New Nigella Programme

[diddlydo]

Any fans?

[Mamyalynne]

Marguerite Patten was a true stawart of home cooking.

[retrocop]

This was real cooking imo. Not knowing what would be available for the family's meals for the week. Not much of larder or store cupboard basics then.

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[bednobs]

I like all sorts of TV chefs recipes but mainly only one or two from each of them that ive seen on the TV, fancied and tried. And then cook again and again
Nigella - coffee ice cream, Cola baked ham
Ainsley - Lamb hot and sweet curry
Nadiya - that cake she did that is like a Baklava
Mary Berry - ginger cake
hairy bikers - Yorkshire pudding wraps
Rick stein, lamb Kosovo
Delia - Mushroom rissotto
gar Rhodes - sticky pork belly squares

[bednobs]

I have some marguerite patten books and everything sounds so horrib;e

[AuntPollyGrey]

Retro yes I have that book too and quite a few other cookery books that have recipes in by Marguerite Pattern. I cook every day, mostly from scratch , always with fresh ingredients and still use recipes that my nana used to make me. In fact, I've got a preserving book Mrs Beaton,circa 1911 and I make all my chutneys and condiments using her recipes. I have to use fractions of the ingredients as her recipe for Mango Chutney starts with 'Procure fifty ripe mangoes'!

[bednobs]

I am never very successful when I have to fraction recipes - I invariably forget to half something, and wonder why it's not set/froze/turned out as expected!

[pastafreak]

For me it's always been Nigel Slater. All his recipes are appealing, nothing fancy, lovely flavours, he's not afraid of cream...and his recipes WORK.

[retrocop]

Lol. Thats the problem with a lot of cookery programmes. Quantities given and availability of produce used. I recall Keith Floyd on his American tour cooking a Cajun prawn Jambalaya. ,'First of all catch your 50 gallon oil drum full of freshwater cray????'
The two fat ladies would mention recipes that ingredients were nigh on impossible to find or specialist butchers etc. I have only seen recently fresh horseradish root and it is mentioned so often in TV recipes. I am now 70 and the first I saw it was last year in a Turkish hypermarket round the corner. Likewise. I have actually found fresh Tumeric

[Mamyalynne]

Agree about Nigel Slater Pasta, lovely recipes and often so simple.

[agchristie]

APG,believe it or not I got an 'A' grade GCSE English. Me nanna referred to her pantry and the parlour!

She also showed me an old mangle.Never had a washer but a twin tub thing.The radio was always a wireless etc

Anyway,soz u think me humour is dated too.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Not only me agchristie, but carry on, its none of my business. Threads just get a bit tedious when they are sprinkled throughout with lines from a 1970 Carry on Film.

[Arksided]

No I missed it, but like Georgiesmum...

I see snippets of her cooking when I watch Gogglebox.

Their reaction has me laughing with them which wouldn't be my reaction watching her show, BTW I can't cook ;-)

[ichkeria]

Nigella Lawson is one of those people who makes me change channel quickly - in the other direction ...

[Patsy33]

Loved watching Nigel Slater, too. I found his cooking so homely and tasty.

[agchristie]

APG, ooooo matron!!

Theres plenty of things that irritate me like the constant slanging matches,dinosaurs,bigots and those who try and outdo each other with their ponciest meal descriptions but there we go.Each to their own.

You can just do the simple thing and ignore me but u cant seem to do it even tho u said u were going to.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I have to agree with you on the ponciest meal descriptions lol!

[Prudie]

Drat, I only put it on to watch Only Connect. I assumed it had finished the series not been moved to 7.30...I will know for next week.
Anyway 5 minutes of her waving her arms about from the armchair turning cooking into some deep meaningful route to Nirvana had me switching her off.

[agchristie]

Blimey APG,I made u laugh! ;-)

Glad someone agrees! We get a string of descriptions of stuff that I bet Nigella herself has never even heard of!

U never hear of bangers/mash,beans on toast and defo no pot noodles in sight ;-)