Nigella's Express Foody thingy

[Monkichi 3.0]

Wooooow, chill out fellas

Nigella's show is hopelessly (spl?) out of tune with reality (Or at least most people's reality) but that's because it's "aspirational". You're supposed to envy her lifestyle and by emulating it pretend that you too are leading this amazing life. It's bollocks, and she doesn't live like that herself either. That's the sort of show it is and that's how you should approach it. I mean, look at all the annoying flirting she does, you don't actually think it's sincere do you?

However the core message is very much in tune with reality. For example, it would take you about 10-15 minutes top to get home and from scratch make yourself a really nice chicken escalope sandwhich. It would be tastier and healthier for you whilst clocking in at around £3, if that. You can make loads of really quick, easy and tasty dishes if you actually bothered, but the problem is that many people don't because they have been conditioned through years of advertising that fast foods are far more convenient. Fast food is hardly cheap, yet the quality is not there either. Nobody is saying that getting home and making a fois-grois stuffed wood pidgeon in a brandy sauce is as quick and easy as a kebab, but you could knock up a curry in about 30 mins, which is nothing. It takes longer for your curry order to arrive if you dialed it in.

I think getting young people cooking and understanding about food is a good aim. If they then want to eat a kebab then let them (I think their aces) but let it be out of choice rather than ignorance and misinformation.

[Wickedkitten]

Wooooow, chill out fellas

Nigella's show is hopelessly (spl?) out of tune with reality (Or at least most people's reality) but that's because it's "aspirational". You're supposed to envy her lifestyle and by emulating it pretend that you too are leading this amazing life. It's bollocks, and she doesn't live like that herself either. That's the sort of show it is and that's how you should approach it. I mean, look at all the annoying flirting she does, you don't actually think it's sincere do you?

However the core message is very much in tune with reality. For example, it would take you about 10-15 minutes top to get home and from scratch make yourself a really nice chicken escalope sandwhich. It would be tastier and healthier for you whilst clocking in at around £3, if that. You can make loads of really quick, easy and tasty dishes if you actually bothered, but the problem is that many people don't because they have been conditioned through years of advertising that fast foods are far more convenient. Fast food is hardly cheap, yet the quality is not there either. Nobody is saying that getting home and making a fois-grois stuffed wood pidgeon in a brandy sauce is as quick and easy as a kebab, but you could knock up a curry in about 30 mins, which is nothing. It takes longer for your curry order to arrive if you dialed it in.

I think getting young people cooking and understanding about food is a good aim. If they then want to eat a kebab then let them (I think their aces) but let it be out of choice rather than ignorance and misinformation.

High fucking five

[Alex W.]

Nigella is pretty much a modern-day soul-consuming succubus, then. Without the hot demon sex.

[gandhi]

Nigella seemed really nervous in that program, she used to be very watchable but something was off - maybe Charles wasn't giving her enough.

Also, she's too fat. Why would you want to cook like her?

She's not fat, she's 47.

[meatbin]

..it was more the fact that every single camera shot was like an over the top, extended 'this is M&S food' sequence,

"This, is not just any Milf, this is big breas......"

[Davros sock drawer]

I don't doubt that making caramel, adding it to some stale croissants etc isn't actually that difficult, but when you're pitching that as 'something quick and easy to do after a night out', I'd say she's off her tits.

Why exactly? I thought you just said it was easy? Which is it man!?

Also, she ain't fat, and even if she was, it's not relevant is it? Mind you, Goatkeeper didn't exactly kick this shite thread off in a very grown up way, so I suppose such comments are not entirely unexpected

[boxoctosis]

Why exactly? I thought you just said it was easy? Which is it man!?

Also, she ain't fat, and even if she was, it's not relevant is it? Mind you, Goatkeeper didn't exactly kick this shite thread off in a very grown up way, so I suppose such comments are not entirely unexpected

whoops - too many negatives in there. It's easy. But it's not something you'd want to fuck about doing coming back from the pub. My point is essentially the one blinkybear made a few posts ago, but he expressed it a bit more eloquently than I've managed I guess.

She is fat - not making that in a childish 'look at the fatty' way , more she's presenting her meals as something we should aspire to - we too can cook easily and quickly , just like her. Except we'll end up looking like her, spare tyres and all.

