Product Description

Tired of deciding what to cook? Want to maximise your meals, with minimum time in the kitchen? Recent surveys have shown that around a third of the food produced in the UK for human consumption ends up in the bin. This means that every adult is wasting hundreds of pounds-worth of food a year! So the time is right for a kitchen revolution. This is the life-saving cookbook you've been waiting for - home cooking using fresh, seasonal produce, with weekly planners, recipes and shopping lists that will enable you to maximise the weekly shop for you and the family. It's the 'back to basics' approach, minimising waste through thoughtful shopping and a little preparation.Each week, you'll have the opportunity to cook: Big Meal from Scratch - a delicious, filling meal for the whole family, e.g. poached chicken with elderflower and new potatoes; Something for Nothing - two easy meals that use leftovers in a tasty and inspiring way, e.g. new potato, asparagus and egg salad; Seasonal Supper - a quick, simple supper made from seasonal ingredients, e.g. spiced grilled lamb chops with radish and orange salad; Larder Feast - for when the fridge is bare, a whole meal just from store cupboard ingredients, e. g. beef and mushroom stroganoff; and 2 for 1 - a comforting meal that freezes well so that you can eat half immediately, and store half in the freezer, e.g. oriental pork and spring onion dumplings.Using this fantastic system, Rosie Sykes, Polly Russell and Zoe Heron have come up a recipe for every single day of the year. With foolproof recipes for every kind of occasion, they'll guarantee that you're making the most of your cooker, fridge, freezer and store-cupboard to create healthy and economical meals.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13506 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Press Association
'This is the book that Delia should have written... the recipes leap off the page - it's inspiring, imaginative food'

Synopsis
Tired of deciding what to cook? Want to maximise your meals, with minimum time in the kitchen? Recent surveys have shown that around a third of the food produced in the UK for human consumption ends up in the bin. This means that every adult is wasting hundreds of pounds-worth of food a year! So the time is right for a kitchen revolution. This is the life-saving cookbook you've been waiting for - home cooking using fresh, seasonal produce, with weekly planners, recipes and shopping lists that will enable you to maximise the weekly shop for you and the family. It's the 'back to basics' approach, minimising waste through thoughtful shopping and a little preparation.Each week, you'll have the opportunity to cook: Big Meal from Scratch - a delicious, filling meal for the whole family, e.g. poached chicken with elderflower and new potatoes; Something for Nothing - two easy meals that use leftovers in a tasty and inspiring way, e.g. new potato, asparagus and egg salad; Seasonal Supper - a quick, simple supper made from seasonal ingredients, e.g. spiced grilled lamb chops with radish and orange salad; Larder Feast - for when the fridge is bare, a whole meal just from store cupboard ingredients, e.

g. beef and mushroom stroganoff; and 2 for 1 - a comforting meal that freezes well so that you can eat half immediately, and store half in the freezer, e.g. oriental pork and spring onion dumplings.Using this fantastic system, Rosie Sykes, Polly Russell and Zoe Heron have come up a recipe for every single day of the year. With foolproof recipes for every kind of occasion, they'll guarantee that you're making the most of your cooker, fridge, freezer and store-cupboard to create healthy and economical meals.

About the Author
Rosie Sykes has cooked in the kitchens of some of the UK's most celebrated chefs and ran her own gastropub. She also wrote for the Guardian's Weekend magazine as the Kitchen Doctor.
Polly Russell has cooked in restaurants around the world, worked as a product developer for Marks & Spencer and is continuing her PhD research on food and the politics of identity.
Zoe Heron is a senior director and producer for the BBC. Zoe has tested and helped to develop the recipes for The Kitchen Revolution, which has changed her culinary life.

Customer Reviews

Not so great
I'm afraid that I have to join the ranks of the disappointed with this one. Save money? Honestly? How much money do they think I'm spending on food at the moment? This book might be great if you are a) rich and b) curently unable to cook. If this is the case, and you've been buying M&S ready meals every night until now then yes, it probably will save you some money. But if you can already cook, and were already watching the pennies, this really isn't going to help. It's particularly useless if you are a family of two rather than four (I expect it is equally useless if you're a family of six).

I wanted it to be good, but it's just not. Buy something else.

It falls flat
The priciple behind the book is great. In practice, for me, it falls short. The recipes are very inspiring yes, and the shopping lists quite helpful.
It is not, however, an everyday cookbook that would provide a do-able structure for most ordinary people. The meals are "too inspiring" and not always particularly quick, easy or child-friendly.
I personally found the typeface and size difficult to read for some reason. The complete lack of pictures, sketches or other interesting bits of information leave the whole thing feeling flat and empty.

Great idea but not if you're on a tight budget
I love the premise of this book with its weekly menu of linked-recipes. I did two weeks of July and the food (with the exception of the odd recipe) was excellent. But I had to give it up because I couldn't afford it on a weekly food budget of £60 a week (for three adults and a baby). I also shop locally every day rather than doing a weekly supermarket shop so having a vast array of ingredients just proved a bit too back-breaking for me. I'll be back if a budget version is published with more one-pot recipes.