Say it Ain't So, Nigella!

O Nigella, tell me you were joking ... maybe you just binge-watched several series of 'Allo 'Allo ...

I have arrived very late to this meme, and now must feed my procrastination by googling Nigella's response to the mockery I'm sure this clip engendered.

[a few moments later]

Here is a video that covers the general response. And the kitchen goddess herself tweeted:

As for me, I mock not. After all, she was making mashed potatoes!

Piglet Retrospective XIII

This post is part of the Piglet Retrospective, but it is also representing comfort food. My grandmother's grandmother came from Minsk, the potato capital of all the Russias. I love potatoes in all shapes and recipes. I believe that potato is probably part of my DNA. And so, when driving through Wyoming, I felt compelled to visit Devils Tower. I did not pay the $10 entry fee to the park, because what I really wanted was this view. And what does it have to do with potatoes? 

Ha-mayvin ya-vin.

Nu, the tower plays a prominent part in Steven Spielberg's movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", an old favourite of mine. So I went to have a look, and Piglet posed.