Fashion, food and funny musings: Pretending to be Nigella

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Pretending to be Nigella

So today I spent a large part of the day pretending to be Nigella Lawson-not in the metaphorical sense in the actual, physical sense. I had the house to myself so I finally got to work making the contents for the homemade hampers I have decided to make as Christmas presents for the in-laws, grandparents etc as I thought it would be a good way to give thoughtful and more importantly, cheap presents as I am skint. However, it has actually turned out to be quite expensive (whoever knew jars and sugar could be so pricey?)

Anyway to make it all a bit more interesting, I decided I would pretend I was on camera filming my very own cooking show-Nigella style obviously (please don't judge me-all this time alone with only Good Food and the Food Network Channel is obviously going to my head). So I tossed my hair around a bit (obviously not near the food-just as I shuffled from cupboard to stove) pouted a lot and attempted a few seductive looks at the (invisible) camera. But the most amusing part was attempting the frankly ridiculous vocabulary Nigella uses to narrate her cooking...

"Oh look at the way the sugar cascades like a....snow fall over the...lusciously ripe fruit"

"mmm...I love the way the olive oil caresses the...crumbly cheese"

"Take the juicy strawberries, drop them in the pan and watch them ooze their delicious nectar" (I was getting into the flow of things by this point)

And so on-please free to comment with any of your own borderline pornographic Nigella specials.

Anyway, after about 10 minutes it became too hard to continue the Nigella charade, what with having to actually follow some recipe, not to mention the fact that I felt like a tit.

So here's what I made...