My Sunday tribute to Jamie Oliver

My mom has established a new rule at home. She’ll make lunch every Saturday but my brother, my father and I will each have to cook for one Sunday’s meal (so once every three weeks it'll be my turn). I think it’s fair and a great idea but… lets see how long that keeps up!

Today it was my turn and I had been thinking what to make. Then I remembered. You’ve probably heard about Jamie’s last book. It was awarded as one of the five worst cookbooks of the year basically because of the "heart attack" meatball sandwich recipe… so what? I don’t think that was at all his idea and even so he’s still a great cook. He has done a very important job to attain healthy food at schools. I think this is just sort of a payback for all he’s said about American's way of eating.

Anyhow I decided I wanted this Sunday lunch to be my own tribute to Jamie Oliver because I still love him no matter what. I actually only have one of his books (Jamie does…) and I had only tried a couple of recipes so this was the prefect chance to use it. And these were my choices:

We started off with the Italian Tomato and Basil Salad very easy to make. I actually forgot top it up with the feta cheese but it still tasted great.

As a main dish we had the Swedish Meatballs where I substituted the double cream for crème fraîche because I had no idea where to find the first one! While cooking this recipe I’ve learned that I am horrible at choosing good quality meat. However the sauce and the blackberry jam helped the whole dish and it turned out to be pretty good. I also added some cous cous on the bottom. This is the only recipe I can actually help you get because it's published here. 

To finish up I went for a Crème Caramel with Roasted Persimmons. The first mistake here was not to trust myself. I left the Crème Caramel in the oven for 40 minutes like Jamie said. I thought it probably needed a bit more but I decided to trust his recipe. I ended up with a very good tasting crème that didn’t really hold up together. And as for the roasted persimmons I changed them for mangos because I couldn’t find any persimmons or apricots or peaches. The result was very good although the mango didn´t really roast.