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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• Canned tomatoes - Dutch ones too liquid?

  We've got a problem with the receipes from Nigella's latest book. It's about all of the receipes where you have to use tomatoes. The book says we've to use 8 dl of water next to the canned tomatoes. But this makes the sauce very liquid. How can we figure out this problem? Is there a difference between English canned tomatoes and Dutch canned tomatoes? Thanks in advance.

  Posted by siemkicken. Answered on 22nd Jan 2011 at 12.00

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• Glass bowls with beaded edges

  Where can i purchase the beautiful glass bowls that Nigella uses in her latest series? ;the ones with the glass balls around the rim. It is the only gift that my friend has asked me for as a wedding present and i cant find them anywhere even after hours of googling! Thankyou 

  hi where did Nigella get the glass mixing bowls with the little glass balls around the top, i think there are different sizes being used. thankyou!.Suzybell

  Posted by emmahassen. Answered on 21st Jan 2011 at 12.00

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• Jerk Chicken

  Cooked Jerk Chicken from the latest book. At the half way point where you darin off excess juices, I had completely cooked chicken with the marinade as blackened charcoal in the bottom of the pan. No juices at all. Any ideas?

  Posted by cathrynrees. Answered on 20th Jan 2011 at 12.00

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