What are your favourite Nigel Slater recipes?

[taffetacatski]

My culinary hero is being discussed on a couple of other threads and a few of his divine recipes have been mentioned.

The standout ones for me that I make regularly are:

• Brownies
• Lemon rosewater and pistachio cake
• Onion and taleggio tart
• Spicy pork meatballs

What are your favourites?

I don't really use his recipes, although I have a couple of his books. I just find that he is too centred around meat, fish and salad when what I mostly need is veggie main meals.

Lemon, rosewater and pistachio cake sounds lovely though.

janeite - don't know the etiquette of this given I started the thread about Nige, but

do you have Sarah Raven's Garden cookbook? It is brilliant for veg main meals

Ooh no. I always have room for new cookbooks in my life! Thank you.

janeite - have you seen Plenty by Ottolenghi, very interesting veggie stuff. Also not Nige but is in the Guardian

None. He's a wanky ponce.

with horrible hair

Fatty pork and lentils (from Appetite I think)

Love his books but can't be doing with him on the telly

I love looking at his books but so many of his recipes have lots of butter or dairy and I try hard to do main meals without dairy as little DD is allergic.

Just had some yummy moroccan chicken and I make his coffee and wlanut cake all the time = never fails to rise or please

We make his sausage pasta with mustard sauce from his speedy suppers programme.

The sausage pasta
easy chicken supper
and the fatty pork with lentils although I just use sausages instead of the pork

have a few of his books but don't use much as not the healthiest way of cooking.

Tender - his veg one has loads of healthy recipes in, and Kitchen Diaries has a really good mix.

champagnesupernova - where is the moroccan chicken from?

Buda - what is the easy chicken supper?

Easy Thai green curry

easy roast chicken = chicken pieces thrown in the oven with olive oil, lemon, basil

taffetacatski - It's actually called A Really Good Simple Chicken Supper and is from Real Food. Basically chicken pieces fried for ages in lots of butter! Had it when we were staying with some friends once and DH ordered 3 Nigel Slater cookbooks the following day! We make it often. Well DH does. Very yummy. DS loves it.

I am a huge fan of Real Fast Food, his first book, which is all stuff you can genuinely cook in under half an hour and has a list of 'good things to put in an omelette' and a section on tinned fish as well as more standard recipes. Before he got a little bit too lifestyle for me "so I picked some fresh peas from the garden and sat shelling them in the evening sun..."

Oh, and Toast, his autobiography, is a good read.

I love the "really good simple chicken supper" too. Also the lamb shanks with aubergine (which makes a brilliant side dish if you do it without the lamb. Often a side to, erm, roast lamb.)