Well I have been working through a few Nigella Express recipes and frankly I am v. disappointed. It all seems like a waste of (rather expensive) ingredients.
It should really be called "Nigella Processed" because there is a bit too much reliance on crap which makes things taste nasty. Sprinkling chopped coriander on a MCDonald's Ready Meal does not actually make it a delicious home-cooked meal. Is the use of caramalised onions from a jar REALLY that much quicker than frying an onion?
You get the feeling that some of her recipes are things she made 4 years ago and she is guessing what she put into it. The Eton Mess seems to have double quantities of cream - and what's the fun of eating mouthfuls of CREAM? The cookies are incredibly dry and really should NOT be called cookies which I think need a little bit of chewiness - I have never made chocolate cookies before that no one wanted to eat! The lamb tangine was only nice because it had been cooked for 2 hours and the prawn and mango curry had too much red thai paste in it and was overpowering, she could have made something much nicer with just a few spices.
SO if it's on your christmas list, I'd take it off. Stick with Delia, who you know has made every recipe 100 times and when you've cooked one of her recipes you feel like a better person.
Mind you Nigella does LOOK a treat. I would happily go to her dinner parties just to stare at her.