This book is not about buying fresh, organic, sustainable, free-range ingredients. It is not about creating picture-perfect dishes or even super-healthy ones. It is not about wowing guests with slick menus and asymmetric flower arrangements. It's about the bit that comes afterwards, the bit about eating it all up. We Britons throw away 6.7 million tons of food a year - that's a third of all the food we buy, and a fifth of our total domestic waste. And about half of it could be eaten. Imagine saving several hundred pounds every year (about GBP20,000 over a lifetime) and creating a carbon saving equivalent to taking a fifth of all cars off the road. Amazingly, we could do both simply by eating up our leftovers instead of consigning them to methane-belching landfills. The French know how to do it, and our grandparents did too. In this timely and much-anticipated book, acclaimed writer and journalist Kate Colquhoun explains how to make the most of our food.Included are recipes for meat balls and fish cakes, simple stocks and soups, inventive rice and pasta dishes, and great British pies and pickles, as well as sensible ideas for spare egg yolks and whites, wrinkly fruit and veg, and stale bread and cakes. Kate tackles frequently asked questions such as whether it is OK to reheat rice and how much mould we can scrape off the jam, and shows how some well-chosen store cupboard basics can transform any leftover carrot or bacon rind into a satisfying meal. She also takes us on a weekly shop that steers clear of the misleading BOGOFs and ready meals that are the cause of so much of our national waste. Stylishly packaged and printed on 100% recycled paper, The Thrifty Cookbook will reconnect us with our kitchen, leaving us with more time on our hands, more cash in our pockets and more space in our fridges - not to mention a great big environmental brownie point.
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Kate Colquhoun is the author of A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton, which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and of Taste: A Biography of British Food. She reviews regularly for the Daily Telegraph and has written for The Times, the Financial Times, BBC History Magazine, Saga Magazine, The (RHS) Garden and Country Life Magazine. She lives in London.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Alison Scott
Format:Paperback
This book is beautifully produced with charming line drawings and no photos. It's designed to discourage you from throwing away food, but instead using up every scrap. My family already jest about my tendency to keep odd tablespoons of gravy etc. so this book was very comforting to me. There are shocking statistics about the amount of food thrown away. Most of the recipes are designed around the bits and bobs you have left over (including odd portions of rice, potatoes or pasta), but there's also a section designed for when you bought (or were given) too much fruit and it's all about to go off.
There's a section on each typical approach to leftovers (pies, soups, stews, pancakes, risotto etc.), and then a great many variations. This should give you an incentive to tackle whatever happens to be in your fridge. It's complemented by some general pages about principles and a long, long list of storecupboard items that help extend and complement your leftovers.
A couple of caveats; most of the recipes feed two, which reflects the amount of leftovers you're likely to have. If you have enough leftover meat to feed four then it's even more thrifty to not cook it in the first place. So you can't be guaranteed to find a family meal here. None of this is food for dinner parties; it's about getting the odd extra supper or lunch out of the bits and pieces. And most of the ideas, principles and recipes are quite basic, though there are so many hints and tips that everyone should be able to find some good ideas.
There's a section on each typical approach to leftovers (pies, soups, stews, pancakes, risotto etc.), and then a great many variations. This should give you an incentive to tackle whatever happens to be in your fridge. It's complemented by some general pages about principles and a long, long list of storecupboard items that help extend and complement your leftovers.
A couple of caveats; most of the recipes feed two, which reflects the amount of leftovers you're likely to have. If you have enough leftover meat to feed four then it's even more thrifty to not cook it in the first place. So you can't be guaranteed to find a family meal here. None of this is food for dinner parties; it's about getting the odd extra supper or lunch out of the bits and pieces. And most of the ideas, principles and recipes are quite basic, though there are so many hints and tips that everyone should be able to find some good ideas.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By G. E. Butler
Format:Paperback
This book is all about how you actually cook day to day. It's so clear. Look in the fridge to see what you have. Go to the relevant chapter, and there you have lists of ideas for things you can do with it. So it's great for inspiring you to expand your usual repertoire of dishes.
I made gnocchi today for the first time ever, because of this book, (I have no idea what I would usually have done with the surplus of BOGOF potatoes my husband bought - a lot of mash probably) and it tasted amazing, and the children loved it.
I love this book so much that it is my bedtime reading at the moment!
I made gnocchi today for the first time ever, because of this book, (I have no idea what I would usually have done with the surplus of BOGOF potatoes my husband bought - a lot of mash probably) and it tasted amazing, and the children loved it.
I love this book so much that it is my bedtime reading at the moment!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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A great book, that gives great ideas for leftovers as well as cheap meals to feed the family. A must in this day and age of having to cut costs. Here, you can learn how, while feeding your family good, wholesome and filling meals at the same time. Straightforward without being condescending, no frills, just getting on with it.
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A much prettier cover on this edition of the book than the original which I have, but it's what's inside that counts. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Carole Blake
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Has some brilliant ideas on what to do with leftovers. Been after this book for ages but could never get my hands on it. Always sold out! Highly recommended...... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. B. Colquhoun
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This is an amazing little book, not only does it give you ideas on what to do with all your left overs it gives tips on shopping to avoid waste and basic cookery methods on a whole... Read more
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Found my copy in a remaindered bookshop - worth every penny of the £4.00 I paid for it. There are some excellent recipes, one of my favorite cookbooks.
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I felt a little bit disappointed with this book as I expected more recipes using up leftovers. What was printed was OK, but I felt it could have been better
Published 12 months ago by bsrney
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Eat well Spend less
I found this to be an excellant book with everything well laid out.Some recipes even show picture by picture on how to do it. Well worth the money in todays economic crisis.
Published 19 months ago by K. P. Trott
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I made cauliflower cheese using the recipe in this book which was lovely but there are thousands of books with that in, I just wanted to test it out as I made the shepherds pie... Read more
Published on 5 July 2010 by keennovicecook
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Most useful cook book I have
This is a book to browse, to allow to inspire. It's the book I always wanted since cooking for a family (18 years and counting). Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2009 by S. Graham
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disappionted with this, found it hard to use, not in the precise order that I like i.e. pork with pork, whatever the dish pie, casserole etc. etc. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by Mrs. Muriel R. Webber
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Thank you for a unique, useful, straight forward and in all ways excellent book. The recipes are easy to follow, varied and delicious.
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