Long ago in a galaxy far, far away I loved to cook. I love cook books, I read'em like novels but I seldom make anything out of them beyond my tried and true recipes. Since the advent of fussy children turning up their noses at mealtimes, I kind of lost my mojo.
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Enter Jamie Oliver. (I wish he would enter my house.) I love watching him on the food network. I especially love the British shows: the ones on school lunches- That had a far reaching effect. Once Jamie started on the rampage all the junk food was removed from the schools here. I also like the Food Revolution. He tried to get a whole English town to cook. He is so earnest, as one of my commenters said.
Daughter #1 gave us the above cookbook a couple of years ago. All I managed to make out of it was Spaghetti Bolognese and I must say it hit the spot. My husband dug this cookbook out a couple of weeks ago and we have been endeavouring to liven up our veggies Jamie style.
We tried broccoli with Asian dressing and it was good.
I made a leek and potato soup that was lovely.
We were doing so well and then Mr LC decided to try Jamie's Light and Fluffy rice. EPIC FAIL!!!! I think the cooking times were off in the recipe because it sure tasted raw to us.
Undaunted, we decided to go for the Buttered Spinach.
Delicious! We had a do over because it was so good. I cooked the broccoli and spinach for the same meal and Mr LC said ' Perfect. Now all we need is a slab of steak to go with this.' FAIL Mr LC! FAIL!
p.s. Do you think that Julie and Julia idea would work in this case??? Probably not. I'd have to change my name to Olive.
All photos are from Jamie Oliver.com.
