Nigella Bites
Intimate and conversational, Nigella Bites is part guide and part food confessional. Each episode is a total immersion in Nigella’s food life, focusing on the simple yet delicious food she cooks for herself, her family and friends, as well as the food she fantasizes about. This is real food for real people, all cooked in her own kitchen. For Nigella, entertaining means being with friends, not anguishing alone in the kitchen; the taste of the food is far more important than agonizing over presentation. With her help, you'll learn how to create straightforward but appetizing dishes. Plus, her practical tips and hassle-free principles will help make cooking an enjoyable part of your life.
About The Show
Intimate and conversational, Nigella Bites is part guide and part food confessional. Each episode is a total immersion in Nigella’s food life, focusing on the simple yet delicious food she cooks for herself, her family and friends, as well as the food she fantasizes about. This is real food for real people, all cooked in her own kitchen. For Nigella, entertaining means being with friends, not anguishing alone in the kitchen; the taste of the food is far more important than agonizing over presentation. With her help, you'll learn how to create straightforward but appetizing dishes. Plus, her practical tips and hassle-free principles will help make cooking an enjoyable part of your life.
Episodes
S1 | E1
Fast Food
Nigella Lawson shares her tips for quick and satisfying meals with recipes for lemon linguine, salmon and mushy peas and griddled chicken with herbed spiked yogurt and couscous. Plus a rich chocolate pudding for dessert.
S1 | E2
Entertaining
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.
S1 | E3
Family Food
We all have certain foods that 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 bernaisse and, for pudding, her grandmother's poached pears with vanilla ice cream and a dark, luscious chocolate sauce.
S1 | E4
Home Alone
Nigella focuses on the foods she loves to eat when she's cooking for one. One of her favorite and most regular lunches is salad with pancetta and Parmesan. Next, she makes lamb chops with a garlicky tahini and lemon sauce that provides that little extra zing. Nigella also shares her South East Asian flavored mussels.
S1 | E5
Weekend
Nigella Lawson shares her favorite weekend recipes. She focuses on the simple yet delicious food she cooks for herself, her family and friends. Stews are great for weekends. A particular favorite of Nigella's is Greek lamb stew with past. Weekends are also great for baking. Nigella shares her recipe for Clementine cake. Nigella wraps up her weekends with a beautiful Sunday roast.
S1 | E6
TV Dinners
At the end of a long day, cooking can seem like just another exhausting chore. So Nigella shares those simple foods you can face cooking on those days when you just have to hit the kitchen running. Mozzarella en curtoza is the ultimate TV dinner. It's quick to make, and you can eat it with your hands. Nigella also shares her Chicken Chorizo and Cannelloni Beans with Kale recipe. And for dessert Nigella makes vanilla ice cream with toasted pine nuts and warm honey.
S1 | E7
Comfort Food
Nigella shares recipes of her favorite comfort foods. First up are rich and creamy mashed potatoes, which can also be used as leftovers to make Salmon Cakes. Nigella shares her recipe for Risotto, which she considers not only comfort food but comfort cooking. And you can't talk about comfort foods without making a rich chicken soup. Finally, Nigella shares her recipe for the ultimate comfort food: chocolate cake.
S1 | E8
All Day Breakfast
Why be constrained by a time table? Enjoy breakfast food day or night. For Nigella breakfast starts with pancakes and muffins. Then she shares a recipe for Masala Omelettes, a nice rich Indian omelette. And no late breakfast can go without an accompaniment. Nigella shares her recipe for Bloody Marys, and ends her meal with Kugel, a sweet German cake.
S1 | E9
Fun Foods
Nigella creates kitsch in the kitchen.
S1 | E10
Feel Good Food
Nigella shares recipes for the foods she believes are soothing, restorative and that make you feel better.
S1 | E11
Childhood Memories
Nigella believes cooking is really a personal history of our lives, and today she shares her favorite childhood recipes with her children.
S1 | E12
Slow and Steady
Nigella shares recipes that are best prepared over the weekend when you have more time on your hands. She shares a recipe for a warm Shredded Lamb and Mint Salad, and a pepper and feta salad and turkish delight.
S1 | E13
Suppertime Favorites
The best food is often the simplest food.
S1 | E14
Rainy Days
When time is tight, fast assemply food is great. But on housebound and rainy weekends, I want to savor a little domestic warmth, and enjoy some laid back stove side pottering for a change.
S1 | E15
Party Girl
Nigella's found a way of providing good food while still enjoying the party.