Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver, coming to Roy Thomson Hall, Sunday November 22 at 2pm, takes questions from Globe and Mail readers and dishes on his kitchen must-haves, simple meals for first-time cooks and why you’ll never, ever catch him at KFC.
You have been such a strong advocate of teaching ordinary people how to cook exceptional meals in their own home. If there were three things that are dead easy to learn, but would improve almost anybody’s cooking, what would they be?
– Jim Smerdon, Vancouver
If you’re starting totally from scratch and have never cooked before, I’d try one-cup pancakes first, because they’re very easy and they give you such a sense of pride when you get something like that right for the first time. I’d also try mini-shell pasta with peas and bacon – the recipe is on my website and in the Food Revolution book, and then parmesan chicken with crispy posh ham. If you go onto YouTube and put in “Mick the miner,” there’s a clip of a 51-year-old bloke who’s never cooked in his life doing parmesan chicken with crispy posh ham. If he can do it, anyone can do it. And that 51-year-old bloke cooked his family’s Christmas dinner last year! CONTINUE READING >
