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"Whilst she is a total expert at creating delicious food from very meagre shopping lists, she equally refuses to compromise on the quality of the meals she rustles up... brilliant, simple recipes.' --Easy Living
'Another no nonsense and no excuses recipe book for excellent family food. The more I read Gill's philosophy of food the more I felt liberated. This book has everything from bread making to cooking with kids to producing impressive dinners, all on a tight budget without too much fuss. A real Mrs. Beaton for our times.' --www.ukparentslounge.com
'There are recipe books out there that highlight affordable recipes, but none as well balanced as this one.' --www.student-express.co.uk.
'Another no nonsense and no excuses recipe book for excellent family food. The more I read Gill's philosophy of food the more I felt liberated. This book has everything from bread making to cooking with kids to producing impressive dinners, all on a tight budget without too much fuss. A real Mrs. Beaton for our times.' --www.ukparentslounge.com
'There are recipe books out there that highlight affordable recipes, but none as well balanced as this one.' --www.student-express.co.uk.
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Features recipes and tips for busy people. This book contains menu plans, over 170 recipes, shortcuts and dozens of ideas for meals. Follow up to Gill Holcombe's HOW TO FEED YOUR WHOLE FAMILY...
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This is not a recipe book for those who want to spend hours in the kitchen producing some exotic creation to dazzle their friends and family. Don't buy it if that is what you are after. As the cover says, it includes easy, family friendly recipes for busy people using relatively inexpensive ingredients. If you've got Gill Holcombe's first book, the style (and even a recipe or two!) will be familiar to you, with its no nonsense approach and good solid advice about what to put in your store cupboard, how to plan your menus and much more. Now you might think that you know how to do this - but clearly lots of people don't given the amount of food that we throw away each year. Similarly, you might think that you don't need a recipe for shepherd's pie, spaghetti bolognese etc because you know what you are doing - but lots of people don't, and this isn't usually the sort of ground covered by the celebrity chefs. I like the fact that the recipes are written with great flexibility around quantities and ingredients, although there are some strange ones amongst them. Spam fritters anyone? Chip shop curry sauce? Having said that, there are some gems as well, and for those of us trying to buy and use food more economically both to reduce wastage, and for reasons of thrift, there are some useful reminders here.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Reading through the initial chapters of this cook book entitled 'introduction' and 'good beginnings' gives the reader the impression that the author talks common sense about food and managing household tasks in general. The book, split into various chapters entitled `mood food' and `loose ends' makes the most of what you've got in the cupboard and celebrates leftovers. The recipes are inspiring and generally easy to follow and I've personally tried preparing the Chicken Tikka Masala and the Lamb Keela, both of which were extremely delicious! There are many other recipes I'd like to try out too, such as the burgers with blue cheese dressing. Some of the concoctions sound a bit gross though like toad in the mush, but with over 300 pages of content, there's bound to be something for everyone.
The only downsides that I can find with this book are that there are no pictures to accompany the recipes and due to the paperback nature and quality of the pages, it's difficult to prop it up in the kitchen whilst you're preparing meals. Otherwise an inspiring, eminently sensible cookbook which I'll keep on the bookshelf for the foreseeable future as the week plans will liven up my dull culinary repertoire!
The only downsides that I can find with this book are that there are no pictures to accompany the recipes and due to the paperback nature and quality of the pages, it's difficult to prop it up in the kitchen whilst you're preparing meals. Otherwise an inspiring, eminently sensible cookbook which I'll keep on the bookshelf for the foreseeable future as the week plans will liven up my dull culinary repertoire!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I'll admit that I have a large collection of cookbooks but most just sit on my shelf rather than getting used. I'm always a bit dubious about new cook books but I genuinely think this will become a book that I use, or at least dip into, quite often.
The book itself is written in a friendly, down to earth style. There's absolutely no pretentiousness or food snootiness which immediately endeared me to the writer and the book.
The author seems a sensible sort with the items she suggests you keep in your store cupboard being basic, cheap and useful. She also says that you don't need expensive equipment and I really get the feeling that this book is all about good old fashioned, great tasting, family cooking rather than being fancy just for the sake of it!
