Nigella Christmas - I can't buy a book with that title

[VintageGardenia]

What does it mean? Am I stifling my life through my own pedantry??

got the book recipes look good not tried yet

Nigella's cookery is grotesquely unhealthy IMO - and agree with Anna. I was watching her laughable and frankly insulting last show, in which she pretended to go on the bus like us peasants and was seen stirring industrial quantities of double cream and armsfuls of lard into everything while appearing to find it difficult to squeeze between the countertop and fridge. As for cooking meat in coca-cola, it's so Elvis it's not even funny. I used to like her, but thought she really blew it with that last series. God the scenes with her in her black satin dressing gown eating lard out of the fridge at dead of night (all faked) were grim.
And breathe!

Mabanana - don't knock ham in coca-cola till you've tried it. It is utterly delicious.

The episode was where she arrives home late after a party, having not eaten. And what does she whip up? A toastie? A bowl of soup?

No she gets out a pile of stale croissants (because WHO doesn't have loads going to waste), puts a pint of cream in a pan with a ton of sugar and butter and makes Croissant Bread N Butter Extrarich pudding, which she eats a huge bowl of at MIDNIGHT!

Even my greedy,sweetie-loving ds2 was going "Bleugh, that is disguusting, why would you eat that at night" I was going into a diabetic coma just thinking about it.

Her recipes hardly ever work! I suspect that this is because she tends to just chuck things in, which is fine when you are doing it yourself but I find that when you are following it as a recipe it's not so good.

I know that all chefs are smug (I think it is a job requirement) but she is far, far too smug for me.

agree with ladyGlencoraPalliser ham in coke delicious. Cooked many times always good

I have How to Eat and Feast and I find her recipes absolutely fine. I've never had one not 'work'.

I get heartburn and indigestion from her recipes .

Not all the recipes in Domestic Goddess work perfectly but no disasters with Nigella Express which I love and use loads. And it's far better to have little amounts of proper butter and cream etc rather than horrid processed stuff.

The River Cafe women are so precious. All that "you must have this single estate olive oil from the place where the Gumbies roam, for only £55,000 a litre" or you might as well eat kebab. Puts me off. And I love food & cooking.

Nah, River Café isn't at all precious - however, the recipes by their very nature are highly dependent on very good quality ingredients (unlike Nigella's which are so loaded with sugar and fat that you could put any crap in them).

Nigella was good in her How To Eat, Domestic Goddess and even Nigella Bites days. And Feast is good. It is when she tries to do populist she comes unstuck. Her recipes and her TV shtick just seem so forced and phony.

Blimey, Nigella is gorgeous imo and that of half the male population.

Did find the last series a bit much (don't pretend it's your house please) but I like How to Eat and on the whole, I like Nigella.

That croissant thing looked vile

River Cafe is all "First fly to Italy. Buy Italian 00 flour, Italian lemons and stir with an Italian spoon. You can use stuff from the supermarket if you are a total loser"

Was that not her house??

It is a set.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/nigella_lawson/article2340538.ece?token=null &offset=0

I do like Nigella in general, but I found the last series a bit daft. When she ate the noodles(? or was it soup?) on the bus - oh, purleese!

Love How to Eat though, & the recipes I've made from Feast have been lovely.

I wanted to pull the thread round to punctuation again but got too at this:

Nigella ... doesn?t even wear knickers. Really, never?

?I don?t need to because I always wear a long skirt,? she says, adjusting her black jersey Wallis ankle-length frock, one of five she wears in rotation.

Ew!
Does she not wear tights either? & if not, do her legs not get cold?

and what if she is having a heavy discharge day?

isn't she using her name as am adjective in the title? as in 'Have a Nigella Christmas!' ho ho ho

I like the new book and have made the roasted butternut squash soup, a variation of the chestnut soup and the white chocolate and cranberry cookies. The first two were dinners for us and the latter a treat to be rationed accordingly.

I like her recipes and her writing style.

I think when we see her dressed in a black satin robe dipping her fingers into whipped cream, or on the bus eating noodle soup we are meant to laugh. I don't think she takes herself at all seriously. I think she's intelligent and generous and who cares if her thighs aren't as slim as they might be.

Anna8888 Aren't butter, cream and sugar good quality ingredients?

Has she changed her name? Don't tell me she is actually 'Mother Christmas'.

Sugar is a rubbish ingredient and Nigella's recipes are far too fat laden - often with bad fats (Trex anyone? Goose fat?). Small quantities of good butter and olive oil and a little cream are good for us. But she puts far too much

I've never known Nigella list Trex (i think you are exagerating). Goose fat for roast potatoes - yes.