Nigella: At My Table review: Nigella wafts back with yet more toast

Before you read on, any offence caused by an unintentional double entendre is… unintentional. 

Nigella: At My Table (BBC2, Monday) is the latest adventure in the kitchen from the grande dame of food, who wins the title on points from Mary Berry as she is the daughter of a lord. 

It is hard to believe anything you see in this series. 

For one, the outside of what purported to be her house seemed to change from white stucco finish in the first shots to a Victorian brick fascia later. It wasn’t an improvement. 

Or did she have the need, I wonder, for some emergency rendering on the front of her house in the intervening 12 minutes? Perhaps there was an earth tremor in South Kensington caused by SUVs crashing over the speed bumps. 

Or, as was probably the case, these were simply random shots of posh central London – “Nigella’s hood” – from which she draws a chummy collection of friendly diners who grace her courtyard for a free nosh-up each series. 

The second episode began with her wafting in from “upstairs” with a sleepy but lofty air. 

She had waffles on her mind for breakfast, so much so that she’d forgotten to change out of her dressing gown into her day clothes.

In these scary times it’s unwise to pass comment on a woman cooking in her bathrobe. 

But it would be sensible, Nigella, to stand away from flames. After some relevant waffling, Nigella’s breakfast was done.

Her pièce de résistance, however, was what we can only call a ham and cheese toastie; what she would call her brie, Parma ham and fig toasted sandwich. 

An improvement on her avocado on toast? Yes. It’s two slices of bread. 

But I am indebted to Nigella Lawson for the food reference of the year: “I always just add Aleppo pepper…” 

What? From where? I’ll just get my body armour.

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