I Love Jamie, is his At Home book any good?

[nailpolish]

nearly melted in desir for his celeriac dauphinoise thingy last night

God, I can't stand him!

(Great food though)

i only love him for his cooking

dotn fancy him a jot

Postman has just delivered this to me from Amazon. First impression is good. I think if you like his style and other books, then you'll be happy with this one.

Love his way of cooking.

Can't stand anything else about him.

HIs looks are the last thing to wind me up, tbh...

It's the bloody preaching that does my head in!

(btw, nailpolish - the meatballs were great the other night, cheers for your input! )

not as good as jamie's dinners imo recipes a bit repetitious
its a beautifully produced book though

oh notnowbernard, thats great!

i like easy recipes and simple ingredietns that dont cost the earth - is Jamies Dinners like this or posher?

I keep being on the verge of buying the new one and leafing through it and deciding to get it another day. It always seems to fall open at beetroot or rabbit or something else I know dh won't eat.

Jamie's Dinners is his least posh. It's vg IMHO.

@ the venison and dauphinoise thing he did last night.

Both DH and I agree that we must try that one.

we have it, have only done the BBQ pork ribs so far. (verdict: nice but a bit of a faff)

DS said he would try leek pasta on the basis of last week! Although he was most keen on kebabs cooked on a dinky BBQ stove. I am thinking of getting it but is there too much gardening (I have given up on gardening after slugs ate all my mint and the squirrels got my tomatoes!)

yes! NDP

i thought that too

ok havent got jamies dinners - will consider taht first, thank you

does anyone have Jamies Italy?

its like food porn

Resurrecting Nailpolish's thread because I still can't decide whether to get this.

Any views?

jamie's italy is good and so is Cook with Jamie - great simple yummie recipes. not sure 100% about jamie at home yet.

we bought it to make his 4 hour shoulder of lamb (which was AMAZING)

tons of other recipes in there but does waffle on about growing veg which is a waste of time for me

Pippi do you mean you haven't got it or you've got it but haven't yet made up your mind?

If there's anything useful in the veg section that might be useful for me. It looked like there was lots of stuff on meat which I don't need because I already have the River Cottage Meat Book which covers all that sort of stuff.

DH a big lamb fan so top lamb recipes might swing it....

my dp bought me it for x mas there are loads of lush recipes in there i am making one for my dd tommorrow tagiatellie with brocolli spears and oozy cheese sauce its a mix of chapish and expensive recipes i think!

although most of the more expensive things are things like herbs and spices which once you have them you need to keep buying! its based a lot around veg with meat or pasta

there is quite a bit in it about growing veg though

Thanks Micci. There, I've gone and ordered it because I quite fancy broccoli spears with oozy cheese sauce

his receipes are not for dieters, I have to say

but we don't diet in this house anyway, but it is all butter this, oil that, cheese the other

Jamie's Dinners is better IMO. I tend to cook more from that.

Oh I am a big believer in Butter Not Diets.
Anyway if I dig the garden that will burn off the butter, right?