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`Looking through proofs of the autumn section I immediately found at least a dozen recipes I wanted to cook there and then. Always a good sign.' --Bookseller
`With 400 recipes, a new book by Sarah Raven has every occasion and season covered'
--Daily Telegraph
`Raven's collection should keep hosts inspired and guests happy at every gathering.' --Time Out
`The ultimate in user-friendly seasonal eating...take your pick from Sarah's simple home-cooked recipes.' --Top Sante Health & Beauty
`Guaranteed to make you feel summery - even if the weather lets you down.' --Psychologies
`One of the most useful books we've come across in ages...there's enough here to take you through the whole year, no matter what the occasion.'
--Book of the Month, Woman & Home
`With 400 recipes, a new book by Sarah Raven has every occasion and season covered'
--Daily Telegraph
`Raven's collection should keep hosts inspired and guests happy at every gathering.' --Time Out
`The ultimate in user-friendly seasonal eating...take your pick from Sarah's simple home-cooked recipes.' --Top Sante Health & Beauty
`Guaranteed to make you feel summery - even if the weather lets you down.' --Psychologies
`One of the most useful books we've come across in ages...there's enough here to take you through the whole year, no matter what the occasion.'
--Book of the Month, Woman & Home
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In this enormous and beautiful book, Sarah Raven takes us through the year with recipes that will appeal to best friends, children, uncles and mother-in-laws alike. Whether roasting rose flavoured marshmallows round a bonfire or tucking into a glorious Christmas lunch, there is something here for everyone. Sarah's seasonal recipes are utterly delectable, and include beetroot tart with horseradish cream, Sussex stewed steak, sesame salmon with pea pesto, parsnip and sweet potato crisps, rabbit pie, lamb kebabs with spiced aubergine sauce, pork and porcini casserole, banbury cakes, blackcurrant mousse ice cream, plum syllabub and tarte tatin - which can be accompanied by glasses of home-made ginger beer or Danish glogg. Stylish and gorgeously illustrated with photographs by Jonathan Buckley, this book is a joyous celebration of both the countryside and of fantastic food, and one that you'll turn to for inspiration again and again.
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48 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I pre-ordered Sarah's new book on the strength of her previous titles. I was very excited to get an email from Amazon letting me know that I was going to get it early - and even more excited waiting for it to arrive! I really like Sarah's approach in all her books: simple and unfussy.
The book is comparable in size to Sarah's Garden cookbook. It is arranged by season, and each season is subdivided to provide: snacks and canapes, soups and accompaniments, salads, vegetarian, fish, meat, vegetable sides, puddings,cakes and biscuits, preserves, drinks. Some of the seasons have extra sections: summer: barbecues and picnics, spring: sweets, winter: christmas lunch, christmas leftovers, christmas cakes and puddings. Coloured pages helpfully indicate the start of a new season so they are easy to turn to.
Examples of some of the recipes:
SPRING:
Smoked Salmon Pate
Crayfish and sweetcorn chowder
Roast asparagus salad with orange
Pea and spinach timbale
Moroccan fish tagine
Mixed grill with potato cakes
Beer-can chicken
Ham in hay with parsley sauce
Persian jewelled rice
Coffee mousse
Lemon and passion fruit meringue pie
Elderflower and milk jellies
Orange and lemon cake with marmalade cream
Primose lemon curd cupcakes
Large hollow easter egg
After eight chocolate chip cookies
Quick rhubarb chutney with cardamon
Piccalli
Rhubarb and ginger vodka
Limoncello
I have only included spring here - but it gives you an idea. This section alone contains 96 recipes! I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, and I am also keen to sit down and compare her previous books with this one to see if there is any duplication. Based on my previous experience of her recipes I am sure they will all be delicious. I'll let you know how it goes.
The book is interspersed with beautiful photos and is an absolute joy to read. This is how food should be (or so I think) - simple, unfussy, a joy for the eyes and tasty. Highly recommended.
The book is comparable in size to Sarah's Garden cookbook. It is arranged by season, and each season is subdivided to provide: snacks and canapes, soups and accompaniments, salads, vegetarian, fish, meat, vegetable sides, puddings,cakes and biscuits, preserves, drinks. Some of the seasons have extra sections: summer: barbecues and picnics, spring: sweets, winter: christmas lunch, christmas leftovers, christmas cakes and puddings. Coloured pages helpfully indicate the start of a new season so they are easy to turn to.
Examples of some of the recipes:
SPRING:
Smoked Salmon Pate
Crayfish and sweetcorn chowder
Roast asparagus salad with orange
Pea and spinach timbale
Moroccan fish tagine
Mixed grill with potato cakes
Beer-can chicken
Ham in hay with parsley sauce
Persian jewelled rice
Coffee mousse
Lemon and passion fruit meringue pie
Elderflower and milk jellies
Orange and lemon cake with marmalade cream
Primose lemon curd cupcakes
Large hollow easter egg
After eight chocolate chip cookies
Quick rhubarb chutney with cardamon
Piccalli
Rhubarb and ginger vodka
Limoncello
I have only included spring here - but it gives you an idea. This section alone contains 96 recipes! I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, and I am also keen to sit down and compare her previous books with this one to see if there is any duplication. Based on my previous experience of her recipes I am sure they will all be delicious. I'll let you know how it goes.
The book is interspersed with beautiful photos and is an absolute joy to read. This is how food should be (or so I think) - simple, unfussy, a joy for the eyes and tasty. Highly recommended.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'm a keen collector of cook books but I'd not heard of Sarah Raven before. This colourful book caught my eye and I orderd it, so glad I did.
