JAMIE’S FEASTS FOR A FIVER - mon 8pm - ch 4 - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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Racially cheap easy quick meals

I like to watch his cooking shows

Nigel Slater did that ‘casual leg of lamb’ thing once. He was making a ‘supper from leftovers’ and he opened his fridge and a nearly whole leg of lamb (cooked) was sitting there wrapped delicately in greaseproof paper and string. Like everybody has one!

I do like him though

Sophie Grigson also did a series called ‘feasts for a fiver’ in the early 2000s. Obviously with inflation those recipes will be more expensive now but they were pretty good and sound better than Jamie’s! You can probably still track down the book that went with the series.

I agree. I think its aimed at much of the Mumsnet audience type, who will have salt, pepper and kitchen knives, and are reasonable cooks. Id rather take his strict £5 budget with a pinch of salt and make tasty reasonably cheap meals than be washing 10p baked beans and making them into a revolting spag bol with some tinned meat.
Although I did watch ' batch from scratch' with Joe Swash and the Batch Lady and on Thursday made 10 veggie meals all batch cooked. The shopping cost me £80 for the veggie meal version and the portions we've had so far have easily served 4 including a greedy DH and 2 teenage boys. So even that was £8 per 4 people so maybe he needs to up his budget a bit. I had salt and pepper in!

That would be really good. I love JO's cookbooks and only really regularly use them. He has loads of prep/preservation ideas, and herbs or curry pastes etc that you can make into icecubes and use as you need. It would make a great first episode!

On tonight

not sure what making

Spinach dahl I think.

And weird noodle fish cakes

beef patties with a salad with a nice dressing (police oil/ red wine vinegar/ English mustard)- looked tasty tbf.

£2.40 for 2 people so why didn’t he say £4.80 for 4 with the gnocchi

I thought the gnochi looked great, loved the way he mashed the potatoes out of their skins and made crisps with the skins. Not so sure about the other dishes, but I was getting interrupted by family by then and not paying as much attention.

Yes I may make that. Tho not blue cheese but grate some other cheese

Delia was /is a million times the cook that Jamie Oliver will ever be, her cheats cooking recipes piss all over the stupid crap that he's churning out on this faux budget cooking show. She advocated for things like frozen /tinned onion and garlic and ginger that you can use in a small amount, just infinitely more authentic.

I came across a Jamie Oliver book yesterday, Simply Jamie. I opened it at random at the recipe was crispy noodles fishcakes. It might be slightly different but I’ll look through this book again and might not bother with the one to this series.

8pm tonight

chicken sausage white bean bake

egg noodles with aubergine

treacle tart made with cornflakes

The grandkids just eating the plain noodles there, I spotted.

I’m like Jamie and like hot pudding with cold custard

Ah no, I'm not keen on cold custard, too gloopy, I prefer it hot, but I do love the contrast of ice cream with a hot pudding. I liked the look of the toad in the hole too.

Yes love a sausage 🙀😂

For anyone interested in making the recipes, they are on his website. I’ve made 3 so far all delicious though I did add things like fresh herbs and extra garlic to one (you can’t really ever have too much garlic!!).

yes sometimes it misses the mark a bit with things I’m willing to compromise on but it does illustrate how you can even today make home cooked food on a budget that’s reasonably healthy too.

Every time he tastes it he loves and adores it

wonder if it actually sometimes isn’t that nice but still says wow the flavours an textures and taste just explode on the tongue etc

On tonight

celeriac skewers
cauliflower bake
winter chilli
potato and chickpea parcels
Tomato and bean soup

I don’t like kidney beans but his chilli looks nice tho cost wise £1.26 for the mince do 250g

im sure 500g of pork mince is more than £2.52

Pork mince is £2.55 for 500g at Tesco so definitely doable at that price I'd say!

Wow is it really that cheap v beef mince which is heading up to £5 for 5%

know you can get 20% fat cheaper but that’s so fatty /gristle