Jack Monroe #369 Lie-de-Lie!

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Limey said:
I am begging you, I AM bleeping BEGGING YOU to STOP using anchovies in everything, because you think its 'cheffy'/proves you can cook. They are absolutely RANK.

Also, they are nearly three quid in Morrisons, you can get 1kg of chicken thighs for that which a) taste nice and b) are filling.
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They're less than a pound a tin. They're gorgeous when they're melted with butter in a pan. I'm sorry I cannot cosign anchovy slander, it's where I draw the line 😔
 
ChocolateMuffin said:
She grows her onions in her bathroom hanging basket, next to her eucalyptus branches and below her dandelions, in the next room to her daffodils which is upstairs in her bungalow; she can have as many damn onions as she likes!
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Hope she doesn't get the onions and daffodil confused they cook the same but daff bulbs are highly toxic if eaten.... I certainly wouldn't have them so close..
 
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Mrs Peel said:
Seeing as she's very quiet this evening I'm going to do a little bit of thinking out loud.

Imagine if I had a friend who lived in Southend and I had known that person for over 30 years. Imagine if they were the most honest, kind hearted person who has never uttered a bad word about anyone in all the time I've known them. Imagine if they very much kept themselves to themselves, and didn't do social media etc.

Imagine if I casually asked them if they knew Jack Monroe. Imagine if they responded that yes indeed they knew her. Not just knew of her - knew her.

Imagine if I asked their opinion, and they responded, "quite a cold person, not someone you can warm to, and she's made a lot of enemies over the years."

Really makes you think.

Edit: Jack, if you are reading this, and I know you are...

Don't bother trying to come after me. It was just me thinking out loud, pet.
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Your friend sounds very kind indeed to have been so circumspect about local perceptions of Jack. My mum is a pretty lovely woman in many ways, doesn’t have money but uses her time to do huge amounts for families worse off than ours because there’s lots of multigenerational poverty in Southend (an absolute world away from Jack’s life despite being within walking distance of it). We grew up always struggling for money and never having anything new, but we were lucky compared to many of my schoolfriends and their families. Mum gives back as much as she can, especially to parents of young kids, because she used to rely a lot on the kindness of community when we kids were little. And also does some things for older people (not that she’s not getting old herself, haha).

Mum doesn’t gossip or generally speak ill of anyone, largely because she can’t be bothered to and prefers to see the good in people, but she thinks Jack is awful and she has told me exactly why. Over the years (in the last decade really) Jack has done some very unpleasant things to some thoroughly nice people, and has used them for her own gain and discarded them. I can’t share much more than that on here. But your friend must be very nice indeed to have been so measured about Jack.
 
NellieBoo said:
He can do what he likes with his leftover lamb. He's paid for it, plus the dog is cute. Also, yes, he's covered leftover lamb with his Money Saving Meals and Keep Cooking and Carry On series. So there's that.

ETA. Sorry, that sounded snippy @TheDragonWithAFlagon
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I still can't believe you can cook a joint of lamb that huge in 45 minutes. The cutting it down to the bone is a great tip.
Jack's denture friendly slop takes longer than that.
 
NellieBoo said:
Exactly. We all have a rotation of easy, cheap meals using leftovers. I'd like your recipe for fried sausage and potato pasties, please!

One of the best meals I have ever eaten was at a goodbye to a colleague leaving to have her baby. We all took a dish of something. One of our colleagues brought a huge tray of jacket potato wedge bake, with ham and smothered in cheese. I can make it myself but it's not the same as having lovely, comforting Mum food cooked by a friend.
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Ingredients

For the pasty mixture. Equal amounts of:

Cooled mashed potatoes & sausage meat

1 egg

salt and pepper

For the batter:

100 g flour

1 egg

80 ml milk

oil for fryi

Put mashed potatoes, sausage meat and egg in a bowl.

Mix very well
Make pattie shapes
Make the batter. Pour flour in a big bowl, add milk and egg. Whisk well until smooth and full of bubbles. Heat a good amount of frying oil in a pan
Dip the patties into the batter
Make sure the oil is hot but not too hot otherwise the inside won't cook and the outside will burn. Fry for about 5-7 mins until golden brown. Drain on kitchen paper and enjoy :)
NellieBoo said:
Exactly. We all have a rotation of easy, cheap meals using leftovers. I'd like your recipe for fried sausage and potato pasties, please!

One of the best meals I have ever eaten was at a goodbye to a colleague leaving to have her baby. We all took a dish of something. One of our colleagues brought a huge tray of jacket potato wedge bake, with ham and smothered in cheese. I can make it myself but it's not the same as having lovely, comforting Mum food cooked by a friend.
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@Nellie boo, this is one of the recipies i use but my mum used to use mashed up chips, apparently a chip shop she worked in did this way and it was very popular.
 
Rekyavikgirl said:
It was in an anonymous interview she gave (and then admitted the piece was about her) https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/27/jack-monroe-i-was-a-victim-of-domestic-abuse/. Jack co-opts all kinds of experiences and she has form for projection.
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Ooh now this does make me really cross, as a survivor of actual domestic beatings, which my then small children bore witness to, and we escaped, leading on to a very lean time for the next 5 + years with both financial and emotionally really difficult times. duck off appropriating the voices of other people Jack. You mainly don't have a clue, you're insulting at best with your bleeping nonsense that you gurgle and whinge on about. I worked bleeping hard doing cleaning, bar work, term time kitchen work, plus any tax credits/ benefits possible to support my kids as a single parent. Apparently according to Gingerbread charity you can bleeping IDENTIFY as a single parent now, licking Jack's arse. Well no, you can't, you either are a single parent or you have another parent to support you and your child, like Jack did all along.

I'm IDENTIFYING as a a single parent to my baby puppy Glenda now 5 years old and needing school uniform please send cashos to [email protected] . Are people really that stupid :rolleyes:
 
Onestorytoomany said:
Ingredients

For the pasty mixture. Equal amounts of:

Cooled mashed potatoes & sausage meat

1 egg

salt and pepper

For the batter:

100 g flour

1 egg

80 ml milk

oil for fryi

Put mashed potatoes, sausage meat and egg in a bowl.

Mix very well

Make the batter. Pour flour in a big bowl, add milk and egg. Whisk well until smooth and full of bubbles. Heat a good amount of frying oil in a pan

Make sure the oil is hot but not too hot otherwise the inside won't cook and the outside will burn. Fry for about 5-7 mins until golden brown. Drain on kitchen paper and enjoy :)

@Nellie boo, this is one of the recipies i use but my mum used to use mashed up chips, aaprently a chip shop she worked in did this way and it was very popular.
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OMG. Thank you! 😍
 
Jack's zinger - 0 likes

The response - 16 likes and counting

Happy days.

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