Jamie Oliver

Kathy535

elona wrote: »

I just spent over an hour browsing the book and found quite a few recipes I really fancy trying.

He also has some good ideas for using up leftovers and some ideas for home made pickle, chapatis etc.

DH just grew an enormous pumpkin so have used half of it to make soup and hope once it is blended and seasoned everyone will like it. Tried suggesting to Dh that we offered the other half of it to next door neighbour but seems he is not around just now.

These muffins are gorgeous

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1660650/pumpkin-passion-cupcakes

FrooGal_2

I thought the freezing tips in this episode were good. I certainly learned how to avoid freezer burn

Butterfly_Brain

£28 for a leg of pork :eek: no good if your budget is £30 a week.
As for the meatloaf it was just a giant burger, I make a really tasty one with lentils and stuffing mix and serve it with new potatoes and salad not pasta and chillis.

As for that daft moo throwing all that meat out, words failed me.

And what is it with budgeting for eight to a meal when most families have only 2 or 3 children?
8 people is more likely in the catering business, not families.

CFC

And what did he do with the left over pork? Dim sum dumplings! Yes, they looked nice, but it's hardly a dinner, is it??

MrsE_2

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

£28 for a leg of pork :eek: no good if your budget is £30 a week.
As for the meatloaf it was just a giant burger, I make a really tasty one with lentils and stuffing mix and serve it with new potatoes and salad not pasta and chillis.

As for that daft moo throwing all that meat out, words failed me.

And what is it with budgeting for eight to a meal when most families have only 2 or 3 children?
8 people is more likely in the catering business, not families.

But you don't have to spend £28 on a leg of pork, get a cheap pork joint from tesco & apply the rest of the Jamie recipe.

If the recipe is for 8, halve everything.

lostinrates

CFC wrote: »

And what did he do with the left over pork? Dim sum dumplings! Yes, they looked nice, but it's hardly a dinner, is it??

Why not?

We have them for supper some times. They are a fantastic supper we find, warm, and happy.

they are a great extra course if you want two courses too, with an oriental soup, which is potentially two vehicles for leftovers. That's a great meal for nights when soup isn't enough but a big meal is too much, you just make fewer dim sum than usual. (And I steam them over the soup). I've also made sesame prawn toast to go with soup but steamed dim sum are certainly less fatty, and personally, I prefer them. They are something my mother made very occasionally when I was small and dim sum in china town is one of the things I miss tremendously. But I can throw together some pork or prawn dumplings at home cheaply and quickly.

Why cannot they be had for supper?

I'd like to see how he makes his, maybe I should have a look at this book after all.

lostinrates

kboss2010 wrote: »

Jamie's recipes usually taste fantastic - however he's responsible for my OH frequently spending £20 on ingredients for one meal!!! Most of which get thrown away because they're weird things that we can't think of any uses for.

Why not post the ingredients on old style next time and get some uses for them?

The one meal isn't costing that much, if most of the ingredients are being binned, and if you like the food, then the ingredients cook be used another way you might also like.

Beenie

This pie is seriously good!

I tried this last week and meant to write it up here. It's so damned easy, no white sauce to faff with and lots of lovely grated veg as a base. I got a bag of fish pie scraps from a supermarket (should be £4-5 but look in the reduced cabinet and you'll often see them half price -- mine were £2.60).

With the cost of veg and fish (I deliberatley didn't use prawns), my pie for 4 people (we ate half one evening then the rest next day) it works out at approx. £1 a person. And it tastes delish!!

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish-recipes/fish-pie

THIRZAH

I got a 2 kg shoulder of pork from Tesco for just over £6. Jamie's recipe was for a 4.5kg joint which would have been much too big for us.I just reduced the cooking time.

The pork ragu using leftovers was lovely.The recipe said use 300g of leftover pork for 6 helpings so again I reduced the amount.We're having the tacos with leftover pork on Thursday and I will still have quite a bit of pork in the freezer so will try some of the other recipes later

CH27

I like Jamie's ideas for leftovers.

I think there are some on here that are so OS I don't know why they bother watching him.