Food - Assembly Instructions (Paperback)

This is not so much a cookery book as a set of assembly instructions, that will show you how to take ordinary, readily-available, groceries, a very basic set of tools and equipment, and construct varied and interesting everyday meals quickly and easily. It doesn't present you with hundreds of expensive, complicate recipes to impress your friends. It doesn't describe hundreds of supposedly-easy dishes containing ingredients that you can't find. It doesn't describe simple dishes in pages of florid prose which make the instructions impossible to follow. Conversely, it doesn't assume you are have had such a sheltered upbringing that you need telling that ovens are hot and fridges are cold.

The information is presented as logically as possible. Ingredients are listed in the order in which they are needed. The recipe steps are all simple instructions, and are in the order they have to be carried out. Every main course dish describes a complete meal, either by listing what to accompany it with, or because it is complete in itself. So there is no wondering "is this a side-dish, the meat part, or the whole thing?" Every recipe has a little key showing what sort of equipment it typically needs to prepare it, plus warnings for dishes which are hot (spicy hot, that is), or which are best cooked when somebody else is on washing-up duty! And because these dishes represent a more-or-less complete lifestyle, there are just a few "gold star" dishes, too, for those odd occasions when you want to have friends round for dinner, or want to impress that special person in your life. Also, in recognition of the needs of a busy and thrifty household, there is an extensive cross-reference listing of ingredients-to-recipes to answer that common question "what can we cook to use up the... [insert impulse bulk-purchased ingredient here]?"

The contents of this book will make your life much more interesting without making it more complicated.

From the Publisher
This is not a conventional cookery book. It is a cookery book for the complete beginner, with step by step instructions which are far superior to the ones you get with most self-assembly furniture.
Unlike some of the more famous food-writers, Martin James does not send you to every shop in town on a five hour shopping trip to cook a dubious meal in twenty minutes, nor does he remind you in step four that you should have already bolied the eggs or peeled the potatoes by step two. He doesn't even own a football club, though he does support a very good one. He does, though, give you easy to follow instructions which produce delicious meals. He even tells you which pots and pans you will need for each dish and how easy the washing-up is likely to be. The collections of recipes in this book have been used by Martin's family and friends and in turn their families and friends for the best part of thirty years.

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