That article was incredibly eye opening. I’d always been on the believe women side of things, but Asia Argento had always given me pause... I do believe people can have bad things happen to them and have horrible experiences but also still be toxic assholes at the same time.
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I’d never admit this *out there* but I’m quite partial to a crisp butty - just white bread (the cheap sort), butter and crisps (ready salted).Agree with every word about Anthony Bourdain, he didn't suffer fools easily and would have seen through her bullsh*t in seconds.
Can't agree with you on the crisps though …………………. on their own yes (Tyrells are my favourites) but never in a sandwich or crumbled on mashed potatoes and manky hard yolked poached eggs
This is one of my pet hates, you cannot call cauliflower a steak as steak is specifically a cut of meat@!
She's still trying to get that trademarked though isn't she, 'lockdown larder'. By the time they've made a decision on it, lockdown will have been and gone, silly mare.
I can’t believe she g HB as the cheek to “write “ that and call it a recipeI can't stop laughing at this 'recipe'.
Delicious tin can recipe: Jack Monroe's anellini con cacio e pepe
Jack Monroe’s Tin Can Cook features 75 delicious recipes that use only canned foods and dried ingredients. Try her delicious, easy-to-make anellini con cacio e pepe.www.panmacmillan.com
. Nobody would eat such crap. When Iv been depressed it’s been an effort to eat a biscuit.
Too FANCY for poor people.
So just to clarify... she's put - in an actual book - a "recipe" for cacio e pepe that involves... rinsed spaghetti hoops?
duck. Me.
As someone who's only just at the tail end of the worst and longest depressive episode of my life, and without even delving into the sheer disrespect for Italian food, I can tell Jack that washing a sieve is the most thankless task in all of kitchendom and thus recommending it to those in the pit is like a person with legs telling a snake to run.
duck. Me.
As someone who's only just at the tail end of the worst and longest depressive episode of my life, and without even delving into the sheer disrespect for Italian food, I can tell Jack that washing a sieve is the most thankless task in all of kitchendom and thus recommending it to those in the pit is like a person with legs telling a snake to run.
This made me feel as queasy as thinking of eating mashed potatoes, with poached eggs and crisps
Something about dislocated limbs makes my tummy go all funny
Amen to that. I avoid sieves wherever possible!
Honestly, dried pasta is one of the cheapest and most economical foods there is. Cook some, add butter and seasoning with maybe a bit of cheese and you have one of the best comfort foods ever!
Is tinned spaghetti much cheaper than a large bag of value range pasta? I don’t like hoops so I have no idea how much they cost but I can’t imagine that for the equivalent amount of pasta there are good savings to be made.I can't stop laughing at this 'recipe'.
Delicious tin can recipe: Jack Monroe's anellini con cacio e pepe
Jack Monroe’s Tin Can Cook features 75 delicious recipes that use only canned foods and dried ingredients. Try her delicious, easy-to-make anellini con cacio e pepe.
That spaghetti hoop monstrosity has actually angered me. It's just such blatant bullshit for her to take up space on a page. A 500g bag of value pasta is under £1 isn't it? Just bleeping cook some of that and have it with cheese, butter, salt and pepper. Or have hoops on toast. Or on a baked tattie. Or maybe with a potato waffle. She makes meals into a form of self flagellation.
And if you managed to “ cook” that I hardly think you’d feel better..I can’t believe she g HB as the cheek to “write “ that and call it a recipe
It's not. You can get a kg of own brand (not even basic) pasta for just over a pound in pretty much every supermarket. Much cheaper than tins - if value for money is the aim.
Eta: you can even do pasta in the microwave if you don't have a hob.
Oh no that’s awful! I feel terrible
, I don’t know anything about cooking or chefs or anything but now you’ve said that I think I remember reading about him. Me making jokes mentioning him has left me feeling crappy, it’s a pity JM didn’t have the same consideration
At my local TFC (Turkish Food Centre) you can buy three bags of different pasta shapes for £1.
I hadn’t realised he hanged himself, I’d assumed it was an overdose (;accidental orotherwise) his shows are great as is his book No ReservationsOh no that’s awful! I feel terrible
Tesco cheapest dry spaghetti is 20p for 500g
Their tinned hoops are 13p for 400g. And you're pouring how much of that weight away in the sauce?
