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Jamie's 30-Minute Meals (2010)

by Jamie Oliver(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0718154770 (ISBN13: 9780718154776)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Michael Joseph

review 1: 3.5 stars.I actually liked the layout. My copy has a blue ribbon, so I can easily mark the page if I want to mix & match.So far I've made three of the recipes & one of the sides - they were all keepers & I had lots of compliments.I have marked it down from 4 stars as I think cookbooks need to be value for money & you may find this book isn't great in this regard. Out of 274 pages approximately 172 were pictures - & a fair few were of Jamie himself. Um Jamie... you are famous, we know what you look like. Some of the pictures were helpful (I liked having a picture of how Jamie visualised the chicken pie) some quite unnecessary. (like a hand holding some fresh herbs) this filler makes the book both heavy & expensive - & with Jamie's goal of converting the masses to good food,... more shouldn't his cookbooks be as affordable as possible?
review 2: I love Jamie Oliver.. .I could marry him and have his children. Or maybe not, considering he calls them names like Poppy and Flower. I cook his meals virtually every night and I'm someone who loathes cooking, I'd happily never cook a meal again if I had half a chance. But I have three kids and I feel obliged to churn out something nutritious each day that they will actually eat.The good thing about Jamie's 30 mins is they are reasonably quick, once you've done them a few times -- yes, actually the half an hour as promised - though I don't tend to stick with all of it (especially not the puddings as a dollop of ice-cream is good enough in my opinion). The ingredients are not stupid - ie juice of preserved lemons or monts des charrons and stuff like that, and there's some nifty ideas there. Who would have thought bunging a bit of ready-made puff pastry on top of some chicken would make a pie?I gave up on Delia because she took hours and I never forgave her for the tinned mince - I mean seriously who in their right mind would eat tinned mince? Nigella is all cleavage and much too wordy, and besides her recipes don't work half the time. And the rest of them seem to forget there's a lot of us who would rather not cook at all, even though we have to and we don't want to waste our lives slaving in a kitchen. less

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