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I jumped on the Jamie Oliver train really late -- sometime in the last year. I was so annoyed at first that the "naked chef" moniker was used to make a not-quite-what-you-think pun that I didn't pay him much mind. Then I started watching him go to town on food using only a cutting board on his lap. I was hooked.Behold my surprise to walk down the street the other day and find The Naked Chef Takes Off nestled on a discount table! I grabbed it, went home, and proceeded to drool all over the pages. Set up more like a visual conversation than a cookbook, The Naked Chef Takes Off tackles recipes often in paragraph form, often without even a list of ingredients. This cookbook is like calling up a chef friend and asking them what you should make. This isn't a stern collection of recipes cut in stone, but more of a helpful guideline to either fall or skim for ideas. And every step of the way, Jamie shares his two cents.
It all starts out with pantry basics and a brief how-to about herbs before dipping into breakfasts, tapas/snacks, salads, soups, pasta, seafood, meat and poultry, veggies, bread, desserts, drinks, and extra things like stocks and sauces. If you haven't checked this out yet, you should. If you have it -- what's your favorite recipe?
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8-25-2008 @11:45AM daveybot said... I think it's called something else here in the UK but I definitely have a book with the same photo on the cover. My favourite recipe from this one is his Fantastic Fish Pie - really yummy.
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9-10-2008 @12:32PM Tamara Kaye Sellman said... Jamie Oliver is one of my favorite TV chefs, and his cookbooks are wonderful because they're written in the same lingo that he speaks. I have all of his books and have made some extraordinary recipes from all of them. Glad you found Jamie; what a lost treasure, otherwise!
TKS
http://rhymeswithcamera.blogspot.com
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8-25-2008 @11:45AM Tamara Kaye Sellman said... I really like Jamie Oliver for his low-tech approach to really great cooking. He's one of the original TV locavores, as well.
We've made several of his recipes, including baked fish with tomatoes, basil and olives that's so good I don't think we need the cookbook anymore, we've made it so much.
TKS
http://rhymeswithcamera.blogspot.com
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8-26-2008 @5:57PM meghan said... My one complaint about this book is that many of the recipes are not kosher friendly, but I don't eat kosher I just cook for someone who does. That beign said I haven't tried the recipes yet, but now I just might get around to it.
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