Spice Up Your Life
Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers - S2 - E3
Nigel Slater shows that spicy food isn't all about hot chillis. Using a range of everyday spices, he creates a week's worth of tasty dishes that will appeal to everyone. Thai spiced aubergines, chilli feta and a quick korma are all simple dishes that combine warm and hearty spices, but don't burn your mouth.
Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers: Season 2 - 8 Episode s
2x1 - New Tricks
November 3, 2010
Nigel Slater creates a week's worth of simple-yet-delicious meals. In this episode, he transforms favourite classic recipes by giving them a new twist. Whether it's a makeover for the traditional cottage pie, or an exciting new version of the time-honoured apple tart, Nigel proves that just by taking the basic principles and altering them slightly, it's easy to jazz up our most-loved dishes.
2x2 - Making Things Go Further
November 10, 2010
Nigel Slater raids his cupboards, fridge and vegetable patch to create a week's worth of delicious meals. In this edition, he demonstrates how to make our ingredients go just that little bit further. Whether it's adding grated beetroot to make a tasty meatball supper feed the masses, or putting the spotlight on a small garden harvest to make a sensuous pudding, Nigel's clever tricks and inspired ideas show that you can often make bountiful feasts with apparently few ingredients.
2x3 - Spice Up Your Life
November 17, 2010
Nigel Slater shows that spicy food isn't all about hot chillis. Using a range of everyday spices, he creates a week's worth of tasty dishes that will appeal to everyone. Thai spiced aubergines, chilli feta and a quick korma are all simple dishes that combine warm and hearty spices, but don't burn your mouth.
2x4 - Too Good to Waste
November 24, 2010
Nigel Slater shows how to make simple delicious feasts out of ingredients that at first seem to have seen better days. Stale bread, brown bananas and hard cheese are all transformed to make meals that are truly delicious. Nigel's cheese puddings, banana and chocolate cake and bacon and squash pan fry are all guaranteed to make mouths water.
2x5 - Unsung Heroes
December 1, 2010
Nigel Slater creates a week's worth of simple but delicious meals from ingredients that are often overlooked. A sumptuous beetroot cake, a lentil and chard stew and a beef and ale casserole are all put together effortlessly as Nigel inspires us with his culinary ideas.
2x6 - Saints and Sinners
December 8, 2010
Nigel Slater creates a week's worth of simple but delicious meals from ingredients that are often overlooked. Mouth-watering chocolate cookies and crispy duck with honey and figs prove that a little bit of what you fancy does you good. Then to balance the scales, Nigel makes a couple of dishes full of clean-tasting flavours, with fresh herbs, tomatoes and crunchy greens - but whether saints or sinners, every dish will taste truly divine.
2x7 - Sense of Adventure
December 15, 2010
Nigel Slater creates a week's worth of simple but delicious meals from ingredients that are often overlooked. In this episode, Nigel proves that adventurous doesn't have to mean complicated. Just by exploring unusual ingredients like squid and rabbit, or being a bit more open to how we cook things, Nigel shows how easy it is to inject some excitement back into the nightly supper routine.
2x8 - Planning Ahead
December 22, 2010
Nigel Slater shows how, with a little forward planning, all the stress can be taken out of cooking. Cooking after a busy day at work is often the last thing you want to do, but Nigel inspires us with a range of dishes that can be easily adapted throughout the week.