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Nigellissima episode 7 - Nigella loves Christmas and for her a party is the perfect way to celebrate. She kicks off festivities with a glittering buffet party. For her Italian inspiration Nigella travels to Venice, a city that has been close to her heart ever since her first visit 20 years ago. Armed with recipe and party ideas for her festive feast, Nigella returns to create a tasty Christmas buffet menu for her guests.  Nigella gets the party started with her own ruby red Venetian cocktail, served with quick and easy canapes like parmesan shortbreads and panettone stuffing squares. To follow is Nigella's new approach for the big bird - a turkey breast stuffed with Italian sausage and marsala steeped cranberries, served alongside a dazzling renaissance salad and a hearty brussel sprout pasta. Guests are treated to irresistible desserts, including a marshmallow cappuccino pavlova and a stunning Italian Christmas pudding cake - adorned with chocolate chips and pomegranate seeds - t

In Nigellissima episode 6, Nigella Lawson continues to share her passion for creating mouthwatering Italian food, treating her supper guests to a sumptuous feast of lamb chops with mint, chilli and golden potatoes, served alongside roasted red onions with fennel and basil. Dessert is a true Anglo-Italian affair with a ruby red plum and amaretti crumble.  There is also Nigella's easy no-stir farro risotto with mushrooms, and chocolate pasta with a dark butterscotch sauce - a perfect supper for those nights when you can't decide if you're in the mood for savoury or sweet. Nigellissima episode 6 recipes:   Roasted red onions with basil [caption id="attachment_3278" align="alignnone" width="300"] Roasted red onions with basil[/caption] I can’t claim that this recipe is exactly Italian, but I came across red onions for the first time when I was in Italy so it inspired me. The flavour I add is very Italian though – fennel seeds. I use the basil mor

Nigella Lawson continues in Nigellissima episode 5 to share her passion for creating mouthwatering Italian food. Inspired by a scribbled note she once found in an old Italian kitchen, Nigella starts with her take on the classic light and sunny yoghurt pot cake.  Nigella's niece and nephew are recruited to make - and enjoy - a shortcut sausage meatball supper, while a girls' night in sees Nigella rustling up a super quick dish of squid and prawns with marjoram and chilli. The evening ends with Nigella's tiramisini - a lighter, quicker version of traditional tiramisu. Nigellissima episode 5 recieps:   Yoghurt Pot Cake [caption id="attachment_3256" align="alignnone" width="300"] Yoghurt Pot Cake[/caption] I love this breakfast ciambella, which I call my yoghurt pot cake. It is one of the traditional cakes of Italy. I found the recipe in an Italian house one summer, and of course, I copied it down. It's a very sunny cake. You use your yoghurt

Nigellissima episode 4 - Nigella shares her culinary talent as she presents delicious Italian-inspired food. In this episode, Nigella reveals a secret passion for one of the tastes of Italy with her dark and deviant liquorice pudding, before introducing us to the joys of fregola - the Sardinian sun-dried and toasted couscous - in a light, tomato-hued recipe of couscous with clams.  Nigella's dinner party guests are served a simple yet sumptuous meal of butterflied leg of lamb and baby aubergines with oregano and roasted red onion. Dessert is an irresistible meringue gelato cake with sharp raspberries and a dark chocolate sauce. Nigellissima episode 4 recipes:   Butterflied leg of lamb [caption id="attachment_3225" align="alignnone" width="300"] Butterflied leg of lamb[/caption] This has to be the easiest, speediest way of cooking a roast. I just give it a fast track marinating treatment with some balsamic vinegar, olive oil and salt. Once it’s garlan

In Nigellissima episode 3, Nigella shares the secrets of delicious Italian-inspired food. She treats her friends to an Italian-style supper of pork loin stuffed with parma ham and oregano, served alongside her speedy mock mash and lazy person's vignarola - a recipe based on the traditional Roman spring stew of broad beans, peas and artichokes.  For her pasta dish, Nigella is cooking spelt spaghetti - an earthy choice to match a fresh, no-cook olive and anchovy sauce. And Nigella's weekend indulgence is sambuca kisses - delicate, doughnut-like treats, so light that one would never be enough. Nigellissima episode 3 recipes:   Spelt Spaghetti with olives and anchovies [caption id="attachment_3080" align="alignnone" width="300"] Spelt Spaghetti with olives and anchovies[/caption] This spaghetti and herb flecked, fragrant sauce are made for each other. Its modest appearance utterly belies its magnificence. One taste and it’s kapow! It’s great cold too

In Nigellissima episode 2, Nigella Lawson's mission to show how easy it is to bring the spirit of Italy into the kitchen continues as she shares the secrets of her celebratory, yet simple, Italian roast chicken, served alongside a sunny saffron orzotto. Dessert comes courtesy of Nigella's surprisingly easy coffee ice cream, inspired by lazy days spent in the ice cream parlours of Florence, and an extra treat is presented in the form of a chocolate olive oil cake. There's also a silky pasta dish with courgettes, which elevates a quick fridge foray into a languorous late night treat. Nigellissima episode 2 recipes Pasta with courgettes [caption id="attachment_3019" align="alignnone" width="300"] Pasta with courgettes[/caption] Sometimes the simplest food makes for the best dishes and the vibrancy of flavour with this recipe is extraordinary. I should really call this pasta with zucchini this being an Italian recipe. To make it you'll need: c

In Nigellissima episode 1, Nigella Lawson shows how easy it is to bring the spirit of Italy into the kitchen and on to the plate - using ingredients available in any English supermarket. With her passion for Italy and Italian cooking - she lived and worked in Florence before starting a degree in modern languages - Nigella's mouthwatering dishes have their roots in tradition but take us into fresh territory, knowledge worn light of touch but full on taste. In this first show, Nigella introduces us to her love of Italian food through a spectacular yet simple Sicilian pasta with tomatoes, garlic and almonds. There's a midweek family feast of tagliata - a juicy steak cut into thin slices - served with crisp, fluffy Tuscan fries. Plus Nigella's 'eggs in purgatory' - a late night fiery dish inspired by her early party days in Florence. Nigellissima episode 1 recipes: Eggs in purgatory [caption id="attachment_3002" align="alignnone" width="300"