Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers

[Infidel Castro]

Anyone catch this? Was on a couple of nights ago.

I fucking adore Nige, his attitudes and feelings about food match mine completely.

He did this roast garlic puree spread on toast, with grilled goats cheese on the top for one of them and I nearly melted off the couch

I've got to say, I've gone right off of Slater. He's too airy-fairy. I bought a book recently which followed him through a year of seasonal cooking, and it sounds like he's rubbing himself off when he writes. Too much namby-pamby liberal guff comes out of him for my liking, and my opinion of him stretches to the Observer Food Monthly which I used to love. The whole world is going to hell in a handcart, etc...

 

[Orang Utan]

i like his style, esp his use of the word unctuous

 

[Santino]

Nigel Slater uses children's tears as salad dressing.

 

[chainsaw cat]

Anyone catch this? Was on a couple of nights ago.

I fucking adore Nige, his attitudes and feelings about food match mine completely.

He did this roast garlic puree spread on toast, with grilled goats cheese on the top for one of them and I nearly melted off the couch

i am proud to associate myself with this post, now that the boss has wandered away from my desk.

 

[Biddlybee]

Only caught the end of the first one, but set the others to record. I like his recipes.

 

[chainsaw cat]

"When I was a youth, I used to weep in butchers shops"

Sherry?

 

[sojourner]

i am proud to associate myself with this post, now that the boss has wandered away from my desk.

 

[N_igma]

He's ok but he's no Rick Stein that's for sure! I prefer cookery shows that involve travel as well as cooking.

 

[sojourner]

He's ok but he's no Rick Stein that's for sure! I prefer cookery shows that involve travel as well as cooking.

I loved Rick too, and his lil dog.

Same attitude to food, but Rick really does wind me up a bit. He's too controlling

 

[Badger Kitten]

Mr BK really hates him, he hates the way he writes( 'it's so OTT, it's just bloody food, not a poem') and if he saw him on tv he would shout at the TV.

But he likes eating his recipes as cooked by me.

((poor Nigel))

 

[brix]

Nigel's 'Real Fast Food' is the best cookbook evah!

 

[Spark]

He's ok but he's no Rick Stein that's for sure! I prefer cookery shows that involve travel as well as cooking.

I always have liked the idea of a travel food book by nigel. Rick just really irritates me, he's so gushy but at the same time seems quite insincere.

I love Nigel's books though. They're more about learning about food and cooking than recipes. I like the way in Appetite there is always a recipe followed by "here's some other things you can do with this sort of thing" so it encourages you to experiment or adapt and develop confidence in your own cooking abilities.

 

[Mr Retro]

Looking forward to seeing what he smugly picks from his garden tomorrow and frys up whlie slobbering into it.

He is the savior of people who never knew what a frying pan was for!

 

[Ms T]

I made his Bean thing with the parmesan rind in it yesterday.

It was the best thing I've cooked in ages.

I made something inspired by that recipe - I think Nigel would have approved. No parmesan rind, basically, or carrots but added bacon instead for that savoury hit.

I think that Nigel's telly style has improved a lot since his first foray some years ago now. Not nearly so nervy.

 

[elevendayempire]

The show grated for me - "Oh, I'll just have a rummage around in the back of my fridge - why, look! A punnet of delicious berries hand-delivered by the Whole Foods company! Some Parmesan rinds, I'll just throw a bit of parma ham in, because why not... I'll just rummage around in my massive fucking kitchen garden for some salady things..."

I went down to the supermarket and worked out that it'd cost about £8 to buy in the "odds and sods" for his bloody posh garlic cheesy toast thing.

I think real people should take photos of what's actually in their fridges and send them to him - let's see him make something out of the bit of old cheese, yoghurt and can of Kronenburg in my fridge.

Which is annoying, 'cause he's a very good writer - I do use that Real Fast Food book of his quite a bit.

