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!

Oh - and if Nigella needs somewhere to escape the papparazzi, she is more than welcome chez EvilWolef - we live in a quiet village, and she can escape here any time she wants!

I can actually get quite wistful looking through How to Eat - it reminds me of ds being a baby and me trying to be a grown up. Nigella was like the wise older sister I never had.

I love her.

SDT that's so kind of you to invite nigella for Christmas. But I think she will want to stay at home so I reckon we should all go round to hers for our dinner.

Just imagine supper round at Nigella's. Lovely food and wine with lots of laughter!!
My 'How to eat' book is falling apart but I don't want to get a new one as every food smeared page has lots of memories.

So glad to find this thread! I love Nigella. How to Eat was the first cookbook I ever bought, I was in my early twenties and feeling very grown up about my first flat with my boyfriend (now DH) and determined to have many sophisticated dinner parties.

She is beautiful and gracious. Her books read like they are an old friend chatting to you and her Christmas programme is, for me, required festive comfort viewing. Also her chocolate brownies are The Best.

You are so right, gaggiagirl - it is our duty to go round and cheer her up. Can I sit at the back of the bus with the bad girls, please? I never got to sit here when I was at school - I was too boringly good!

How To Eat is one of my favourite cookbooks, actually one of my favourite books altogether. It's such a good read.

I love the Christmas one too (and Delia's Christmas one). I really want that Christmas china...

Couldn't care less if she took drugs

#teamnigella

Loving the Nigella vibe here, can I tempt you across to the Cookery Book Club in Food/Recipes we're doing Nigella's Christmas book for December, the more the merrier.

I agree she's fab, love her cooking, wish I had her figure and don't give a fuck if she does coke or not, though it puts a whole different spin on the ham in coke recipe

Off to check out the clementine cake now.

the How To Eat one is my cooking BIBLE

(my mum's was the Pears Cookery Encyclopedia. You can tell the Bible ones as the pages are always stuck together with custard)

I love Nigella because 1: utterly lovely and 2: gluten free lemon polenta cake.

She rescued my first ever coeliac Christmas

thank you, Nigella. I never say awesome, but you're awesome

I am going to have to go and buy How to Eat aren't I?

Oh come on guys I can't possibly buy any more cook books can I?

JulesJules- I covet Nigella's Devon Stockholm China collection, and Delia's old fashioned vintage baubles. The pair of them have been feeding my ebay fetish for years.....

My favourite Nigella book is Nigella Bites. I adore the pancetta spaghetti recipe, it's my favourite lazy dinner. DS loves the mozzarella in carozza recipe. Also I love the trashy section, I keep meaning to make the Elvis fried sandwich!

I am sitting on the sofa rereading the introduction to the Christmas book.

Heaven.

How to Eat is my other Desert Island Discs book.

Nigella has inspired me for some years and whatever is going on will not take away the brilliance of her Christmas gingerbread and mellow meatballs. (To mention just a couple out of hundreds!). I've also loved her style ( though worried about her teeth in those midnight fridge raids! ).She will prob have to try and see the funny side of the iconic ham in coke jokes though!

Lol at ham in coke. I do hope she will be able to laugh about it one day (long in the future).

I also love the beautiful crown stockholm china. And her barbie does bollywood colour scheme.

How to Eat is so marvellous. My copy is a mess, full of flour and splashes.

I agree that reading the baby bit is so evocative.

Did people see the 'Ham in cock' thread on here a couple of days ago? The OP was worried because it had come out such a strange colour - and it transpired that the previous time she'd done it, she hadn't taken the ham out of its plastic wrappings before cooking it - so of course it hadn't coloured at all, or absorbed any of the flavour from the coke. This time she had taken the wrapping off, so of course, it had coloured in the coke.

Of course, the typo was the star of the thread!

Panzah - I hope you love the clementine cake as much as I do, and Giles - there is a very simple, mathematical formula to allow you to work out how many cook books you need - and it is just one more! Dh applies this to bikes in our house too - so we have almost twice as many bikes as there are people in the family (and I don't ride a bike at all) - and so I see no reason for you to feel guilty about one, tiny little cook book!

Really like her and am sad all this is happening in her life. Don't have her book but she's very good at what she does.

I'm on Team Nigella!

She has a recipe, but I can't remember which one, which starts "Before you even take off your coat....." and I love that. That is the way life is for working parents (and possibly SAHP, as well, but I've never been one).

I don't love every recipe in her books, just most of them.

Can I say, if you can't eat eggs, the clementine cake still works really well. Whisk up 6 eggs worth of Orgran egg replacer with the sugar, until its frothy, then add the clementine (or orange or lemon) goo, and almonds and baking powder.

This makes an egg, dairy and gluten free cake which is fabulous!

for Nigella, if you're reading by any chance.

Her amazing tip for making loads of Marmite sandwiches- beat the butter and marmite together until you have a 'buff coloured cream'. That tip alone is worth the price of 'How To Eat' in its sheer brilliance.

Also rofl at Ham in Coke I'm sticking with her too. Anyway this might all be a figment of her ex's imagination.

I love Nigella, agree that watching her show is very cheering and comforting, also hilarious with her seductive licking spoons etc! When I have my own place I plan to sashay in a satin robe to my kitchen in order to devour leftovers by the light of the fridge.

Oooh a Nigella Tartlet! My spiritual home!

I have the summer book, Feast and Kitchen. They are such gorgeous books. I have celebrity status with all the children, teenagers and chocolate lovers I know because of the chocolate brownies from Feast that I make. They are sensational!

Oh and her potato dauphinoise with grated nutmeg on top makes any old meal spectacular.

I feel so happy when I watch her on TV. She has a talent for making viewers feel like they are in her confidences!

I wonder where she buys her clothes from?

She had some very chic outfits on in nigellisima.

SDT I'm keeping the back of the festive tour bus warm for you.

Hokey pokey will be served in lovely tins and pink tissue.