Recent meals have been lacking any sort of inspiration, exciting flavours - same old, same old. You do what you have to do to get it on the table, but it is nice to have a bit of pride once in awhile when you serve up the plates.
This week I was cooking out of Jamie Oliver's Meals in Minutes book. The great thing about this cook book is that each page is a recipe for an entire meal, not just one part of it. For example it will explain step-by-step how to cook the entire meal and in the end you have a main meat, salad, side veggie and usually a dessert or fun drink. Sound a bit over the top for the mid-week rush? That's what I thought, but Jamie walks you through, literally step by step, in order of what you have to do - prompting you to even turn your frying pan on (so it's ready for the third step that you will come to in 10 minutes).
Honestly, in approximately 30 minutes from start to finish, I created this:
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(This is not my photo - I forgot to take one. But I can honestly say, that my meal looked 90% like this one ... maybe even a little nicer :) )
This wonderful meal was Jamie's steak Indian-style, spinach & paneer salad, naan breads, mango dessert.
The only thing that I have found takes a bit longer when attempting these new dishes is a bit of extra grocery shopping planning, but it's worth it if I can serve this little number instead of trying to pass off KD with tuna as a delicious and unique entree.
So what interesting recipes have you been trying lately? And what is your favourite local summer produce?
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I'm seriously impressed...my cooking skills are anything but.
ReplyDeleteNah, you can do it. that is the great thign about this book. it's not fancy and his goal is to write it in a way that the average family and busy mom can cook and lay out in 30 mins. i was so surprised with what and how i whipped it up. i mean curry sauce, yogurt sauce, marinated meat, but it was really easy and tasted delicious. try it and let me know how it goes :)
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