It's a lot of nonsense. No one does this, or needs to do this. If you really aren't up to cooking (and I've been there alongside you) you end up having toast, crisps, biscuits, stuff that you can pull out of a cupboard and eat mindlessly for fuel.
Their tinned hoops are 13p for 400g. And you're pouring how much of that weight away in the sauce?
It's a lot of nonsense. No one does this, or needs to do this. If you really aren't up to cooking (and I've been there alongside you) you end up having toast, crisps, biscuits, stuff that you can pull out of a cupboard and eat mindlessly for fuel.
What I genuinely will never understand about this is why things need to be bastardised so much. Pop a bit of grated cheese & pepper on a tin of hoops and you’ve got a lovely meal, all the better if you’ve got a slice of bread to have some hoops on toast?
It’s like the curries, so many people have pointed out... have a chickpea curry then fruit for after? Lovely.
Why does it all need to be chucked into a pot and heated through until it could pass through a cheese cloth?
The only time I’ve had food that I’d imagine is worse than Jacks, is when I was in hospital having my daughter. The Portland it was not. It was seriously grim, you could hold a door open with the omelette.
Prisoners are fed better more nutritious food than that. That’s the thing, if you’re broke and have kids you want the cheapest most nutritious food. Toast and beans has fibre, carbs and protein. Chuck some chopped veg at the side if you have it.
Pasta, pesto and some frozen peas and sweetcorn. Simple is best. If people with low incomes are her target market, then they don’t have the disposable income to try peach curry.
I also take umbrage with her pricing. Yes a portion may work out at £1.20 but what supermarket is selling you 1 tbsp at a time.
Common sense would be to do a book along the lines of :
1) How to build a stock cupboard. What spices are you most going to use. How to use them. Seasoning. Oils and vinegars or alternatives.
2) Highlight the most bang for your buck in terms of food products. iE is pasta better than rice, or potatoes as a carb. Best cheap cuts of meat. The best lentil to buy that can be used in various dishes.
3) Recipes that use these Ingredients to make simple Family meals.
4) How to round up or down how many people it’s for. Is it for one ok do this but you should still make al the stock up. For 8 you should maybe add x for more depth of flavour.
5) how to turn the leftovers into another meal.
6) how to store the food you have and leftover for longevity in order to make money stretch.
No one wants a washed bean. A stew can become a Ragu with some tweaks.
People using foodbanks won’t have what she’s selling. People trying to save money and low income don’t want to waste cash. I wonder if the publishers try the recipes in her book. Her success rate seems to be one or two decent ones per book. That’s 14 over 7 books. It’s abysmal. And we’ll just skirt past the plagiarism because that’s a rant for another day.
Prisoners are fed better more nutritious food than that. That’s the thing, if you’re broke and have kids you want the cheapest most nutritious food. Toast and beans has fibre, carbs and protein. Chuck some chopped veg at the side if you have it.
Pasta, pesto and some frozen peas and sweetcorn. Simple is best. If people with low incomes are her target market, then they don’t have the disposable income to try peach curry.
I also take umbrage with her pricing. Yes a portion may work out at £1.20 but what supermarket is selling you 1 tbsp at a time.
Common sense would be to do a book along the lines of :
1) How to build a stock cupboard. What spices are you most going to use. How to use them. Seasoning. Oils and vinegars or alternatives.
2) Highlight the most bang for your buck in terms of food products. iE is pasta better than rice, or potatoes as a carb. Best cheap cuts of meat. The best lentil to buy that can be used in various dishes.
3) Recipes that use these Ingredients to make simple Family meals.
4) How to round up or down how many people it’s for. Is it for one ok do this but you should still make al the stock up. For 8 you should maybe add x for more depth of flavour.
5) how to turn the leftovers into another meal.
6) how to store the food you have and leftover for longevity in order to make money stretch.
No one wants a washed bean. A stew can become a Ragu with some tweaks.
People using foodbanks won’t have what she’s selling. People trying to save money and low income don’t want to waste cash. I wonder if the publishers try the recipes in her book. Her success rate seems to be one or two decent ones per book. That’s 14 over 7 books. It’s abysmal. And we’ll just skirt past the plagiarism because that’s a rant for another day.
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