Nigella’s recipe for success... making a chocolate brownie in a dressing gown
SHE has become the queen of the double entendre and on her new show she certainly dished up some big ones.
Nigella Lawson created a storm on social media when she appeared in a slinky dressing gown to cook chocolate brownies, while littering her advice with innuendoes.
On the first outing of Nigella: At My Table on Monday night, she delighted fans with her black rubber gloves and saucy chat.
Viewers took to Twitter to sound their approval, both of her outfit and the way she described the importance of “impaling” the “flat bottom” when slicing potatoes. One tweeted: “Handling raw chicken in black gloves?! Oh #nigella.” Another wrote: “Only Nigella could get away with wearing black gloves and a dressing gown in a cookery programme. Love it.”
Others went into meltdown when Nigella, 57, admitted she was “enjoying roughing up a meringue”.
One said: “Nobody rocks a dressing gown and holds a bag of frozen peas quite like Nigella. Pure class.” Another enthused: “Nigella looks phenomenal. I wish I looked that sexy in my dressing gown.”
The popular TV chef gave a knowing smirk to the camera whenever she delivered a double entendre.
Fans had been given a taste of what to expect when the trailer revealed that Nigella would be making sandwiches in an upcoming show.
“I need to be alone with my sandwich,” she had purred towards the camera.
When preparing the Queen of Puddings Nigella created a sponge base, before spreading some jam and adding the meringue topping.
Explaining her technique and smirking to the camera, she said: “I’m going to spread it lightly and gently on top.”
She later prepared shoestring fries using a spiralizer, which she said she never used to make anything “masquerading as pasta”.
The chef said: “I need to perform a little surgery on them. This needs a flat bottom, unattractive in a person but very necessary for this procedure.”
And when attaching the potato to the spiralizer she said she would “impale it”.
Her new series, Nigella: At My Table, sees the TV cook teaching viewers how to conjure up simple, relaxed food to be shared around the table between friends and family.
At My Table is on Mondays at 8.30pm on BBC Two.