Just rewatching Nigella's Christmas cookery programme. She really is lovely in it

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She is charming.

Lovely recipes as well.

I remember reading an interview where Nigella was talking to Julie Burchill about Christmas, Julie had had lovely happy Christmases as a child so she didn't really give a monkeys, yet Nigella had a tense upbringing so as an adult wants all of Christmas to be perfect for her family.

Anyway in light of whAt has happened to her life this year watching the show is a bit bittersweet. I hope she has a happy time with her children this year.

Anyway I recommend the programme, and the Christmas book. It's NEARLY December after all!

Thanks so much GetOrf !

I am pleased she is lovely in real life.

Those eyebrows are rather splendid aren't they. I fear if I met her I would be struck dumb because she is rather grand.

Another (stupid) reason I like her so is because our daughters are the same age, and as she talks about her family so much in all her books they really have chimed with me personally - how to Eat had baby food, Feast children's suppers, Kitchen had teenage carb frenzies etc.

I always think her son looks like a little scamp. He is so cute.

Oh HRH I love her eyebrows! She's so beautiful. I have the same colouring as her but alas can't ever achieve her look

I do loads of her recipes at Christmas, her puddings, Rudolphs pie on Christmas eve, brandy butter and bread sauce. Love all her books. I hope this next year will be all she hopes for.

I love Nigella. I used to read her food articles in Vogue, and then when dc1 was a baby 'How to Eat' came out and it became my cookery bible. Still is really - the original and the best I think.

Dd is at home sick and yesterday we watched a load of old Nigella bites, never fails to cheer!

Given what has happened in the last 6 months, I don't imagine Christmas with Charles Saatchi was a bundle of laughs, so I hope she has a fabulous Christmas this year. Barbados cream is a highlight of Christmas for me, cheers Nigella

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Which book is the recipe with the norweigian cinnamon rolls?

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That's lovely, I just laughed out loud when you said you can imagine him laughing at all your decorations :)
Such a lovely way to Remember someone :)

Oh good lord I love Barbados cream, it was in how to eat. It is so easy and delicious.

I remember reading her roast potato method in a hairdresser vogue YEARS ago and have been faithful to it ever since.

She makes me laugh with her description on how to cut potatoes (along with fig.1) but she is so right.

Loads of her recipes I have cooked for years I have forgotten that they were original her recipes.

Steak and stout pie
Tunisian stew
Her puttanesca recipe
Mackerel pasta thing
Her carbonara (I used to make it with cheese sauce like a HEATHEN)

Some of them don't work very well (don't speak to me of lemon linguine) but the books are just so comforting to take go bed and read and reread.

It's impossible not to POKE the Barbados cream though when it's there I find.

Ah I don't have that one. right where's oxfam

She is fab. Hope she's happy now she's left that arsewipe.

Is the Christmas series quite an old one? Because a friend of mine worked (sound recordist) on an old Nigella Christmas episode years ago, and said it was hilarious because they were filming on a hot August day. He fancied N something rotten, and said she was funny and kind.

Is this a nigella quiche?

I think it is a good 5 years old perhaps.

I watched Rick Stein this week as well and he showed everyone that they were filming Christmas recipes in high summer, showed the production crew in shorts with suntans! So it's likely.

She is lovely.

Dd1 (9) avidly watched the Nigellisima series repeated recently, she drools over the puddings and quotes things at random. I'll be in the kitchen and hear a voice pipe up "Nigella says it's a good idea to..." and we're off.

Bloody fantastic she escaped that auld get.

Quiche is no good.

It's a Nigella tartlet.

And now I am laughing at the word tartlet like the stoned guy in Friends.

Where does she get her eyebrows done? They are exquisite!

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I like a nigella tartlet

I think she would too!

Vaishaly, in paddington st.

This was a few years ago now, so she may still get them done there.

HRH where does she get her eyebrows done?

I want Nigella eyebrows!

I fucking love her. On xmas eve i purposely do my hair in hot rollers and wear a dress and like to pretend i am her, all soft and bountiful to the kids and equally unstressed and flirty to guests.

Well it could be a quiche. A quiche positively oozing gorgeous cheese, beautiful pink ham coyly peeking through and wonderful tangy onions.

I do love her.