"" then simply dress your salad with pomegranate molasses, a good olive oil and some sumac.""

Right Nige. ...you bell end....maybe give the real world a visit one day?

Just tried to watch this as I love travel/cooking programmes but he’s unbearable.

Bertiebeehead wrote:Just tried to watch this as I love travel/cooking programmes but he’s unbearable.

Oooooh you are awful......but I like you!

All these celebrity chefs need to wind their necks in, a few hours down the line they have just made a turd.

fatboy47 wrote:"" then simply dress your salad with pomegranate molasses, a good olive oil and some sumac.""

It's hardly like searching for Eldorado. You can buy all three of those ingredients in Asda.

Is Sumac a burger for fat wrestlers?

Billy Balfour wrote:It's hardly like searching for Eldorado. You can buy all three of those ingredients in Asda.

Or a bottle of squeezy mayo.

Is it the salad that you find outlandish?

Billy Balfour wrote:It's hardly like searching for Eldorado. You can buy all three of those ingredients in Asda.

Yes, yes......and use a midges bollock of them, leave to rot in your crowded cupboard for 10 years before lobbing into the bin.

He’s a lovely guy and great cook! Refreshing change to Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver.

fatboy47 wrote:leave to rot in your crowded cupboard for 10 years before lobbing into the bin.

Supermarkets tend not stock produce that doesn't sell - so your 10 years in a cupboard 'theory' isn't strictly true and those ingredients must be way more popular that you think - we are taking Adsa here, hardly the gourmet grocery department in Harrods.

Anyroad, Fatboy. I can't understand why you are so het up about this. So much so that you felt compelled enough to start a thread about it. Are you terrified that your local Maccy D's are going to impose them on you.

Billy Balfour wrote:Supermarkets tend not stock produce that doesn't sell - so your 10 years in a cupboard 'theory' isn't strictly true and those ingredients must be way more popular that you think - we are taking Adsa here, hardly the gourmet grocery department in Harrods.

Anyroad, Fatboy. I can't understand why you are so het up about this. So much so that you felt compelled enough to start a thread about it. Are you terrified that your local Maccy D's are going to impose them on you.

You probably know far more about Maccy D's (is that a fast food outlet?)...and supermarkets than me Billy.....we have neither here on the Scillies...just a handful of bistros and a tiny co-op. You're so clearly a man of breeding and class though, that I'd have expected you to know that.

If your little island doesn't sell ingredients even Asda sells, maybe try giving the real world a visit one day

Really good, inventive chef. It’s a show about Middle Eastern cuisine - he’s probably going to be using ingredients used in Middle Eastern cuisine. He’s done lots of simpler dishes in the past.

Often this clown pulls our ingredients that ara left in his fridge.He then procedes to combine them into some horrendous combos, often lacking carbs,nutrients and taste.
At best some of his dishes are accompaniments .

Walton wrote:If your little island doesn't sell ingredients even Asda sells, maybe try giving the real world a visit one day

Wow..really... give up my cliff top paradise surrounded by deserted white sand beaches, on a near traffic free, crime free , drug free area of outstanding natural beauty.....for a life in Burnley Wood..or Accy Road...or Brierfield (is there an Asda in Brierfield?)

These pomegranite molasses must be awesome....I'm off to the estate agents as we speak.

...and this pointless bickering over a TV chef sums up what this board has sunk to!

fatboy47 wrote:Wow..really... give up my cliff top paradise surrounded by deserted white sand beaches, on a near traffic free, crime free , drug free area of outstanding natural beauty.....for a life in Burnley Wood..or Accy Road...or Brierfield (is there an Asda in Brierfield?)

These pomegranite molasses must be awesome....I'm off to the estate agents as we speak.

Yeah fatboy get in the real world and get some pomegranate molasses down your neck it will change your life and your food forever

...and this pointless bickering over a TV chef sums up what this board has sunk to!

I agree. Being forced at gunpoint to read and comment on threads you aren't interested in - it's a new low.

Didn't say I wasn't interested in reading the thread

...or you gonna bicker and argue that?

I’m always worried about what Nigel has handled “ meat “ wise before he starts his “ I’m rustling up a few leftovers from the fridge” ( Madagascan bees honey ,truffle oil and Kobe beef spleen etc) schtick

I used to quite like Simon Hopkinson kept it simple , but he tried to bum the cameraman and I’m not sure he ever got back on his feet after that ( SH not the cameraman)

Walton wrote:If your little island doesn't sell ingredients even Asda sells, maybe try giving the real world a visit one day

Not sure what the problem is with him. More people like cooking with different ingredients more than ever nowadays. If you have stuff left over after a dinner party or whatever and it needs using you may have some obscure ingredients left over.

I get (WNAKER!)sudden-onset Tourette’s Syndrome (WNAKER!)whenever I watch anything with Nigel Slater on it.(WNANKER!)

Much preferable than a lot of chefs/cooks on TV he's Got all the Nigella mannerisms but not the looks....he's from humble beginnings and on another thred on him Last year...sure there's a story of a Sh!t childhood which makes interesting reading.I like his "style" of interacting with people. Very humble and sincere.

