I like him.
This is the only thing that makes sense really - that she’s under contract for a set number of books. They’ve all been rather cheaply done so I can’t imagine the budget is huge - maybe no budget at all for testing/checking the recipes (Jack will probably be responsible for doing this, laughably) and minimal budget for editing.
me but I have had a sneak preview of Jack's touching tribute to Nigella's garden.
(Yes) absolutely this x
Mind you with her 'cooking' that must be blessing!How the hell does she know that she lost her sense of taste with Covid. She never had any in the first place.
See this is the bleeping madness of her cooking. If I didn't have lasagna sheets but I did have spaghetti, I wouldn't fashion the pieces of spaghetti into lasagna sheets, I would just cook a spaghetti dish with what I had? Her bogus recommendations go beyond being a suitable alternative and are genuinely offputting. It's the same thing we've said before with rinsed beans and, as another user pointed out, if I had veggie sausages and beans, I'd rather just have that than rinse them and make some bizarre concoction. AND YET AGAIN we come back to the herbs and spices thing. The flavours do matter. Jack should spend her time breaking down the flavour profiles of herbs and spices rather than saying that they're all interchangeable. They're not. That isn't elitist. Food is as an art as well as a science.BIB: Episode 6 of DKL (during the infamous
lasagne segment) Matt asks Jack "presumably you could break up spaghetti if you don't have lasagne sheets?" (he must be winding her up, surely?) and gets the reply, "Yeah, spaghetti will work really well. Just lay it flat."
Soap neighbour strikes again.
Herbs are herbs are herbs
I think I read in one of his recent emails that he has done a financial management course you can do free with the Open university,might add it to my to do list !
Because you can't tie a rag around the top of those little boxes Waitrose dried herbs come in, silly! You're not going to get those Patreon ££s without going full rags and rubberbands (donated to Mama from SB's own already-far-too-smol-coat and gifted from pavement respectively).
I'm broken on an almost daily basis now but herb gate is particularly enraging. There is a fairly sensible point about substitutions that might work in certain recipes e.g. you could use rosemary or thyme, you could possibly sub coriander for flat leaf parsley where the coriander flavour wasn't that important to the overall dish. However to imply they're all just interchangeable gives me the fear that Christmas 2021 will be the year Jack unleashes mint 'n' onion stuffing on the world.
sprinkle a load of rosemary in your food you you soon know the difference.
They would rust like crazy and leave rust marks which are hard to get off
Yes there is - squiggle engagement. ‘Oh thankyou Jack, that’s changed my life. I’ve been keeping all my herbs and spices in the bath but now we’re refurbing the bathroom and will just have a shower and I was beside myself wondering how I would store it all but again you’ve done it! THANKYOU! Surely the OBE is a given now! It should be. Perhaps we should all email the Queen cos it’s her that decides these things isn’t it? Yeah JACK FOR MEDALS!’
It was during the trip to EdinburghNo. Too fancy! Jack poaches fish in its own “freezer juices”I wish I had the receipt for that one, she definitely had it down on Twitter as a recipe.
