lacking in own personality do you have to be to sort of ape Jamie's faux-ness)

Now, I like H F-W very much, but can't help feeling we'd all have to traipse out to some wood and catch our own dinner and skin it first. Then it would be cooked according to some 6th century monastery cookbook and it might be a bit icky. And you'd definitely find some of his head hairs in the soup.

Rick Stein would be nice (I fancy him in a weird old man kind of way) but he'd be showing us his man-bag and getting Veh Veh grumpy about the state of things in a harumpy voice and the dinner'd get burnt.

yes we can add in HFW and RC. and actually he would get my vote but i dont think i fancy drinking nettle (mud) champagne or whatever it was he would be serving.

now if james was at home warming the bed but i dont think he has quite reached the "iconic" level of the delia et all crew. and he must be poor, he's only done one book or something.

[vom] at the prospect of seeing Rick Stein's manbag.

Absolutely PSML at analysis of HFW and Rick Stein (especially hairs in HFW food, and as they are curly they would be particlularly pubesque), I was going to post this but thought it would Lower The Tone, and am glad that someone else has done it.

Lol also at Rick's Stein's man bag, yes he would rant on rather at the state of cornish fisheries today wouldn;t he. Plus wouldn;t really want gurnard and chanterelles (or whatever) for my Christmas dinner.