“Literally” Cooking with Jamie Oliver
July 17, 2010 by Karey
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Pop Quiz: What word does Jamie Oliver use the most on his show? (Read to the end for the answer.) So, my 16 year-old son Quinn and I have been spending the hot summer days–literally–by cooking à la Jamie Oliver while my husband Patrick is insanely busy with his Cross Country and Distance Running camps for kids at BYU. My twin sister, Gwennie, is on board, too. I told her about Jamie’s show, “Jamie at Home,” and now we both (plus Quinn sometimes) watch it like two kids gobbling slushies on a hot summer day. Two days ago Quinn and I made his Posh Cheese Toast (quietly known as Welsh Rarebit, cough, cough, whatever that is).
We’ve chosen which of Jamie Oliver’s recipes to cook out of necessity–literally–based on what we have in the pantry or garden since we’re on a zero-spending budget. So for the posh cheese toast we literally had to substitute cottage cheese for the crème frâiche–horrors!–and roasted red peppers out of a jar (double horrors) since we didn’t have any on hand. (I bought a whole flat of the jars on sale for $1.95 a jar, which, when you see how big the jar is, it was a bargain.) For the cheddar cheese, we used up the last of several slices of Vermont cheddar that we chopped up fine. The rest was literally à la Jamie. Quinn gave it the thumbs up and they were delicious. Love on the table. Take a peek at the pictures! Pop Quiz answer: Literally.
