Nigella's new book is out on Thursday.

[MrsMuddle]

Whoopee!

Is that what the new TV series is based on?

I have never appreciated her cook books. Urrghhh

Not my cup of tea neither.

I got one of her books a few years back and it never inspired me enough to make a single thing from it.

I got How to Eat and have made lots of recipes from it and they were, indeed, all lovely. Unfortunately I can't bear the way it's written. It's all kind of 'you should all be living like me because I'm so wonderful.'

I think the way it is written is what put me off tbh

I love reading them, but I rarely cook from them. I keep Feast beside my bed, and dip in and out. I have more cook books than you could shake a stick at, but we still end up eating spag bol or roast chicken most nights!

I'm the same as Mrs Muggle - read them a lot but don't cook much from them. It doesn't help that she is such a raging carnivore. Chocolate Guinness Cake (Feast) and baked plums (HTE) are both amazing though. How does the new one sound?

Oh lovely, will have to get that. I love her recipes, and about half of them work really really well IMO. The other half can be a bit hit and miss - I would never cook one of her recipes for the first time for anyone other than DH and myself, put it that way.

Its funny reading the posts before, because I used to buy lots of Nigel Slater and Jamie Oliver cookbooks and never cook a thing from them, but I have always cooked from Nigella's books