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Jamie's Dinners
By Jamie Oliver
Michael Joseph - 2004
Boiled turnips with thyme beurre blanc : page 162
Not bad, not brilliant. Nice. I felt the turnips lost to the sauce, which some people may think is a good thing.
Do not serve too hot. I liked it better as it cooled down a bit, it may even be better cold.
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Carrot and coriander treat for all : page 134
This was OK. Not very special, but not difficult to make (or needing weird ingredients) either.
I was out of sesame seeds so I used tahini instead.
He's a bit unclear about the amount of olive oil needed - is it four times the amount of lemon juice, or the amount of orange juice and lemon juice together? I went for the first option, as it makes a load of dressing already that way.
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The tomato sauce was very nice, but I felt it needed something that would stand up to its sweetness more than the ricotta. Maybe next time I'll crumble some blue cheese over it instead.
The ricotta did not get 'golden' exept on the bottom, so if I want to bake it again I will cut it into smaller slabs and turn it over once.
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Quite sweet, perfumed. Nice if it fits the meal.
I didn't quite like the result of first boiling the carrots. It did make them very soft but not really roasted. And it totally beats me how he got the carrots in the picture so brown from 10 mins at 200C - mine only started to brown after about 20 mins on 260C.
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This tasted fine. However, there was nothing in the recipe that called for Jerusalem artichokes in particular. I actually think it would be better with potatoes instead of Jerusalem artichokes. I also thought the vinegar was added at a strange moment, as I don't know what it would be needed for halfway, and at the end there was some serious deglazing to be done.
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Very quick, very tasty. More robust than the recipe suggests - it was 10 minutes between tossing the pasta with the sauce and serving it, and it was still very good. I don't know why he suggests a green salad to go with it though, as that salad is already in the pasta sauce.
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