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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
Offensive This book doesn't tell you how to cook what so ever, you might as well go and buy ready meals. Using a can of mince in a dish has to be a sin, and I think she must have been slipped a back hander from the supermarkets for all the product placement there is. British food has improved greatly over the last 10 years, and she is trying to take it back 20 years by using frozen or tinned ingredients, instead of fresh produce. I recommend Jamie Oliver or Nigel Slater if you want to learn how to cook.
Ingredients not available everywhere. Took me agessssss to get some of the ingredients to make some of these recipes, and what seemed to be such a good idea, I think it would of been less time to actually just get the 'hard way?' ingredients in the first place. What I think Delia hasn't realised is, that alot of the ingredients she reals off, are items that some northern supermarkets don't stock. Such a shame I only found that out 'after' buying the book.
Awful The cooking time was cut by literally five minutes and the meals looked like they were School Dinner rejects. I had to walk around the supermarket for about an hour just to get the ingredients- as opposed to ten minutes up and down the main aisles- had to ask for help several times just to find stuff. The whole idea has backfired on her. Awful.
"Oh what can I make for dinner tonight" and not shopping til tomorrow I am sure we have all been there, the cupboard is bare and the weekly shop is 12, 24 or 48 hours away. There are tins and packets in the cupboard and "stuff" in the freezer.
Having read through the reviews for this book, I decided to buy it and have not regretted it. Having read the recipes, but sadly, not tried any yet, I am impressed with how much one can do with so little. My only adverse comment is the section on store cupboard ingredients, which are a little pricey, but then there are... more info
