Nigella....at my table

There's a bit in the article about Nigella's kitchen being a set in a warehouse that says fans create the waving plants surrounding the table on her terrace (posh people don't say patio, do they?).

Silly me. I didn't for one moment consider the use of electric fans. I thought some daft people had queued up half the night for the privilege of crouching outside Nigella's kitchen and wiggling the bamboo at exactly the right moment.

BTW 'that' dressing gown is SOLD OUT

My husband wanted to watch Nigella (he NEVER cooks so I can't think why?) and I have to admit I quite enjoyed it because of the beautiful kitchen (!!) and the way she makes cooking seem desirable. I was even thinking about getting a dressing gown like hers to make me look a bit Nigella like - (some hopes! )But now I know it's all fake I'll stick to my old, baggy dressing gown and go back to watching the wonderful Mary Berry

Mary Berry slightly annoys me - I think she has started to become bossy.

On the other hand, I use Nigellisimo (??) quite a lot. I have serious kitchen envy (even if it isn't real!) and love the way her table looks - I'm too hide bound by being taught to lay a table by the miserable Miss Holmes when I was 11.

Thanks for the warning. I saw it in a magazine and thought about it for family visits but wondered whether it would differ much from roast chicken pieces and peas on the side. I now know that it will but dryer and nasty. I will stop thinking about it.

MawBroon I also made the chicken and pea traybake thinking it would be an easy win and it was not very tasty at all! It lacked "zing".

I roll into bed like that but it all stays in the bed when I roll out again! I don't really like Nigella but don't know why as she does some good food, she always has her face in the fridge eating in the middle of the night which I just couldn't do so maybe that's it

Her chicken thighs and frozen peas traybake sounded ideal for visiting DGCs as children can usually be relied on to eat a) chicken and b) peas. However I tried it out while we were at Paws blood test the other week and it was inedible.
Peas add nothing to the flavour of chicken, and despite the slug of vermouth, you cannot cook frozen peas uncovered for 45 minutes at a sufficient temperature to ensure the chicken is coked through, with the peas DRYING OUT.
Straight in the bin, not even via the dog.

Gillybob are you saying that you don't roll out of bed with the full make up and false eye lashes on? I'm shocked!

Well apparently the kitchen she cooks in and the stairs she was sitting on in her sexy dressing gown are situated in the middle of a warehouse/studio somewhere which kind of ruins the idea that she had just rolled out of bed complete with full makeup and false eyelashes

Mary Berry is the only tv cook that I bother to watch and I have a few of her recipe books too. Her recipes are straightforward, no fiddly ingredients to track down and, so far, I've had no disasters!
For some reason I can't fathom, Nigella irritates me.

Lol yes I do Alima, but I do agree with you that their are too many cooking programmes on now...All much the sameness, the hairy bikers and Rick stein also have new programmes and books out.....don't intend to buy any of those now though lol.....

Never watched her. Do you like cooking Shirley?