Oh Cook!: The cookbook from James May with simple, easy recipes that any idiot can make.

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When all the milk has been incorporated, you should have a smooth batter the consistency of single cream. 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. We had not much food and we came across a bothy in the frozen wilderness that hadn’t been used for decades. I’m not one — yet — but I have devoted an episode to meat-free cooking and I’m particularly proud of my vegan burger. However, my wife has done a great job at trying out some of the recipes, and most of them have turned out to be pretty great.

Highlights include the very tasty black pudding hash (I only tried black pudding in the last few years, in Edinburgh of all places, and I’m a little annoyed that I avoided it for so long), the shakshuka and the sticky buffalo wings.All four of us polished off our bowls, and my youngest told me after her new favorite vegetable is “bok choy.

We had it as a side dish with some plain old diner-style meatloaf, but it was good enough to be a vegetarian main dish. But even if you haven’t watched the show and you’re just someone who hasn’t cooked much and wants to get to grips with the basics, this is the perfect place to start. Still, you get the sense that May will banter on, a boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into past glories. This recipe celebrates the Teutonic classic — a sausage drenched in spicy sauce, often consumed following a night at a bierkeller.This is a book designed to be propped up on the worktop and used like a Haynes Manual for beginners, and once you've made the stuff in this book, you should give it to Oxfam and move on.