Nigella

No!! Step back from the frozen cherries. They're mine. All mine. Such a bargain treat and so delicious. You can eat banana skins instead...

i'm starting to go off many tv cooking programmes. plus magazines and books. including Nigella.
There seems to be a trend to use a long list of ingredients, mostly spices and herbs. sometimes bottled sauces. Which means we need to have a huge stock of fancy bits and pieces.
Apart from not always being able to find them in the shops, my view is if you have good fresh basic proteins and veg. you shouldn't need all those extras.

I take it Nigella is just the latest woman on the GN list of women who dont meet your standards?

You're wrong if that comment was coming my way.

petra

Annsixty
Makeup and low lighting. The good hair helps as well ?

I saw her live show three years ago. Believe me there is no fancy lighting in Ely Cathedral.

She looked lovely. Her hair was a lighter shade than it appears on the TV and her make up had a natural look.

I don't think the stripey top she wore last night did her any favours though.

I take it Nigella is just the latest woman on the GN list of women who dont meet your standards

That's an unfair comment Paddyann. No one, that I can see, has said that Nigella doesn't meet standards. Personally, I don't like her recipes. Jamie Oliver, Heston Blumenthal, Delia Smith, Mary Berry, Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall and Lorraine Pascal all manage to cook well and present their recipes without gurning, flirting and simpering to the cameras.

I take it Nigella is just the latest woman on the GN list of women who dont meet your standards? The Meghan Markel or Katie Price of the cookery world .Dont like her? Dont watch her ...simple.

I like her, paddyanne but you have to admit this series is a little on the bonkers side.

Hands up.....Who has a Danish dough whisk?

I used to make Cherries Jubilee back in the 80s. We had it ladled, warm, over ice cream. It is delicious and it has spurred me on to make it again. The bread looked nice but I thought the chicken sandwich looked disgusting. I hate gherkins which doesn't help.

Annsixty
Makeup and low lighting. The good hair helps as well ?

Agree Hetty58.

For probably the first time I was really irritated by her last night.
All that flirting and posing.

I thought the sandwich looked awful and how she got her mouth round it I really don’t know, I thought she turned away from the camera because she really looked uncomfortable getting it all in.

However, she mostly annoyed me because how can anyone be sixty and look that good?

paddyanne, 'no worse tha most TV chefs/cooks' (sic) - really?
Her 'flirty' behaviour is bordering on the pornographic at times!

She's no worse tha most TV chefs/cooks.Jamie Oliver does things he calls simple.my young friend found one of his recipes needed over 25 ingredients..apparently all things we should have in our storecupboards.She called me to see if I had some of them as I cook a lot but I didn't hav ehalf of them and hadn't even heard of some of them.Then theres Blumenthal....I could write a book about his nonsense...a chicken that takes 3 DAYS to cook ,he says its the best chicken you'll ever taste ..I'll take his word for it .
Portions you can change to suit yourself so Nigella's massive sandwich may not be for you but there will be millions who would love it .
I take it Nigella is just the latest woman on the GN list of women who dont meet your standards? The Meghan Markel or Katie Price of the cookery world .Dont like her? Dont watch her ...simple.

I would never be able to eat a sandwich that huge. I think it would be nice without the bread though.

No, I find her irritating and too many carbohydrates in her food.

That chicken sandwich for lunch took sooo long to prepare and make I wouldn't have it ready until supper time!

No, I'm not keen on her recipes but apparently fish fingers were in short supply after her fish finger curry last week.