It's time for our final Christmas cookery webchat, and you won't be disappointed.... We're thrilled that the domestic goddess herself, Nigella Lawson is joining us at MNHQ for a live webchat on Tuesday 13th december at 1pm.
Just as Cranberry-Queen-Delia caused a shortage of fresh cranberries, 1996 saw the sales of goose fat rocket after it was championed by Nigella as the essential Christmas cooking ingredient. So if you want to know how to make the perfect roast potato or discover the secret to a succulent turkey, join us next Tuesday or send a question in advance to this thread.
Ahead of the webchat, we've been given permission to share Nigella's recipes for cranberry sauce and chestnut stuffing, both from her book Nigella Christmas which is now out in e-book format.
WEBCHAT GUIDELINES: 1. One question per member plus one follow-up. 2. Keep your question brief. 3. Don't moan if your question doesn't get answered. 4. Do be civil/polite. 5. If one topic or question threatens to overwhelm the webchat, MNHQ will usually ask for people to stop repeating the same question or point.
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Nigella Lawson - live webchat - Tuesday 13th December 1 - 2pm
RachelMumsnet · 07/12/2011 15:09
Wow, Nigella! Your larder is the larder of my dreams!
Quite a tricky question..
we are a foodie family and love to eat/cook good food... BUT... I'm veggie, dp doesn't eat fish and dds are allergic to milk, eggs, nuts and sesame.... I know, the nightmare guests! 
Can you suggest a fabulous family meal for us? Big, big thanks 
Please just tell Ms Lawson that she can do no wrong in my eyes (or DH's) - I would drink her bath water
'tis true 
Oh Nigella we just adore you in our house! 
My favourite recipe of yours comes from your express book- the Thai red curry with prawns and mango. I can't tell you how many times I've made it. We are having a few friends round on NYE and I plan on making a vat of the aforementioned curry and serving it with jasmin rice.
My question is, what pudding would accompany this well? It needs to be made ahead of time and suitable for 13 people, including children.
P.S. I am making your festive couscous for Christmas Eve- everyone who I've served it to loves it!
Hello Nigella. My mother's family are Jewish but in denial about this and slightly bonkers (My grandparents spoke Yiddish - my mother said "Oh I think everyone spoke it in those days." 
) Despite clearly not being Jewish, they have embraced Jewish cuisine, and as a child, we always had latkes and ponczki on Christmas Eve and were force fed Matzo at Easter. 
Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is if you have ever eaten Klops, and if so, were the Klops you ate like large meatballs, made with a mixture of veal and beef mince and lots of onions, or in meatloaf form and stuffed with hard boiled eggs? My mother maintains that the former are the true Jewish German version, and the latter a bastardized Polish offering from Chelm. But as she says she is not Jewish, how would she know?
Hi Nigella ,
I would like to make a Xmas Trifle this year. For all sorts of reasons ( I won t go into here ) it must be the best trifle anyone has ever tasted
Which book / recipe should I follow ?
Thank You in advance x 
Do you ever feel the need to make up that unmade bed?? If you get a new cleaner do they know it's a piece of art??
How do I get invited to one of your soirees that get filmed - this will make Slummy Mummy, Alpha Mummy and the rest of the mums very jealous 
??
Hi Nigella - I love you almost as much as the food you make/write about .
My question is: are you cooking Christmas Dinner yourself this year - and if so, what starter are you making? I'm looking for inspiration and I always find this the hardest course to decide upon, as everyone has different expectations, whereas turkey/goose for main and a selection of puds all satisfy.
Oh - and can I come to a get together at your house too? I'll bring 
??
Hi Nigella
As we're not Christian we're not fully doing Xmas this year have you got any reccomendations for an alternative dinner? I love the decedance of your dishes and your writing. Oh and how the hell do you eat all the amazing food and still stay slim? and if Tobagostreet gets to come to your get togther I demand an invite too I'll bring better wine than she will.
This has now reminded me that I haven't made this year's Chilli Jam (from your Christmas book, that and the Christmas Rocky Road are essential items in my house )
Have you thought about writing a children's cookery book, perhaps your children's favourite recipes from when they were young? Not so "worthy" as the cooking-for-children books often are, but enjoyable food for kids to eat that they can take a part in cooking as well?
I almost had a signed copy of your Domestic Goddess book once, DH was supposed to have ordered it via Waitrose when it came out. On Christmas Day I eagerly unwrapped it to find that he had forgotten all about it until way after the offer had sold out, so I have a copy with "Merry Christmas from Nigella Lawson" cut out ransom-note style, with your name cut out from a copy of the Sunday Times magazine where you wrote the column at the time. 11 years later he is almost forgiven... (Particularly since buying the Kitchen Aid and Magimix for me 
)
Oh my God!
Firstly, we are HUGE fans of you in our house. Your super juicy turkey recipe with the brine is now a standing tradition with my young family, who love getting involved by putting the ingredients in. I think it's so important to try and involve young boys in cooking, so thank you.
My question is, what would be your recommendation for a fail - safe family dinner on Christmas eve for a family of four (two are small people)? Many of the recipes in your Christmas book are either fairly rich and adult, or for parties of 6 or more.
Merry Christmas!
also dying to know if you are a mumsnetter...
Hi Nigella
Im doing a turkey crown rather than a whole turkry as there are only 4 adults and 2 littlies, can you still do brining of a brown or does it only work best for a whole bird?
Thank you
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oh gawd have just read more of the thread, I would like to apologise for the lack of fawning in my previous post and must add that clearly I would faint at your feet in an instant if I ever actually met you.
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