Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers
Season 2
Nigel Slater demonstrates straightforward, down to earth cooking, filmed at his home vegetable patch and on friends' allotments. Each programme takes us through a week's worth of simple suppers.
Where to Watch Season 2
17 Episodes
- New Tricks
E1New TricksNigel 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. - Making Things Go Further
E2Making Things Go FurtherNigel 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. - Spice Up Your Life
E3Spice Up Your LifeNigel 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. - Too Good to Waste
E4Too Good to WasteNigel 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. - Saints and Sinners
E6Saints and SinnersNigel 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. - Sense of Adventure
E7Sense of AdventureNigel 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. - Series 2 Cutdowns : Too Good to WasteE9
Series 2 Cutdowns : Too Good to WasteNigel 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. The series is part of the BBC 'Dig-In' campaign. - Series 2 Cutdowns : Saints and SinnersE11
Series 2 Cutdowns : Saints and SinnersMouth-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. - Series 2 Cutdowns : New TricksE12
Series 2 Cutdowns : New TricksNigel 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. 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. The series is part of the 'Dig In' campaign.