 

[tarannau]

You can't help but feel that Slater's best days and recipes are behind him. His article in the Observer Food Monthly this month was preachy awfulness, cringey stuff that made me want to agree with Idaho more than I believed possible. He's gone from talking passionately about food to focussing on food production and the wider economy, like a wetter Hugh FW on an extra-greasy mission.



And Rick Stein was a patronising, insincere twatbag on his latest programme. Some great recipes and interesting journeys, but boy was he annoying. My other half couldn't stand him

 

[fen_boy]

I find Rick Stein overly earnest and patronising and very very annoying.

This cunt, however...

.. is the single biggest cunt in the whole world.

 

[tarannau]

What is the point of that Valentine twat? He's like the David Cameron of the food world, derivative and unconvincing.

 

[Fedayn]

And Rick Stein was a patronising, insincere twatbag on his latest programme. Some great recipes and interesting journeys, but boy was he annoying. My other half couldn't stand him

He is a patronising twat, rubbing his hands with glee at the back breaking laboyur that people had to do in the Far eastern part of his programme but he offered me a job years ago so he's not all bad.

 

[tarannau]

TBH I always liked Stein before, but once his insincere tendency has been pointed out to you it's difficult to ignore. Maybe I just used to cut him more slack because of the cute dog.

Either that or this programme, which featured some cracking meals and travels, made it all the more apparent. Maybe it's the sight of Stein interacting with (non English) others with a blend of seeming insincerity and slightly disdainful detachment.

 

[sojourner]

This cunt, however...



.. is the single biggest cunt in the whole world.

Oh, fucking totally. I want to smack him harder even than Worral cunting Thompson

 

[Infidel Castro]

You know what, having slagged off Slater in an earlier post, I now find myself using his recipe for a gooey chocolate cake with crushed almonds and coffee as part of the base mix. I'm a fucking fraud.

 

[Orang Utan]

so when's this programme on then?

 

[tarannau]

I'm watching this programme for the first time now. Oh Nigel, poor wet Nigel.


I've rarely had such a disconnect between my mental image of the person and the reality. Not since Mike 'The Boss' Allen - the smooth talking hip hop dj of my childhood years - turned out to be a 50 year old hospital radio dj-a-like with buoffant hair and a string vest at UK Fresh '86

On the page you read a passionate cook, carefree - throwing things into the pan and experimenting eagerly. On screen and he simpers slowly and primly through recipes, peering down at the food like a supercilious professor, something slightly laboured and unconvincing about his movement.

And it's not really his fault; he's clearly not that comfortable on screen. The voice doesn't help. But oh Nigel, I so loved your early books

 

[Pip]

Yeah, I thought he was a bit of a knob too. Poor Nige.

 

[Badger Kitten]

((Nige))

 

[Pip]

I think it's mostly because he's just not comfortable in front of the camera though. He's actually gone up in my estimations for having such a nicely decorated drum.

 

[Fedayn]

This cunt, however...

.. is the single biggest cunt in the whole world.

To be honest, imho, it's a close run thing between him and Slater.

 

[Orang Utan]

I find Rick Stein overly earnest and patronising and very very annoying.

This cunt, however...

.. is the single biggest cunt in the whole world.

who's that? he looks well punchable

 

[Schmetterling]

I'm watching this programme for the first time now. Oh Nigel, poor wet Nigel.


I've rarely had such a disconnect between my mental image of the person and the reality. Not since Mike 'The Boss' Allen - the smooth talking hip hop dj of my childhood years - turned out to be a 50 year old hospital radio dj-a-like with buoffant hair and a string vest at UK Fresh '86

On the page you read a passionate cook, carefree - throwing things into the pan and experimenting eagerly. On screen and he simpers slowly and primly through recipes, peering down at the food like a supercilious professor, something slightly laboured and unconvincing about his movement.

And it's not really his fault; he's clearly not that comfortable on screen. The voice doesn't help. But oh Nigel, I so loved your early books

You mean s l ow l y?

I still find it watchable though. Cooked the tomato/cream/rosemary pasta with my son last week and it was tasty.