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?

I was wondering where we were supposed to cook the roast potatoes with the huge turkey taking up all the space in the oven....

I think the assumption is that you have ^two ovens, darling.

Actually, I think Nigella addresses this well, you cook your turkey, then take it out to rest for 30-40 mins or whatever, in that time your spuds can finish cooking (plus stuffing and anything else which needs to be in the oven).

Ah GetOrfMoiLand, that'll be the range oven or Aga that I'm supposed to have in my thatched cottage kitchen, entered through a door with a rustic (homemade) holly wreath using greenery from the extensive grounds.

I knew that I was going wrong somewhere !

Delia pointed out these are recipes for treats, ie not to have everyday.

There's nothing wrong with cream, and recently advice on eating eggs was changed; we're not eating enough, apparently. And, as long as the rings on her hands were clean, what's the problem?

I enjoyed the programme, and plan to have a go at a couple of things. (Not the turkey, we don't do turkey, we have a really good beef rib joint, yum.)

I have to agre with a few others on here, Delia's sausage fingers and prissiness (is that a word?) make me shudder, but I have never had a bad dish from one of her recipes. I think this is pretty impressive, given that I was bought it when I moved out of home at 17.

Can I go to Nigella's for Christmas, but invite Nigel along? Judging by their respective reciprocal comments on each others books, they get along very well

'it' is her complete cookery course btw

Did anyone else notice the comments about home cooking actually saving time in the supermarket ? I thought that was a bit odd. There are loads of reasons to cook things yourself, but I wouldn't have thought that that was one of them!

i really like delia don't be nasty to her she reminds me of my old food tech teacher

Delia doesn't appeal to me at all

I find her very dull and yet scary too, I'm never that relaxed around women who love footie

i am scared that if I cook like her I will turn into her...thus I prefer Nigella

If we're moaning about hygiene, I hate the way Nigella lets her hair hang down in her food and the constant licking of spoons and the heavily painted nails.

Really unhygienic!

acebaby yes i did about "saves you trapsing around the supermarkets!" do you not have to buy the ingredients? i still like her though

YABU and rude.

You could have turned the telly off...

See, the thing with most cookery programmes is
a) most viewers never make a thing or
b) make or two of the recipes for a special occassion.

My problem with Delia (I like her food) is her condescending attitude at times.

I was actually shouting at the telly last night when she was explaining what a panetonne is ffs. ANd marsala. Jesus, who doesn't know what a panetonne is nowadays? Particularly people who would be watching a cookery programme.

That should be 'make ONE or two'.
Ahem.

I don't know what a panetonne is, and I would consider myself reasonably cultured/educated !!

I didn't see the delia show.

However, there is no way that delia made fattier, gooier, slobberier recipes than nigella. Her recipes are generally foul. And delia wouldn't have been licking her fingers like a good 'un.

DElia's personality is not so pleasant. Possibly slightly madder than nige.

You don't know a panetonne? Don;t you pop into sainsbury's or m&s or John Lewis EVER at Christmas time? You cannot move for pannetones.

I was surprised that some of the instrumental music inbetween dishes was "This is the Day" by "The The" - she never struck me as an indie fan!

I flicked through nigella's christmas book the other evening (I was bought it last year) and once again I came across nothing that I wanted to cook.

LOL at nickytwotimes - dh and I were shouting ffs at the tv about the panettone and marsala too.

Anya, I shop in Lidls and they are stowed out with panetonnes at Christmas. And I live in the arse end of nowhere.

MrsJD - glad I was not alone then.

The only problem with all the TV chefs is that they seem to have as "standard" things I havent heard of, they never have to cook whilst cleaning up after the dog/children/animals and everything looks far too effortless! Who does their washing up? My 3 won't eat anything in a sauce, they like veggies plain and meat/fish simply cooked. My Xmas dinner will be a glorified roast and they will love it. Bring on the sprouts!

re the the. Some wiseacre is obviously trying to funk up the unfunkable delia.