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Healthy Speedy Suppers by Katriona MacGregor

28/8/2016

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Healthy Speedy Suppers by Katriona MacGregor
A food obsessive and trained cook who started under the tutelage of Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Katriona MacGregor recognised how easily we forget the importance and ease of eating well day-to-day as even she, in the throngs of a full-time job, resorted to  ready-made meals.

Her book Healthy Speedy Suppers: Quick, Healthy and Delicious Recipes for Busy People is a collection of recipes that are low in wheat and dairy, focusing on replacing processed carbs for wholemeal where possible. Despite being more healthy, it doesn't make the recipes any less delicious - it simply showcases good quality whole foods that are paired intelligently. 
Dishes are categorised into soups and salads, poultry, meat, fish, grains pulses and vegetables, and dips sauces and dressings for easy navigation and for those restless nights where you know what sort of thing you’re hankering for but you need that bit of inspiration. It’s refreshing to flick through a cookbook where everything seems so accessible and un-daunting and it’s even more refreshing to discover that you’re not void of the endless ingredients needed to make it. She advises you stock your cupboards with the staples so that a red lentil and chicken saag, is only three fresh ingredients away.
 
Recipes span several cuisines and all seasons, touching on such diverse dishes as roast carrot tomato and dill soup, squid and courgette salad with chorizo, pheasant coconut and tamarind curry, one-pot chicken with bacon leeks and peas, venison sausage with kale and red wine, sea bass ceviche with chicory, stir-fried beef with peppers, smoked haddock and gruyère omelette and a broad bean and freekeh risotto.
 
I recently made the lamb leg with bashed peas and a tomato and mint salsa, a Sunday evening dinner for one, and it just summed the book up for me – quick and easy to cook, full of wholesome ingredients, while still feeling like a treat.
 
Healthy Speedy Suppers by Katriona MacGregor is published by Nourish, an imprint of Watkins Media Limited, and is available from Amazon.co.uk for £13.51 (hard cover).
 
Luci Lyne

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Anna Mae's Mac N Cheese Love

26/8/2016

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Anna Mae's Mac N Cheese Lover cookbook
​Anna Mae’s Mac N Cheese began its life in the summer of 2010, when Anna Clark and Tony Solomon quit their jobs, and went on the ultimate road-trip to the U.S., bringing to the U.K. the ultimate Southern-style comfort food - 'pimped-up' macaroni and cheese.

Today, Anna Mae’s is quickly becoming one of the most talked about boutique street-food vendors. For those who aren't fortunate enough to visit their mac n cheese van first-hand,  you can now make your favourite mac n cheese dishes in the comfort of your home thanks to their new book Anna Mae's Mac N Cheese Love.

Filled with macaroni madness in all its guises, this is a book created with all macaroni lovers in mind.

Anna Mae's mac n cheese van London
Anna Mae's macaroni and cheese recipes
Recipes include a selection of cleverly named dishes including Cheesus Loves You (their original recipe); The Don Macaroni (a delicious dish including streaky bacon, Monterey Jack and mature cheddar); Professor Green (a moreish dish which includes bacon, eggs and guacamole); and Lil' Kimchi (a unique dish featuring Kimchi, gochugaru paste, Havarti cheese and chillis).

We guarantee that with so many totally unique flavour combinations to choose from, you'll banish boring macaroni for good! 

Anna Mae's Mac N Cheese Lover is available from Amazon.co.uk (£12.08 hardcover).

A.A. Miln
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Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavours & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City

13/8/2016

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Italy holds a special place in my heart, so I'm always looking for ways to bring a touch of Italy to my kitchen.

Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavours & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City by Katie Parla and Kristina Gill is an elegant cookbook that not only looks great, but is packed with scrumptious Italian recipes.

The book opens with a quick lesson in Roman history, to transport you back to ancient times, which is fitting as the recipes within the book are a combination of  traditional dishes as well as contemporary innovations, each of which tells a story of the local flavours where they originated.
Getting started - It's all about the prep
Like any good cook knows, preparation is key, so the book outlines exactly what you need in terms of kitchen equipment and ingredients, so you can easily prepare all of the dishes within the book. 

​Staple ingredients 

It comes as no surprise that pasta is a staple ingredient found in any Italian's cupboard. They recommend that you buy the highest quality pasta you can afford and also keep sea salt, Pecorino Romano and Peperoncino to hand. Some of the other recommended staples were a bit on the more obscure side (fennel pollen or guanciale anyone?), but they provided recommended alternatives should one not be able to source them.

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The contents

I love that that the book has been done in 'the spirit of Roman cooking, which doesn't get bogged down with precise ingredient amounts or proportions, except when baking', as this closely mirrors my own style of cooking, which is a bit 'throw it all in and hope for the best' - with flair, of course!

Sections within the book 

Snacks, starters and street food
Here you'll find tasty little morsels that are perfect for aperitvo (the Italian ritual of pre-dinner drinks and snacks).

Classics and variations
From Carbonara to gnocci, here you'll find tried and true recipes that have withstood the test of time. 

​Cucina Ebraica
This section features an assortment of recipes inspired by the Roman Jews, who comprise a small percentage of the population (13,000 in a city of 4 million inhabitants). This standout cuisine focuses on 'intense flavours cultivated from paltry resources'. 

Quinto Quarto
Inspired by the butchers that used to cut animals into prestigious cuts for nobles, beaurucrats and soldiers and leeft the remaining off cuts (offal) for the lower-class Romans, here you'll find dishes such as Spaghetti with Chicken Innards to Sweetbreads (the thymus glands of veal and lambs) with Marsala Wine. 

Verdure
Rome is abundant with fresh produce and here you'll find a selection of gorgeous dishes where vegetables are the star ingredient.

Bread and Pizza
Italy isn't carb shy. Here you'll find a selection of baking recipes that aren't too complicated for baking novices. 

Sweets and Drinks
From sorbetto to gelatto, you'll find everything you need to finish your meal with a touch of sweetness. Our favourite dessert was the sheep's milk ricotta cheesecake, which was divine!

Overall, this is a great book for any Italian food enthusiast who is keen to learn how to prepare delicious, traditional Italian recipes.

​A.A. Miln
Tasting Rome Fresh Flavours and Forgotten recipes from an ancient city
Tasting Rome Fresh Flavours and Forgotten recipes from an ancient city cookbook
Tasting Rome Fresh Flavours and Forgotten recipes from an ancient city cookbook
Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavours & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City is published by Clarkson Potter / Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York.

Available from Amazon.co.uk for £19.99  (hardcover).
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