After letting my mum and dad know that I want to work through a cook book (like in the movie Julie and Julia), Santa Clause decided to come seven days early to me, leaving me two Jamie Oliver cookbooks. One is his 15 minute meals, and the other is a limited addition guide to make you a better cook. Flicking through the pages of both, instead of working from one cookbook, I decided to work through part of each. There's some things in both I just know neither myself, my mum or dad would eat. eg. chicken livers. Don't get me wrong, I would taste them, but I'm not sure if I could handle eating them, knowing what it is, and I wouldn't want the dish to go to waste.
Some of the foods I can't wait to try! Like his Greek chicken with herby vegetable cous cous and tzatziki. It was only a couple of nights ago I asked my dad if he ever tried tzatziki. It looks quite fresh if you ask me.
There's blackened chicken with San Fran quinoa salad, where to be honest, it was the word quinoa that got my attention. One day looking through the health aisle in Woolworths, I noticed the bags of quinoa and decided to try it out. I love it, and apparently it's really good for your stomach too.
Then there's spiced chicken with bacon, asparagus and spinach lentils. Two of my newest foods I like... asparagus and lentils. I used to only taste the canned asparagus, which I did not like one bit, but the fresh stuff, wow. It's good.
Grilled steak with ratatouille and saffron rice. Since the movie Ratatouille came out, I've always wondered what it was. Guess I'm going to find out.
For so many years, my mum has wanted to try fresh salmon. We have heard it tastes beautiful, and now I have recipes and instructions on how to cook it.
In case you haven't realized yet, I'm pretty excited to try some of his recipes. They look so yummy.