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Lazy Sunday: Nadiya Bakes
Dear Ann,
We’ve got MDK’s own Cristina Shiffman to thank for this one: the Netflix series Nadiya Bakes.
Coming off my recent re-watch of the first season of the Great British Baking Show, it’s perfect. Each episode is a zippy rundown, in a sunny home kitchen, of classic-with-a-twist recipes that are mouth-wateringly photographed. The host, chef and author Nadiya Hussain, gives you the recipe and her tips in a rapid-fire, sunny voiceover. She loves to bake, and her joy is infectious.
I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, but at this moment I could murder a lavender-lemon scone pizza, or a cupcake with clotted cream in the batter and melted strawberry ice cream in the icing. Don’t get me started on the savories! That’s where I could really fall down and not be able to get up. Nadiya also features guest bakers she admires, so there’s a lot in each short episode.
At this stage of winter, with spring—and vaccines—coming tantalizingly into view, this upbeat series is perfect company for a lazy afternoon of knitting. Cristina attests that the series led her to get the cookbook, which led her to do a lot of baking and enjoy the series even more.
For a sample recipe, here’s Nadiya’s take on brownies.
Sounds delicious to me.
Love,
Kay
Yaaaaaaay. Let’s just bake and bake and bake.
Oh my goodness! I am so baking a King Arthur’s Flour cake today as vanillaly as possible!!!!!
WOW!! I’m making these today!
Ya gotta love her…”Let’s bake eat and be happy!” Thanks so much for this!
Thanks for the recommendation! I just watched the first episode and it already my newest obsession!
Perfect timing! Last evening I just watched the end of Season 3 where Nadia won and I went to sleep wishing I could see more of her.
Wow ! gonna try it for sure
Love her zippy wardrobe,too, Did you see the cheerful knit sweater in the Onion Pretzels episode!
She has some other shows on netflix, too, if you search on her name. This book (in American measurements) is being released this summer, but the same book is available on Amazon.uk right now with metrics. She also has several other books. I liked her sassy attitude from the time on her GBBO season when she was working away and Paul Hollywood came lounging up behind her and said “Happy, Nadiya?” She looked at him and said “Why, yes! Happy Paul?” I about fell over laughing.
Watching Nadiya’s evolution from terrifically shy and uncertain in the early episodes to the colorful, wonderful person she has become has been a joy. I follow her on IG and she does have another Netflix show which is Time to Cook in which she shows a particular family a good meal hack and has a segment that follows an ingredient from ‘field to table’ as it were. Fabulous.
I LOVE Nadiya’s time to cook!
Ditto. Seeing Nadiya come out of her shell on GBBO was one of the best treats ever on the show. I was thrilled when she won, but didn’t realize she had this amazing and wide-reaching afterlife. My London daughter says she’d even seen her on a variety show there. And those brownies! OMG.
Hmm, did I just not see it, is there a PDF to download anywhere?
Spent my Sunday bingeing on Nadiya!!!