I brought the Jamie Oliver - Ministery of Food book today........................ it's fab!

[Charlee]

Kebab mum is in there apparently she has a veggie plot now! oh er!

It really is a good book though some nice recipes in there as always.

I cooked the lasagne from scratch. Took a bloody age but was worth it.

I always want to like Jamie's books, but have actually hardly ever found a recipe I want to use.
The one I'm trying out a few things from at the moment is 'the kitchen revolution' - loads of ideas for practical family meals.
Someone please stop me from buying nigella christmas - I sooo know it will be full of recycled recipes. I reckon most writers have one book's worth of recipes at the most, then its all recycling...

Ah thanks so it is, didnt realise it was called that!

Ah thanks so it is, didnt realise it was called that!

I have about 50 cook books already, got embarrassingly excited about the book being fab, but do I really need another book????? Is it good at helping to minimise waste, cut down on the food bills and still feed us nutrionally and tasty dinners? Not sure if it is that kind of book.

i keep picking up 'the kitchen revolution'. do you stick to weekly shopping and recipes? does it save you time money stress?
i have a little voice in back of mind which says just go back to books i already have and get more out of them (seem to have two or so from each book...)

mamag, you need the new english kitchen by rose prince

Thanks bundle, I will have a look at that. Last year I got 6 cookery books for Christmas and I know there is already one in the cupboard!

No, I don't do the weekly recipe thing. I would reckon on a much lower budget than their weekly shop! Less meat for one. And a lot of the recipes would be rejected by the kids. But there is just sooo much in that book, I have already tried out more recipes from it than most of my other cookbooks!
Mamag, I'm the same - dh keeps threatening to cut my cookbook allowance - but I've so far managed to resist buying the rose prince book as someone on amazon gave it a bad review. I think you might like the kitchen revolution . And, if you want to save money, I think all their recipes are on their website (google kitchen revolution).

I think my cookbook request from santa this year is going to be Hugh f-w's Fish book. Or maybe his family cookbook. or maybe..you get the idea

hmmm. i keep eyeing it up... but do i really really need another cookbook?

I like the rose Prince one - I bought it in a charity shop.

Got the book last week and it's great. So far I have tried the beef and onion pie and the posh bashed chicken - both turned out great - leaving a very happy DH. The kids even loved the pie......

would recommend it - well worth the money and the ingredients were cheap!