1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 2: Jessica Rowe is a friend of ours, so it feels 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 2: me in saying she's a crap cook, but this is 4 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 2: what she calls herself. But she's had some help now 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: with the og cookbook Magicians, the Australian Women's Weekly, and 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 2: she's released her own recipes in her own cookbook called 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: Not So Crap Family Meals. Jessica Rowe, Hello. 8 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: Hello a Mandarin Jonesy. Good morning. Can you believe it? 9 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: I have a cookbook? I can't. 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: When they first approached you, how did you go about this? 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 2: Because you've always said been very honest and on Instagram 12 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 2: you post the pictures that the meals that you make. 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 2: How have you parlayed the fact that you're not a 14 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 2: great cook into doing a cookbook? How did you turn 15 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 2: it so you could say here are meals you might 16 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: want to eat. 17 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: Well? When they approach me, first of all, I had 18 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: to pinch myself and say, you do know I can't cook, 19 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: But ben I sort of basically thought, what a wonderful 20 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: thing to do to have a cookbook for people who 21 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: are crooks like me. But we have to serve up meals. 22 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: Unfortunately for our families night after night, which is one 23 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: of the most boring things I think about being a 24 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: grown up. But so what we did. I said to them, 25 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: I need mince. I love mince. We need lots of jars, 26 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: we need packets, we need shortcuts. I love sugar. So 27 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: I said, there has to be desserts. I'm a crazy 28 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: cat lady. There needs to be a cake in there 29 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: that looks like a cat and caramels life because I 30 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 1: love caramel s life. So and that kept saying to them, 31 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: and you know, we need the caramel size, and we 32 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: need the cat cake. And essentially what they did, I mean, 33 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: as you said in your intro, Amanda, they are the og. 34 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: They went to their library of extraordinary recipes and then 35 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: simplified them, sort of crap housewife them. So they about 36 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: all of the fancy pants ingredients, all of the tricky things, 37 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: and basically just made it as simple as possible but 38 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: delicious and foolproof. And it is if I can do 39 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 1: these recipes, anyone can. And also what I love about 40 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: this cookbook too is that it's not expensive. The ingredients 41 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: are not over the top. You know, for more and 42 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: more of us, you know, the cost of living is 43 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: going through the roof. There's, as I said, lots of mints. 44 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: There's lots of sort of cheaper cuts of meat. There's 45 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,839 Speaker 1: the jars, there's the packets of seasoning. You don't need 46 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: to be looking for very difficult ingredients, hard to find 47 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: things to put these meals together. 48 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 3: What about the potatoes you made for Peti, your husband? 49 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: What happened with the potato? 50 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: Tell Amanda about Peati's potatoes. 51 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: Oh, this is you see. I try, and I think 52 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: for many of us we need points to try most improved. 53 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: But one of my dearest friends, Denise Drysdale, who lives 54 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: up on the Gold Coast, she's a very good cook. 55 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: She came to stay with us recently and she made 56 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: these beautiful roast potatoes. She par boiled them, then she 57 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: coated them in flour, put them in a plastic bag, 58 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: shook them around in the bag, covered them in flour, 59 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: then put them in a hot oven with oil that 60 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: was already in the tray. And they were crispy and 61 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: so good. And Petie was like, can why can't we 62 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: have these? So I thought, all right, I'm going to 63 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: surprise him one night. I did them. But Gizelle, because 64 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: the Legra had ordered to take away, not surprisingly, So 65 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: we're eating the potatoes and Pettie's going, mmm, this is this? 66 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: Have you don something different? And then I realized what 67 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: I'd done. Instead of putting flour in the bag to 68 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: coat them, I put icing chartes in the bag because 69 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: he was going, oh they, I mean at least he 70 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: did the you know, Giselle, and he ate most of them. 71 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: This is unusual. 72 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 2: I deserved potatoes in one. 73 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 3: Yet there you go all together? Is that why he 74 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 3: hangs around at work recording all the later bulletins? 75 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: Well, he has been known to get a bit of 76 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: takeaway on the way home. And then there was a 77 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: time too, of course, when Pete he had like a 78 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: meal delivery service for his dinner because he knew that, 79 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: you know, he'd be getting spag bowl again and again. 80 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: And I said to him, come on, well, you could 81 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: do it if you want something different. And so he 82 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: did the meal to the tree instead. 83 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 3: But the man comes home from a hard day at 84 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 3: the office and all he wants is it meal on the. 85 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 2: Table, And all he wanted something from the nineteen fifties, 86 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: according to Jonesy. 87 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 3: Something on the table that his wife was put together 88 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 3: I love this. 89 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: I loved you. 90 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 2: This is brilliant ye. 91 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 3: And it's the every day not so crap family Meals. 92 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 3: Cookbook is out now at all National bookstores. Jessica Road, 93 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 3: thank you so Hi to Pede and the kids. 94 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: I will thank you both so much for all your 95 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: support and love means so much to me. 96 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: Love you, jess Thank you.