nigella christmas

vixtress

i quite agree.

since we dont have lots of family or visitors over xmas i manage with doing just a special roast (sirloin beef, and extras i wouldnt normally do ie the stuffing) on xmas day.

other than maybe a few bits of nice cheese (and maybe some gin )i really dont buy any extra stuff. it amazes me the expense and excess some people go to over the week.

the kids are just thrilled that they get to eat a couple of chocolate coins before breakfast

jordylass

I got this as an early Christmas present. I already have Feast, but like this Christmassy book and unlike Jamie Oliver Nigella's recipes never let me down. The day I opened it I made the butternut and sweet potato soup, I had blue cheese so made the cream as well. The soup was way too sweet for my palate and I will stick to my Covent Garden recipe for that in future, but what I will do is roast the squash and potato and blend with their skins still on ala Nigella.
I've made the cranberry sauce which I made the last 2 years from the feast book, but this year I picked up Cherry Brandy from Lidl and a small bottle of Marsala which was £4.59 luckily there's not much used in the recipes and I figure the cherry brandy will last for years.

FairyElephant_2

Sorry but I really can't stand the woman! Her recipes may be lovely, but she irritates me so much that I couldn't bear to read her books!

I'll stick to Prue Leith's Cookery Bible....I have loads of cookery books, but hers is the one I refer to most often, and I have bought this for several friends who all really liked it too! It is a classic.

Each to their own though, so enjoy Nigella if she is your cup of tea!

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she is my dh`s cup of tea!!!! he makes a point of watching her cookery programmes. I like her actually, although her food is rather gluttonous. I am hoping that someone has bought me the book for christmas

richardw

Her recipes do work with cheaper substitutes, chicken instead of poussin for example.
Wouldn't surprise me if she is working on a value for money/ frugal food book, but this wouldn't perhaps make such good telly.

blueberrypie

competitionscafe wrote: »

Depressingly the biggest selling cookbook of 2008 is still Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/3834747/Jamie-Oliver-outsells-Nigella-Lawson-in-Christmas-book-wars.html

I had a look at it in a shop, but it seemed to be all "buy ready-made salad and pre-cut veg" and "use a packet sauce rather than make your own" - do we really need anyone to tell us we could do that?!

Sarahsaver

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r9z5AFQx3Ng
merry christmas!!!

thriftlady_2

Sarahsaver wrote: »

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r9z5AFQx3Ng
merry christmas!!!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: It's made me feel a bit _pale_ though. Oh well, I'd better get on with my stuffing:D

Sarahsaver

thriftlady wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: It's made me feel a bit _pale_ though. Oh well, I'd better get on with my stuffing

fnarr fnarr:rotfl:

Sarahsaver

even when not so edited it creases me up how she festoons things with glistening this that and the other, i'm sure she could make beans on toast sound indulgent