"Ingredients:
1/2 cup Graham crackers
2 oz Marshmallow Fluff
FUCK OFF, BACK
Seconded. Really sick of seeing a lovely picture of a cake on a US recipe website, and then seeing that the 'ingredients' start with '2 pkts white cake mix, 1 pkt frosting'. That's not really a recipe, is it?
Nigella Lawson was the first cookery writer I ever experienced who couldn't just give you a recipe without three paragraphs (at least) twatting on about who gave her the recipe, an unfascinating fact about where/how they used to make it and some dull anecdote about her childhood. It quickly became tedious, and that was before she was even on the telly doing the same stuff. Just get on with the recipe. Thanks.
I made a cake from one of her recipes, which said (and this is a direct quote): "it’s heavenly at blood heat, when the cakiness of the chocolate sits warmly around the sour-sweet juicy raspberries embedded within, like glinting, mud-covered garnets.".
In reality, it dirtied every bowl in the house, flooded the oven (because she hadn't said that the batter was so thin that a springform tin wouldn't do. I think that Delia would have gently directed her readers to a solid tin) and tasted like quite nasty chocolate cake with some hot raspberries in it. A fiver those ingredients cost me - I've never forgiven her.