Jack Monroe #169 Please don’t argue about turnips

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Billybellend

Billybellend

Marwood said:
Oh lovely! Any particular standouts? The way it's shaken out I've been doing less cooking than ever if anything, but I live in perpetual hope of getting my tit together 😂 I have benefitted deliciously from Ottolenghi Flavour and the Dishoon cookbook (though not lifted a finger to actually use either myself)
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Ottolenghi is a god!! JO’s Seven Ways is a really pragmatic book...for kids, I can recommend Nadiya’s Bake Me A Story, and Cool Kids Cook - great introduction to not only baking, but planning/cooking meals, subbing ingredients (and not in the ‘a vegetable is a vegetable’ shruggy shoulders way 🙄) and using knives etc safely. Nikki Lilly’s book is really good, but it’s also semi autobiographical, and gives older kids loads of tips and life advice. We bought it for middle child, who is early teens, and it went down a storm.
 
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Captainmouse

Captainmouse

Mr Krabs said:
That's true. Also, there's a misconception that the longer you spend on a page, the higher Google will rank it. But most people will just nope out of there upon seeing a wall of text, so it can actually be bad for your numbers. As a PP said, there was a tool to remove all the gumpf and it pissed off a load of bloggers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56241653

I hate to say it, but what Jack fails to realise about Nigella's style, and why it's so hard to ape, is that Nigella is really bleeping smart. She was privately educated, went to Oxford etc. She isn't just chucking in random 'clever person words'. You can't fake that kind of eccentric intelligence.
Jack is basically Joey from Friends when he learns to use the thesaurus.
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bib I don’t think she has learnt yet
 
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EddieBeds

EddieBeds

Amazon have🔺me...😭

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PS: Goes without saying that even for 99p I’m not (ETA) tainting taunting my kindle with that level of sloppy crap.

ETA: The next suggestion was this book, oh the juxtaposition of these two suggestions.

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People-huv-tae-know

People-huv-tae-know

Blurp said:
I have bought more cookery books in a shorter time this past year than ever before, none of which have been by Jack but at least two from DKL guests. I have also discovered a Scottish Baking book which I didn't realise that I had so that's going to be the next experiment.

I've also had time to properly cook in the evening, being at home. Bet books by THAT MAN and Mom haven't had a downturn in sales.
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What is the Scottish baking book called?

I would not be able to standing using a recipe book without pictures. To be honest it's the pictures that are the main selling point for me. Drawings don't cut it either. They have to be beautiful glossy colour photos which show off gorgeous food. No slop allowed.

Also I've never had pot noodle either. It's just never appealed to me. I do like noodles with stir fry though.
 
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heretoreaditall2019

heretoreaditall2019

People-huv-tae-know said:
Not a peep about her private landlord dad though.
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Which is disgusting tbh as these things should really be declared, her dad isn’t just a hobbyist or accidental landlord. He’s got so many assets it makes sense to run them through a limited company, so this is material information.
 
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bowiethesdmn

bowiethesdmn

Just got off my call, have been stuck on the waiting list to see an ADHD specialist. Must have thanked the nurse a million times and am on the verge of tears of joy/relief. duck me I might be able to start my adult life properly.

Genuinely, how does she use stuff like this as a personality trait? People who do it with OCD enrage me too, though I think there's less dialogue about how disabling that can be.
 
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Suffolkmum

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I remember someone I knew (RIP) showing off her tattoos around thirty years ago and she was in her seventies then. She'd gone along to hold her granddaughter's hand and ended up with a line of Pictish animals from standing stones exquisitely inked down her thigh in black linework.
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My great grandmother had tattoos and she was born in 1878
 
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Rekyavikgirl

Rekyavikgirl

I think the trifle defender has a newsletter or column?

I love Rachel Roddy, Nik Sharma, Ainsley, Olia Hercules (who appears on Saturday Kitchen sometimes), Tessa Kiros and Elizabeth David.
 
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Vanelope

Vanelope

Billybellend said:
Ottolenghi is a god!! JO’s Seven Ways is a really pragmatic book...for kids, I can recommend Nadiya’s Bake Me A Story, and Cool Kids Cook - great introduction to not only baking, but planning/cooking meals, subbing ingredients (and not in the ‘a vegetable is a vegetable’ shruggy shoulders way 🙄) and using knives etc safely. Nikki Lilly’s book is really good, but it’s also semi autobiographical, and gives older kids loads of tips and life advice. We bought it for middle child, who is early teens, and it went down a storm.
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Thanks for the kids recommendations - miss v wants to help but is still a bit young for knives
 
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EverythingsBetterInPJs

Still grunking.... but my guilty pleasure is chix & much pot noodle... with cheesy wotsits chucked in... they melt and make the juice all cheesy. 🤤🤤
 
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