Chapters within the book include: Good Beginnings; Mood Food (which includes everything from pot roasts to comfort food); Loose Ends; For Starters, Mains and Just Desserts; Something Sweet and A Lot On Your Plate (which is a 6 week menu plan).
I like the way she gives you the recipe and then says to modify it as you like. Even so, the recipes are easy to follow with clear instructions. She makes the unusual choice of not telling you how many people a recipe serves but since this is a family cookbook she notes that everything will feed a family of four.
I really enjoyed this cookbook. As with most cookbooks, I do prefer pictures to go along with the recipes while this one only has small black and white pencil drawings. It can't detract from the quality of the recipes and writing but it is a preference of mine.
If you are an established cook who likes fancy recipes and trying out complicated dishes then perhaps this isn't the book for you. However, if you're new to cooking or just want a recipe book with a chatty writing style that feels like it's something your mum or granny would have handed down to you then this could definitely be the cookery book for you.
The book itself is written in a friendly, down to earth style. There's absolutely no pretentiousness or food snootiness which immediately endeared me to the writer and the book.
The author seems a sensible sort with the items she suggests you keep in your store cupboard being basic, cheap and useful. She also says that you don't need expensive equipment and I really get the feeling that this book is all about good old fashioned, great tasting, family cooking rather than being fancy just for the sake of it!
Chapters within the book include: Good Beginnings; Mood Food (which includes everything from pot roasts to comfort food); Loose Ends; For Starters, Mains and Just Desserts; Something Sweet and A Lot On Your Plate (which is a 6 week menu plan).
I like the way she gives you the recipe and then says to modify it as you like. Even so, the recipes are easy to follow with clear instructions. She makes the unusual choice of not telling you how many people a recipe serves but since this is a family cookbook she notes that everything will feed a family of four.
I really enjoyed this cookbook. As with most cookbooks, I do prefer pictures to go along with the recipes while this one only has small black and white pencil drawings. It can't detract from the quality of the recipes and writing but it is a preference of mine.
If you are an established cook who likes fancy recipes and trying out complicated dishes then perhaps this isn't the book for you. However, if you're new to cooking or just want a recipe book with a chatty writing style that feels like it's something your mum or granny would have handed down to you then this could definitely be the cookery book for you.
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I've never reviewed a cookery book before, and I wondered how many recipes you have to follow before you can speak authoritatively about its contents. Read more
Published 19 months ago by William Cohen
Gill Holcombe does it again
I love these series of books.
Great seller!
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Great seller!
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Published 21 months ago by Marie Cartner
Lots more good solid cooking
A good follow on from the first book, this is full of the decent solid food that families run on. And she's not all wholewheat and hummus - the author states quite clearly that if... Read more
Published on 12 May 2010 by Ms. K. S. Wilcox
Useful recipe book
Billed as "affordable, every-day food and family-friendly recipes made easy", this book covers a wide range of foods and flavours from falafel through hot tomato jelly to stuffed... Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2009 by quippe
Nice title but ultimately dissappointing
This is a competent but not very exciting cookery book. The recipes are clear and mostly tasty. But the presentation, once you get past the cover, is dull with few pictures of any... Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2009 by A. J. Gauld
I love this book!
I highly recommend this recipe book! I am always on the look out for recipes that use ingredients you would usually have at home, aren't too time consuming or complicated looking... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2009 by A. Main
Uninspiring
I thought from the title that this book would be ideal for someone like me, who likes to cook fresh meals, but without enough hours in the day (or at least ones when I'm not at... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2009 by Mrs. D. J. Smith
Excellent little simple cook book!
What I really like about this book is that in the intro, the author sets out a basic stock of ingredients to keep in stock in order to be able to make pretty much any recipe in the... Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2009 by P. Sharpe
no pictures!
very nice book, with lots of key recipes, however, shame there are no pictures to illustrate the final product. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2009 by Ms. S. Bullen
Everyday Inspiration
Most people who have been students, will be aware of student cookbooks: usually taking the reader by the hand, to guide them through a range of simple, fairly easy dishes. Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2009 by Stucumber
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