Prue Leith may be a master at judging baked goods—but what does she actually eat at home? The 'Great American Baking Show’ judge walks us through what’s really on her plate in a day, from her morning cup of decaf tea (with cow’s milk only, of course) to her go-to Nando’s takeout and the booze-soaked trifle she loves to bake. Watch as the Michelin-starred chef shares her strong opinions on snacking between meals, the dish she makes to butter up her husband, and the one food she secretly can’t stand (even if she has to pretend to like it on camera). Plus, she reveals the “foods”—and we use that term loosely—that she lives on while filming ‘Bake Off.’
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00:00My husband complains bitterly.
00:01He says, our house is a cake-free zone,
00:04and you should have married Mary Berry.
00:06Hi, Delish.
00:07I'm Prue Leith, and this is What's On My Plate.
00:14First thing I do when I wake up in the morning,
00:17like all good Brits, is I have a cup of tea,
00:20which has to be decaf and with cow's milk.
00:22I mean, I don't mind almond milk or oat milk in coffee,
00:25but really, cow makes perfectly good milk.
00:28I don't normally have breakfast
00:29because I eat too much generally,
00:31and I'm not hungry in the morning,
00:32so it's a good opportunity to just not eat.
00:35But if I'm in a hotel and I can't resist it
00:37because there's this wonderful buffet,
00:39then I'll have yogurt and granola and fruit
00:41or something like that.
00:42The only time I make breakfast at home
00:44is when I have the whole family there,
00:46and then I make good old-fashioned British fryer.
00:49Sausage, bacon, fried bread, mushrooms, eggs,
00:52everything that I can lay my hands on.
00:55Is there any food that you think Americans do better?
00:58Well, I think generally Americans do breakfast better than we do.
01:01To eat breakfast in a diner in New York is a great pleasure.
01:05And the thing I love about American breakfast is
01:07I think you make the best eggs benedict,
01:10much better than the French, for example.
01:14Well, normally, I make lunch for everybody who works with me,
01:19and I make fresh soups all the time.
01:21I'm a terrible leftover cook.
01:23I can't bear to throw anything away.
01:25We have sort of amorphous green soup.
01:27It's just every green vegetable goes into my green soup.
01:30My husband sometimes complains that all he ever gets for lunch
01:33is soup and cheese,
01:35and we buy really good cheese from a really good cheese monger.
01:38So I reckon they're jolly lucky to get good soup, good bread, good cheese,
01:43which is what we have most days.
01:44I always cook from scratch.
01:45I've never...
01:46I don't think I've ever had a Deliveroo meal in my life,
01:50and I never buy ready meals because I love cooking.
01:54And I feel sorry for people who can't cook
01:56because they're forced into buying ready meals and take out food.
02:00I'm not a snob about food.
02:02I mean, I often buy frozen puff pastry, for example,
02:06because the puff pastry that you buy frozen, most of it,
02:09is really good quality, and all it is is butter and flour,
02:12which is how you'd make it.
02:14Do you ever get takeout?
02:15If I was buying a takeout, it would probably be pizza
02:18because you'd know what the ingredients are,
02:20and they're delicious.
02:21You know, good pizza's lovely.
02:22I like Nando's.
02:23I just like their grilled chicken, and I prefer the thighs.
02:27You can buy the sauce in the supermarket now,
02:29and I often tell people,
02:31you just roll the pieces in Nando's,
02:34stick it in the air fryer,
02:36gets all crispy all under it and over it,
02:38and it's absolutely lovely.
02:43I almost never eat any snacks between meals.
02:47I might perhaps eat a plum or an apricot or a bit of fruit.
02:50Maybe it's because I'm so old,
02:51but I really sort of disapprove of it,
02:53because I think what snacks do is it takes the edge off your appetite,
02:57not enough to stop you eating the next thing,
02:59but to stop you enjoying it as much as you would.
03:02If you're standing on a railway station,
03:04you just look at everybody.
03:05Everybody's holding a bar of chocolate, popcorn or something,
03:09and then you have meals as well.
03:10What's your favorite meal?
03:13Dinner's my favorite meal.
03:15I think my favorite dish, if I've got time to make it,
03:18is a French cassoulet.
03:20It's basically a bean stew, but it has in it some spicy sausage,
03:24confit of duck in there, or slow-cooked lamb,
03:28or it doesn't really matter what.
03:29It's some meaty thing, but slow-cooked with beans.
03:33If I want to butter up my husband,
03:36I will get a really good tomahawk steak or a ribeye steak.
03:40Cook it very fast on a griddle,
03:42so that it is perfectly rare in the middle,
03:45and a really good steak is such a treat.
03:48We don't eat it often, but when we do,
03:49we get the best, and it's lovely.
03:52If I'm not working, John and I will just eat in,
03:55but every now and again, we'll go to a pub.
03:57We tend to try to find pubs that still do really old-fashioned things,
04:01like sausages and mash, or ham, egg, and chips.
04:04It's the classic English pub dish,
04:07but you can hardly get them anymore.
04:09They've all become gentrified, and they have very smart food.
04:12It is quite a treat to find an old-fashioned pub
04:15that still gives you egg and chips.
04:20My husband complains bitterly.
04:21He says, our house is a cake-free zone,
04:24and he should have married Mary Berry.
04:26Mary Berry was the cook who had my job on Bake Off before I had it.
04:30He says he should have married her,
04:31because she really does bake cakes all the time,
04:34and I hardly ever do.
04:35But I don't, because he's too fat anyway.
04:38So am I.
04:40Go-to dessert, mostly what we eat,
04:42is yoghurt with different toppings.
04:44It's wonderful because it's creamy,
04:46but it's not as unhealthy as just whipped cream or something.
04:49But you can put all sorts of things on it,
04:51you know, fresh fruit or crunchy tops,
04:53or crumbled up biscuits, or nuts, toasted nuts.
04:56It's a very good base for anything.
04:58I think my favorite dessert to make is probably a trifle,
05:02which is very English, but I love it.
05:04And you can make trifle out of any old leftover,
05:06piece of leftover cake, or raisin bread, or brioche,
05:10or even stale croissant.
05:11And you just put some sort of jam or spread,
05:14lemon curd, or marmalade, or something on it.
05:17Put it in a bowl, pour booze all over it,
05:20any kind of booze you like.
05:21Classically, it would be sherry.
05:22Get it really well soaked, then custard,
05:25and then cream on top. It's lovely.
05:28The only thing that I really don't like eating is peanut butter.
05:34And Americans love peanut butter,
05:35and the bakers are inclined to put peanut butter into cakes a lot.
05:39And I have to just pretend that I like it,
05:42because it's not the baker's fault that the judge doesn't like peanut butter.
05:46So I can't mark them down because they've got peanut butter in there.
05:50I don't mind the flavor of it, and if it's in the mixture of the cake,
05:53so that I don't get the texture, then it's fine.
05:56Of course, I'm eating cake all day, and I try to eat as little cake as I can get away with,
06:01and just in order to be able to taste it.
06:03I worked out that if I have an average amount of cake that I need to do to do my job,
06:10and I haven't eaten anything else,
06:12I will have just enough calories left for me to have a couple of good glasses of red wine for dinner.
06:18Sometimes when I'm filming, honestly, I live on cake and red wine.
06:22It's probably not the best diet in the world.
06:25Thanks very much for watching,
06:27and please be sure to watch The Great American Baking Show,
06:30streaming now on the Roku channel.
06:48live on this podcast program.
06:57We'll see you next time.
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