Jack Monroe #79 Big mistake. Big. HUGE.

[JoyceDivision]

What’s she recovering from this time?

Accidentally conquering her worst fear

 

[veryfondoftea]

For me a successful meal plan factors in that it's hard to predict exactly how the week pans out. I'm a big fan of having ingredients ready prepped in the fridge so I can assemble meals quickly. I'm vegan, so for me that means I have one or two types of pulses ready cooked in the fridge (they keep for around five days either in water or dressed), vegetables ready sliced or diced (root veg in airtight containers in water, other veg just sliced or chopped in airtight containers), some veg is great steamed and ready to go (sweet potatoes, butternut squash).I also gave one or two grains that takes longer than 10 minutes to cook (brown rice, quinoa, etc) ready in the fridge. I typically prep on sundays, but I'm not religious about it.
I then have several meals in mind for the week, depending on exactly what I've got in.
For example, I can make a quick lentil loaf (sautee onion, garlic and carrots with rosemary, add cooked lentils, oats, some stock and mustard, mix, put in loaf ton, bake) and put some veggies on a roasting tray alongside it.
Next day I might have stir fry of my ready prepped veg with rice noodles and a satay sauce.
The following day veggie burgers made out of the quinoa, some steamed sweet potatoes and beans. Served with a salad and potato wedges.
And then perhaps a veggie chilli with some brown rice.

But there are lots of meals you could create from those ingredients and that's the point. Maybe it gets hot and you just want a big salad with beans,steamed veggies and a nice dressing. Or you want a hearty soup. You can go either way, which means you aren't ridgedly stuck to a meal that no one fancies at that moment.

Home cooking is about being flexible within a structure. I'd hate to start each evening completely new. But I also dont want to eateftovers all the time. Prepping ingredients is a good compromise.

Ive screenshotted this because you sound like a organised dream

 

[NP]

Vlad has been up to his old tricks with the ads..
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My ad is getting all up in her kombucha niche.

 

[Alansbigplate]

Don’t give her ideas! We know she has a pattern of sustaining “injuries” just before important deadlines. I foresee a catastrophic sideboard-related accident in the next day or two ...

Maybe a little pressure would help her write the book

 

[NellieBoo]

You are supposed to secure the two halves of a dresser/sideboard combination with flat bracing/mending brackets. And tie the top half to the wall. I know this because...wait for it...my partner used to be a delivery driver and installer for JOHN LEWIS .

 

[Malacandra]

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My husband does that

And why you’d ram all your kitchen ware down the side of your house in a lean to and leave it bare

She did what?

i am pretty jealous of the amount she has spent of flash furniture, and the sideboards are lovely but 4 is more than enough you are going to put up with them for quite a while if you save spent £4k on them. Unless you rake in £100k+ per year for mostly twatting about on twitter.

I don't understand WHY she has four sideboards. Where are they located? What is their purpose?

 

[Lanie]

This ridiculous woman! Does she know how lucky she is to have a book deal at all? It’s an opportunity plenty of people would give their right arm for. And yet here she is, moaning and whinging about this massive privilege as if she is a sulky kid that’s not done their homework.
If it’s such hard work to squeeze the thing out, what makes you think we’ll want to read it??
Can you imagine other writers carrying on like this? Nigella, Jamie, Nigel, Yotam, Chetna? FFS. And what makes it worse is that this is her “important and serious” poverty book.

She hasn't got a scooby about what to write about. Other people's stories are all well and good but how do you bring that together, everyone is different. Poverty is not one size fits all.

It's takes years of proper in depth research and asking people how and why and finding a pattern. What is her demographic is it London based poverty as that would be very different to other parts of England or even northern ireland, due to housing costs and job availability and benefit payments.

This is to me sounds like the part in the paper when the journalist says Peggy from Ipswich had to live on 20 pound a week due to benefit cuts. She ate you yellow sticker food and bought her clothes from thrift shops. She used to be a cleaner but had to give it up because she hurt herself whilst cleaning one day and hasn't been able to work. It's telling someone's story but not education people on how and why and what to do when in that situation.

I hope very much I am wrong but I don't see how you can write a solid piece on such little research and on such a vast subject. To tally up a poverty chart would be an intense amount of data to churn out.

 

[bazzam]

Burnout and a black eye

can you imagine if she caught covid. what a terribly inconvenient it be be?

You are supposed to secure the two halves of a dresser/sideboard combination with flat bracing/mending brackets. And tie the top half to the wall. I know this because...wait for it...my partner used to be a delivery driver and installer for JOHN LEWIS .

Hmm didn't she lug all be her self. Using her super strength to fix the top dresser bit to the wall.

 

[Oofadoofa]

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Credit @lilamay and @Bookweevil

This is a piss-take lasagne, surely?

 

[Montrachet]

This is a piss-take lasagne, surely?

Not sure - too BUSY now waiting for Jack to post on this gem of a Twitter thread.

 

[Emmapism]

Evening you mithering ninnies

Looks like my very rough estimate of Jack's homework due date was off by about a week! I think I based it on a 40 day deadline she was banging on about on Twitter. No doubt that was then deleted so as to make me feel like I'm tripping bollock sausages. She's a tricksy one that Monroe!

I love my new avatar so much. Thanks again @Alansbigplate I keep looking at it and HOOTING

 

[Alansbigplate]

Evening you mithering ninnies

Looks like my very rough estimate of Jack's homework due date was off by about a week! I think I based it on a 40 day deadline she was banging on about on Twitter. No doubt that was then deleted so as to make me feel like I'm tripping bollock sausages. She's a tricksy one that Monroe!

I love my new avatar so much. Thanks again @Alansbigplate I keep looking at it and HOOTING

It really brings out your eyes

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

No Asda shop and no dinner tonight? I’m sat with my chicken livers looking for direction!

 

[KebabGirl]

Bit issue late here - work gets in the way - but the photos: is she showing off her forearms a la Matt? His certainly got plenty of attention earlier in the year!

 

[Lanie]

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No Asda shop and no dinner tonight? I’m sat with my chicken livers looking for direction!

Mush em and squash em and cook em in a cool to moderate pan, then blend em then sling em.... ( Ring for a pizza)

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

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Mush em and squash em and cook em in a cool to moderate pan, then blend em then sling em.... ( Ring for a pizza)

When do I rinse and add the lard?

 

[MancBee]

It looks like an Extra Large Dresser Top sat upon a Grand Sideboard, totalling a rather modest £1499. Appears staged especially for Frauen Eyes Only.

And the best bit is ....... wait for it conspiracy wankers ..... the Grand Sideboard alone weighs ..... 92 Kgs ..... plus 1 kg of packaging for the beast!!

That wouldn't even fit in my place, not that I'd want it to. A bit twee for my taste.

 

[Lanie]

You rinse them in the lard silly. Now I am busy being very important

 

[TurnedUpInTipp]

No Asda shop and no dinner tonight? I’m sat with my chicken livers looking for direction!

Throw them in a carrier bag with some lard, POBP and wrap them in an electric blanket, set on low. Leave for 1 hour.
In restaurant parlance, this is called 'Sous Vide'..

 

[Themaninblack]

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