Tana's Kitchen Secrets: Bringing out the cook in you - Hardcover

Tana Ramsay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845335112 ISBN 13: 9781845335113

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, 2010

Synopsis

Containing 120 recipes, this title presents kitchen secrets that reveal how to prepare food perfectly, cook it well and choose the best ingredients. It is divided into chapters on: meat; fish; pasta, rice and grains; pies, pastries and tarts; support acts; dough; sweet things; and, cakes and biscuits.

About this title

About the Author

Tana is a best-selling cookery author. Her first book Family Kitchen was an instant hit, selling over 100,000 copies according to Nielsen. She has followed this up with two more highly successful titles: Real Family Food and Home Made. Tana is regularly seen on TV and most recently co-presented Market Kitchen for UKTV Food. Tana is the wife of the enormously successful chef Gordon Ramsay and a mother of four. She started her writing career with a column in Grazia.

From Publishers Weekly

With the last name of Ramsay (yes, wife of Chef Ramsay, the star of HellÖs Kitchen and RamsayÖs Kitchen Nightmares), quirky, stylish, and cheery may not be the first words that come to mind, but cookbook author Tana Ramsay presents a well-written, well-packaged title designed with Tiffany-blue endpages and retro-illustrated chapter openers that reads like an edgy blog. As a busy mother of four, Tana creates easy and healthy meals, along with the goal of expanding readersÖ recipe repertoires and cooking skills, assembling a solid collection of more than 120 recipes ranging from main courses to vegetable sides and desserts. Tana admits to often cooking two dinners, one for children, the other for her spouse. The collection toggles between kid-pleasing selections such as pizza and cupcakes, not to mention vegetable dishes any eight-year-old would approve of, such as Cauliflower Cheese My Way and vitamin-packed selections like frozen fruit, and adult dishes such as mussels with Belgian beer, and simple salmon, dill, and crème fraîche pasta. With a sober awareness of often-strained food budgets for the home cook, and an overall optimism and appreciation for family meals, this contemporary and useful everyday title should push readers to leave any preconceived notions of "Ramsay" behind and crack its spine.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845335112
• ISBN 13: 9781845335113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288