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Top Amazon Review
This is one I'll buy for friends. I hesitated for a while over buying this because I'm actually quite a decent cook and I own a lot of cook books already. I eventually bought it in the hopes that it would give me some good ideas for routine day to day meals and I was not disappointed. I particularly enjoyed the section on salads where the principle of salad construction and dressings are explained and the section on curries as these are something I've only bought as ready meals or take-aways before.
I'm definitely going to buy more copies of this book for friends who are less able cooks than I am as I'm confident they can pick up lots of basics from this.
Customer Review 1
Disappointing. I have tried four recipes from this book so far. The recipes are easy to follow, but the results don't taste very good. All have been disappointing and one was horrible.
I am a Jamie fan and have enjoyed some of his other books, but these recipes just aren't up to his usual standard.
Customer Review 2
Fantastic. Easy to follow
well written
recipes that are easy and work (and taste great)
exactly what a recipe book should be- hope the other prima donnas take note.
Customer Review 3
"Who are you, and what have you done with our Mum?". I must own about 100 recipie books easily, maybe more. They cause me trouble in storing them and strife everytime we move...but no more ...I'm about to ditch most of them! I've had The Ministry for 3 weeks and have used more recipes from this than I have out of the other books combined!
I love the one recipe per left hand page and pictures showing stages and finished item on right side of pages, no flicking pages here, or pictures of tempting dishes and endless frustration trying to match recipe to correct picture 30 pages apart! Every recipe is pictured, so you know what it's supposed to look like!
There's not even lists of difficult to source ingredients, and there are many ideas of how to tweak recipies to make them into something else. I've never used so many fresh herbs in cooking, and they really do lift the quality and flavour of the meals. It's inspired me to start a herb garden of my own!
My family have particularly loved the Roast chicken - moist melt in the mouth and totally flavour packed - as is the consistantly good gravy - Bisto have lost me forever. I actually had no idea how easy it is and how good gravy could taste. Parmesan chicken and posh ham chicken great - although 2nd time used smoked bacon instead - just as good really. Salmon fishcakes gorgeous. The sauce with the meatloaf is fantastic, and have used this as a veggie main meal with couscous on its own (without bacon!)
Trouble is I'm being pestered to remake so many things...particularly Mega Chocolate Fudge Cake...heavenly.
I'm quite a confident and good home cook anyway, but have been guilty of getting stuck in a rut with old favourite meals cooked hundreds of times. I usually only dabble in recipe books at Xmas time. However we are all loving the Ministry.
I highly recommend this easy to follow, attractive and no nonsense book as the only one you need in the kitchen - except for Xmas stuff!
Customer Review 4
A book for the credit crunch?. I've always enjoyed his TV programmes and I've had a long hard look at Jamie's books over the last 2-3 years since teaching myself to cook - and to be honest, never fancied them at all. They seemed a bit too fussy and his recipes simply didn't appeal. This one is different. Simple, straight forward and concise. the recipes tend to be orientated more towards an easy meal at the end of the day than the full blown dinner, which too many cookbooks tend to aspire to. And in this credit crunch era it's a bit of a brainwave to hark back to (even darker) dark days and good simple, plain, easy to cook, tasty and nutritional fare. This for the last two weeks has become a bit of a bible for me and I can see my love affair with it lasting a lot longer than that. His best book yet - by far.
