What I really loved about this show was how it took us to so many wonderful places and showed so many wonderful aspects of British life including Gurkhas and nuns lumberjacks and lock keepers ..beer makers and barristers And that beautiful final scene in the Cambridge rowers episode as they float along the river against a gently setting English sunset ..Great memories , great ladies ...
What a gorgeous fishing spot. Clarissa was quite smitten by the handsome fisherman. I love these two ladies. I can't think of any cooking show I like better than theirs. I love Julia Child, and she could be quite funny, too.
really classy ? just because they are upper middle class ?because i am sure they would have told you like me , private school can not make you a lady if you do not want it to, they lived disgracefully most of their lives and enjoyed every second , they had sweet natures, but by no means ladies so no not classy , just great fun
I love when they talk about the “pope’s nose”, and Jennifer says it was probably meant to be rude or heretical or something, and Clarissa says, oh I know that it’s rude, I was just wondering what brand of rude it was! That made me chuckle!😆
21:15 Clarissa: "just call me Rome, dear Nero..." Jennifer: "Wee! I'm Matilda!" LOL These ladies were unparalleled in their wit and humour. I am just thankful to God that we have them on video!
I used to use ordinary butter with fish but I must say"Burre Blanc" beat it all as a butter sauce. Miss the two fat ladies along with their cooking, songs and "ditties".
My favorite was when Jennifer tried to kiss the ring of the Irish abbess and the abbess told her that her that all those things were part of the past and Jennifer responded “Not with ME it hasn’t!!!” I could have kissed her !
RE salt baking. If you mix the salt with egg white (albumen) then it helps to mould it around the fish or anything else you want to salt bake. It helps cracking it open when it's cooked too.
That's not a croft- that's luxury! Love these old gals, thumbing their noses at PC nonsense. Live life, enjoy yourself, try not to hurt others. Should others take offence, their problem. Oh, and more butter.
Watched these ladies for years they can be funny and serious.. they sure know how to cook. They are so cute how they get around with one in the side car. Wish they could cook for me they are so good at it....this is amazing show with 2 ladies showing us how to put it together to cook and come out will it looks good..
I would watch them make fillet of sole using a boot lol When Jennifer started singing the Lumberjack song by Monty Python ... hysterical. For me, it's not so much what they cook or bake but that it's THEM doing it. Loved it !!!
Sooo good to see this again. Thank you! And Jennifer, you were absolutely correct....both my Grandad and his sister had all their teeth taken out then dentures fitted for their 21st birthdays! Seems madness nowadays!
What a gorgeous fishing spot. Clarissa was quite smitten by the hunky fisherman. I love these two ladies. I can't think of any cooking show I like better than theirs. I love Julia Child, and she could be quite funny, too.
It is wonderful to see Jennifer & Clarissa's uncensored personalties on display. Especially when Jennifer happily wanders off-topic...and the next thing you know she's belting out a song. British treasures, the both of them.
I would have loved to have spent a day with Jennifer and Clarissa. I guarantee it would have been an unforgettable time. I loved listening to their stories... so intriguing. RIP "Two Amazing Ladies"❤
My brother and our old family dog met Clarissa at a shooting event she was apparently hilarious and charming I never have had an interest in country sports though that is one day I very much wished I had attended.
You would never see ladies like these on the Food Network these days. For one, they don't look like starlets and they cook with far too much fat. Also they use cuts of meat and certain things like livers and hearts that are too (shall we say) "rustic" for the picky American palate. Can you imagine one of those guys asking "What's this?" and Clarissa saying "I picked it off the side of the road this morning"? An American would faint LOL.
Really? Food Network introduced them to us in the US back in the late 90s! I moved from the States in 2003, so I don't know what's on the channel nowadays, but info on the Ladies and some of their recipes are on the Food Network website
There's a bit of truth to this. But I did watch these wonderful ladies on the Food Channel back in the 90s. They and Emeril Lugasse were the first two shows I watched when I got a Directv satellite dish and Two Fat Ladies were my favorite of the shows offered back then. There are a few Americans, like me, who will forage things to eat on our own. I've gathered morel mushrooms, black raspberries, gooseberries, mulberries and paw paws.
So delicious food !!!! And the peaches, with cream and brown sugar - divine ! Well, I could die for it !! It's better to stay alive or I couldn't eat it. How I miss the two !
Jennifer is drunk I think! She was also ill at this point and would soon be diagnosed with terminal cancer. Jennifer also disliked far-flung rural locations like Scotland in the wet and cold. Clarissa lived in Scotland at this point and obviously loved it. So there's a bit of friction on that score too.
Andrew Moffitt these cottages can be rented, if you go to www.homeaway.co.uk/search/keywords:Ardnamurchan-Highland-UK/filter:64 you can see the cottage this was filmed in, the kitchen has changed but the size of it is the same.