The book is split into 4 sections, one for each season. The recipes are based on what is freshly available/in season for that time of year. Of course there's nothing to stop you from cooking a summer dish in spring if you fancy! Each of the 4 seasonal sections is then split into snacks, soups, salad, vegetarian, fish, meat, vegi sides, puddings, cakes/biscuits, preserves and drinks.
There are plenty of quick weekday dinner type dishes as well as some more fancy stuff for weekends/impressing guests. Most of the recipes are with ingredeients that you'd easily find though there's a few that aren't such as rabbit pie and a couple of venison dishes. Lots of baking recipes along with soups, chutneys, salads, curries, pasta dishes and meat and fish dishes. My husband is a vegetarian and there are plenty of things in here I'll be able to cook him. Infact even if you don't have a carnivore in the house I'd still say this book is worth buying. The photos are great and make all the dishes look very tasty. Most importantly they inspire you to want to cook them. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. Most importantly teh end results taste good. So far I've made a chicken dish, coconut and coriander rice and a chocolate and lime cake. All very tasty.
Here are some of the autumn recipes to give you an idea;
Squash Humus
Rosemary flatbread
smokes mackeral pate
pumpkin and apple soup with chestnuts
crab and red pepper soup
Beetroot and coconut soup
Cheese and fennel scones
Pumpkin cornbread
Pear, pancetta and blue cheese salad
Fennel and apple salad with toasted pumpkin seeds
Pepper caponata
Beetroot tart with horseradish cream
Griddled aubergines with tzatzki
Vegetable pakoras
Wild mushroom lasagne
Curried prawns with lentils
Tarragon fishcakes
Chicken fillets with coriander and lime
Chilli con carne
Moroccan lamb shanks
Thai chicken burgers
Roast cumin carrots
Parsnip balls
Fig mashed potato
Toffee apple pie
Baked figs with yoghurt icecream
Chocolate, beetroot and orange cake
Damson jam
Chilli jelly
Pumpkin and chilli chutney
Sloe gin!
The book is split into 4 sections, one for each season. The recipes are based on what is freshly available/in season for that time of year. Of course there's nothing to stop you from cooking a summer dish in spring if you fancy! Each of the 4 seasonal sections is then split into snacks, soups, salad, vegetarian, fish, meat, vegi sides, puddings, cakes/biscuits, preserves and drinks.
There are plenty of quick weekday dinner type dishes as well as some more fancy stuff for weekends/impressing guests. Most of the recipes are with ingredeients that you'd easily find though there's a few that aren't such as rabbit pie and a couple of venison dishes. Lots of baking recipes along with soups, chutneys, salads, curries, pasta dishes and meat and fish dishes. My husband is a vegetarian and there are plenty of things in here I'll be able to cook him. Infact even if you don't have a carnivore in the house I'd still say this book is worth buying. The photos are great and make all the dishes look very tasty. Most importantly they inspire you to want to cook them. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. Most importantly teh end results taste good. So far I've made a chicken dish, coconut and coriander rice and a chocolate and lime cake. All very tasty.
Here are some of the autumn recipes to give you an idea;
Squash Humus
Rosemary flatbread
smokes mackeral pate
pumpkin and apple soup with chestnuts
crab and red pepper soup
Beetroot and coconut soup
Cheese and fennel scones
Pumpkin cornbread
Pear, pancetta and blue cheese salad
Fennel and apple salad with toasted pumpkin seeds
Pepper caponata
Beetroot tart with horseradish cream
Griddled aubergines with tzatzki
Vegetable pakoras
Wild mushroom lasagne
Curried prawns with lentils
Tarragon fishcakes
Chicken fillets with coriander and lime
Chilli con carne
Moroccan lamb shanks
Thai chicken burgers
Roast cumin carrots
Parsnip balls
Fig mashed potato
Toffee apple pie
Baked figs with yoghurt icecream
Chocolate, beetroot and orange cake
Damson jam
Chilli jelly
Pumpkin and chilli chutney
Sloe gin!
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Wonderful source of recipes
I borrowed this from a friend, photocopied quite a lot of recipes and am working my way through them. Read more
Published 27 days ago by Miss S. J. Peacock
Exactly what you'd expect from Sarah Raven
The biggest problem with this book is deciding what to cook first. Conveniently arranged into seasons so you can easily find recipes using the freshest of available produce. Read more
Published 1 month ago by shming
Full to bursting
There are an enormous amount of recipes in here, and although many of them are not very imaginative, they are all very tasty-looking. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Nikki Manc
Wonderful seasonal cookery
This is a really lovely seasonal cookbook with hundreds of recipes to choose from, covering everything from snacks & starters, main courses, desserts, cakes & biscuits, jams &... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Marand
My best 'everyday' book since Nigella's How to Eat and Delia Smith's...
This is just such a lovely book. I love the way it is laid out seasonally. The recipes I have used so far have been very successful and although I have many cookery books in my... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Expat in Aus
Great cookbook
I bought this for my Aunt as a Christmas present. She runs a cafe and I thought the seasonal sections would be a great idea for inspiration, especially the soups. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Heather
Christmas Gift
Having ordered the book about a couple of weeks before christmas it arrived just before christmas and although it stated it would be here on the 18th it came on the 24th but as... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Dave
Sarah Raven's food for family and friends
wonderful book full of inspirational recipies, I am a gardener so her approach works well with that, will be planning my veg plot this January to include more of her... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Zyrini
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For years I have had a slightly disturbing addiction to cookbooks. I have even had to make the occasional cull. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mr. J. D. Pullan
Its fantastic!!!!!
I own many, many, many cook books and can honestly say this is one of the best. It is fabulous.
Sarah writes well and the book is beautifully photographed. Read more
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