Compared to other cookbooks, this one makes me feel like I could approach some more daunting UK dishes like boiled puddings and Spotted Dick, and that deserves praise.

It wasn't entirely without precedent but I wouldn't be your first choice if you suddenly thought as a TV executive 'I know, we'll do a beginners' cooking show and we'll get James May to do it'. They are expecting me to be good at something I've not really done before, which is why I fall out with them a bit," May says. It goes without saying that commissioning a cooking show hosted by an automotive journalist without a single culinary credential sounds like a disaster waiting to happen - and May seems to agree.

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These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. He has, however, carried out some exceptionally high-speed driving (including taking a Bugatti Veyron to its top speed). I don't want to be in a village where there isn't a pub within walking distance, that would make life utterly pointless. I said while recording the show, it’s quite possible we’ll look back in a generation or two’s time and regard eating animals as primitive. Easy Recipes That Any Idiot Can Make, the presence of publishers and TV executives on set was an added pressure for The Grand Tour presenter, affectionately dubbed Captain Slow.

All four of us polished off our bowls, and my youngest told me after her new favorite vegetable is “bok choy. I'd never learned to cook at home, I didn't do cooking at school, I can't remember cooking when I was a student, I think we just had toast. Pour boiling water halfway up the roasting tin, just to the base of the pudding, and cook in the oven for 30–35 minutes.

May is best known as co-presenter of the motoring programme Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. Clarkson laughs that I’m fastidious but, at 60, I can at last make things that are edible, which is very satisfying. I love haute cuisine as much as the next food snob, but if I can find new ways to make Spam or alphabet soup work, then I am all for it.I had just so much fun reading it and I learned a few things too 😊 for fans and beginners, I totally recommend it! One of the standouts was a little place doing kebabs by the road in Jordan, and another kebab place at a market in Syria, and India is fantastic for that sort of thing. Still, the milk and cheese mixture was simple enough and the baking of the veggies went off without a hitch. May says in the recipe the coat will make a “mess,” and he wasn’t kidding, but once they were fried, they looked like something out of a swanky retro Tiki bar and grill.