BRITISH TV CHEFS

British TV Chefs

I love watching the cooking programs on TV but I can’t help feeling that most of the time they don’t cater for[no pun intended] the everyday shop at the supermarket family.

I have several reasons to believe this,

1.  Some of the gadgets James Martin uses on Saturday Kitchen must cost a full months wages for the average householder.
2.  We are constantly being told to use the freshest this or the freshest that,
   COME ON! from a supermarket?. the place where the sell by date only starts after the defrost from the warehouse date on their [fresh] produce, and people nowadays don’t have a local butcher anymore, due to the supermarkets undercutting them out of business.
3.  Some of the ingredients can only be sourced from outer Mongolia or some other remote part of the world.

While we are on the subject of TV Chefs do you think the accents are authentic, for instance why do all the Italian chefs talk like super Mario or Luigi, I have a suspicion that the 2 Greedy Italians are actually a couple of retired cockney barrow boys,

On Air
Well ama gonna putta a peench of Oregano anda feeneesh ita offa weetha soma fresh bazeel,
‘Cut to VT’ Off Air
Stone the crows me old china couldn’ta kept that up for much longer me old 2 and 8, me plates are throbbin like a blind cobblers thumb.

Also I know some celebs adopt stage names, but do you think the master of Asian cuisine Ken Hom is using his real name, i have an idea maybe not as Hom could be derived from the word ‘Homme’ as in THE MAN, sounds like a stage name, it could be that his real name is Chaim Homderwitz, or maybe not who knows.

Sticking with the TV food theme have you seen Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers, where he reaches into the larder or fridge gets a few leftovers and transforms them into an amazing meal.
Have you tried to do it yourself at home?
Well i did and when I looked in the fridge I can tell you the disappointment I felt when I didn’t have any leftover venison,Steamed rainbow trout or Wagyu beef.

The larder was the same no artichokes, asparagus, mange tout, fennel tops or heritage carrots, I suppose it’s because when you buy the 3 for £10 meat deal at the supermarket there isn’t enough spare to span over two meals.
Anyway the only food I did have leftover was half a special mixed kebab on nan and the remains of a pot noodle Bombay bad boy,
not being deterred by this I followed Nigel’s prompt and went in the back garden to forrage some fresh herbs and leaves to compliment my endeavours like he does,

unfortunately living in a council house in North Manchester the only things I could find were some privets and a laburnum tree which I knew were poisonous, so I guess that put a stop to my fancy cooking ideas.

Hey Nigel if you read this I would be grateful if you did have any recipe thoughts on the leftover half mixed kebab and bad boy, and in return I could offer a little advice, which is, you could save on your weekly shopping expenditure if you did not buy more food than you can eat.