Product Description

Featuring fabulous fast foods, ingenious short cuts, terrific time-saving ideas, effortless entertaining and easy, delicious meals, "Nigella Express" is her solution to eating well when time is short. Here are mouthwatering recipes, quick to prepare, easy to follow, that you can conjure up after a long day in the office or on a busy weekend, for family or unexpected guests. This is food you can make as you hit the kitchen running, with vital tips on how to keep your store cupboard stocked, freezer and fridge stacked. When time is precious, you can't spend hours shopping, so you need to make life easier by being prepared. Not that the recipes are basic - though they are always simple - but it's important to make every ingredient earn its place in a recipe. Minimise effort by maximising taste. And here too is great food that can be prepared quickly but cooked slowly in the oven, leaving you time to have a bath, a drink, talk to friends, or do the children's homework. Minimum stress for maximum enjoyment. This is a new generation of fast food - never basic, never dull, always do-able, quick and delicious - for the busy lives we lead.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #114 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Easy Living
'full of wonderful, quick ideas with that typical mix of nostalgic, eclectic and delicious that you expect from Nigella'

Observer
'One of the appealing things about Nigella's brief introductions to each of them is that she thinks not just as a cook, but as a eater...'

Daily Mail
'Nigella has a warm heart, a fabulous 32G bosom and an impressive bank account. She is a Superwoman for the 21st Century'

Customer Reviews

Super Christmas Present, at RRP, from Amazon
a SIGNED copy.

'This is, as the title makes clear, a book about fast food, but it is a book about fast food for those who love eating. Perhaps that's self-evident: How could I write any other sort? .......
But, here's the problem: the day doesn't have enough gaps in it for me to do much shopping and the evening - what with the battles over homework, the still unchecked-off list of things I was meant to do, the calls I was supposed to return - doesn't yield much time to cook. But I must eat, and I must eat well - or else what is the point of it all?.......
I could go on, but in the interest of brevity and the `Express' spirit, it seems only right to cut straight to the chase.
The recipes that follow are not simply quick to cook, they attempt to make the whole of your cooking life - and as a consequence, all of your life - easier.
They are arranged in chapters, but please don't feel confined by these.
Read, browse, sample, fiddle about as you see fit.
As in cooking, so in life: we muddle through as best as we can and this is what `Nigella Express' is all about.
Good Food Fast.....'

Nigella is the author of a number of best-selling books....but this is, arguably, her best to date. In it you will find the likes of everyday favourite recipes, such as `High-Speed Hamburger with Fast Fries', `Quick Chilli`, `Macaroni Cheese', `Butterfly Cakes' and `Roly Poly Pudding', mingling with the lesser well-known, but intriguing:-`Red Prawn and Mango Curry', `Green Apple Martini', `Red-Leaf, Fig and Serrano Ham Salad', `Chopped Ceviche and Mexicola', `Roquamole' and `Hokey Pokey'.

Launched to coincide with her latest BBC TV series, this chunky tome has 390 high quality pages, split over 13 chapters:-

(1) Everyday Easy - speedy suppers, day in, day out
(2) Workday Winners - weekday entertaining made easy
(3) Retro Rapido - time-warp favourites given the express twist
(4) Get Up and Go - breakfast at breakneck speed
(5) Quick Quick Slow - prepare ahead to save time later
(6) Against the Clock - no time? No problem
(7) Instant Calmer - super fast soul food
(8) Razzle Dazzle - give a party pronto
(9) Speedy Gonzales - Mexican-inspired moments
(10) On the Run - food for eating on the hoof, packed lunches and picnics
(11) Hey Presto - instant Italian
(12) Holiday Snaps - Christmas quickies
(13) Storecupboard SOS - how to cope when there's no time to go shopping

sandwiched between an introduction and a full index.
Handy ribbon bookmark.

Each chapter opens with the famous Nigella banter, as does each recipe, e.g. :-

'Lamb Olive and Caramelized Onion Tagine
Nearly all stews start with chopped onion. Here is the lazy person's version, which uses some caramelised onion out of a jar instead..........
And I add to the desirable idleness by not even searing the meat. I just tip everything into a big pan and let it do its own sweet thing without any interference from me.
I don't actually cook this recipe in 'a tagine' - though often serve it in one - but ever since someone told me that in Morocco most tagines are made in pressure cookers, I have felt unembarrassed by calling something cooked in a pan - 'a tagine'.

The recipes are clearly laid out with the list of ingredients, an easy to follow numbered method and the number of servings and, if applicable - notes on accompaniments and/or a footnote.
Mouth-watering full colour photography throughout.

A very small taste of the other recipes contained within:-

Anglo-Asian Lamb Salad
Mustard Pork Chops
Rapid Ragu
Naan Pizza
Caramel Croissant Pudding
Potato and Mushroom Gratin
Eton Mess
Cheese Fondue
Crepes Suzette
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Go Get 'Em Smoothie
Frittata Party!
Croque Monsieur Bake
Maple Chicken `N' Ribs
Gravlax Sashimi
Irish Cream Tiramisu
Totally Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sweetcorn Chowder with Toasted Tortillas
Amaretto Syllabub
Holiday Hot Cake with Eggnog Cream
Hot Toddy
Curry in a Hurry
and
Instant Chocolate Mousse - (see above image) - a shockingly easy recipe which is simply delicious...don't forget some white chocolate shavings on the top!

