Name: Nigella Bites
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2000-08-30
Rating: 3.6

Overview

Intimate and conversational, award-winning domestic goddess Nigella Lawson shares her secrets for creating perfect meals for every occasion. From TV dinners to Temple Food and from ultimate All-Day breakfast to Party food, Nigella reveals how to make satisfying meals that suit your mood. Nigella offers practical tips and a set of hassle-free principles that make cooking an enjoyable part of life even when making indulgent recipes such as Turkish Delight Syllabub, Lemon Risotto or the divine Lamb-Shank Stew.

Seasons

Season 1

5 Episodes

2000

E01

Fast Food

8/30/2000·30m

Nigella Lawson provides a step by step guide to creating delicious recipes for every occasion, be it cooking for many or for those times when you are home alone. For Nigella entertaining means sharing time with friends, not spending hours slaving over a hot stove and the taste of the food is far more important than agonising over presentation. Today she tackles creating delicious food in a very short space of time. On the list are lemon linguine and chicken with couscous and a delicious chocolate dessert.

E02

Entertaining

9/6/2000·30m

For Nigella, entertaining means spending time with friends, not anguishing alone in the kitchen, and the taste of the food is far more important than its presentations. To take the strain out of home entertaining Nigella goes a Middle Eastern style meze. The food itself is not all from the Middle East, rather it's the pattern of eating that's emulated, with a series of dishes, including hummus with yogurt, olive oil and toasted pinenuts, lime-sharp guacamole studded with green chili, garlic and prosciutto with beans. This is easy cooking and easy eating.

E03

Family Food

9/13/2000·30m

We all have certain foods which comfort us because they remind us of childhood. Dishes that our parents prepared for us always retain a special place in our hearts. For Nigella, her ultimate ‘desert island dish' is her mother's steak bearnaise and, for dessert, her grandmother's poached pears with vanilla ice cream and dark, luscious chocolate sauce.

E04

Home Alone

9/20/2000·30m

Nigella Lawson cooks because she loves to eat. Intimate and conversational, her series, Nigella Bites, is a total immersion in Nigella's food life, focusing on the simple yet delicious food she cooks for herself, her family and friends and the food she fantasises about. Each week she shows how to create straightforward yet appetising dishes, and offers practical tips and a set of hassle-free principles that make cooking an enjoyable part of life rather than performance art. In this episode, Nigella focuses on the foods she loves to eat when she's home alone.

E05

Weekend

9/27/2000·30m

Nigella Lawson shares her favourite ‘weekend' recipes. Intimate and conversational, the programme focuses on the simple yet delicious food she cooks for herself, her family and friends. As ever, Nigella's mantra is “minimum effort for maximum pleasure” and, in this programme, she shows how to create straightforward yet appetising dishes that make cooking an enjoyable part of weekend life rather than performance art.

Season 2

11 Episodes

2001

E01

TV Dinners

12/29/2001·30m

No one who enjoys food can accept that good food is for the weekends only. But after a tiring day very few of us looks forward to hours spent in front of the stove. This programme sees Nigella preparing fast food for food lovers; A golden Thai curry, Lemony Squid in a salt and pepper crust and home-made ice cream, all created in minutes.

E02

Comfort Food

1/26/2002·30m

Nigella would say that all the food she cooks is comfort food, she is not a restaurant chef, she is an exceptional home cook with a family to feed. Her philosophy is that food must be reassuring and familiar not complicated and intimidating. Look out for Chicken soup with Kneidlach, a soothing Lemon risotto and for jilted lovers, Nigella has the chocolate cake for you.

E03

All Day Breakfast

12/22/2001·30m

Breakfast can be the best meal of the day so why not eat it all day? These are late-start, lazy day recipes; Asian spiced kedgeree, Welsh Rarebit muffins and Blackberry and Apple Kuchen.

E04

Trashy

11/20/2001·30m

Enjoying food and enjoying eating isn't about graduating with honours from the Good Taste University. In this programme Nigella says goodbye to the food snobs and purists and creates a space for a bit of kitsch in the kitchen. Elvis Presley's fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, Ham baked in Coke and Chocolate Lime Cheesecake.

E05

Temple Food

12/15/2001·30m

Every woman knows that too many late-nights and to much partying cannot be concealed indefinitely by miracle creams. There comes a time when we all have to give a little back. Temple Food is the soothing restorative foods that make us feel virtuous. Try the Vietnamese Chicken and mint , the gingery-hot Duck salad and the aromatic Tom Yam soup with Tiger Prawns.

E06

Childhood Memories

1/12/2001·24m

Nigella takes a trip down memory lane, recreating the tastes and flavours of her childhood from recipes belonging to her mother and grandmothers. Nigella prepares Italian sausages and lentils, and bread and butter pudding.

E07

Slow Cook Weekend

11/22/2001·30m

You've got more time to cook it, and you've got more time to eat it. You want the sort of cooking that gets on with itself slowly, so that you can putter about the house unencumbered and invite people to lunch without having to slave from first thing in the morning; 36 hour Roast Pork, Warm shredded lamb with mint and Pomegranate and Sticky toffee pudding.

E08

Supper Time

2/2/2002·30m

Inviting friends over is the perfect opportunity to perform and it's worth having a few recipes up your sleeve that look and taste fantastic but don't require a nerve of steel to take on; Lamb Shanks with couscous, Raw salmon with ginger and rice vinegar and Crème Brulee.

E09

Rainy Days

1/19/2002·30m

In Rainy Days where there is no pleasure in being outside, Nigella will advocate for the very real pleasure she finds when making elaborate and time consuming recipes. Chocolate Cloud Cake, Aubergine Involtini and home made pasta with meatballs.

E10

Party Girl

7/11/2001·30m

If the idea of catering for a party makes you want to lie down quietly in a darkened room, you're not alone. However, for children's birthdays or gatherings in a summer garden, there's always food you can do that makes you actually feel pleased you invited anyone in the first place; Union Square Café spiced nuts, Halloumi with Chilli and spatch-cock birds on a BBQ.

E11