You state reasonably enough that Britain's culinary skills are going swiftly down the pan, yet just as big a problem (and not unconnected) is that as a nation we're becoming much much fatter. If we can all aspire to be just like Nigella, count me out.

[Davros sock drawer]

whoops - too many negatives in there. It's easy. But it's not something you'd want to fuck about doing coming back from the pub.

Except that for me, and a lot of other people, it genuinely is. Hell, I've made pizza dough from scratch after the pub before! The fact that you think it's "batshit mental" just means you're out of touch with a certain group of people.

I don't think she's fat, she looks like a 47 year old woman should look.

[Wickedkitten]

Except that for me, and a lot of other people, it genuinely is. Hell, I've made pizza dough from scratch after the pub before! The fact that you think it's "batshit mental" just means you're out of touch with a certain group of people.

That's just the kind of shit that I consider to be a brilliant idea after a night of drinking, but not everyone would see it that way.

[Crhis]

Well I'll stand and be counted too - I love just frying a quick something up after a night out if I'm feeling peckish. That you could be so opposed to this idea and seemingly any representation of it on TV as a valid lifestyle is I find batshit mental.

Not that there is anything wrong with having some crisps when you get back either of course but not everyone lives like that either.

[Blobcat]

I'm just scared of cooking, my mum is an ace cook and when I have kids I want to make meals just like she does. I dont eat prossesed junk though. Working at Asda has really opened my eyes to the uk's obesety and prosesed food problem, more cookery programs should be on the telly, at least Jamie's light and fun attitude made me want to go out and buy his resipe book which does make me feel I can cook something.

Oh and as for drunk/very hungover cooking, I can make a damn good omlette/scrambled mess that resembles an omlette. Best one I ever made was when I was not really with it, crumbled in an onion bhaji and a pakora in I think from the previous night, wonderful.

[Monkichi 3.0]

I'm just scared of cooking, my mum is an ace cook and when I have kids I want to make meals just like she does. I dont eat prossesed junk though. Working at Asda has really opened my eyes to the uk's obesety and prosesed food problem, more cookery programs should be on the telly, at least Jamie's light and fun attitude made me want to go out and buy his resipe book which does make me feel I can cook something.

Oh and as for drunk/very hungover cooking, I can make a damn good omlette/scrambled mess that resembles an omlette. Best one I ever made was when I was not really with it, crumbled in an onion bhaji and a pakora in I think from the previous night, wonderful.

Check out the food folder here, loads of really nice recipes and you can ask the cooks themselves how to do something if you're stuck.

[Mercury]

and that Nigella may as well smear cream all over her big tits. The flirty cunt!

That's my quote of the week.

[ChrisN]

Come on, Nigella.

Job done.

[Rev]

Well I'll stand and be counted too - I love just frying a quick something up after a night out if I'm feeling peckish. That you could be so opposed to this idea and seemingly any representation of it on TV as a valid lifestyle is I find batshit mental.

Not that there is anything wrong with having some crisps when you get back either of course but not everyone lives like that either.

Yup, add me to the "cook after having been out" list. It really isn't odd.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Which channel and night it is on ?

[Hello Goaty ♥]

Which channel and night it is on ?

[spacedinvader]

This programme is hilarious. She is quite mental, but most compelling. I do hope she's ok.

[Guest]

Scoffing all the honeycomb was great.

[marcus]

Shes so horny it makes me cry.

[CrispinG]

She was the world's finest MILF. Big in all the right places. Let her rest in peace now, guys, she's finished.

[Nifta]

Was watching this last night. Either the script writer should be fired, or she is a loon and a little disturbed. It's also become comedic; the scenes of her drinking from her soup flask in five different forms of transport was hilarious. It was like a spoof!

[crunchy_nut]

Apologies for the Daily Mail link but:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

The missus still watches this and I watch it with her, only shouting very loudly "YOU LYING ****" and "THAT ISN'T YOUR HOUSE"

Bet you some of the kids in the "picnic" yesterday were crying off camera cos they didn't know where they were, who all the strangers were or why they were being forced to eat food from a stranger

[gandhi]

I'm shocked anyone thought it was "real" in the first place, I really am. The children; dinner parties and bus trips aren't there to turn the program into an observational nature documentary on Nigella Lawson, they just provide some light context and help connect the different food items - why would anyone think that Nigella would force a film crew upon her friends? I wouldn't. Regardless, I don't personally watch it for the bits about Nigella's "life".