Easy Dinners To Impress Your Guests | Nigella Bites | Tonic

Nigella Lawson offers ideas for amateur cooks wanting to impress their friends with professional-looking suppertime specialities that satisfy the tastebuds but don't require a degree in home economics to tackle. Recipes include lamb shanks with couscous, raw salmon with ginger and rice vinegar, and creme brulee.
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[@metaspherz]

This is the Nigella I remember from about 15 years ago. I had just retired in 2006 and I'd been divorced for several years and ate mostly pizza and other fast foods. So my sister saw my weight starting to increase and introduced me to the Food Network and several great cooking shows. At first, I wasn't sold on cooking for myself but I enjoyed the entertaining shows with their colorful hosts. Bobby Flay, Alton Brown's Good Eats, Giada De Laurentiis, Iron Chef America, and even Guy Fieri were helpful in showing me how to cook simple foods, and soon I was doing all kinds of fancy dishes. Then I saw the beautiful and articulate Nigella Lawson and I literally fell in love with her and cooking. I think she helped me the most. It's great to see her legacy being preserved on YT!

[@Sbannmarie]

oh Meta what a great experience

[@bbrown333]

Thank you for sharing! I'm happy things changed for you. I sorely miss the "Golden Age" of Food Network. Now it's just competition show after competition show.

[@FalardeMusicaeLegal]

The way she talks about every single ingredient makes me want to eat and cook and eat and cook.... and eat. Nigella has always been addictive.

[@AmberMichelleAmber]

Did you say addictive or addict? She's a HUGE cocaine addict 😅😅

[@pjpororo323]

" I don't mind to be pretentiously eclectic!" Oh I love this phrase! So cute!!

[@mizzmaria5215]

Only Nigella could get away with cooking lamb shanks and homemade creme brulee and make it look like an "effortless, stress-free" dinner.

[@coonalisa230]

Even though sometimes I do think her cooking seem under seasoned, I always feel smarter after watching her videos lol. It's her rich vocabulary and her way with words...

[@Maverick-re3zp]

In one of them she literally puts chicken potatoes and veg in a tray In the oven as a quick dinner suggestion . So simple but Every time I make that I feel like a Michelin star chef .

[@MichaelMadlock]

HAHAAHAHA NOT COONALISA

[@See-if_I_care]

I just feel she adds too little salt. Othereise...all good!

[@christophernurse5317]

She knows the flavors of her ingredients and how they come together, so she doesn't really have to add extra seasonings.

[@SorrentoShore]

oh pleeeeeeeze. Nigella knows exactly EXACTLY what she is doing. Your comment is not seasoned

[@kimgeddes261]

She has the most wonderful descriptions and she's beautiful

[@antoniamangold7312]

She is naturally beautiful inside and out. I love watching her cook.

[@atifmahmud114]

Watching her is therapeutic

[@gailgrimett2028]

I love Nigella. She brings such style and class to cooking.

[@theradicalmoderate8561]

"low heat if you're of the timorous bent..." lesson in british sass...

[@miguelmarquez4192]

She tends to throw at least one obscure brit-phrase in per show. Timorous bent lol! And brits are like "my nan says that!"

[@Dizzyzone98]

The production for these videos is awesome. I also love Nigella's vibe. What a cool lady 😎

[@221b-Maker-Street]

Produced by her late husband, John Diamond. 😌

[@anne-mariezack]

Absolutely great production

[@josedacunhafilho]

this was the most elegant and relaxed cooking series of all time. I watched it on 'cable' back then, and recently have been reviewing it, just to confirm it is so.

[@monisolaelliott9346]

My only gripe is she never scrapes her bowls and the frugal adult in me stays screaming.

[@angelafraser3456]

Me too!!

[@missmusic881]

omg yes! feels like such a waste!

[@micheleriley8985]

Okayyyy 😅😂🥣

[@contentart5169]

Hahaha

[@meenakshisharmadevgan372]

Ya !!! It is such a wastage of food/flavours that you have worked so hard to create.

[@cookie_dough_hangover]

Nigella brought curvy body back way before Kim Kardashian. People forget that this was filmed almost 20 years ago.

[@Deangirl86]

Kim only brought surgically enhanced lumpiness to our screens. Black women were already happy to show their curves.

[@nhaho7057]

can’t compare kim and nigella. Kim is fake. Nigella is real. and Nigella are sooooo much more famine than kim.real women.

