Jamie Oliver webchat, Thursday 29 August, 2.45pm

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We're chuffed that Jamie Oliver is paying a return visit to Mumsnet this Thursday. His first MN webchat was back in 2010.

Jamie has a new book out, Save with Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less (all subjects dear to MNers' hearts). It has 100 brand-new recipes designed to be accessible, reliable and, above all, affordable.

This is what Jamie says about his new book: "For years I have been telling people that if you look back through history, the best food in the world has always come from communities under massive financial pressure. But the proviso is that you MUST be able to cook! If you can't, and have no money, that is where the trouble starts. This is a cook book which, from start to finish has tasty recipes, all dedicated to great value, is a brilliant weapon to have on the shelf, and is relevant to every household. If you use this book the way it's intended, you should end up saving a wodge of cash from your wallet."

And to tie in with the book, he has a new six-part series on Channel 4 starting on Monday 2 Sept at 8pm.

Please post your question and join Jamie for a chat at 2.45pm on Thurs.

Thanks TheJoyful, I agree and I think our posts crossed.

I love JM, she really, really understands what it is to cook on nearly nothing, none of this £!.38 malarky.

Do you know, I'd be ashamed. Leaping on this band wagon has to be as low as you can get with £1.38 portions and £26 book.

".... A tip is to pull the lumps of fat out of its backside before you cook it......"

Brings a tear to the chicken's eye, though ourvye.

@DoItTooJulia

Ok, ignoring all the hype and hot water, I'll plough on with my questions!

1. What's your favourite cook book?

1. We're veggie and would love to see a veggie JO book....any chance?

I'm not going to give you one - it's like being asked what's your favourite recipe or your favourite meal or which of your children is your favourite..so I'm going to say any book by Patricia Wells, Stephanie Alexander, Rose Gray, April Broomfield, Ruth Rogers, Marcella Hazan, Delia, Alice Waters are amazing and brilliant and clever and thoughtful and guess what girls, it's all girls and they are all my favourite inspirations along with my mum. I was going to put Genaro in there and he does cross dress so he can be in there in reserve.

i really, really want to know if you feel bad about humiliating that girl who was feeding her child takeaway? even a smidge of concern for how she feels reading that she has been used as headline fodder like that?

please have a conscience.

hope you'll be sticking her a cheque in the post for her part in publicising your new book.

Well done Jamie, think you've earns back a bit of respect with your responses. Must have been that flame proof suit Jools decked you out in this morning

A tip is to pull the lumps of fat out of its backside before you cook it.

Oh Christ. It was bad enough stuffing the bugger.

@noobieteacher

Also Jamie - when will you do German food? Rick Stein tentatively wafted over it on TV yesterday and has offered us only ONE recipe for green sauce. I have ONE German cookery book, translated very badly with odd measurements which confuse me. Germany needs a culinary translator.

Yes, you are completely right. German food is misrepresented and misunderstood and probably similar to good British cooking than any other cuisine. Like British food it's famous for being horrible around the world. I'd love to do Germany and I will do it one day, but Rick Stein has just done it, as you say (being a Stein he is half-german so he's got the right to be doing it first ). The way telly works, I won't be able to do it for another three years or so, just like when i wanted to do India.

My dream is to go to India, Thailand, Peru, to name a few. So much to do, I hope I live long enough to do it all!

girls. Oh dear. You really didn't get any tips of Jules did you?

Ooh a German book would be good, it's never covered.

I like elderflower cordial wouldlove to mske my own what does it look like?

pssstt... someone tell him there are men on MN as well....

I can see my BBQ sauce thread will definitely be ignored. Pity as that made me very very disappointed at the time.

and grown women

I have posted some German recipes up here on MN. Look for spaetzle, for example.

my german friend does the most amazing cheese soup with bits of ham in it.

We're having to bring this to an end of the webchat. Phew. Thanks so much to Jamie for getting through so many questions today.

I keep reading the £1.38 per portion and wishing I had that much money to spend on each of us. I have 50p per portion available to me for a family of 6. 2 adults, 2 older teens, and 2 almost teens. No small appetites. I end up going without a lot because there simply isn't enough to go round.

What meal could you make for six on a budget of £3 in total!

i'm sad he prob won't answer the question about his sense of accountability to the young woman he threw under the bus for publicity and whether she'll be recompensed for her part in publicising his latest venture.

if she's reading - bless you love, you've allowed someone into your home for them to use you in the food equivalent of Jeremy Kyle. hope you're getting some help learning to cope better.

IIRC the girl he is referring to, went on to focus heavily in the ministry of food programme. I think Jamie taught her to cook, and she then passed it on.

That is a shame. He didn't even say what his favourite biscuit was!

I'd love a German recipe book. I can give you my MIL's Kartoffelsalat - it is delish.

Did Jools give you tips on dealing with MNetters?

@LEMisdisappointed

THIS is the most important question you will be asked today!

I haven't been shopping this week - my store cupboard is deplete and even though im pissed off with you about the whole poor bashing thing, I need to know what to cook for dinner tonight and you are clearly my best bet! From scratch - for three, fussy DD aged 8 so nothing too spicy, she likes an olive or six though so you tell me what to fetch and how to cook it? Oh, and a have a tenner in my purse. Thanks

I'm sorry if you think i've been poor bashing, I definitely haven't. Actually most of the work I've done socially has been to help people who need it most, I think sometimes I just get baffled by choice and priorities.

But moving on, knowing how to cook is definitely a massive part of the key, if you've got kids, and your kid likes olive, for a fiver, just make a really delicious tomato pasta with a little garlic olive oil. You don't have to add basil, you could use Rosemary, sage, thyme, anything found in any park and then season with salt and pepper. The things that my kids really like is toasted bread crumbs with garlic and olive oil sprinkled over the top of the tomato sauce. They go bonkers for that, and my lovely wife.

That will come in at well under a fiver. Put the olives when you're making a garlic sauce. And if you want to take it up a few more quid, just a nice chopped salad, tomato, lettuce, cucumber a little balsamic. Yum Totally simple and something I enjoy myself in different ways regularly.

Or you could easily add a bit of flaked tuna, or one sun dried tomato brings a whole sac of sunshine.