BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 07:25 AM

Don't fancy reading a cookery book on the loo, it's a bit like before and after. Or reading a sex guide in a maternity ward, no.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 09:49 PM

Can't you just pick one out at the butcher's shop?

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 09:04 PM

Useful when the toilet paper runs out, I suppose ...

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 06:28 PM

Nigella also keeps cookery books next to the bog.. Ewwww!

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 06:14 PM

Yup..but mine are white ones..

Best way to see my cooking, in very dim light.. ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 05:46 PM

You mean those little coloured Christmas lights?

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 05:18 PM

She has fairy lights in her kitchen. I mean...HOW can you NOT love a woman who has fairy lights in her kitchen? ;0)

I have fairy lights... :0)

I have books in my kitchen too.

My Aunty Peggy had an entire bookcase filled with books in her...toilet!
Honest! Took me quite by surprise the first time I went in there...A good place to think, I guess.. :0)

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Penny S.
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 04:11 PM

I went off Nigella when I saw her cooking with shelves of books behind her - I do feel books need to be separated from hot grease.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: theleveller
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 12:54 PM

Whoops - meant to add that Jools' first degree is in food technology - I'm hopeless at science.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: theleveller
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 12:51 PM

"Women mostly tend to cook for the family and their likes and dislikes rather than be a gourmet cook, men seem to make better chefs because they probably go into the science of it more."

The deal in our house is that Jools cooks during the week (I don't get home until after 7) and I cook at the weekends - all good family favourites.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: C-flat
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 11:38 AM

... and Lasagne fit fot a seizure..?

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 11:37 AM

Women mostly tend to cook for the family and their likes and dislikes rather than be a gourmet cook, men seem to make better chefs because they probably go into the science of it more. I used to like the Galloping Gourmet Graham Kerr he was the first one to replace all the fattening things in a dish with a healthy alternative, whether it tasted the same we just had his word for that.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 11:33 AM

I knew a woman once, who made guacamole to die FROM

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 11:30 AM

My 14 year old son makes lasagna fit for a Ceasar and his guacamole is to die for.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: C-flat
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 10:11 AM

You're forgetting Playing Football and Drinking Beer

Both very important skills that us men can excel in!

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 09:57 AM

Okay, I think the other two might be....

Farming (growing and gathering food).

And building homes and other structures.

Without those 3 things well in hand a society is in big trouble.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: John P
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 09:50 AM

Sexist pigs of the world unite! (I'm talking about YOU, Lizzie!)

-- Just a light-hearted joke, you understand.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 09:32 AM

Most of the great chefs are men. I think cooking is one of the 3 most important skills a person can master in this life. I'd have to think carefully to decide on the other two.... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: theleveller
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 08:56 AM

"It is so easy even a man could do it."

OOOOOOOH!!!! Plenty of men can cook well, I'll have you know! I once came fourth in the North East heat of Masterchef.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: theleveller
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 07:59 AM

In my day it was Fanny Craddock - and the sex-interest was when Johnny said that he hoped all our donuts looked like Fanny's.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 07:02 AM

It's what you are inside that counts really and anyway one man's meat is another man's poison. As far as I am concerned I've always rather fancied Clark Kent than Superman.

On the otherhand my younger son thinks Anne Widdicombe is wonderful so there is no accounting for taste.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 05:25 AM

Lizzie, women of all shapes keep finding partners. So all this negative image supposedly sending out a bad immage of your sex to the world, doesn't seem to have stopped marriage, or love.
I bet there's as many lonely size zeroes, as there are Nigella sized, or larger.
It's all PC shite.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 05:00 AM

Nigella does an amazing cranberry sauce that takes no time which I am going to do this Christmas. It is so easy even a man could do it. Thanks Nigella!

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: C-flat
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 04:38 AM

Only thing is.... she doesn't make me want to cook.
I rather just watch her cook!
Delicious!

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 04:32 AM

"...All those cream sauces and pies. Mostly on her hips."

REAL women HAVE *hips*, Richard.... ;0)

Contrary to how so many fashion designers want to depict us, most of are not boy-shaped, heroin-addicted thin, or a Size Zero.

We come in all different shapes and sizes, and the vast majority of women are curvey, going in and out..and er..sometimes, out a little further in all the right places... ;0)

We may end up thinnner when we're older, but for gawd's sake, let us revel in our hips and all our other curves whilst we still can.

"Cream tea, Darling?"

"Oooh! YES, please!"

:0)


And yes, before anyone gets upset, slender lassies are also lovely... :0)

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: C-flat
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 03:57 AM

and switching italics off     now!

