Jamie Oliver's Meals In Minutes: A Revolutionary Approach To Cooking Good Food Fast (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
My version is titled Meals in Minutes. Having also watched his BBC show demonstrating the same menus, this book was very easy to follow. I believe if you read thru the menus & instructions 1st & thoroughly, & follow all of the great tips (like having everything ready & starting the hot water kettle) you can really make these wonderful meals in 30 minutes (or a bit more for slower chefs). Still a lot faster & tastier than other recipes I've tried. Yummmm I agree with the other reviewers. The food was pretty good, the directions were easy to follow, but the format was intensely annoying.He isn't kidding. The recipes and instructions are for the whole meal, cooking everything together, like it or not. I'm an experienced home cook and this was not the book for me.While PERFECT for a newly independent cook who needs practice making a whole meal at once and having everything come out ready at the same time, those of us who have been cooking for a family for a decade or more are going to find this book difficult to use.Had I had the individual recipes put together on a two page spread, I could have made the meals in 30 minutes, tweaked what my family would and wouldn't eat, and come out with 5 happy campers.As it was, both of the meals I tried took nearly an hour because Jamie uses different shortcuts from mine, and I had to keep backtracking to figure out what action was for what dish, so I knew where to make changes for my family's tastes. (None of my kids would eat Tabboleh if you paid them, so why tweak that when the adults will enjoy as is...but the fish needed a tweak for my picky youngest eater).This book is beautiful, and a great gift for a newly independent and free-spending cook. I'm going back to my other cookbooks that don't spend so much effort trying to control the WAY that I cook.
What do You think about Jamie Oliver's Meals In Minutes: A Revolutionary Approach To Cooking Good Food Fast (2011)?
Not quite 30 minutes - unless you have an assistant - but well worth the healthy and unique recipes.
—Gypsii
Can't wait to try some of the meals, everything looks sooooo good.
—Kersti
Loves It!!!!!! It's simply fantastic isn't it
—etaf95
