Simple. Effective. Big fan, squig.
when I call my friends and invite them over for dinner, I manage to fill a table and they manage to clear their plates with compliments and smiles and disbelief that I do it so cheaplyUpdate: still combing through A Girl Called Jack and I found some content!
Sample quotes:
"There’s no tarting about, no fancy expensive ingredients, but still, when I call my friends and invite them over for dinner, I manage to fill a table and they manage to clear their plates with compliments and smiles and disbelief that I do it so cheaply."
"I don’t claim to be the world’s greatest cook, but I can sweat an onion with the best of them"
The second preface is Hunger Hurts. Greatest Hits!
Jack's tip for shopping: "Make a list"
Tip for cooking: "Courgettes give off quite a bit of liquid when you grate them but don’t worry about draining it off in this recipe because the courgettey water will help to flavour the bread and add moisture. When you will be adding water to a recipe later anyway, it doesn’t make sense to fanny about taking liquid out only to put it back in again, and I like simple solutions."
Thanks for all you do
ETA OH GOD JACK 'SEXILY' POSING WITH A RUSTY SPOON ABORT ABORT
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Undoubtedly. I have never heard of libraries returning books to their authors.Ex library stock? Our library sells their books off in book sales.... does she mean remainder copies that the publisher couldn't shift?
This looks like a piss poor attempt at a version of the barley and greens eaten by our iron age ancestors....saw this in her mentions
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thought "wtf is worts?"
googled. it is sadly not available online FOR FREE
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but i found the ingredients list here
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i still have the question "wtf is worts?"
Yeah I’d like to know if that hack works, it seems odd but hey I’m not a food writer.Sorry but can someone fact check this please?
Also did Jack monroe not say there was a sunflower oil shortage?
She hates food. I think she wanted to be discovered as a political analyst, but only her chickpea curry recipe got any traction and she resents it. It shows in her writing about good and how she doesn't care to put an effort in testing recipes.It’s weird reading the excerpts of her recipe books being posted here, I never realised just how dismissive she is about her own cooking. Everything is described by HER as ugly, slop, not as good as the real thing, will do in a pinch, not great but it’s cheap. No wonder other food writers and chefs dislike her as she’s denigrating the entire industry. It’s like she’s contemptuous of food writing at the same time as she’s doing it for money if you see what I mean? Really odd.
Agree, but it just makes so little sense to me when there must be loads of people out there who LOVE food and love making it accessible but are unable to break into food writing or publishingShe hates food. I think she wanted to be discovered as a political analyst, but only her chickpea curry recipe got any traction and she resents it. It shows in her writing about good and how she doesn't care to put an effort in testing recipes.
I just looked up the chickpea and peach curry recipe. Who on earth boils tinned chickpeas before adding to a meal?She hates food. I think she wanted to be discovered as a political analyst, but only her chickpea curry recipe got any traction and she resents it. It shows in her writing about good and how she doesn't care to put an effort in testing recipes.
I CAN PUT 30P IN THE MORTGAGE HAROLD
Between two of us sounds like you're going halves you insufferable twanger.
A “committee relationship”? Is that OH, Jack, and all Jack’s socks?
Looking at her old blogs, her food actually used to be better. I mean, it was never great, but it wasn’t like the later stuff where you’d just look at it and think eww.She hates food. I think she wanted to be discovered as a political analyst, but only her chickpea curry recipe got any traction and she resents it. It shows in her writing about good and how she doesn't care to put an effort in testing recipes.