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Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers - Episode Guide

Season 1

Making It Up Isn't Making Do

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 9, 2009

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Food writer Nigel Slater creates a week's worth of simple, yet delicious meals. Using everyday ingredients, Nigel raids his cupboards, fridge and vegetable patch to rustle up sumptuous food that is both inspiring and achievable.

There is no need to write down complicated recipes as Nigel's unflustered style makes these feasts easy to remember. These are dishes you will love and meals you will cook time and time again.

Nigel encourages us to experiment in the kitchen and have the confidence to make dishes up as we go along. He also visits local allotment holders and creates a tasty feast from the fruits of their labour.

Leftovers

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 16, 2009

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Food writer Nigel Slater raids his cupboards, fridge and vegetable patch to create a week's worth of delicious meals.

This time, the remains of the Sunday roast are the starting point for Nigel, as he makes amazing food out of seemingly uninspiring leftovers. It may sound frugal, but Nigel uses his culinary creativity to show why he is one of the nation's favourite foodies.

The recipes are uncomplicated and easy to remember, but the resulting dishes are simply spectacular. Nigel also visits local allotment holders, and is challenged to cook something on the plot using the very freshest of ingredients.

What Grows Together

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 23, 2009

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Food writer Nigel Slater takes inspiration from his vegetable patch as he creates a week's worth of simple yet delicious meals. Nigel shows how combinations of ingredients that grow in the same place at thesame time often make the ideal starting point for a dish.

There is no need to write down complicated recipes as Nigel's unflustered style makes these feasts easy to remember. Nigel also visits local allotment holders and creates a tasty feast from the fruits of their labour.

Made for Each Other

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 30, 2009

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Food writer Nigel Slater uses some of his favourite food combinations as the starting point for a week's worth of delicious meals. Nigel raids his cupboards, fridge and vegetable patch to find new ways of cooking ingredients that just go perfectly together.

Most of us do not have time to follow cookery books, and in this series there is no need to write down complicated recipes as Nigel's unflustered style makes these feasts easy to remember. These are dishes you will love and meals you will cook time and time again.

If you find that you seem to cook the same meals every week, Nigel will inspire you to create something different and delicious from the kind of everyday foods you have in your weekly shop.

Opposites Attract

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2009

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Food writer Nigel Slater looks at ingredients that provide a real contrast on the plate, as he creates a week's worth of simple yet delicious meals.

Whether it is sweet and sour, hot and cold, or spicy and cool, the right flavour combinations can create great results. Many people don't have time to follow cookery books and in this series there is no need to write down complicated recipes, as Nigel's unflustered style makes the dishes easy to remember. Nigel also visits local allotment holders and creates a tasty feast from the fruits of their labours.

Winter Warmers

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2009

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As the nights draw in, food writer Nigel Slater makes the kind of food that can really brighten up dark rainy evenings. Nigel creates a week's worth of delicious meals that are simple to make. Nigel raids hiscupboards, fridge and veg patch to make comfort food that hits the spot and makes staying in a real treat.

Most people don't have time to follow cookery books and in this series there is no need to write down complicated recipes, as Nigel's unflustered style makes these feasts easy to remember.

Season 2

New Tricks

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2010

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Nigel 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.

Nigel also visits fellow passionate gardeners on allotments and gardens across the country, and creates the ultimate fresh feast from the fruits of their labour. This week, Nigel gives a new spin to beans on toast, with newbie gardeners Karina and Craig.

Making Things Go Further

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2010

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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.

Continuing on his travels to meet fellow gardeners, Nigel visits Kent, where with Mary Anne and daughter Evie, he rustles up some quick allotment fritters with their veg from their plot.

Spice Up Your Life

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2010

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Nigel Slater shows that spicy food is not all about hot chillies. 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 do not burn your mouth.

Nigel also visits Liverpool to visit allotment holders Rachel and Paul, and creates a tasty feast from the fruits of their labour.

Too Good to Waste

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Nov 24, 2010

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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.

Nigel also visits Bristol to meet the Wright family and cook something straight from their allotment plot.

Unsung Heroes

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2010

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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.

Nigel also visits Derbyshire and helps keen gardeners Ian and Kathy create amazing food from their plot.

Saints and Sinners

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2010

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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.

Escaping the kitchen to the rolling fields of Devon, Nigel meets the Barber family and rustles up a luxurious fool from the healthy contents of their fruit cage.

Sense of Adventure

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2010

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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.

Nigel then heads to Cornwall, where he unearths some rather unusual crops to cook with, thanks to the Bedser family and their experimental vegetable patch.

Planning Ahead

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Dec 22, 2010

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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.

Nigel also visits James and Melissa, whose London Barge is an oasis of fruit and veg. Nigel creates a delicious salad from the fruits of their labours.

Specials

New Year Suppers

Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Jan 3, 2010

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As many people consider having a healthy start to the New Year, Nigel Slater proves that even things that are good for you can taste amazing. Nigel uses seasonal produce to prepare a week's worth of sumptuousdishes that will delight and brighten any winter table. Nigel also tidies his garden and plans for the growing season ahead as his thoughts turn to the food his garden will provide in the coming year. All the dishes are delicious, hearty and incredibly easy to make.

Christmas Suppers

Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Dec 26, 2010

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Nigel Slater transforms Christmas leftovers into scrumptious meals which make the prospect of festive entertaining a treat rather than a terror. After the pressure cooker of preparing the main Christmas meal is over, Nigel shows that nothing in the kitchen need be as stressful again. He creates simple dishes from leftovers and seasonal veg, ensuring that nothing from the most expensive food shop of the year goes to waste.

As he prepares his garden for a whole new year of vegetable and fruit growing, Nigel also raids his wintery plot, local allotments and the kitchen garden at Chatsworth House to show how to get the very best from seasonal vegetables.

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