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Nigella the Domestic Goddess!!!!

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Tigger2 · 11/02/2002 16:00

Well, having watched Nigella on UK Style and read her books as well, the woman is a God send!

Here goes and this is a recipe I made up for myself based on Nigellas marinading in the bag.

4 Lamb Leg Steak
4 Tablespoons Garlic Infused Olive Oil
1 Onion
2 Carrots cut into batons
Brocolli (as much as you want to us)
2 Tomatoes quartered
1 yellow pepper
Pinch of salt and pepper

Put everything into a food bag that seals shut, and put in fridge it tastes better if done the day before, but is ok if done in morning.

Empty the contents of the bag into a frying pan or wok and cook until the lamb is starting to colour on both sides. remove lamb and put in an oven proof dish and cook in hot oven for 15 minutes until the veggies etc are cooked in the frying pan/wok.

Serve with boiled or mashed tatties, and of course large glass of red wine!! it must be good even the kids ate it!!.

An alternative for vegetarians is to add the tatties instead of meat and any other vegetable of their choice.

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hoxtonchick · 23/10/2003 23:06

i will be back with many questions for you, ks, when i get round to making cakes. you never know, i might discover a new skill. or just get very fat eating the failed attempts.

ks · 23/10/2003 23:11

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Demented · 23/10/2003 23:33

I have a theory that the effort required in the kitchen to bake a cake is almost equal to the calories consumed whilst eating it (a slice or an fairy cake/muffin type thing I suppose not an entire Chocolate Fudge Cake). I would imagine there are huge gaping holes in the above theory but it makes me feel better anyway!

I like the whole all in one business, I'm lazy too!

vivat · 24/10/2003 11:51

Thanks everyone that's really helpful - i'll report back on how i get on.....

Really silly question though - i've got a Magimix, will this work in the same way as a Kitchen Aid (can you tell i'm a complete novice?)

Demented · 24/10/2003 22:03

vivat, Nigella does have cake recipes that she makes in the Magimix so I don't imagine it would do any harm to use it but personally I would take her advice to use a hand-held mixer if you have one of these.

Hope it works out OK!

vivat · 28/10/2003 13:12

Made it ! Went well and tasted ok apart from the fact that i forgot to take the greaseproof paper off the bottom of both cakes before i iced it - whoops. Think i'm going to go for the easier birthday cake in How to Eat though

Thanks for all your help

motherinferior · 02/11/2003 14:15

I just made (with dd1's 'help' the HWE choc cake. Unimaginably wonderful. (Iced with fudgy icing from a different recipe, but equally easy - chocolate, butter and golden syrup!)

Must must MUST stop resenting Nigella for being gorgeous and sought-after and able to stuff herself on gorgeous food.

ks · 02/11/2003 14:18

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ks · 19/11/2003 12:33

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Blu · 19/11/2003 12:37

She's cooking a lunch for George, Tony and Liz!
(Hope it isn't something she has defrosted from her freezer...it could be that frozen blood sculpture she had in there....)

ks · 19/11/2003 12:38

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ks · 19/11/2003 12:39

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maomao · 19/11/2003 12:40

okay, please forgive my ignorance, all.... but what is Clementine cake? Could you describe it for me, ks? (So I can live vicariously!)

ks · 19/11/2003 12:46

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maomao · 19/11/2003 12:48

Thanks, ks!

suzywong · 19/11/2003 12:54

Haven't read the whole thread but I would like to know if anyone else feels the same way .... although I love Nigella and her voluptuos decadence, I was a little distressed to see her somerthing a side of pork with marinade whilst wearing a turquoise silk dressing-gown.

I can't even boil pasta with out spillage on my t-shirt and a I used to be a professional cook! It's the idea that she has magic ktichen fairies to clean everything up that I find irritating.

Must say that her chocolate brownie recipe is the best in the world.

Blu · 19/11/2003 13:01

KS: She IS! I saw it in the itinerary listed in the Guardian, yesterday, I think! Tony has to call in the daughters/wives of old tories to cook for George...perhaps she was the only person he could trust not to poison them! Or her PR people just got in there fast!

Sid · 19/11/2003 13:08

You're right about the chocolate brownies, suzywong, BUT I find you have to bake them for about twice as long as she says. And that's the problem with a lot of her recipes - you can't rely on them 100% (at the risk of sounding as if I am up my own b...side.)

motherinferior · 19/11/2003 13:09

Hurrah! A legitimate reason to dislike her apart from utter utter envy!

Actually Nigella was a couple of years above me at university and famous for...having a really big bum (well, the version I heard was 'broad hips'.

Also I envied her snaffling John Diamond as I had a bit of a weakness for him.

oliveoil · 19/11/2003 13:11

She looked v foxy in the Times at the w/end.

ks · 19/11/2003 13:25

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bettys · 19/11/2003 13:27

Well spotted ks, the Clementine cake IS a reworking of an older Claudia Roden cake!

suzywong · 19/11/2003 13:29

KS very funny!
on the ingredient front .. keep off anything she does with rhubarb. She was going through a fad and wasn't herself.
OK, lunch wolfed down both sons awake from nap so back to real world for me.

ks · 19/11/2003 13:29

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maomao · 19/11/2003 13:30

LOL ks!

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