Product Description

Everyone in the family will love Tana Ramsay's simple and delicious recipes. The secret, says the author of the bestselling Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen, is easy recipes and basic ingredients. Whatever the occasion --school-night suppers, family entertaining, picnic treats or weekend baking-- Tana has a fool-proof solution that will work every time. As a busy mother-of-four and the glamorous wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, Tana knows the challenges of pleasing everybody around the kitchen table -- especially if you want your family to eat real, healthy food.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1880 in Books
• Brand: Books
• Published on: 2007-09-03
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Everyone in the family will love Tana Ramsay's simple and delicious recipes. The secret, says the author of the bestselling Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen, is easy recipes and basic ingredients. Whatever the occasion --school-night suppers, family entertaining, picnic treats or weekend baking-- Tana has a fool-proof solution that will work every time. As a busy mother-of-four and the glamorous wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, Tana knows the challenges of pleasing everybody around the kitchen table -- especially if you want your family to eat real, healthy food. With the help of her trademark easy-to-follow and mouth-watering recipes, Tana shows how to transform mealtimes with minimum fuss, and make real food something that doesn't mean spending hours in the kitchen. Lavishly illustrated with over 100 recipes for every family occasion, including: / School-rush Breakfasts, Grab and Go Lunches and Food in a Flash / Easy Entertaining, Try Something Different and Vegetable Temptations / Picnics and Treats, Baking Sensations and Devilish Desserts

From the Inside Flap
'Real family food is not just about sharing uncomplicated, heart-warming food, it's about slowing down for a few precious minutes, cracking up over silly stories, bickering about things that don't matter and remembering why, through the thick and thin, nothing beats being together.'

Tana Ramsay's Real Family Food is a must for every family kitchen.

With her trademark simple and delicious recipes, Tana makes it easy for you to cook fabulous food every day, whether you want to rustle up dinner in a flash, impress the in-laws over a big family lunch or linger over brunch in your pyjamas.

Full of refreshingly different recipes that all the family will enjoy, this sumptuously illustrated cookbook is as much a celebration of life as it is of good food. And, like her bestselling Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen, it's destined to become a family classic.

About the Author
Tana Ramsay, author of the bestselling Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen, is the glamorous, down-to-earth and extremely personable wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. As the hands-on mother of their four young children, Megan (9), Jack and Holly (6) and Matilda (4), she is the bulwark of the Ramsay family. As well as cooking for and looking after Gordon and the children, Tana is also the food editor of Grazia magazine, the presenter of a new stylish food show on UKTV sponsored by Waitrose, and a former Montessori teacher.

Customer Reviews

Absolutlty great for American cooks
I was a little nervous about purchasing this book knowing that a lot of ingredients might not be able, or found here in America as easily. I am happily surprised that every single recipe is easy to make, tastes delicious and every ingredient is available in your local supermarket. Being a vegitarian in a very carnivor home, I find the recipies easily interchangable with meat and non-meat products. I would and have, reccommended this to everyone I know.

Swimming upstream
I just received this book and will hold off on reviewing actual recipes until I've had time to try some. However, I really like the book thus far. I like the layout, the warm comments, and I cannot take offense at the photos throughout as I think they fit very well with the intention of the book: real family food. The graininess of the photos seemed to bring warmth to the style and I didn't mind endless shots of Tana working with food or the kids grinning devishly and seemingly enjoying themselves. I've bookmarked about a dozen recipes that I'm eager to try and, hopefully, my family will approve, too. All in all, I think it's an attractive, well thought out cookbook and a worthy addition to my 100+ volume collection.

Update 4/18/08: Love this book. Every recipe I've tried has worked succesfully and I'm looking forward to getting through more. What I like best about the book is it made me wonder hey, why didn't I think of this? Especially the Mango Chicken Salad, which was to die for. Simple ingredients but it packed a wallop of flavor. I can highly recommend this book and it presented no problem for me as an American cook.

Tana Ramsay's Real Family Food
An unfortunate christmas present I received.

One of the new generation cookbooks that seems to picture more photographs of the author and her family than the actual recipes in the book. I want to see books about family food, how to cook it well, process shots and 'appetising' photos of what it should look like when finally prepared- not a photo album of the author and her family. Which are rather off putting.

The matt paper used to print on in this book and 'grainy' printing don't do justice to the food photos, so why bother with food pics at all - I fear this book will be consigned to the recycle bin or become a bookshelf filler rather than a real kitchen work top manual.