{"id":280,"date":"2010-10-15T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2011-12-22T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T11:26:09","slug":"nigella-kitchen-inspiration-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Nigella Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like watching Nigella on TV.  I&#8217;m aware that she&#8217;s unbearably posh and her smiles are too forced and too many but there&#8217;s still something about the show that does make me more inclined to go and cook something.  It could be the fantasy of having a kitchen like hers that keeps me tuning in.  <a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00vdlgh\/Nigella_Kitchen_Inspiration_Everywhere\/' >Last night&#8217;s episode<\/a> contained some very odd recipe choices.  Like Grasshopper Pie.  Just looking at the <a href='http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/nigella-lawson\/grasshopper-pie-recipe\/index.html' >recipe<\/a> makes me feel a bit queasy.  Then there was <a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/spaghetti_with_marmite_06786' >Spaghetti with Marmite<\/a>, which as both a Marmite and pasta fan am sure is great but it&#8217;s not really what I want to my TV chefs to do.  I want them to inspire me and teach me new things.  I don&#8217;t want to hear about something that I&#8217;ve probably already seen in this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/marmite_cookbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/marmite_cookbook-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"marmite_cookbook\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/marmite_cookbook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/marmite_cookbook.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like watching Nigella on TV. I&#8217;m aware that she&#8217;s unbearably posh and her smiles are too forced and too many but there&#8217;s still something about the show that does make me more inclined to go and cook something. It could be the fantasy of having a kitchen like hers that keeps me tuning in. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}