Jack Monroe #310 Stay pressed, fools!

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trueblue222 said:
Her books aren’t best selling. That’s part of the reason she can’t afford to buy a house outright. Her books are shite and people don’t want to read them.
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You mean the people don't need recipes like this? May have posted it before, but I sincerely doubt JO is nicking any of Jack's recipes!
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Nottonightbabe said:
I don't think there's any chance of her owning property, now or in the future, unless it's gifted to her. She's far too tit with money and just pisses it away as soon as she has it, on her high end goods. She can't budget for tit. If she had a house it'd end up wrecked in no time as she wouldn't keep up with the costs of maintaining it. She'd fill it with Cotswolds while the walls fall down around them 🙄
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Tbh I don't think it matters if she actually owns or rents. It's the way that she uses renting as 'proof' that she is working class, because obviously no WC people ever buy their home and no MC people ever rent.
 
Phillipa78 said:
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Oooofffffff!!!! 🥰
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I know it's difficult to imagine, but I feel JackaMel is over exaggerating her 'writings being studied'. One or two short pieces from her blog, then book, were used in an Eng Lang GSCE non fiction and transactional writing paper. Along with several other short pieces. The students had to answer 4 or so questions on it. That's it. It could have been any short non fiction piece. They weren't studying her work in depth for a thesis or anything.
 
Elastoblast said:
I want to know if Ken Hom is in the WhatsApp group. He was dishing out great advice today on Saturday Kitchen. How to reduce use of cooking oil, adapting recipes to use less cooking time/fuel consumption (he cooked the egg for a dish alongside the veggies in one pan), reducing meat consumption, bulking out smaller portions of meat by adding peas etc to dishes, how it's healthier to eat less meat (he didn't suggest buying better quality meat in smaller amounts but I assume that's a given as he didn't use bollock smart price nosausages in his pork dish). The other chef whose name I forgot, gave some great advice about adding subtle spice and flavour to curry dishes by selecting the appropriate spice!
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Yea, I love Ken Hom, my favourite bit was when they realised he was perched up on his seat looking like he was floating.
 
Cookiecookie said:
You mean the people don't need recipes like this? May have posted it before, but I sincerely doubt JO is nicking any of Jack's recipes! View attachment 1282998 q
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"It's not the greatest job in the world, but just get on with it."
I've never been near a JM recipe book (and I use the term recipe loosely) but that sentence has really offended me. How rude. I've never been offended by recipe instructions before. I don't want to be offended by a recipe. Cooking is meant to be a joyful experience. JM's recipes insult you before you've even tasted the finished result.
 
ednaturnblad said:
Isn't it quite risky to stuff a chicken? Or it needs doing/cooking in a specific way that should probably be explained for food safety reasons?

eta I'm genuinely not sure but my mum always said never to do it. Google seems to think you add it before the end of cooking, not into a fully raw chicken?
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It takes longer to cook a stuffed chicken, which doesn't seem good advice in terms of fuel costs. I use half a box of 29p stuffing mixture from Aldi and put it in at the same time as cooking my chicken.
 
Cookiecookie said:
You mean the people don't need recipes like this? May have posted it before, but I sincerely doubt JO is nicking any of Jack's recipes! View attachment 1282998 q
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Sweet mother of God 😱. Seriously. Why would anyone do this? Particularly if you had children to feed. You'd fry slices of spam, serve it with beans/peas/tinned toms (like old school dinners) and a carb then have the pears for pudding. Not chuck the entire contents of your cupboard or food bank bag into one thing. You want food your kids will actually eat. Ffs. I've never got my head around this part of her 'niche' tbh.
 
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