{"id":1225,"date":"2009-01-27T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/jamies-ministry-of-food\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T09:03:32","slug":"jamies-ministry-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/jamies-ministry-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie&#8217;s Ministry of Food Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people love him and some people can&#8217;t stand him but I have to admit that I am a big fan of Jamie Oliver.  I love the way he cooks, not worrying too much about about weighing everything out and substituting some ingredients if you fancy.<\/p>\n<p>We watched his new series where he was promoting home cooking and trying to get people to cook and eat together etc.  Whilst I enjoyed it I didn&#8217;t really think the book that always comes along just in time for Christmas as with all of these programmes would be much use for us.  I probably have most of his other books but thought this would be too basic for people who already do some cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as usual Alan ignored me and bought it for me for Christmas!  It&#8217;s a really nice book, some lovely recipes and ideas for nice straight forward dishes, but not too boring and basic.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 120px; padding: 0 8px 0 0;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=alslikklworls&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0718148622&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>We were stuck for an idea for tea and had decided upon Chilli only to discover half way through chopping onions etc that we didn&#8217;t have our packet of chilli mix in the cupboard and didn&#8217;t know what to do next.<\/p>\n<p>A quick look in Jamie&#8217;s new book and we were sorted.  A quick and easy Chilli recipe without too many complicated ingredients.  We didn&#8217;t have everything (but it didn&#8217;t seem to matter that we didn&#8217;t add Chick peas!) and the result was as good if not better than the packet we&#8217;d normally use.  We probably added more vegetables than we would normally so it was healthier without any additives etc from the packet.<\/p>\n<p>We even tested it on Dave who seemed to enjoy it.  We definitely won&#8217;t be buying the packet mix any more and I&#8217;ve had a look for some more tasty ideas for stuff we cook all the time using jars etc and after a trip to get a few key ingredients I think we&#8217;ll be trying one of his curries next.<\/p>\n<p>Well Done Jamie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people love him and some people can&#8217;t stand him but I have to admit that I am a big fan of Jamie Oliver. I love the way he cooks, not worrying too much about about weighing everything out and substituting some ingredients if you fancy. 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