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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall thinks we should all discover vegetables - as if we hadn't already! - and buy his new book!!

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I had faith in you, Hugh - not any more.

Alan,

Maybe H F-W wants to catch up with you and your lovely 14th century Salad !!

Oh why did you post this - another book to sneak into the collection!
I think he looks weird with short hair - not so homely and comforting seeing him all scrubbed up.

Westi
ps Maybe he has a new marketing team now so they are re-inventing the wheel - I'm sure he doesn't mind so long as the royalities come in.

A least those cute animals he's seen cuddling up to so often can look a little less nervous now

Chantal wrote:A least those cute animals he's seen cuddling up to so often can look a little less nervous now

You mean like this one!

I don't begrudge him making a few bob, he has inspired a lot of people to grow their own, cook creatively, and more sustainably. He chooses to eat meat still sometimes, as a lot of people do, so what - it's his choice, most don't care as long as they don't see the cruelty in the factory farms, or have to kill the unfortunate creatures themselves. Personally i choose not to eat meat, but live and let live, I respect the fact he does seem to care about animal welfare. Here yes he might be preaching to the converted, but stats tell us many people still eat far less portions of fruit and veg a day than the recommended five.

Anyone see the first of the series last night?

I have to admit that after half an hour of him talking as though he personally had discovered the vegetable we called it a day and had an early night.

The final straw was his stuffed betel* leaves (which he persisted in pronouncing "bettle" rather than "beetle").
RECIPE HERE. All ingredients available in our village shop!

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betel

We watched it to then end. I thought it was supposed to be a celebration of seasonality as well as eat more veg. It was disappointing to see that the only way he could use more vegetables was to tart them up with largely imported ingredients (just go down the list in the recipe Alan has linked). Mind he wasn't up against much competition. What a waste of what looked like a superb piece of lamb. That was crying out to be treated traditionally / seasonally with new potatoes and peas. When we are supposed to be eating more vegetables posh cooking seems to be going the other way, how often do you see them presenting an excess of meat on a messed up bed of this and that with no bulk like potatoes. I think I'll stick to my mixed diet of large helpings of fruit and vegetables with a reasonable small helping of meat (much of it sourced from a farm ½ mile away).

I was disappointed too - the recipes didn't inspire me to try them.

We seem to eat mostly veg with a portion of meat or fish as you say Geoff. I hadn't really thought about it until recently when my son visited and said he much preferred this to most other people he eats with who seem to have a great slab of meat and a few veg to accompany it.

I must say I've gone off TV cookery programmes in general, although the pears and cream and chocolate thing Nigel Slater did the other day was rather good even though his dreary presentation technique sends me to sleep. I suppose they all start running out of ideas after so long and resort to silly combinations of ingredients or try too hard to be entertaining.

I don't watch all the cookery programmes but that is the only recipe I've fancied recently - haven't picked the pears yet but looking forward to our first crop off two young trees (Concorde and Black Worcester).

PLUMPUDDING wrote:We seem to eat mostly veg with a portion of meat or fish as you say Geoff. I hadn't really thought about it until recently when my son visited and said he much preferred this to most other people he eats with who seem to have a great slab of meat and a few veg to accompany it.

About ten years ago my husband and I decided we needed to both lose a bit of weight and the main change we made was smaller portion of meat and more vegetables - it worked!

One issue I have with cookery programmes is its all chocolate, cream, butter,salt in abundance when on the other hand we are being urged to cut down on these ingredients. It would be good to have a programme that created tasty recipes without overdoing these ingredients.