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Poor Man’s Potatoes Recipe Book: Nigel Slater - Eat Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I have to say I really enjoyed this dish. It’s quite a nice comfort food style vegetarian dish. I have made this before and the first time I made it I decided to add in a chilli 🌶 at the start.... a whole sliced chilli 🌶... maybe you might want to put a half one in instead! 😆  nevertheless it was still good.  This time I sort of stuck to the original recipe. Only alterations were that I didn’t have the normal size bell peppers so I used a few of those smaller sweet peppers to get the same amount. Aga conversion: I kind of struggled with this conversion, I sort of toggled between both hot plates and then when it was time to cover and simmer enthusiastically, I popped the covered Aga sauté pan on the floor of the roasting oven. After 20 mins there was still loads of stock left so I gave it a bit longer uncovered on the hot plates toggling between them for roughly 10 minutes after squashing about

New Potatoes, Garlic, Peppers. Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Greenfeast (Spring/Summer)  Review: 4 stars for this one! It was really tasty but didn't blow us away. Finally managed to get hold of some Romano Peppers for this one - Aldi to the rescue! I think I should've just stopped cooking last week, it seemed like I had a mare with most of the recipes I attempted. So this is how this one went... 700g new potatoes sliced thinly - I used my mandolin on its thickest setting, prepped everything and started cooking... Using my nice new shallow cast iron casserole pan I started on the peppers - nicely done - now on to the potatoes 'cooking them in one layer if possible' Bloody hell! How am I supposed to do that I've got blinking millions of them because you said to slice them thinly Nigel!!! So my nice thin new potatoes did not go nice and brown and then just get turned over, they got cooked and cooked and cooked in the hopes of them eventually going

Cauliflower Cheese Pizza Pie (872 calories) Recipe Book: Jamie Oliver Veg (the latest book)  Review: 3-4 Stars! We had such high hopes for this one. This one wasn't quite as straight forward as I though it was going to be... I think last week I just had too much stuff on the go all at once.  The husband wasn't over keen on this one, for him he said the pizza base reminded him of Yorkshire Puddings. For some reason my sauce seemed to go runnier not thicker (it was thick when it went into the base) after I put it in the oven so mine did not come out in nice neat slices, it sort of cut with a nice crispy cut and then ran out everywhere whilst I'm rapidly trying to get it onto a plate. Has this happened to anyone else or is it just me? My opinion: as an entire dish that kind of fell apart - 3 stars - as separate parts - Cauliflower cheese...good....pizza base...good - 4 stars. Aga conversion: I used my 28cm saute pan to make this. I mainly used the simm

Allotment Cottage Pie (466 calories) Recipe Book: Jamie Oliver Veg (the latest book)  Review: 2 Stars! Oh NO! Can't believe we have scored this one so low. We weren't keen on this at all. Maybe I did something wrong? It felt like there was something missing, don't ask me what....I don't know, I'm not a pro! It looked good, smelled good but just didn't hit the mark on taste. Maybe I'm too fussy? Annoying because I spent time on this recipe. Anyway, the mash potato bit was good - home grown potatoes of course. It's easy enough to make but time consuming so it's a day off recipe rather than a quick after work meal. Aga conversion: No conversion on this today as the Aga was off for my attempts at door liner upgrades...and that's another story! Will I make this again? Definitely Not. Buy the book here  Buy the Kindle Version # aga   # jamieoliver 

Masala Stuffed Peppers (389 calories) Recipe Book: Jamie Oliver Veg (the latest book)  Review: 3.5 Stars! OK, so this one didn't score too highly. I'd had one of 'those' days and was rushing so by the time I sat down to eat, I didn't really feel like it. It wasn't difficult to make, but it wasn't a quick one either. It tasted good but definitely didn't blow me away, but as a meat eater who is sat eating stuffed peppers (a first!) it wasn't half bad. I had to skip on the fresh coriander as I'm one of those people who taste it differently to everyone else - it tastes like soap to me. I also only had little peppers so I used 3 (red, yellow and green) as they were so dinky and they stuffed nicely with all the filling. I mistakenly picked up salted pistachios but they were fine. Aga conversion: I used the roasting tray on the floor of the roasting oven to boil the potatoes then did the rest using the hot plates. Peppers were baked on t

Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟.  Well, if you’d asked me this morning what I expected I’d be scoring tonight’s recipe, I was thinking a 3🌟. I have to say I have been very pleasantly surprised. It’s not a quick recipe to make. I did a half portion and it took about 1 hour 20 start to finish. The question is... was it tasty? Hell yes! And I ate it all (my portion not the entire 3 portions 😆)! Coming from someone who doesn’t really like veg and is an all out meat eater this is a big deal! I did find this recipe a bit ambiguous in places. I mean there’s a section where it says you have to roast the veg and garlic together but it doesn’t say to chop that half of the garlic, so I did as I didn’t fancy biting into a whole clove... Also, because I was doing a half portion I thought it would be difficult to blanch the parsnips and carrots in such a small amount of liquid so I made the full portion of stock and when I drained it I only used half of what was left to go in the parsley sauce. I used 2/3 of a