Product Description

If you've ever prayed for kitchen inspiration, Rachel's Favourite Food at Home serves up the answers. Brand new in paperback and including new recipes, this beautifully illustrated cookbook offers the delicious, inspiring and easy-to-follow recipes for which Rachel Allen has become famous. Rachel's Favourite Food at Home draws on international influences, classic regional fare and good old family favourites to provide creative options for every occasion, whether planning a simple family meal, hosting a festive dinner for the entire clan, squeezing in a sneaky romantic meal for two, heading out for a glorious picnic, chilling out on the sofa with your favourite comfort food, or spending time baking muffins with the kids. Chapters include: Easy Family Food Sweet Celebrations Picnics and Days Out Food for Children Extended Family Meals Dining Al Fresco Home Cinema Big Celebrations Edible Gifts Just Like Mum Used to Make

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6005 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
'A natural TV chef: relaxed, articulate and knowledgeable' -- Sunday Times 'Food for real people' -- Irish Examiner 'If you haven't heard of Rachel Allen, you will soon. Ireland's blond and beautiful equivalent of Nigella Lawson...is taking her place on the international culinary scene with her everyday food that focuses on simple suppers and divine puddings.' -- Daily Mail YOU Magazine 'With her finely-etched patrician features and delicious recipes, Rachel manages to do what the buxom Nigella Lawson never could. She makes us believe we can do what she does...' -- Irish Post '...an obvious addition to the best-loved and most-used category of cookbook' -- Sunday Tribune

Church Review, October
probably the top TV cook in Ireland... a fine book...

RTE Guide, September 2006
...one of Ireland's best loved TV chefs... the holy grail of her
guide to simple cooking and great food....

Customer Reviews

Family values highly in this super book
from Rachel Allen.

'In this cookbook to accompany her latest TV series, Rachel Allen once again offers the delicious, inspiring and easy-to-follow recipes for which she has become famous.
'Rachel's Favourite Food at Home' draws on international influences, classic regional fare and good old family favourites to provide creative options for every occasion, whether you're planning a simple family meal, hosting a festive dinner for the entire clan, squeezing in a sneaky, romantic meal for two, heading out for a glorious picnic, chilling out on the sofa with your favourite comfort food, or just spending time baking muffins with the kids.

224 pages, split over 10 chapters:-

Easy Family Food
Sweet Celebrations
Picnics and Days Out
Food for Children
Extended Family
Dining Alfresco
Home Cinema
Big Celebrations
Edible Gifts
Just Like Mum Used to Make

sandwiched between an introduction, a section entitled 'Useful Extras', 10 pages of 'staples' or 'accompaniments' recipes , e.g. stock, roux, mayonnaise, rice and pastry.

Completed with a concise index.

Each chapter opens with family photographs and some text, e.g.:-
Easy Family Food

'I love family meals since this is when everyone gets to sit together and talk about what went on during the day. This type of food should be easy to prepare and quick to rustle up, or else made in advance earlier in the day. This is simple food that the whole family will enjoy and the recipes can be easily amended to suit everyone's taste.'

Each recipe is well laid out with a title, how many servings plus guidance on whether a starter, main, vegetarian etc, short heading, clear ingredient's list and method.

Most, but not all the recipes, include a full colour photograph, sometimes of a 'stage of the recipe', or an 'on-location' shot, rather than of a completed item.

Disappointing...
I am a great fan of Rachel's cooking programmes and I already have "Rachel's Food for Living" book which is absolutely superb! I have cooked (Successfully) many recipes from this book and would thoroughly recommend it. Unfortunately this one leaves me cold... This is a shame because I was really looking forward to it. The reason why is the book is replete with photos of Rachel, Rachel's family, Rachel's friends, Rachel this Rachel that. Now don't get me wrong I like looking at Rachel she is indeed nice on the eye, and its interesting to see her standing here and there, kneeling by the oven, on the beach with her kids etc... but ummmm there are absolutely not enough photos of the recipes, and especially completed recipes. I don't know about you but if I can't see it, I am not inclined to try cooking it. I'm not that good! At least 50% of the book is like this. This is kind of cooking book conceptual fashion gone completely over the top. The recipes I can see are ok, nothing particularly new and my favourite recipe from this book is actually Bill Grangers "Banana Butterscotch Pudding", and I already have it! So not for me this one.

her best one yet!
I have all of Rachel's cookbooks which I love and use on a regular basis. Her food is delicious and easy to prepare - particularly for those of us with busy lives. This is her first hardback (I think), which makes it a perfect gift. Plus, the photography really helps give more of a sense about Rachel and how she presents her food. As always, the food is outstanding and the recipes/chapters offer many delicious suggestions for a variety of situations. Equally useful for cooking for the family (including kids) or for friends.