Welcome to Kitchen Queries, where the nigella.com team will answer your cooking or food related questions.  We’d love you to submit some of your recipe problems, dilemmas or queries for us to get our teeth into!

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• Take away food

  Hi, I want you to ask for weekly low-budget menu to take away for work. I'm student and now taking part time job. As work is the city centre all the places where you can eat are quite expensive. So I would like to get weekly menu which I could use to bring food to work. We have microwave here. That would be good that some products would be able to use for next days meal too.

  Posted by Indre7777. Answered on 2nd Feb 2011 at 12.00

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• Wedding cupcake decorating crisis (2)

  Hi, I am getting married in May, and my bridesmaid's and I all love baking so we're going to make our own cupcakes instead of getting a wedding cake. My other half-to-be is not keen on royal icing, but we're not sure what kind of icing would look good, but also keep ok out of the fridge all day giving that it might be really hot. Any ideas?

  Posted by jojoscot. Answered on 1st Feb 2011 at 12.00

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• Melting Plastic Wrap/clingfilm - Loaf Cake

  From the Feast cookbook - The Chocolate Loaf Cake requires plastic wrap to line the loaf pan - and in fact says 'Don't worry, it won't melt'... Seriously? It totally ruined what promised to be a wonderful cake, when the plastic wrap totally melted INTO and around the cake. What's with that? I used Glad Cling Wrap, microwave safe. Thanks!  

  Dearest Nigella, I am a humungous fan of yours and I was recently making some food from your book "Feast". I enjoyed the chocolate cake hall of fame but I must ask...WHY ON EARTH DID YOU TELL US TO PUT CLING FILM IN THE CAKE TIN?!! The cling film just submersified right into my lovely quadruple chocolate loaf cake! But anyways I really do love you heaps Love Stephana Bruca

  Posted by MoniqueP. Answered on 31st Jan 2011 at 12.00

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