Live Webchat with Jamie Oliver this Friday 15th October between 9 and 10 am.

[RachelMumsnet]

We're delighted to announce that Jamie Oliver will be joining us on Mumsnet on Friday 15th October for an early brunch between 9 and 10 am. Jamie's groundbreaking new book Jamie's 30 Minute Meals is now on sale and his TV series of the same name begins tonight on Channel 4 at 5.30pm and runs daily on week days for four weeks. Jamie needs no further introduction to Mumsnetters; you've discussed everything from his School Meals Campaign to his baby name choices. Now's your chance to put your questions to the man himself. If you can't join us next Friday, post your questions to Jamie in advance on this thread.

Hi AnaEspanola

I think when you're a cook you're trying so many things that usual and unusual become a blur. I don't actually like being too wacky, although when I've eaten Heston's food it's been amazing.

@AnaEspanola

Hi Jamie,

I'm always trying to be inventive in the kitchen and come up with new and wacky combinations that work. What's the most unusual recipe you've ever made?

Maybe Jools should come for a webchat also.

Hi Jamie

please can you get sainsburys online to tell us where their meat comes from. Ever since you did that programme about pigs I've tried to buy British, but you can't see country of origin online and a lots imported from abroad.

@MmeBodyInTheBasement

Have just ordered the new book and the MOF one that everyone has been raving about.

Fab web chat, either you are a quick typist or you have a team of secretaries with you.

Can you post the chicken nuggets recipe?

Slice a bit of chicken 1cm thick, bit of salt and pepper, dust in flour in sandwich bag to save mess/washing up. Shake of excess, toss in beaten egg. Shake off excess, toss in breadcrumbs (ideally dried which you should make with you leftovers by whizzing in food processor) Fry in olive oil in non stick pan or put a little oil with breadcrumbs you can bake them in oven.

Definitely a great contender for weekly kids' meal (not every day).

@pollyannasgladgame

Mornin Jamie,

How do you expect the Coalition's spending cuts to impact on healthy eating in schools? (Or is it a bit early for that sort of question?)

I'm a teacher in a secondary school (on maternity not skiving off ;) where you can't buy a dessert on its own without a main course - am wondering if the ethics will withstand the financial imperative...?

I see where you're coming from, and there have been a lot of questions on school food. I don't know where to start it's such a big subject but I'm due to see head of education and health in the next month and I can give you an intelligent answer them. My general worry from 7 years ago and for the future is that we need someone credible to represent, head up, protect and inspire all the right changes within the government on school food as a key strategy to public health in this obesity epidemic. The school food trust which was a quango anyway has just been rolled up so I have many question marks about the future of how a modern british secondary and primary should work. The sad fact is that school meals can be sustainable, they can make money that can go back into the system or the school, but someone at some stage has to invest money to get the schools and the system of school food into the shape that will allow them to do that post 35 years of neglect and non investment. It's a big old subject, I'm completely with you and it still keeps me up at night for sure. It keeps me up because with 26 000 primary schools and 3500 secondary schools and 5 and half million kids going to school every day of which half have a hot school meal and half have packed lunch, for 190 days of the year from the age of 4-16 the government along with families are wholly responsible for at least half of every child's nutrition and therefore wholly responsible for half of bad health in these dark times of the obesity epidemic.

Dinner ladies need to be loved supported given the tools to do their job efficiently and paid properly and I can promise you because I know and have worked with 100's of these ladies they will over deliver whole heartedly. They are doing the best they can right now but the system is like being back in the 1920's

Thanks, Posie. I like hugh a lot. I love delia, of course. Sophie's a mate.

@PosieComeHereMyPreciousParker

Also have to say Delia ,meh but she was the beginning, Heston (creative but not really teaching me anything I can use and Gordon, tosser.

Who is your favourite TV chef? (you're mine, favourite series America)

Has Jamie gone now?

Hello. Official plug person here.

If you'd like to buy the Gina Ford of Cooking aka Jamie's 30-Minute Meals, you can do it via our handy link.

Thanks Jamie, any chance you could send on the rnach dressing recipe?

Here's a bunch of updates that we've done: [[http://www.jamiesfoodrevolution.com
www.jamiesfoodrevolution.com]]

In short, great things are happening. The town of Huntington on it's own merit is keeping the Kitchen alive, busy and funded. The big locale church is doing fund raisers and cooking fresh food for the hundreds of people in their congregation. All the schools in the area have gone from junk to fresh. My role was to bring the town together as a united front. It's early days but it was about getting them to help themselves. And the good news is that I'm going to do a 2nd season which we're filming early next year, where we can get more in depth and inspire the public to have an opinion and demand more of their supermarkets, fast food retailers, and their governments in regards to school food.

@Deliaskis

[Also gush alert] probably too late and not really a question anyway, but your American Food Revolution is one of the few docu style programmes that has me both filling up with tears and cheering and clapping at the TV all in one evening. Any update on how the revolution is carrying on months later?

By the way love your 'stealth veg' approach with some of the kids, I do this with my Brownies on pack holiday - 'who like leeks?' 'Yuck!', 'well you all just ate them in the Shepherd's Pie that you said was the best you'd ever had!'.

D

I've asked Father chirstmas to for it

Hey Brookeslay. Great college great wall. I don't really have one signature dish any more. I've cooked too many things. Boring answer, I know. I suppose one of the things I come back to time and again would be a slow roast pork shoulder.

@brookeslay

Hi Jamie,

Fellow Ex Westminster College Student Here.

Congratulations on your latest Addition to the family. ( Wonders if your have anymore ??)

Real question What is your Signatire Dish or the one you like to cook and never tire of ?

Cheers B x

p.s I used to sit on that little wall outside college and saw once it was your favourite picture.

Me too :)

Hi Jamie - whats the take been like for your new schools teaching programme? Have asked my DW to try to get it into her EBD school as the skills there are very relevant.

OMG he was fab! what a great webchat! Thank you so much, Jamie & Jamie's people & MNHQ.
sorry I asked two questions . DD is going to be beside herself with joy when I show her his answer to hers though.

Ooh can't beat the slow roast pork shoulder. Thats why my oven is FILTHY!

I think hes still here, surely he wouldn't leave without saying goodbye?

Thanks Jamie. I wondered if you chopped up the chicken but then that wouldn't make sense really. Will try it out.

MmeBody - I do the chicken nuggets recipe often, easy peasy and kids love it. I use bashed up cream crackers instead of breadcrumbs (which is also from a Jamie book) and the kids like doing the bashing.

MmeBody I chop the chicken up with scissors when I make them [am lazy]

sorry I thought he had gone when HelenMumsnet posted

I flatten the chicken breast with a meat hammer rather than cut it into thin strips. Makes it more tender IMO.