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#227

Thank you and @tilty you’re both lovely :kissing_closed_eyes:

#228

For the Scots

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#229

Currently stressing my way through some Jamie fucking Oliver recipe and I told my girlfriend this but she seemed to think I was doing “a joke” when I have never been more serious about something in my life:

If I become terminally ill, my dying wish is to kick Jamie Oliver in the balls.

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#230

I love Jamie Oliver recipes.
What you making?

#231

Only 4 hours til an acceptable bedtime.

#232

first year i’ve not received an easter egg

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#233

Jerk chicken with rice and beans.

The end result is always fine, but the way his recipes are written is infuriating to me! It’s always pinches (sometimes big pinches), glugs (sometimes hefty glugs), bunches etc. Except when it involves a lemon, in which case it is always half a lemon.

Then the timings are ambiguous, and the instructions are ordered in a way that doesn’t let you plan your timings yourself, and will still be unclear.

And they’re so frantic because of it. Even though nothing you’ve done is complicated, by the end your kitchen is a fucking state, you’ve got a few more grey hairs, and the meal you’ve made is… fine. Never amazing. Always fine.

Plus I really like turkey twizzlers.

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#234

Just sounds like you’re really shit at reading recipes.

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#235

Only his. Meera Sodha ones are an absolute dream to follow, for e.g.

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#236

His recipes are fine to follow. Dunno man

#238

Came home from work, got stuck straight into sorting out the weeds in the garden, got the chicken in the oven, put some washing on, and now reclining with a big Pimms (no accoutrements for me, Clive). Cannot wait for dinner tbh. Worn the fuck out mates.

#239

Didn’t know you lived next door to Epimer

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#240

Shitload of new Petscop episodes which for videogame hauntology nerds like me is a colossal delight

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#241

BBQ round at Iron’s gaff.

#242

It’s the “meals in x minutes” ones that do my head in, because in trying to be helpful in setting out what to do in what order they end up splitting up instructions over three bits of the page. Annoying.

The ones on the website that aren’t written like that are better.

He’s still a twat.

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#243

Is this from the 30 minute meals cookbook? I find the lack of timings in that annoying too and they always take at least 3 times that to make.

Once had some friends over for dinner and decided to do the mustardy chicken with dauphinause potatoes. I used legs instead of breasts so obviously they took a bit longer to cook but bloody hell I was in the kitchen for about 4 hours, I think by the time we sat down to eat it was nearly 10pm!

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#244

There are also loads of people who do the whole “cooking on a budget without being the Bono of the kitchen” thing - Jack Monroe’s recipes are quicker, cheaper, easier and probably as tasty.

@Gnometorious - key problem with his timings is that he relies on everyone to have chef-level food prep skills and a kitchen with all of the necessary gadgets. (As an aside, I’m a big fan of it on Dinner Date where someone’s blatantly got neither the skills or the kit and they end up making brownies, measuring by sight and mixing in an old pasta bowl)

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#245

Yeah!

I ignore the 30 minutes part, absolute pisstake. No economy of pots and pans etc either.

The dick.

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#246

He uses a blender for all the chopping, I just use a knife unless I’m making a sauce/ coleslaw/paste.
He doesn’t have to do the fricking washing up does he!

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