Recipe: Nigella’s Pistachio Fudge

I’m not shy about my passion, love, obsession for Nigella Lawson. I’ve watched Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen over and over and over again this past week. I found a recipe for her pistachio fudge via Glorious Food and Wine. It’s from her latest cookbook, Nigella Express, which I have yet to receive for Christmas yet… which is why I found this recipe on a fellow blog and not while sifting through the actual book… hint, hint, hint!

I need to say that I am not a huge fudge fan. My mom and aunt made fudge every chance they could, and we’d overdose on it at the holidays. They spoiled me for future fudge recipes, so I rarely eat it nowadays. Not the same for my husband, though! He likes fudge and I wanted to make a small batch for him to dig into over the holiday season. Alas, he hates nuts in food. He thinks it’s an Irish thing but I’ve only ever witnessed his mother have the same aversion. Like mother like son…

So I made one batch of this very easy recipe – VERY EASY – and pressed it into a tin foil wrapped baking sheet. (I pressed it fairly thin, though others may like a big thick nugget of fudge, I can only take a little thin sliver.) I then pressed some pistachios into a long sliver of the sheet, so that I may taste it as Nigella originally intended. I like it. I like it a lot. I don’t think I’m ready to overdose on it this season, but it will be sweet to grab a little bite every time I want to feel a bit closer to Nigella.