[@warzachew5467]

@@nhaho7057 famine she is not

[@miguelmarquez4192]

@@warzachew5467 i think she meant feminine haha! Tiny mistake

[@bogeythedog163]

Nigella brought gluttony back

[@jalarconcedeno]

these are some stuck up guests their faces are priceless

[@ebonywahine]

I find her incredibly soothing at the end of this extremely stressful week!

[@Ezarhia]

Watching Nigella is my cure to distress.

[@Nikunikuniku583]

I love how chaotic and filled up her fridge is. hehe like normal people.

[@eman83a]

I have never had crème brûlée work for me until this recipe came along. It’s my favourite dessert and now I can finally make it. Delicious!

[@mahakhan5254]

What r the measurement s of the ingredients

[@eman83a]

@@mahakhan5254 you can find the recipe on her website. But when she says double cream, it’s thickened cream in some other parts of the world

[@hankyspark8441]

It's not creme brûlée it's pudding, creme brûlée is made in the oven it's a flan

[@benitohernandez7585]

I’m guessing this was probably before we started to use the word “umami”.

[@MindyRelyea]

Just love her technique and gorgeous descriptions. She’s brilliant!!!

[@SorrentoShore]

she is perfection PERFECTION!!! She glides throw orchestrating a meal like she is symphony music

[@irian42]

Oh, how I need Nigella this week...

[@AuroraBjorn]

She is drop dead gorgeous and can cook go Nigella!

[@PatrickLetrondo]

11:25 I like to imagine that her friends were asked to ask her where couscous hails from and are teasing her off-camera for her answer, hence the fit of giggles 😅

[@mitcheljoseph]

So good! Love Nigella!

[@mariaschwartz447]

She always seems to enjoy her food , I love that

[@ItsMeBoomBoom]

Lovely adjectives everywhere! My parents loved watching her...

[@ohmy9479]

22:31 Someone didn’t care for the salmon starter! 🍣😣

[@sharinagorra1228]

Actually looking for this comment HHAHAHAHAH

[@hillsideurbangarden1380]

I like the idea of one larger crème brûlée for dessert instead of the individual ones! 😊 great idea!

[@mariaschwartz447]

I always do a large .

[@Stefanbites85]

I LOVE HER!!

[@xKagryx]

Nigella always cooks like she’s in a hurry to eat-very relatable queen.

[@aafsterlife9647]

"Supper time and the cooking is easy" 😂

[@sarahfawad9786]

Whatever I'm eating I watch her episodes it makes feel like I'm eating what she's cooking lol

[@peterlyngdoh305]

Nigella:There's something very calming about the smell of vanilla Me: I couldn't agree more

[@zainabsadriwala152]

"How hard was that" seriously.. 👍😀

[@shirleybezuidenhout2724]

I've always been under the impression that creme brulee is very difficult to make, well Nigella makes it look so easy to make. Lamb shanks are so tasty, but the lentils added to them makes it look even tastier. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@bm11775]

Yes my favorite chef ❤❤

[@johnlove5347]

She should get a Grammy award!

[@homeslices7518]

Looks so delicious and super easy .. nothing complex .. 😘😍

[@parvinshanu9103]

She,always my fve.💕💕💕💕💕

[@almaalcaraz7083]

I've always loved her beauty. 💖 For a moment there I thought this was a new video. But I guess not. No one can look like like she has never aged. She's just so mesmerizing. 😊

[@RobertoReyesChHC]

Food looks great! I swear Nigella doesn’t age lol

[@vivandav67]

I've always loved her, and she is high on the list of women I'd switch teams for...lol.....but during the thick of Covid, starting March 2020, started re-watching her...fell more in love with her, and would just love to make dinner with her and chat and laugh...

[@garyrobertson6778]

she is mesmerizing

[@Definerefine1408]

One of the classiest woman❤

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

Good one 👍

[@Pammellam]

I would have taken the vanilla seeds out of the pod in the beginning. The little black dots would have been so much prettier!

[@kurthubbard-beale5003]

Less flavour though. 👍

[@saggiteightyfour8367]

@@kurthubbard-beale5003 why less flavour?? you split the pod, scrape out the seeds, then you chuck the pod back into the cream with the seeds.

[@dhutsaala]

all asians cringing cuz shes putting in the lentils without washing it first .. lol

[@nirmalakutty9416]

Bravo

[@HeathenChannel]

Tag yourselves I'm the judgemental lady eating a single chickpea at 22:39

[@shilutiwalling5059]

💀💀💀

[@Finn959]

I think it’s actually two peas

[@Sbannmarie]

And everyone says AMEN

[@gwynaethatwood-pettit2468]

Original super model! 🌟

[@noeraldinkabam]

You can also put the lamb beneath the couscous. (To steam it)

[@wendyseah7854]

I watch her shows to buy all the tools she uses. I love her cooking utensils :)

[@nayanpune4971]

And how much you spent ??

