Cookery and recipes - the Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater
Independent on Sunday
'The recipes sound uniformly delicious, rustic and tasty...but they’re also straight forward: easy to follow, easy to cook.’
The Times Body and Soul
'such a gorgeous object.’
Guardian Weekend
'joyous'
William Leith, Observer
'Slater wants his food, above all, to be uplifting. As a cookbook, The Kitchen Diaries succeeds brilliantly.'
Rebecca Seal, Observer
'it's a collection of scrumptious recipes, somehow written in such a way as to make your mouth genuinely water.'
Synopsis
Following the success of Real Food and Appetite, this is the tenth book from Nigel Slater, the award-winning food writer and author of the bestselling autobiography, Toast. "The food in The Kitchen Diaries is simply what I eat at home. The stuff I make for myself, for friends and family, for visitors and for parties, for Sunday lunch and for snacks. These are meals I make when I stop work, or when I am having mates over or when I want to surprise, seduce or show off. This is what I cook when I'm feeling energetic, lazy, hungry or late. It is what I eat when I'm not phoning out for pizza or going for a curry. This is the food that makes up my life, both the Monday to Friday stuff and that for weekends and special occasions. "Much of it is what you might call fast food, because I still believe that life is too short to spend all day at the stove, but some of it is unapologetically long, slow cooking. But without exception every single recipe in this book is a doddle to cook. A walk in the park. A piece of p---. "Fast food, slow food, big eats, little eats, quick pasta suppers, family roasts and even Christmas lunch. It is simply my stuff, what I cook and eat, every day. Nigel's food - for you."
About the Author
Nigel Slater is Britain’s top food writer. His hugely popular columns and books have won him an enormous following for his direct, up-to-the-minute and delicious approach to food. As well as his award-winning food writing, his autobiography, Toast, was a bestseller and won four major awards. Nigel is editor of Observer Food Monthly and has a regular column in The Sainsbury’s Magazine.
(Source Amazon UK 5 March 2006)
March: |
An English cheese salad |
A simple flatbread |
Taramasalata - the real thing |
Chicken stew and mash |
Pork burgers with lime leaves and coriander |
A fiery way with lamb |
Chicken salad with watercress, almonds and orange |
Smoked mackerel on toast |
Roast fillet of lamb with anchovy and mint |
Demerara lemon cake with thick yogurt |
Prawn and coriander rolls |
Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce and ginger |
Chocolate almond cake |
Stir-fried mushrooms, spring leaves and lemon grass |
Chickpea and sweet potato curry |
Orange jelly with lemon and cardamom |
Chicken with mushrooms and lemon grass |
This is not just a collection of recipes, it is a food diary. Nigel Slater makes almost daily comments about the food he prepares and cooks. There is little artificiality about the photographs. The food has its picture taken and then is quickly eaten before it gets cold! I took a page at random and this is the quote which heads the recipe for Grilled chicken with garlic and lemon butter... 'Ask the butcher to spatchcock the chickens for you. He will split them down the middle and flatten them out so that they resemble road-kill. Butchered this way, they can be grilled rather than roasted". He then lists the ingredients (just 5 for the chicken and 4 for the butter) and how the food should be prepared. If you don't have a friendly butcher he gives a general hint to get you started...
He talks about his garden and its plants as well as the ingredients he uses and the shops where he buys...
If you are looking for a standard recipe book organized by subject, choose another one... if you're looking for something a little different this could be for you ...
The book has about 400 pages and is printed on fairly thick non glossy paper, it is definitely not a slim volume! The photographs are full page, but not every recipe has a picture, and some of the pictures are of ingredients from the garden. This is a book with a lot of very readable text, not simply a picture book for food...
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