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Nigel Slater's simple slappers

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LetThereBeRock · 06/07/2010 22:18

Has anyone tried any of the recipes/ideas from this programme/dvd?

If so would you recommend them?

I'm considering buying the dvd,as I don't believe it's available in book form yet.

TIA

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LowLevelWhinging · 06/07/2010 22:20
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Curiousmama · 06/07/2010 22:21

Goodness Nige has gone down in my book

He's great can recommend him but not in that way

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LetThereBeRock · 06/07/2010 22:22

Suppers sorry.

I was just reading an article about 'Happy slappers while watching/listening to Simple Suppers' and got a little confused. I've an excuse. I'm dyspraxic. I do this a lot.

Anyway I'd be very interested in hearing reviews of recipes from Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers.

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taffetacatski · 07/07/2010 11:40

have done his butternut squash one - its gorrrrrgeous

am going to do the french beans with taleggio and ham as soon as my beans are ripe

Nige is a culinary ledge. I have Kitchen Diaries and Appetite and every single recipe I have done from both books has been marvellous. His brownies are the best on the planet.

As much as I lurve Nige, I prefer him in book form.

Oblomov · 07/07/2010 11:52

curious ?
i like him. he's so non twaty, non fancy nonsense. is he single. when he describes coming home and having sausage sandwiches /getting up in the middle of the night and having something rich carb filled, no nonsense. etc etc, i always think he is.

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LetThereBeRock · 07/07/2010 12:13

I was thinking of making the beans with ham and taleggio today as a side dish,though probably with Camembert if I can't find taleggio.

The sausage and mustard pasta sounds good too.

I love his recipe ideas but he can be rather annoying. He seems to talk almost entirely in double entendres like Nigella and some of his expressions are OTT.

I'll have to get some of his books. I've been looking for a new recipe book.

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Curiousmama · 07/07/2010 12:44

Oblomov is he straight? Either way I bet he makes a lovely midnight snack. He gets so excited over his suppers.

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LetThereBeRock · 07/07/2010 12:50

He's most definitely gay.

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Iklboo · 07/07/2010 12:51

Don't you think he'd be the BEST mate to go and see after a shitty day at work/row with DH? Just turn up on his door with a bottle of vino and ask him rustle you up something yummy.....

TheMoonOnAStick · 07/07/2010 12:57

Is that his own kitchen on the tv show? I love it. It's everything mine isn't. Uncluttered. Calm. Clear space.

Then again Sophie Dahl's kitchen wasn't hers so it might not be.

I like Nigel Slater. He has an interesting way of pausing, then saying something then pausing again..I sort of wait for it now.

Oblomov · 07/07/2010 13:47

i like him coz e eats sausages and pasta. and not alot else. posh nosh non twaty. with all the things that a normal person like me actually has in their fridge.
so he is gay ?

aquavit · 07/07/2010 13:54

probably gay

is notoriously private about relationships despite discussion of sexuality etc in the books

has very openly said (albeit some years ago) that he would hate to live with a partner

I believe he lives in a ridiculously lovely house near Marylebone High St

I appear to be a bit stalky when it comes to Nigel Slater...!

aquavit · 07/07/2010 13:56

oh god sorry OP, really meant not just to hijack but to also say that I think the simple supper recipes are great (much like the 'fast' ones he published some years ago)

can use them for inspiration as well as following to the letter

kreecherlivesupstairs · 07/07/2010 14:12

OOOH, I love him. His book Toast is fantastically written, moving and funny. I think he is gay but I'd still snog him. His 30 minutes book is brilliant and i am hoping to unearth it when we move.

Doyouthinktheysaurus · 07/07/2010 14:16

All his books are fab. The 30 minute ones, Appetite and Kitchen Diaries are my all-time favourite cookbooks.

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LetThereBeRock · 07/07/2010 14:24

No problem.Hijack away.

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LetThereBeRock · 07/07/2010 14:25

Well personally I don't tend to keep cheese rinds in my fridge.

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aquavit · 07/07/2010 14:35

DH just made me throw out some of the parmesan rinds I had been saving for minestrone (no doubt on Nigel's instruction)

some of them were about 3 years old

apparently I don't make minestrone as often as I buy parmesan

MoonFaceMama · 07/07/2010 14:35

I keep cheese rinds.

Sorry to jump in late but here's another vote that he's gay.

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LetThereBeRock · 07/07/2010 14:36

For what purpose?

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LetThereBeRock · 07/07/2010 14:36

Two of you do it now. You're a weird lot.

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aquavit · 07/07/2010 14:40

If you put them in minestrone as it's cooking, they 1. flavour it deliciously and 2. go all scrummily gooey so when you take them out to serve it you can gnaw on them like a beast

Oblomov · 07/07/2010 14:41

you keep cheese rinds ?
ha ha. what you kept them before ? and THEN read that he suggetsed putting them in your minestrone ?
ohhh i knew there was a reaon i was keeping those cheese rinds. i keep meaning to keep stale bread, but never actually manage it. i can't even remmeber what i was supposed to be keeping stale bread for now. but it seemed like a good idea. oh yes, now i remember , for barefoot contessa. to make a topping to go on scallops in pernod. thats the one.
funny.

taffetacatski · 07/07/2010 14:47

Nige is far too special, and proper, to discuss his sexuality but I'd eat my cheese rinds if he was straight.

It is his kitchen. His taste is divine.

aquavit · 07/07/2010 14:52

I knew why I was keeping them, Oblomov, I just seemed to accumulate more than I ever used (hence necessity of purge)