Nigella Bites: From Family Meals to Elegant Dinners--Easy, Delectable Recipes for Any Occasion

by Nigella Lawson, Francesca Yorke (Photographer)

Overview

With her charming style, delicious recipes, bestselling cookbooks, and popular cooking show, Nigella Lawson has become a household name—symbolizing all that is sumptuous and pleasurable about food.

In Nigella Bites, Nigella shares her favorite recipes that are easy to make after a busy day at the office, perfect to linger over during a lazy weekend, or fun to make with kids on a rainy afternoon. All the recipes are delectable to read, dreamy to look at, and, of course, delicious to eat. Whether cooking Pasta E Fagioli or baking Orange Breakfast Muffins, Nigella knows just how to achieve maximum flavor with minimum effort.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786868698
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	11/13/2002
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	7.87(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nigella Lawson is the author of How to Eat, How to Be a Domestic Goddess (for which she won the British Author of the Year Award), Nigella Bites, Forever Summer, and Feast. She has been profiled in the New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, and many other publications. She lives in London with her two children.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

January 6, 1960

Place of Birth:

London, England

Education:

Degree in Modern and Medieval Languages, Oxford University, 1979

Website:

http://www.stylenetwork.com/Shows/Nigella/

Read an Excerpt

Easy Sticky-Toffee Pudding

This draws on a the culinary technology of the surprise pudding — that amazing affair by which, on baking, a layer of sponge is formed, under which evolves a thick and luscious sauce — while playing with the flavours of a traditional sticky-toffee pudding. True, if you're feeding 12 people you'll need to make two, but given how almost provocatively easy it is, that's no big deal. I can see this stretching to 8, maybe even a little bit beyond, but I wouldn't want to ask much more of it... Better to have too much than give rise to even the slightest tremor of ration-anxiety at the table. Never Knowingly Undercatered, that's me.

For the cake:
100 g dark muscovado sugar
175 g self-raising flour
125 ml full-fat milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
50 g unsalted butter, melted
200 g chopped, rolled dates

For the sauce:
200 g dark muscovado sugar
approx. 25 g unsalted butter in little blobs
500 ml boiling water

Preheat the oven to 190°Cgas mark 5 and butter a 1 12 litre capacity pudding dish.

Combine the 100g dark muscovado sugar with the flour in a large bowl. Pour the milk into a measuring jug, beat in the egg, vanilla and melted butter and then pour this mixture over the sugar and four, stirring — just with a wooden spoon — to combine. Fold in the dates then scrape into the prepared pudding dish. Don't worry if it doesn't look very full: it will do by the time it cooks.

Sprinkle over the 200g dark muscovado sugar and dot with the butter. Pour over the boiling water (yes, really!) and transfer to the oven. Set the timer for 45minutes, though you might find the pudding needs 5 or 10 minutes more. The top of the pudding should be springy and spongy when it's cooked; underneath, the butter, dark muscovado sugar and boiling water will have turned into a rich, sticky sauce. Serve with vanilla ice cream, crème fraîche, double or single cream as you wish.

Serves 6–8.

Copyright 2001 by Nigella Lawson

Editorial Reviews

British cooking sensation Nigella Lawson makes hearts beat faster, causing even the generally staid I to gush: "Cook, columnist and the Third Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Nigella Lawson has reinvented our notion of domestic bliss." On the evidence of Nigella Bites, we doubt that either the alleged Nos. 1 and 2 could compete with Lawson in the kitchen. These recipes, cooked up to accompany a ten-part TV series, catch Nigella in free-spirited concoctions, from quick meals and party dips to elaborate, affordable banquets.

Cooking with Nigella is a joy.

Bookpage

easygoing comfort food.

USA Today

Her enthusiasm is infectious.

New York Times Book Review