Jamie's ministry of food - has anyone tried anything from it yet

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I've got the book and was pleasantly surprised - normal food for normal people. Has anyone tried any recipes yet? Could you let me know if they turned out ok?

I was going to try the lamb and rosemary stew and the mince and onion pie (although obviously not on the same night

Thanks

The beef and ale stew was very nice. Did that last week. Are there many vegetarian recipes in the book? Dh is vegi and I tend to find there isn't much in most celeb books to make it worth buying, I filch recipes off the internet instead.

How much was the book?

I told oh I would like it this week if we have enough cash spare but don't want to spend stupid amounts on it

Lamb and rosemary stew sounds nice. Oh has just requested we have stew again one night soon so will have a look on the website for it

£10 from Amazon!

I bought it today from Sainsburys for £10, saved p & p .

Chris Moyles and team are cooking from there every night and they seem to think that the recipes are good. I fancy it but think that ocassionally (sp) Jamie Oliver uses ingredients that are impossible to get in rural Scotland

Tesco have it for £10 too.

bargain! will be having that tomorrow then. Thanks

Thanks ladies.

No, the book doesn't have a lot of veggie recipes, that Jamie Oliver likes his meat! But it does have a good variety that includes soups, salads and pasta - most of which were veggie. Still worth getting - I had been looking for a cookbook like this for ages - with normal everyday stuff in it.

He does a basic stew recipe and then gives 4 options (beef and Ale, Lamb, red wine and rosemary, pork and cider and chicken and white wine) - so you get for different stews with the same basic recipe which I thought was good.

The book is cheap everywhere at the moment.

I tried the parmesan chicken breasts with crispy posh ham. Incredibly easy and quick and tasted delicious!! Also just made the rogan josh for me and DH tonight.