The `Domestic Goddess' is back
and what a GREAT book it is!

'This is, as the title makes clear, a book about fast food, but it is a book about fast food for those who love eating. Perhaps that's self-evident: How could I write any other sort? .......
But, here's the problem: the day doesn't have enough gaps in it for me to do much shopping and the evening - what with the battles over homework, the still unchecked-off list of things I was meant to do, the calls I was supposed to return - doesn't yield much time to cook. But I must eat, and I must eat well - or else what is the point of it all?.......
I could go on, but in the interest of brevity and the 'Express' spirit, it seems only right to cut straight to the chase.
The recipes that follow are not simply quick to cook, they attempt to make the whole of your cooking life - and as a consequence, all of your life - easier.
They are arranged in chapters, but please don't feel confined by these.
Read, browse, sample, fiddle about as you see fit.
As in cooking, so in life: we muddle through as best as we can and this is what `Nigella Express' is all about.
Good Food Fast.....'

Nigella is the author of a number of best-selling books....but this is, arguably, her best to date. In it you will find the likes of everyday favourite recipes, such as `High-Speed Hamburger with Fast Fries', 'Quick Chilli', 'Macaroni Cheese', 'Butterfly Cakes' and 'Roly Poly Pudding', mingling with the perhaps lesser well-known, but nevertheless intriguing:-'Red Prawn and Mango Curry', 'Green Apple Martini', 'Red-Leaf, Fig and Serrano Ham Salad', 'Chopped Ceviche and Mexicola', 'Roquamole' and 'Hokey Pokey'.

Launched to coincide with her latest BBC TV series, this chunky tome has 390 high quality pages, split over 13 chapters:-

(1) Everyday Easy - speedy suppers, day in, day out
(2) Workday Winners - weekday entertaining made easy
(3) Retro Rapido - time-warp favourites given the express twist
(4) Get Up and Go - breakfast at breakneck speed
(5) Quick Quick Slow - prepare ahead to save time later
(6) Against the Clock - no time? No problem
(7) Instant Calmer - super fast soul food
(8) Razzle Dazzle - give a party pronto
(9) Speedy Gonzales - Mexican-inspired moments
(10) On the Run - food for eating on the hoof, packed lunches and picnics
(11) Hey Presto - instant Italian
(12) Holiday Snaps - Christmas quickies
(13) Storecupboard SOS - how to cope when there's no time to go shopping

sandwiched between an introduction and a full index.
Handy ribbon bookmark.

Each chapter opens with the famous Nigella banter, as does each recipe, e.g. :-

'Lamb Olive and Caramelized Onion Tagine'

'Nearly all stews start with chopped onion.
Here is the lazy person's version, which uses some caramelised onion out of a jar instead..........And I add to the desirable idleness by not even searing the meat. I just tip everything into a big pan and let it do its own sweet thing without any interference from me.
'I don't actually cook this recipe in 'a tagine' - though often serve it in one Le Creuset Tagine, Cerise- but ever since someone told me that in Morocco most tagines are made in pressure cookers, I have felt unembarrassed by calling something cooked in a pan - 'a tagine'.

The recipes are clearly laid out with the list of ingredients, an easy to follow numbered method and the number of servings and, if applicable - notes on accompaniments and/or a footnote.
Mouth-watering full colour photography throughout.

A very small taste of the other recipes contained within:-

Anglo-Asian Lamb Salad
Mustard Pork Chops
Rapid Ragu
Naan Pizza
Caramel Croissant Pudding
Potato and Mushroom Gratin
Eton Mess
Cheese Fondue
Crepes Suzette
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Go Get 'Em Smoothie
Frittata Party!
Croque Monsieur Bake
Maple Chicken `N' Ribs
Gravlax Sashimi
Irish Cream Tiramisu
Totally Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sweetcorn Chowder with Toasted Tortillas
Amaretto Syllabub
Holiday Hot Cake with Eggnog Cream
Hot Toddy
Curry in a Hurry

and .....not forgetting MY FAVOURITE:-

Instant Chocolate Mousse - (please see above image) - a shockingly easy recipe which is simply delicious - but I do add some white chocolate shavings on the top of mine!

IF YOU ONLY BUY ONE COOK BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS ONE!!
I am a huge fan of cooking and I'm at my happiest when I am in the kitchen, whizzing up gourmet meals for ten dinner guests. However, I also have a toddler, baby and husband to feed every evening. Not only is time precious, but the food has to be tasty to be accepted!

Cue Nigella Express.
I have made dozens of recipes from this book and so far every single one of them has worked, and has been praised and revered by all who have sampled them. The Tiramisu is one of the best I have ever eaten, and it's one of my favourite desserts. The black beans with tuna is to die for, as are the chickpeas with rocket and sherry. I have to admit that my husband and toddler looked at me like I'd gone mad when I presented them with a bowl of chickpeas for dinner. But ten minutes, and two full bellies later, they admitted that it was stunningly good.

Fab, fab, fab is all I can say. Don't even think about not buying it!!!