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Jamie Oliver is a ly!!!
Wow busy days lately
Workingworkingworking.
Some days ago I called Zabine (superfriend, surf to our project and her portfolio), saying that I would like to invite her for dinner, but that such a thing was difficult due to the fact I dont live in Ghent at this instant and most of all I still dont know how to cook.
Not a problem she added, you can come to my place, and Ill help you cooking. For sure you have to go back to Israel and show those girls you DO know how to cook.
Okokok
So yesterday I went in Jamie Oliver style to the shop (read I was driving motorcycle for the simple reason I dont have anything else but a motorcycle
)
I learned one thing: Jamie Oliver is total bullnuts! It is fixed! I tell you. You cant take all the stuff on a motorcycle, and not all shops have the stuff you need.
So I was driving around from one shop to the other, gladly it didnt rain yet, At the red light we were standing 2 motorcycles next to each other, a guy with a huge CBR, macho, and me, next to him, with shopping bag in my hand
Housewife
Funny sight indeed.
So I finally arrived at Zabines, where I (well in fact we) started cooking.
I brought cherry tomatoes which which had to squeeze according to the book (well not Jamies, but another one, but Jamie does it too)
Did you ever try to squeeze cherry tomatoes?
We didnt. In no time the kitchen was full of cherry tomatoes
(I found the excellent dish to prepare at other ones place, they will rather prefer them making a dish for me, than me ruining their kitchen!)
So while chatting I did cook (with a little help from my friends) and I must admit it wasnt that bad at all (but Zabine will have to agree on that
)
And most of all, I had fun. (Because I do know how to cook, I just dont like it soo much, and I dont like to do it alone. Put me in a kitchen with somebody and no problem. Cooking together is fun and can be even much more than fun.)
So if you want me to come and cook a meal with cherry tomatoes, and you are ready to repaint your kitchen after my cooking: just call.
(And no I don't have any pictures of this nice -meanwhile red- kitchen, couldn't take that camera along...)
Posted on August 29, 2003
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Since you promised to redecorate my kitchen I feel obliged to tell the meal was superb!
Posted by zabine | October 7, 2003 11:15 AMJust kidding, it really was, totally pukka (as Jamie would have put it).
I really feel I have to make a little correction though, you told me you wanted to take me out for dinner and I answered I didn't want to, that you had to cook for me because I don't take the 'I can't cook' crap for an answer.
And of course, I was right once again , you can cook if you want to!
So Gio, Tim, Mieke, Kristel² and Sabine, she was only pretending on that bbq!
hehe, okok, I invited you for dinner in a restaurant...instead of me cooking (everybody knows by now I never insist on cooking myself)
Posted by ine | October 7, 2003 11:16 AMWhile thinking of this, I really can enjoy eating when I didn't cook myself.
so when do we go for that restaurant (i have time till next Friday.)
(Other people may join, but then we'll split the bill)
Trying to do the 'couveuse'thing ourselves once a month should be the aim... (as long as it is me NOT cooking...)
Ine,
Posted by sophie | October 7, 2003 11:17 AMyou are right! Cooking is fun if you do it with friends, having fun in the kitchen experimenting and learning from each other.
Cooking is not so difficult, me I LOVE it, it is one of my favorite things to do, and lucky me, I get to do it every day. So if you need a hand or some tips and tricks, let me know!
If you need one thing in your kitchen, it is definately a wok! It is easy, fast, healthy and most important ...it tastes great. Once you have the technique of cooking into the wok, you can start experimenting by adding special herbs or other stuff and you can make your own creations!
I have watched Jamie Oliver several times and I like to watch him cook, but I wouldn't want to be his dinner guest. He really treats food as material, not as something to be eaten afterwards!!! So I wouldn't take his recepies to start cooking...
If you like, I can send you the title of a great wok book for starters!
have i got a competitor as far as cooking in concern..... should i be worried ?
Posted by sigali | October 7, 2003 11:18 AMWell... maybe we should do a cooking day, Sigal and Sophie join, I don't insist on Kosovarian cooks -after two days on the toilet...-
Posted by ine | October 7, 2003 11:18 AMAnd I'll be the jury. grinning.