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Has Nigella ever done a cooking show before?
I have a total love-hate thing for her...it would be all hate, but every recipe I ever made from her NYT column has been excellent.

She did - it was called Nigella Bites. And it was a smart show. Very prettily shot. Not food network boring or dumb at all.

I'm not a fan of Nigella Bites which was shown on foodtv Canada. It was complete with soft-focus, obvious 'sensous'/suggestive stuff which has little to do with what she's cooking, like languorous gazes into the camera, soft husky voice, etc., etc. I guess there are some who like that kind of thing, I don't, & friends I've spoken to who are into food don't either.
Probably I'm too food focused! As a result, I don't follow her show or her recipes. It's interesting to note your success with her recipes, guido, maybe I should consider her recipes & not her show which I refuse to watch..

I have several of Nigella's cookbooks, and every thing I've made from them has been pretty divine. I'm looking forward to her show.

Also, I've never had a Carmelized Onion Toast, but now I think I need one.

leeds,
every year Nigella does an India-inspired NYT column with a variation on dal, say red lentils and sweet potato, that rocks. The other thing I got from her is those molten chocolate babycakes, a knockout.

The only cooking show I routinely enjoy is Molto Mario.
Massive amounts of info about cooking technique, the Italian language and culture just roll off that dude like sweat.
I've heard the web recipes for the show can be a little off - but then it's all about getting the feel not the net weight.

guido, I've heard the same thing about Mario's recipes & I think it's because he's a 'natural' cook, right? Anyway, love it, I'm a fan, & I agree, extremely informative.

So, do you have the recipe for the red lentil & sweet potato dish, sounds great! Care to share?

red lentil dal via nytimes y nigella

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/dining/021nrex.html?ex=1159329600&en=23d742a23a2e6db2&ei=5070

Leeds, the things you wrote above about Nigella are the same reasons why I can't watch Everyday Italian with Giada de Laurentis. I hate the parts with her talking on her couch before cooking and the way the camera seems to always be focused on her (enhanced??) cleavage. That and her incorrecly pronounced and over anunciated Italian food words - spaGHEEEtii, brooSKEEEtaa. Arghh!

Guido - I am immediately going to look up the recipe for those molten chocolate babycakes. I want to make those this evening!

browsing my bookmarks for cake...in loathing solidarity of those phoney TV personas...

I see David Lebovitz's fabulous fresh ginger cake
(right up your alley, leeds)

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/103238

I didn't mark the NYT one for Babycakes, but it's in googleland
stunningly easy, minimal ingredients
I did variations - peppermint oil, cardamon infusion - neither as good as straight up with good good chocolate.

I'm not even a fiend for chocolate, but these are divine...

Nigella's had two previous Food Network shows: Nigella Bites and Forever Summer. I can understand the food porn aspect that some don't like about her program, but I don't think she's faking it. She's seems pretty passionate about what she does and she makes tackling a recipe look so not scary! I'm looking forward to her new show!

Nigella has a clementine cake where you boil clementines and then pulse them in the food processor with almond flour -- it's absolutely amazing.

She had a regular column for the NY Times for a year or so and still pops up from time to time.

I saw Nigella hanging pictures at the Saatchi Museum in London. Charles Saatchi, founder of the Saatchi ad agency, is her second husband.

Muchas gracias, guido, eres muy amable!
(and the ginger cake Is exactly the kind of thing I like.)
Isn't food porn: 'look how luscious the food looks' and not 'look how luscious I look while preparing food'? You're right Mags-arghh!

While we're sharing recipes, a new favorite right now for me is: Pear Raspberry Crisp, with the last of the local pears-easy and delicious!
I've made it a couple of times now, the last time with frozen mixed berries. Scroll halfway thru this page for recipe:
http://juliewashere.blogspot.com/2006/09/fiber-is-your-friend-coles-notes.html

I made that clementine cake -- and it was good. And there is a chocolate cake in her Domestic Goddess book that is a dinner party workhorse for me.

Yea, Nigella Bites was a lot like Giada's current show in that soft-core way, and that is annoying. But I'll still take the soft-core with decent recipes over over Yum-O and Bam.

here's an opportunity to ask Nigella questions during the month of September (mid-page):
http://foodtv.ca/email/newsletter/2006_09_19/index.html?nwsltrfood20060919ref=B8
guido, Desk, Jessica, Chris: point taken about her recipes being decent, will look at them now, thanks.

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