Nigella Lawson
Katy was asking before about my particular views of Nigella Lawson, since I brought it up over Christmas.
There are some things I like about her, and others I don’t.
She is the mature, curvy and sexy, which I like not only as a guy, but also it’s a social “that’s what I’m talking about” to all the billboard-gracing teenie-waifs who look a little like adolescent boys. Anyway, you know what I’m saying.
But me and Nigella - it would never work out, because she has too much hair for a chef. It’s offputting for someone who prepares food for others to be so follically gifted.
Also, the news team here at This Is This has been getting unconfirmed reports of a lift in the facial area of Nigella, and I have never been able to make my mind up about how I feel about facelifts.
And her recipes don’t work. For anyone. I have asked loads of people. In fact, I asked the teachers when making small talk in the staff room of my teacher’s school and they agreed with me that nothing worked. It’s like they didn’t try them out before going to print.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:30 am
Oh, she is definitely getting a bit stretched in the forehead area. And her cooking times are crazy. I say: read her for ideas, but if she says she’s making shortbread you’d better cross-reference her technique with Delia Smith if you want to have shortbread at the end of it.
What I don’t understand is why people who’ve had facelifts end up looking as if all of their features are squashed together in the middle of their faces (cf. Nicole Kidman). I mean, logically, you’d think the stretching would make them look further away from each other.
December 31st, 2006 at 6:58 pm
Nicole Kidman had a facelift?
December 31st, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Sorry to be the voice of dissent but I just made Nigella’s chocolate Christmas cake and my loved one said it was the best one I’d ever made (ok you could say he would say that wouldn’t he), as long as you can get your head round ingredients like cocoa powder, prunes and coffee liqueur. It doesn’t taste of any of those things - just a squidgy, moist and luscious whole.
December 31st, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Ah - no - her Christmas cakes do work. I would never take that away from her. (But I still cross-referenced the cooking times with Delia before I tried it.)
I have to say that the whole concept of introducing chocolate and coffee to a Christmas cake makes me feel a bit weird though. Blasphemy!
December 31st, 2006 at 9:46 pm
I just saw some pictures of Nigella Lawson.
She can cook too?
December 31st, 2006 at 10:38 pm
..and be the daughter of a cabinet minister and wife of Charles Saatchi. (That’s not a typo.) I don’t know if she’s crossed the Himalayas dragging a canoe and carrying a wounded Sherpa, yet.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:29 pm
All the recipes of hers (mostly cakes) that I’ve tried have worked wonderfully. Sometimes a tad too much mixture, but that’s hardly the end of the world.
I’ve also heard people say that her recipes don’t work, though, and assumed that it must have been an error in the conversion of the measurements into American (cups) or something like that… since they’ve always worked for me.
January 1st, 2007 at 1:23 am
All this and yet Cliff says she’s got too much hair.
Wow.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:36 am
Her recipes are often of the ’sling it in’ variety - the ones on the tv at least, so I dare say there’s always room for error. ‘I give it a slosh of this…’
She’s good at the fluttery eyelashes and the pouty licky stuff but it didn’t work in her chat show! She really couldn’t do anything other than try to flirt (badly) with the guests and it was cringe-making!
I think she’s rather lovely to look at - but she’s as annoying as she is endearing! Especially with the perfect kitchen and perfect children and perfect guests around her perfect dinner table! Did you see how many Christmas lights were put along her kitchen cupboards?? (who decorates their cupboards with lights when that would mean you can’t open them?)
She should have a dinner-lady-esque hairnet on her head Cliff! Anddd why on earth the half-cardigans apart from to show her bosoms off?!
January 1st, 2007 at 9:37 am
Oops. I did an extra ‘o’ again! Maybe that was a subconscious pout?
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
I have it on tenuous authority (someone told me this at the hairdressers) that Ms Kidman is “botoxed to her eyeballs”.
January 4th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Esmerelda - I couldn’t possible comment, but “ooooh…”
March 13th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I have to agree that her Chocolate christmas cake was utterly divine. I have, however, managed to throw the recipe away!!! Just after I have given in and agreed to make it again for the eldest’s birthday next week!!!
Can anyone help me out and send me the recipe please? I used the one published in the Sunday Mail last November, but some kind soul sent it for recycling…..
March 13th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Hey Helen.
Do you mean this one?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/chocolatefruitcake_84675.shtml