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I think this is one of the best Jamie's cookbooks. Perfect for people that would like to have a home cooked dinner/lunch but do not care to spend too much time in the kitchen cooking or, worse, washing dishes. I review cookbooks after I try at least 10 recipes but with this one I probably made more than 20. As the name suggests, each recipes uses 5 ingredients (expect for staples such a vinegar, oil, salt, pepper) and are very easy to make. Even though there are so few ingredients there isn't a lack in flavor. Some of the recipes use ready made pesto and other pastes but i would not bother to make them from scratch anyways. Also, the ingredients are mostly easy to find, not many strange ones, only available in specialty stores. After being not so thrilled by 15 and 30 minutes meals (better titled 40 min and at least 1h30) this one delivers what the names suggests and more. Lovely, lovely. Among my favorite recipes are: Harissa Squash Salad Crispy Smoked Mackerel Lemony Courgette Linguini Gnarly Peanut Chicken Harissa Chicken Traybake Creamy Mustard Chicken Smoky Chorizo Salmon Epic Rib Eye Steak Chickpea Chard PorkRead full review
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I bought this book as I thought it would help me learn how to cook--I am a senior citizen in my 70s. Although the pictures are wonderful, the recipes are mostly for spicy or Asian/Chinese style foods which are not to my taste--there is very little in the way of "English" food recipes which is what I wanted. Also, the recipes assume a level of cooking experience which again I don't have--I was hoping for something more basic. Very disappointed therefore and the book is overpriced.
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Because it "does what it says on the tin". My daughter wrote some of the recipes down. Was so impressed that I gave her my copy of the book a few months later and bought it again on ebay because I couldn't do without it!
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As everyone said, it is full of very good recipes. All of those tried had been easy and successful. I wanted it to marry up with the TV series I have on a recording device, and it has more varied content than I had expected. I think this is his best yet.
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This is an excellent book to support he TV series. I have just made my first recipe from the book (Harissa tray bake) and it was as easy as the the instructions have you believe. Plus it was delicious I am very happy with this book, and look forward to making many of the recipes!
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