Kitchen - Recipes from The Heart of The Home

Kitchen, Recipes from the Heart of the Home--------------------------------------------------Compendious, informative and engaging, Kitchen offers feel-good foodfor cooks and eaters that is comforting but always seductive, nostalgicbut with a modern twist - whether express-way easy-exotic recipes forthe weekday rush, leisurely slow-cook dishes for weekends and specialoccasions, or irresistible cakes and cookies in true domestic goddessstyle. It answers everyday cooking quandaries - what to give the kidsfor tea, how to rustle up a meal for friends or an impromptu kitchenparty in moments, or what to do about those black bananas, wrinkledapples and bullet-hard plums - and since real cooking is so often aboutleftovers, here one recipe can morph into another...from ham hocksto pea soup and pasties, from braised chicken to Chinatown salad. Thisisn't just about being thrifty but about being creative and seeinghow recipes evolve. As well as offering the reader a mouthwateringarray of inspired new recipes - from clams with chorizo to Guinnessgingerbread, from Asian braised beef to flourless chocolate lime cake,from Pasta alla Genovese to Venetian carrot cake - Nigella rounds upher kitchen kit must-haves (and, crucially, what isn't needed) in theway of equipment and magical standby ingredients. But above all, shereminds the reader how much pleasure there is to be had in real foodand in reclaiming the traditional rhythms of the kitchen, as she cooksto the beat of the heart of the home, creating simple, delicious recipesto make life less complicated. The expansive, lively narrative, withits rich feast of food, makes this new work a natural 21st-centurysuccessor to Nigella's classic How To Eat, this time with a wealthof photographs from the instructive to the glorious, and accompaniedby a BBC TV series. 190 recipes, including over 60 express-style at30 minutes or under.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Nigella Lawson is the author of bestselling books- How to Eat ('may just be the best cookery book ever' Daily Telegraph),How to be a Domestic Goddess (British Book Awards 2001), Nigella Bites(WHSmith Award 2002) Forever Summer ('images of warmth and Mediterraneanclimes' Time Out), Feast, ('a voluptuous and delicious piece of foodwriting' Guardian), Nigella Express (no. 1 bestseller with over 1million sales), Nigella Christmas ('everything to make your Christmassparkle' Independent) and Nigellissima - which, together with her successfulTV series and her recent iPhone App, Nigella Quick Collection, havemade hers a household name around the world. She lives in London withher family.