Nigella....at my table

Met Nigella at a book signing a couple of years ago here in Tasmania.

She is tiny with a complexion like porcelain.

I thanked her for the pleasure her programmes had given me over the years and was not expecting her to say anything much in reply, but to my surprise she looked up at me and said "what a lovely thing to say"

I will always remember this and still watch repeats of her shows. I think she is lovely and she is very intelligent as well.

Only people i like is adele and kate in the fakeaway factory actually film videos in house just in normal clothes just aprons no hats no pro hair and makeup just like a normal same gender couple.

I like frozen peas too gillybob ( not a whole helping at once, just a few from the packet when I'm cooking some!)

Merlotgran, the carrot cake caught my eye too. I like that it's a single layer of both cake and icing. Well, my hips do!

Here's recipe. I rather liked it....

You can find episode 1 on BBC iPlayer, gilly but I warn you the peas do have a rather overcooked taste and texture.

#puttingitmildly#

Any idea where I might find that recipe merlot ?

I absolutely love Pea soup ( with a touch of mint ) yummy !

I might try the carrot cake that was featured last night with GF flour. It didn't look too sickly sweet.

You'd love this recipe then, gilly. We had pea soup yesterday.

takes all sorts gillybob!

I absolutely love peas and could quite happily eat them every day. One of my guilty secrets is that I eat frozen peas straight from the packet and let them defrost in my mouth .

There are a lot of peas there Jalima! That should give you your 5 a day for a week!

it doesn't look very appetitising, like sand islands in a choppy green sea, or some kind of creatures stranded in a green field
(is she running out of ideas?)

I will try to find the pea and chicken recipe, must have a look at the picture!!

put cloves into diamonds on a piece of glazed gammon I did that one year, put it back into the oven and forgot it so the 'diamonds' were more like 'black diamonds' by the time I remembered it.

I have also made Delia's Christmas cake using her recipe and also from a box containing most of the ingredients, so no weighing or wasting most of a tin of treacle.
It's quite good but I like Tamasin Day-Lewis's recipe best (it could be borrowed from Jane or Sophie Grigson).

I keep forgetting that she'd been married to John Diamond.

Why won't the photo upload?

We tried the chicken and pea traybake yesterday and I don't think I would ever serve it to family or friends unless we'd all been down the pub and fancied a pea eating competition. Why on earth would anyone want to eat all those peas in one meal?

I halved the quantities as there were only two of us but still had loads of peas left over. The chicken was tasty though.

I reduced the cooking time a little as we had half the amount of chicken thighs. They look a little pale in the photo because the sun was streaming through the kitchen window. They WERE cooked.

Sorry, Nigella. I won't be doing this one again.

I find Nigella's posturing quite entertaining and enjoy it even though I feel cynical about all the artificial posing. It's quite amusing. And I did try the chicken and frozen peas recipe and it was o.k. I had to adapt it as I had no leeks so used an onion, and no vermouth so used stock. And I cooked it for one hour and 10 minutes. It was o.k., not exciting, but edible. I probably would not cook it again.
But, hey ho, I love cookery programmes.

Yes I enjoyed watching Delia - especially her Christmas programmes. I never made my own mincemeat, put cloves into diamonds on a piece of glazed gammon or baked and iced a beautiful Christmas cake but it felt Christmassy to watch her do it!

basically just an avo sanger (toast the bread, that's the hard part)

Delia's recipes work!!

I must say that I did try Nigella's avocado on toast. A very, very difficult recipe to accomplish unless you are a trained chef and the kitchen was in chaos afterwards - I needed to call in all the staff to clear it up for me.

The woman pretends to have a 'chilli cupboard' that she says she 'loves' tidying, and in one episode said the best way to cut a sandwich was straight across with a knife- gods preserve us !!!

Come back Delia!

Oh come on you don't really think she is enjoying the food do you? She doesn't eat it really. She doesn't cook it either, or do the clearing up. There's an army of assistants who do the work. She's just posing and pouting. It's not just the kitchen that's a fake.