Delia Smith’s How To Cheat At Cooking
It is causing a bit of a brouhaha is Delia’s new cookery book - How To Cheat At Cooking.
Not only have the critics lambasted her for failing to join in the with the anti-supermarket crusade and her recommending using products that come with excessive packaging but the results are decidedly lacklustre.
The Times today, for example, has recreated one of the new recipes, “good old shepherd’s pie”. After having to visit several different supermarkets to locate the required ready made and ready cut ingredients they write that
“The result was… okay. That did surprise me, as it had looked like a concoction of cat food and ice hockey pucks to begin with. But not only does my normal recipe (involving meat that I fry myself, a good slosh of red wine and potatoes I peel, boil and mash to a Delia recipe with creme fraiche, butter and milk) taste nicer; it was also a lot quicker to shop for - and takes no longer to make. I was left wondering what the point of cheating was.”
Delia Smith’s How To Cheat At Cooking is available from Amazon.co.uk
for £9.
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by Andrew I am sure that in the USA there is a food program on some food channel or other that does exactly the same thing - rubbish food from processed ingredients.
I believe the book is to feature in this weekends (Sunday 24th Feb) Guardian Food Monthly.
by Cheating: A real possibility at Quick Indian Cooking [...] feel bad for this doyenne of celebrity cookery. Gnarled by the press. Pooh-poohed by her peers.Bored stiff of doling out mind-bogglingly perfect and precise recipes for [...]
Would you be able to tell me the make and where I can get one of the mini food processor that Delia used on Monday night programme (10th March)
Thank you
by Stinky Ink News Celebrity Chefs and their part in my downfall…
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Back in Olden Times (OT), BCC (Before Celebrity Chefs) we used to cook wholesome, nutritious tasty food purchased from our local Supermarket and generally based on Jars, Bottles, tins and the freezer …
could you please tell me the recipe for the dish with frozen aubergins and cheeese shown on mondad thank you
I am totally shocked at Delia, we dont need cooks like her showing us how to cheat at cooking with frozen or processed rubbish. Whoever thought of all this, her PR should be fired. Not impressed, she has lost all my respect, sorry
I thoroughly enjoy Delia’s program . I am a pensioner so I have more time to bake, but I like her idea’s and I shall use them inconjunction with her other recipes I have her origanal How to cheat book, which I also use when I’m stumped for something different to cook.
Small food processor is a Kenwood, I have one myself its fab can get it form any electrical store, mines is about 16 months old now, I got it from Sainsbury’s Castle Boulevard Nottingham, have seen them in Curry’s electrical store Nottingham
For gods sake why dont people lighten up ! Yes we know we shouldnt eat processed food but all Delia is doing is showing us HOW we can cheat, you dont have to use the recipes and if u ever have a dinner party or are stretched for time then she is showing how it can be simplified so put things into perspective and give her credit where its due Thankyou Delia
by Michelle Môn on February 22, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
You know what, I thought it was just me. Every other search result about this book seemingly comes up positive. I’m not a Delia fan anyway, but when I first heard about this book, the first thing that popped into my head was, why? When we as a nation are starting to reject processed crap, and starting to take pride in what we put on a plate and into our bodies, someone who has tried for years, decades to get us to do this - goes out and tells us to buy bl**dy Dolmio? (No offence Dolmio). Counter-productive? Yes, we’re all busy, I have 4 children and a husband and I still manage without resorting to shoving this junk inside them. I’m not usually controversial but I am passionate about food and this is wrong on many levels