Lord Beamish wrote:I get (WNAKER!)sudden-onset Tourette’s Syndrome (WNAKER!)whenever I watch anything with Nigel Slater on it.(WNANKER!)

He's captured your attention then

tim_noone wrote:Very humble and sincere.

His programmes are good chillout TV. I prefer him to some of the 'bish, bash, bosh' TV chefs.

Ultimately you have to ask “ what would he be like as you’re house guest” ?

I’d say he’d be super polite and very clean and tidy .Whereas say Ramsey, you just know he’d try and shag your mrs and chunder in the spare room and probs leave an unflushed turd “ fack me sorry mate I’ve blocked your bog with an absolute battleship”

I don't mind his programmes (even if he does sometimes have some rather questionable leftovers from the dinner party the night before...).

I bought his cookbook Eat for my missus and it's quite good. Not complicated and some tasty recipes.

On again tonight...just a mob of grubby savages poking round in the dirt.

Could have saved a fortune and filmed it in Bacup

fatboy47 wrote:On again tonight...just a mob of grubby savages poking round in the dirt.

Could have saved a fortune and filmed it in Bacup

Not into Gordon Blue then fb ?

I like his programmes and think he is a good chef and presenter but the epitome of campness

I think he's an old smellysocks...looks like a poor man's Jim Royle....probably wears them baggy off-white flannel skids and keeps a month's worth of dirty fluff in his belly button.

Does he wash his hands after wiping his crack? I think not.

Not for me I'm afraid....

......He obviously is.

I had pomegranate molasses in my butties this dinner.

I don't think it'll catch on.

He’s a cook not a chef, isn’t he?

He’s a bit slimy and sickly.

Billy Balfour wrote:Supermarkets tend not stock produce that doesn't sell - so your 10 years in a cupboard 'theory' isn't strictly true and those ingredients must be way more popular that you think - we are taking Adsa here, hardly the gourmet grocery department in Harrods.

Anyroad, Fatboy. I can't understand why you are so het up about this. So much so that you felt compelled enough to start a thread about it. Are you terrified that your local Maccy D's are going to impose them on you.

......
or more to the point billy, why try to drag a light hearted thread into the gutter. Fatboy has a point. buying all those poncey ingredients isnt realistic for the average joe. Fine if you own a restaurant but most of the stuff bought will end up in the bin and by the time everything is paid for you might as well have just had a gourmet meal in a restaurant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Slater" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He isn't a Chef he is a food writer who cooks....

Yeah, don't be dragging a thread where the OP calls Nigel Slater a "bell end" into the gutter, Billy.

claretnproud wrote:......
or more to the point billy, why try to drag a light hearted thread into the gutter. Fatboy has a point. buying all those poncey ingredients isnt realistic for the average joe. Fine if you own a restaurant but most of the stuff bought will end up in the bin and by the time everything is paid for you might as well have just had a gourmet meal in a restaurant.

Some pomegranate molasses and some sumac would cost a couple of quid in total (I'm assuming everyone has some olive oil if they're cooking).

I'd recommend sumac lamb chops, they're great.

If you had read the whole article Bosscat you would have realised he was a chef that then became a food writer.

Does he serve his dishes with gravy or jus

fzr162 wrote:If you had read the whole article Bosscat you would have realised he was a chef that then became a food writer.

Go on his website fzr ... He says he is a writer and an amateur cook and not a professional Chef....

https://www.nigelslater.com/Nigel" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Author, columnist, diarist and programme maker, Nigel remains very much an amateur cook. He is not a professional chef. His food is understated, handcrafted home cooking"

Working in a restaurant kitchen as a young man does not mean you are a Chef

fatboy47 wrote:I think he's an old smellysocks...looks like a poor man's Jim Royle....probably wears them baggy off-white flannel skids and keeps a month's worth of dirty fluff in his belly button.

Does he wash his hands after wiping his crack? I think not.

Not for me I'm afraid....

Come on FB47...stop beating about the bush. I can't do with people who sit on the fence...climb down and tell us what you really think

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:Does he serve his dishes with gravy or jus

Jus gravy, nothing else COTC

He is painful to watch (Slater not COTC) Hard to work out who is more annoying, this sycophantic horses handbrake or Steve Wright on Radio 2...

Easily the best TV chef for my money and one of the few who can write about food rather than just churning recipes

Yes some of his ingredients assume you have a world food deli at the end of your road - but he does live in London and there are lots of delis

Watching Nigella simpering at the camera is easier on the eye though

I just went on the info you provided to support your case Bosscat.
As for all the people complaining about the programme why not just switch it off.

You can tell the people who prefer good ol' shepherds pie or spag bol - and if you do then why would you even bother watching cooking programmes?

Never seen Nigel Slater but you can get most ingredients from your local big supermarket these days, otherwise most towns have international supermarkets which will stock the more obscure continental ingredients. If I was watching a programme about middle eastern cuisine then I would expect there to be a number of ingredients that I'm not currently stocking in my pantry.