Jamie At Home Recipes

Jamie Cooks Summer Review: Hot Stuff

Trying to make a pukka point that there’s ‘more to summer than a sausage on a bbq’, the cockney chef cooks in a variety of locations throughout the show, driving around in a VW camper and getting involved in ‘proper Boy Scout’s stuff’, to use Jamie’s phrase.

Viewers will be pleased to know the programme stays faithful to the ‘Jamie Oliver’ brand, with the chef’s informal, no nonsense approach to cooking still as entertaining as it’s ever been. The focus is yet again on how easy each of the chef’s recipes are to replicate at home, with Jamie keen to show viewers that tasty cooking doesn’t have to be about expensive gadgets or Heston Blumenthal-style exuberance. “The big man upstairs gave you a pair of hands, you might as well bleedin use em” says Jamie, as he gets to grips making guacamole using only his hands and a grater.

There’s some famous faces joining the chef to, with old pal Gennaro and Reggae Reggae sauce entrepreneur Levi Roots lending a hand to show viewers how cooking is really done in the great outdoors. However, as much as the thought of spit roasting outside is nice, I might stick to using the BBQ in the back garden for the time being.

Jamie, a father to four kids, is also keen to show how great it can be to get children involved in cooking. Whilst his pancake chocolate cake and home-made ice lollies are certainly a winner with the children, personally I got a headache from looking at the mess being created by the chef’s willing volunteers.

Surprisingly, there wasn’t too much for vegetarians to take away from tonight show. I say this because being one myself, I can normally trust Jamie to create at least a couple of non-meat main dishes, or at least suggest alternatives for those who choose not to eat animals.

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