[@wendyseah7854]

@@nayanpune4971 a couple hundred so far. I ve the little whisk, soup ladle, the double-handled herb chopper, milk pot n few other stuff that i cant recall.

[@kurthubbard-beale5003]

Wow beautiful food, presented beautifully by a very attractive intelligent woman. Yum yum yummy

[@michellehall2715]

Love "like a mermaid's tail"

[@sizzurpr7608]

Dinner 1: No veggies or salad served Dinner 2: A very FISHY meal

[@piedaderudman6043]

I would like to be her guest for dinner one day...😊 she makes it all look so simple and delicious. Love the way she goes mmmmmm so often. 😊

[@trnigyul]

22:30 says it all 🤣🤣🤣

[@Msquared112]

Well done. No histrionics, no brashness or coarseness, and a terrific no-nonsense approach. Why not more such videos?

[@user-si3vo8np2p]

Супер! Вельмi цiкава i смачна! 😋😊😘💛💛💛

[@smileysmiley1494]

Love nigella! ..she always makes my mouth water as she's cooking lol 😆

[@casayurrita]

I would ad tomato paste to the stew base… 😎

[@janeb1400]

20 years ago lamb shanks were a cheap cut - not any more.

[@johnr797]

Every off cut seems to be expensive now because food shows make them trendy. Oxtail, even beef tongue can be pricey now.

[@benitohernandez7585]

The Virgo in me gets anxiety over how her shoes were just thrown in a pile!

[@Oddbisket]

You wouldn't survive in my house lol. We are happy when there is a pair 🤣

[@Fairland3]

Yum! I love lamb!

[@gabrielkehdi1412]

OMG, Luv u, Nigella, but you discarded 90% of that vanilla bean hahaha

[@dinahquillen9380]

She reminds me of Sofia Lauren but more gorgeous, if possible.

[@peruru84]

Imagine being this iconic.

[@sandymartyn5410]

And voile we have a tangle of taste,,,,I think she could make a "mud pie" taste interesting.

[@mariaschwartz447]

I like better braised than boiled.

[@johnr797]

Effortless supper ideas *crème brûlée*

[@thegreatestofalltimes.theg6530]

The world most beautiful women ever big up from Kongo kinshasa ❤️❤️🇨🇩🇨🇩

[@elisa7881]

One delicious item is missing on the table: Bread!

[@lapismosi8065]

You are so right!

[@ashli3728]

She’s so pretty👉👈

[@yousefjalal54]

❤️🌺

[@mangoswirl9822]

She's the big sister I never had.

[@sidviscus]

I would never make any of Nigella's recipes, they always look disgusting. But I do enjoy watching her talk about them.

[@bpattique8753]

Does anyone know which book of Nigella's these recipes are from ?

[@ophthodoc]

She is an amazing woman. Makes me want to switch teams. Almost.

[@moreofawave]

Stunning looking woman.

[@ammyt2082]

I've just found you, Nigella... And I'm already in love with you.

[@luispaz5245]

beutifull kitchen the chef to

[@nandhanaponnu4606]

👍👌👌👌

[@VINvIN344]

she's still sooo beautiful

[@latoyarattray5226]

No salt? A lit garlic and other spices would prob bring up the flavor base on the ingredients doesn't seem like much depth of flavor

[@jameelazeed1977]

احبها كانت تطلع على قناة فتافيت بالعربيه ..

[@carolineelmer4545]

Can the choc pudding recipe ingredients be found anywhere?

[@akankshapatwari4167]

I think online.

[@aashnasingh839]

8:17 -- Dalcha mutton !!!!

[@kristenp1606]

Why would you use water instead of stock?

[@zoyamufti833]

Her choice of words.

[@lydiapeterszollner7557]

What is the name of this dish

[@hansendesigns]

One small faux pas is that you shouldn’t put nuts in EVERY dish for dinner guests. Also, where’s the veg?

[@HS-fw2ps]

Raw egg 🥚!!!

[@nan7927]

A quand une traduction en Français svp ? 😊

[@nhaho7057]

this is a real women wow.

[@nestorcorneta484]

Preciosa

[@shoba914]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏super madam

[@evildjinn9]

Breast milk does not contain vanilla.