In an effort to save money, I promised to cook six dishes from Jamie Oliver's Jamie at Home. The book itself was a Christmas gift, a work of rural photographic pleasure. Jamie became my guide through sex and herbs.
After awhile, Jamie irritated me, and I cooked five instead of six recipes.
Yes, he is a masculine free-spirit, a sort of British food cowboy who was the perfect guide for my three weeks of sex. At first, I loved his sexy disregard for measurements, freedom in throwing spice and flavor. After five recipes, I got tired of Jamie's "good splash of olive oil" and wanted him to calm down, stop flying around his farm, and tell me how much olive oil, how much thyme.
That being said, I got high on Jamie's hyperactive confidence, actually buying and cooking fish from a Chinese fish shop. I also roasted shoulder butt, and it was good.
Here are the things I've made:
1. Beautiful zucchinei carbonara, p. 134: Excellent but must cut vegetables before boiling pasta. I overcooked the pasta in the time it took for me to cut them up. I used real Parmesan for this. It made a sensual lunch when paired with wine (shown in photo) and the poetry of e.e. cummings.
2. Spicy pork and chilli-pepper goulash, p. 257-Very, very good. It took more than three hours to make, but the meat fell off the bone. This was my first shoulder butt, also known as pork shoulder.
3. Superb squash soup with the best Parmesan croutons, p. 361-Delicious. Freezes well.
4. Old-fashioned sweet shortcrust pastry, p. 352-Interesting. Hardly any butter. I made a pumpkin pie with it, which is more of an American thing, but the crust was good, toasty with a lemon zest zip.
5. Roasted white fish and leeks, p. 334-I wasn't wild about this, but the cod turned out okay, and the bacon added a buttery taste. I could have added more pepper though. A little bland.
These meals sustained me through Human Sexuality. I ate while reading the textbook, everything from Anal Warts to Zoophiles. Not all sex is sexy.
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