Product Description

Nothing beats the taste and comfort of real home made food. Bestselling cook Tana Ramsay has devised a fabulous range of mouth-watering recipes that will leave family and friends begging for second helpings. Always easy to make, you'll be free to spend more time with the people that count. Great food brings people together and Tana Ramsay's Home Made will do just that. Her recipes are a perfect combination of traditional flavours and modern twists, and are divided into 12 ingredient-led sections for ease of reference, including Chicken, Lamb, Pizzas and Chocolate. Beautifully illustrated throughout, highlights include succulent lemon chicken stew, crispy roast pork with haricot beans, pancetta & thyme, lazy bubble & squeak and a seriously chocolatey Chocolate souffle cake with cherries and mascarpone. This is the perfect cookbook for anybody who wants to feed their loved ones great food every day.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7908 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Review
Reviews for Home Made: 'Simply delicious ... Tana's recipes hit the spot every time.' YOU magazine, The Mail on Sunday Reviews for Family Kitchen and Real Family Food: "I really rate Tana Ramsay, she is the best female cook on telly at the moment ! Tana has got her finger on the pulse." Jamie Oliver (in The Sun, 11/9/07) 'Tana Ramsay's recipe ideas for hard-pressed parents are so inspiring the even her celeb-chef husband Gordon should swear by them.' YOU magazine, The Mail on Sunday 'Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen will never fail to tempt. Destined to become a family classic.' Grazia 'Tana Ramsay is whipping up a storm in the culinary world. Step aside Gordon, there's a new celebrity chef in town.' Junior magazine

From the Inside Flap
The warm smell of cooking as you come through the door; old fashioned chicken soup when you're feeling under the weather; the kids licking the spoon when you're making their favourite dessert; stealing the best bits off the roast when no one else is looking; gossiping with your friends around the kitchen table; dinner a deux when the kids are in bed ... have you forgotten how good home made food really is?

Home Made is Tana Ramsay's unique collection of family recipes that will take you on a magical journey back to the heart of home cooking. For Tana, home cooking is all about bringing people together, making time for each other and rediscovering the simple pleasure of good, honest food.

With every inspired recipe and personal insight Tana reveals what she does to bring a strong sense of home to the Ramsay household, feed the constant stream of family and friends, and still have the freedom to do all the other things she loves.

Home made food ... it's easy ... it's delicious ... and nothing beats it.

About the Author
Tana Ramsay, author of the bestselling Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen and Tana Ramsay's Real Family Food, is the glamorous, down-to-earth wife of chef Gordon Ramsay. As well as cooking for and looking after Gordon and their four young children, Megan, Jack, Holly and Matilda, former Montessori teacher Tana also has a monthly column in the Daily Mail Weekend.

Customer Reviews

Home Made Food Simply Made For All
Well I must admit I cheated when it came to this book, I got it out of my local library. The reason being usually when I pick up a cookery book to purchase I end up going home with it only to use it for a couple of receipes then that is it, put back on the shelf and forgotten about.

However, this book I am pleased to say will be purchased as not only is it an easy cook book to follow, the front of each chapter tells you what it contains and honestly just reading them makes your mouth water! Full of delicious meals for all the family (including picky ones). Even down to vegetables, I like the Spaghetti of carrots with cardamom butter, certainly not like having a spoonful of carrots (most children detest them, but put like these mine think they are heaven). Also the Buttered sweetcorn niblets with fresh marjoram leaves, plain, simple but tasty and not costing the earth!

The Bubble and squeak receipe is certainly a good one for using up those sprouts and mash potato, now I would never have thought of adding chestnuts, but sounds dammed good to me. With this chapter you will never look at a potato in the same light, as there are so many things to do with them. Almost a different style of potato for each day of the week.

Whether it be soups for starters or even main course Spicy Fish Soup sounds like a nice winter warming main course one to myself, to Mushroom soup with truffle oil and chives, a great starter maybe for christmas day or boxing day, sounds expensive and fiddly to make but you would be surprised. All supermarkets seem to stock the ingredients needed in this and the other receipes in this book, this is in my opinion another reason to buy this cook book. You don't have to go searching high and low for the ingredients (especially after a busy day be it at work or at home), you just want decent, home cooked and honest food. Not elaborate time consuming, vastly expensive ingredients needed (and I think we are all thinking about the cost of food and how we can cook/present food without breaking the bank but still being filling and appetizing) as Tana says, Good, honest food made easy.

Now some of the receipes my take longer to do than others but she does state that, (prep time and cooking time are made easily visible) so you will not find yourself suddenly short of time and either the food be undercooked or your family/guests starving two hours or so later.

So good to have a cook book that not only has ideas for grown up food but children too and not just childish fun food, but proper sustaining food. Great to be able to have receipes that can all be eaten around the table together, no more different meals at meal time bliss!

Oh and there is a great one for using up those Maltesers out of those selection boxes.

Food for grownups
I've always liked Tana's cookbooks, as they've added lots of new meals the regular dinner rota. But this new one is great for having a bit more grown-up food. I suppose that with her own kids, they've started eating a bit more of an adventurous menu, but whatever the cause, we like it.

Love the cover, too. Really different and pretty.