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: C-flat
Date: 01 Nov 10 - 03:56 AM

I think it's hilarious how many suggestive words and expressions she manages in half an hour like "Full frontal" and "inner-thigh-wobble"!!
I only know this because I'm always watching with my tongue hanging out!
The show be corny but at least she doesn't look as though a good meal would render her incapable, which, in my book, makes her desirable!!
C-flat

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Gurney
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 07:26 PM

Neither can Nigella. In my opinion.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 05:45 PM

I have read "The Queen and I". Loved it! ;-) Sue Townsend can do no wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 05:31 PM

I don't fancy her at all. All those cream sauces and pies. Mostly on her hips.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: bobad
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 05:23 PM

I use Nigella seeds in Indian dishes.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 05:17 PM

Have you ever read 'The Queen & I' by Sue Townsend, LH, it'll have you in even more stitches than Adrian Mole...It's so funny. I used to have the audio version of it, read by the wonderful Miriam Margoyles. If you can track that down it's well worth listening to as Miriam makes it *even* funnier. Sue's blind now, I seem to recall...

I chuckle over the words Nigella uses, sooooo loaded with sexuality, she just about manages to keep her face straight,although her eyes twinkle just that little bit too much.

She's married to Charles Saatchi...and he's the chap who bought that frozen bust, made of the artist's blood, then stored it in his freezer at home...Sadly, for him, one of the workmen he had round doing some work, turned the freezer off when he had to move it...
Uh Oh!   ;0)   Honestly, what a horrible thing to have in your freezer! Art, my arse! ;0)

Before him, I think she her previous husband had throat cancer, and she nursed him through some traumatic times, right to the end...so it's good to see her looking happy again.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 05:10 PM

Bobble Heads.....everywhere these days.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 05:07 PM

Ah, yes!!! The formidable Nigella Lawson and her lovely accent and sparkling eyes. I seem to recall that Adrian Mole was quite taken with her. (He's a character in some hysterically funny books written by Sue Townsend.) It's a real thrill for me, a Canadian, to finally see Ms Lawson in the flesh and doing her cooking show!

"You pretentious lot 'ere wot are castin' aspersions and waxin' all cri'tical, loik, can all just bloody well SOD OFF!" - as Mrs Olive Whatnoll would say... ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 04:57 PM

Well, SORRREEEE, Madamn Lizzie!

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 04:25 PM

"FOOD is the attraction here.....not sex. Geeze."

Oh, fer goodness sake...lighten up a bit, eh. It's simply a light-hearted thread..

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:56 PM

If boys want to EAT, they will learn to cook. Nuff said. FOOD is the attraction here.....not sex. Geeze.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:29 PM

"How To Get Boys To Cook!" - round the Mudcat I think The Hairy Bikers might be more likely to achieve that.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:18 PM

Nigella is very sexually attractive and she knows it. And though there's nothing wrong in exploiting that for the camera, it is all a tad too self-consciously played and theatrical for me. Of course I'm not a bloke so what do I know, but as far as women currently on telly who I think are quite sexy go, I like Claudia Winkleman and Dawn Porter - mainly for their naughty personalities I think.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 03:02 PM

Thought the Chefette was a Kenwood hand held mixer we had that also could be expanded on to use its own bowl.

Pip's current mixer is a prospero

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 02:59 PM

Heehee...you *have* to watch this, it's so funny! LOL


Fanny and Johnny in:
How To Cook Fish Fingers and Not Murder Your Husband or your Mother-in-Law ;0)

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 02:50 PM

Cripes! It's only a bit of fun, lads...

Here you go then, a Chefette, just for you:

The *very* sexy.....Miss...

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 02:35 PM

I'm afraid Nigella Lawson is one of those people who makes me grateful that remote controls were invented. Along with Jonathan Ross and a few more (including Nigella's father.)

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 02:32 PM

Of course Richard, it's pure escapist fantasy for those of us who faced with the realities of 'the good life' would flounder hopelessly with it. We've all got to get our vicarious kicks somewhere. River Cottage is a bit like self-sufficiency porn.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 02:23 PM

AFAIK Fearnley-Whittingstall at River Cottage has an ARMY of gardeners working for him. Real back to nature stuff. Not.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 02:22 PM

She's acting. She married so well, she can afford to do this food based pantomime.
Sorry Lizzie, but I find her shallow and inconsequential.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 10:46 AM

"Dress up like Nigella"?

No way!

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 10:45 AM

Gawd...you guys are giving up!

Come on, Rappy, look *deep* into Nigella's cherries and wonder...

:0)

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 10:37 AM

Me think Richard right.

Subject: RE: BS: How To Get Boys To Cook!
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 09:51 AM

I gave up watching her telly progs a while back because I find her 'conversation' rather too studied - too much like reading a piece of food journalism in some glossy Sunday supplement for me. All most food programmes are about is vicarious gratification. I like River Cottage best because it gets lots of extra points for 'lifestyle' escapism.