The Weekend Cook: Good Food for Real Life

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Angela knows the secrets to throwing the most relaxed and enjoyable dinners for friends and family sometimes mad, but always magical evenings that people talk about for months afterwards and in this book she's going to share them. Recipes include:

Angela knows the secrets to throwing the most relaxed and enjoyable dinners for friends and family - sometimes mad, but always magical evenings that people talk about for months afterwards - and in this book she's going to share them. Recipes include: Add a little bit more butter. I don’t like to turn it- I’d rather use a spoon and tilt the pan, and just coat it. Then I like to put a little bit of sage in there with my eggs as well. So you’ve got fried eggs with sage which are absolutely delicious.” This is a lovely cookbook by Angela Hartnett, who is apparently a British celebrity chef. Normally I find most celebrity chef cookbooks to be bland but I am happy to report that this is not the case with this book. I took it home, read it cover to cover on a dark and rainy London evening, and ended up having a little love-at-first-read moment. This was a weekend cooking philosophy I could get behind: “You want simple, easy, fabulous food that doesn’t mean you will be in the kitchen all the time.” The latest from Hartnett has been inspired by her and her husband Neil’s famous gatherings from their home and offers a relaxed guide to hosting anything from small dinners to raucous street parties.

Angela Hartnett joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky this morning to talk all about her new cookbook, The Weekend Cook, Good Food for Real Life. Angela hopes her new cookbook will help people fall as much in love with cooking at home as she is.

I love it. When people bring stuff we sort of share a bit of the cooking and I do cook a lot at the weekend. So if we've cooked something or there's more of it, we'll always just ring or text a few neighbours, and they come on over. So I think it's really easy. I love it.” Everything one wants in a cookbook. Beautiful, elegant simplicity. Angela's gorgeous The Weekend Cook is a vital addition to any cook's kitchen' Stanley Tucci It is as much a love letter to her neighbours, friends and, especially, her husband as it is a terrific collection of recipes for the non-cheffy food they eat together. You can put as much trust in Hartnett's Scotch egg method as you can in her gnocchi and floating islands * The Spectator *Once you’ve nailed the starter, it’s time to move on to the main event and blow your guests away with an incredible main. Disclaimer: Received this as an advance copy via Netgalley and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (Thank you!!!)