Oh Cook!: The cookbook from James May with simple, easy recipes that any idiot can make.

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Seeing someone else do that on television (without being part of a celebrity-chef driven cooking competition) somehow makes me feel better about myself. Aided by domestic economist Nicky, May is charged with learning fundamental knife skills and simple cooking hacks capable of transforming even the most basic bowl of pasta. I do have a secret fondness that goes back to when we used to make Spam and beans when I was a teenager," he remembers. Still, you get the sense that May will banter on, a boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into past glories. I make so much from scratch that sometimes I felt guilt for simply mixing bottle sauce and pasta for a meal.

If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. It allows men to have a tool set, as they did in the days when work involved a proper job of building or mending.I’m doing my best to make up for lost time but I’m a child of the 1970s, when wearing an apron was tantamount to wearing a skirt unless you were a woodwork teacher.

One adjustment we made for time was, instead of boiling an egg, we “poached” an egg by putting it in the microwave. is the trusty companion for anyone seeking to gain confidence in the kitchen and arm themselves with some tried and tested recipes all created and tweaked by James.

Enjoyed imagining James, not a professional chef, reading and explaining these recipes and his reasoning for doing things a certain way. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.

For a man who, in normal times, spends a lot of time on the road, he would, you'd assume, be a car snack aficionado - but no. Pour boiling water halfway up the roasting tin, just to the base of the pudding, and cook in the oven for 30–35 minutes. This is not a fantasy recipe book for food fetishists, full of soft-focus pictures of improbable art food. Every time we do something, somebody in the eight or 10 assembled people in the room pipes up with, 'Have you thought about doing it like that? Admittedly, watching the series back, he says he comes across "quite bad tempered, which I never am normally.

Lo stesso vale per questo libro di ricette facili facili ma non per questo meno gustose, che è l'accompagnamento perfetto per il suo show di cucina: "Oh Cook! He casually starts the “Chicken Cheater Marsala” with “Bung all the marinade ingredients in a bowl…” for instance, and his “Minging Hot Dog” recipe concludes with “repeat until old people tell you how they had one like this when they went to see Towering Inferno in 1974. This time round he is engaging in the culinary arts – barely – in James May: Oh Cook, the title a masterfully cunning play on his favoured expression when things go awry. All four of us polished off our bowls, and my youngest told me after her new favorite vegetable is “bok choy. It’s perhaps not all that surprising that James May has gone down the cooking route, given that May founded FoodTribe, a spin-off from DriveTribe, with his The Grand Tour co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond.

Lucy Mangan for The Guardian gave the series three out of five stars, saying it was "occasionally charming – and mostly slightly dismal". Deliberately, defiantly, overwhelmingly low-wattage May insouciantly shows how easy it is to make decent grub with bonus asides on Fellini, Philip Larkin and William Blake, which you certainly don’t get with The Hairy Bikers. The hook with this brand new series, as suggested by May’s introduction, is that he isn’t even trying to pretend that he’s an expert in the kitchen, even if he then goes straight on to knock up an impressive-looking Asian chicken soup, some “Spamen” (a mix of ramen and, yes, Spam) and a glazed salmon dish. Easy Recipes Any Idiot Can Make, arrived as a post-Christmas gift, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share my enthusiasm for it. His descriptions are more extensive, and his interactions with the crew and resident “food economist” Nikki range from charming to hilarious.

I couldn't go anywhere or do any of the things I normally do to distract myself, like riding motorcycles and playing around and so on, so I sat at home and did this book. It's funny, but there are some good (and some not so good) recipes in there - James's Gordon-Ramsay-beating fish pie is one of them!