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Last night Delia Smith was back with her latest series. It's just called Delia, nothing else. The accompanying book is one of the fastest selling non-fiction titles of all time, so this was bound to be good...right?
WRONG!
It a cringe-inducing 30 minutes, Delia borrowed TV concepts used years ago by Jamie and Nigella (we're all on first name terms here) and taught us how to cheat at making dinner from a series of preprepared items and a second mortgage.
Now we know that everything Delia recommends will fly out of the shops. All I can say is I wish I had shares in Aunt Bessie, because Delia's liberal use of frozen mashed potato means it's bound to be a best seller - who knew it even existed? I have nothing against quick cooking per se, but it's pretty easy to knock up real food without resorting to frozen mash, precooked salmon, preboiled quail eggs, instant cheese sauce, and pre-grated cheese. I mean if you're going to go to that much expense for one meal, why not go out? At least you won't have to wash up!
Do you think Delia's the Queen of convenience or would you rather boil your own egg?
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WHY DO WE WATCH THESE STUPID TV PROGRAMMES? DOES ANYONE USE THEIR BRAIN ANYMORE? WHO HAS THE CASH TO BUY ALL THESE INGREDIENTS?
Posted by: garyfheron on Tue Mar 18 12:06PM | Report abuseFrozen mash... Yuk!! tinned mince ...ghastly !! the suggested recipes during the war had more imagination in them. I used to love her programmes, what is she thinking about...
Posted by: lofthousebe on Wed Mar 19 12:14PM | Report abusei watched it for the first time and seeing that dish she put together of chips with hard boiled eggs and gunge on the top made me want to puke!! yuk
Posted by: cag77uk on Mon Mar 24 04:53PM | Report abuse