Nigel Slater's Dish of the Day

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I have been watching the show and it is seriously good. The best on the TV at the moment, without a doubt.
Not only because he makes REAL easy cooking programmes (not like Jamie where 15 mins is only for cooking the meat, but the preparing, chopping, sifting, draining... and the amount of washing after!! takes extra couple hours:-)), but also because I find the graphics and the ideas in this show amazing!!

cyclingyorkie

JackieO wrote: »

I agree I too watched his programme last night and the lemon cake looked gorgeous,not too sure about thyme in it though.I have read his autobiography and its a jolly good book he comes across as a very nice unassuming chap who would indeed sit down for tea,sympathy and cake with.His personality is just so gentle that I could happily sit and watch his programmes all day.no swearing or jumping around just a complete love of what he does and it comes over when you watch the man at his craft.One of the few really excellant food programmes on t.v.

I made the lemon cake (without the thyme) for DD1's birthday on Saturday - it was fab - eveyone loved it - esp warm with some good vanilla icecream...

JKJ

dronid wrote: »

It's nice (and oddly quite rare) to find a TV cook who bats for my team without it dominating his performance. He's got a good turn of cookery and phrasing. I always think of him as the cookery version of Alan Bennett.

How peculiar - I often muddle Nigel Slater with Alan Bennett. Mind you I could spend a very happy evening eating a Nigel Slater meal while I listened to Alan Bennett's Talking Heads!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

hilstep2000 wrote: »

Hobsons Choice It was leftover ground coffee. You have to freeze it for 3 hours, stirring every hour. Easiest ice cream I've ever seen!

Pretty much large chain pub kitchen fare, then. They'd stick the custard in the ice cream machine, though. Add a squirt of chocolate sauce and some dried up cake and you have a fudge brownie. Add Tia Maria to the stale cake and cream and you get gastro pub 'tiramasu'.


I'm sorry, the quasi-pornographic wibble he and a couple of other people indulge in isn't my thing. Although he is obviously better at writing it than the women who came up with the Fifty Shades Of Sh!te. Just get to the damn point. But they don't, no quantities mentioned, because they have a book to sell with the actual measurements in.




Saw the Jamie Oliver 15 minute ones yesterday. The recipes sounded a bit more appealing in places than last time around. But they are still so expensive even before you allow for the electrical equipment for every single meal.

Mind you, after the length of time he fried the cheesy fish, he could always have repaired a hole in the roof or relaid the patio with them, saving on builders' materials. Whilst somebody else spent an hour and a half cleaning up the kitchen afterwards.

bargainbird

Oh i caught the programme too.....

Mince and Ricotta burgers and lemon cake ingrediants on my shopping list;)

Emm-in-a-pickle

I like Nigel Slater a lot, and one of the things I like best is the way he seldom prescribes amounts of ingredients, (you can SEE what he`s using anyway!) and stresses that he`s not giving us Recipes, but Ideas. Inspiring and down to earth.
I also watch the Nigella progs, but mainly to heckle! She`s so cheesy, and year-round fairy lights in the kitchen, cheesy guests, and a walk-in pantry. Even OH heckles her at times, but mostly just chuckles when I do.

Hobsons_Choice

Thanks for the ice cream recipe....off to make strong coffee now!
(Love the thought of easy ice cream...and there's not a calorie in it):rotfl:

cyclingyorkie

Jo-jo - Nigel Slater did mention the quantities in the programme - and all the recipes are available on the BBC website..

Popperwell

Generally,
Unless you are baking, many meals you can guess the quantities especially if you cook often enough...especially if vegetable based. Being on my own unless I am trying to freeze extra for another day, if it comes out of a packet(meat, frozen veg etc...)I just use half or a quarter depending on how hungry I am...

meritaten

Emm-in-a-pickle wrote: »

I like Nigel Slater a lot, and one of the things I like best is the way he seldom prescribes amounts of ingredients, (you can SEE what he`s using anyway!) and stresses that he`s not giving us Recipes, but Ideas. Inspiring and down to earth.
I also watch the Nigella progs, but mainly to heckle! She`s so cheesy, and year-round fairy lights in the kitchen, cheesy guests, and a walk-in pantry. Even OH heckles her at times, but mostly just chuckles when I do.

But that is exactly WHY I love her programmes! I love to heckle her too but sometimes she comes out with a one-liner that cracks me up!
and I have taken some of her Kitchen and Express recipes off the Foodnetwork website and they really are easy and delish!