Normal Person vs ... Nigella Lawson

You guys are EPIC.

And Morag is cool too…let’s all bake pies together!

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Is that what I think it is on top of the pie?!

Now I don’t want to quibble but what’s this business about normal people? Most normal people I know do know what to do with pastry (cold hands and lots of finger work, it’s plenty fun) and even Morag who admitted herself she didn’t cook much, figured out pretty quickly how to make good pastry.

So what’s your definition of a normal person? Someone who has lived on take-away meals their entire life? Someone who never cooks?

Yeah….my biggest problem with your ‘Normal vs … ’ Episodes is that I don’t agree with your definition of normal either. We discussed this a little the other night and came to the conclusion that while we think your normals are a little extreme, I am WELL wide of the mark.

I thought that a normal person should be able to make a white sauce, a tomato sauce and a chocolate sauce without recourse to a recipe. I still don’t think that’s especially unreasonable, and I think, for example, that all the people I work with would be able to do so… I work in an NHS laboratory, so I suppose technically we are above average in our average education but otherwise we’re pretty common or garden…

I shall have to see if I can convince any of my non-foodie friends to guinea pig for you in the future. Perhaps they’d turn out to be hapless too!

What is being depicted on said cake? Is that Nigella or the Kamikazes idea? What, you mean I have to watch a video?

@Morag – Though I am personally an aficionado of the genitals you have symbolized boldly on your pie crust (as opposed to lady bits), I believe the universal rule for pornography seekers of all types is that when the battle is between Cookbooks and the Internet, you’ll get Internet for the win, every time.

For your viewing pleasure, Nigella’s impressive rack can be ogled online here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-482665/Voluptuous-Nigella-spills-dress.html

…also, thanks to the whole KK team for disproving the total sexist bollocks spewed forth at the end of that Daily Mail article…

"A [not-cited, not-hyperlinked] Government study concluded that female celebrity chefs are harder to understand in print than their male counterparts, peppering their books with complex language.

It found almost half of Nigella’s were too tough for someone to understand without GCSE standard reading and numeracy skills.

Whereas some of Gordon Ramsay’s recipes are so simple they can be followed by a seven-year-old."

CLEARLY NOT.

Coming late to the party—a friend just forwarded me the Gordon Ramsay episode, which led me here…

I feel it only just to point out that Nigella does cover the pie crust basics at the very beginning of the “Pies” chapter. (Unless the UK printing of “Domestic Goddess” is way different from the US version, which seems unlikely.) So the information is not entirely self-contained, but it is right close by.

Applause to Morag, though. I’ve been baking for YEARS and I still can’t do a pie crust on the first roll-out, and that’s with the right tools and everything. Maybe I should try a wine bottle.