Chatting with my girl crush Nigella...just another day...

Very exciting news peeps: yesterday I got the chance to speak directly with none other than my heroine, girl crush and general demi-god Nigella Lawson online. I'd love to say it was because she heard about my charity challenge and thought she'd get in touch to give me a big virtual pat on the back, but the truth is slightly more dull than that. She was taking part in a web chat on Red magazine's website.

I was a bit flummoxed as to what to ask her - mainly because like the totally uncool person that I am the only thing I could really think to say was something like 'Omigod you're amazing I love you Nigella'. I thought she probably gets a lot of that though, so best to go for something original. Just before she appeared online I was chatting to some colleagues about a low back dress/bra dilemma I was having. In the course of the conversation it occurred to us that Nigella is quite a buxom lady so first I asked her for a recommendation....no response. Perhaps she felt that was a bit personal :-/

So next I told her about my charity challenge and asked her if she would be willing to donate a recipe to me or give me a twist on one of her originals that I could market as Nigella's own endorsement of my project. I guess she's saving all those kitchen secrets for another book though - why the hell would she divulge such a thing to little old me? All the same, I feel that I did my duty to the challenge by trying to shoe-horn it in there somehow and get some celeb backing...and I put it in twice just to prove my extra ballsy-approach!

Finally, as a foodie in genuine awe of her eating ability, I asked her if she really does ever cook the same thing twice as I'm genuinely intrigued as to how, in the same period of time I've managed to cook perhaps 30 or 40 of her recipes and others', she could have invented, written, tried and tested hundreds more many times, perfecting them along the way.

Finally she replied that yes indeed she does and that actually she not only eats the same thing for lunch or supper on a Sunday, she has the same breakfast ever day.

Call me a stalker but I think by that she means a boiled egg with Poilane soldiers. Ok, I think I'm edging dangerously close to the borderline between sane and crazy now so I'm going to sign off!