SIMPLE: effortless food, big flavours

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Es gibt bei der Zubereitungsbeschreibung Sätze wie „weitere 30 Minuten im Offen lassen, oder bis es gar ist“. These recipes are inspirational but don’t require out of the ordinary ingredients and they’re not difficult to prepare. Für Anfänger scheint mir das Buch nicht geeignet, dabei erwecken die Texte zur Warenkunde, Rezepthinweise und Vorwort den Eindruck, dass gerade diese Zielgruppe mit diesem Kochbuch angepeilt wurde. Effortless Food" it says on the cover, and Ms Henry starts by telling us about life with a new baby, when she just longed to find recipes for things she could just "bung in the oven".

In this version, you bread the chicken thighs and cover them in parmesan, but then bake– rather than fry and bake– them. A very useful book indeed, which will bear a lot of ' dipping into ' for ideas to cheer up the jaded palate .You can tell that they have been worked, and reworked until the flavours and textures are just right. Diana’s last book, How to Eat a Peach, won the André Simon Food Book of the Year for 2018, while A Bird in the Hand won a James Beard Award in 2016. Diana has written 11 other books, including: C razy Water Pickled Lemons, C ook Simple, F ood from Plenty, S alt Sugar Smoke, A Change of Appetite, A Bird in the Hand, S imple and How to Eat a Peach. I was lucky enough to get my hands on this when it was at page-proof stage, and the fact that there is a quote from me on the cover gives ample evidence of my enthusiasm for it.

Diana Henry wanted me to add whiskey to it, but given just the smell of whiskey makes me nauseous, I decided to add amaretto instead. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. We followed the alternative directions and used gruyere instead of parmesan, but that made it seem all the more like cauliflower cheese, another winning dish. Generous use of white space, elegant typography and restrained photography all combine to suggest a polished, calming book.She is the author of twelve books including: Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons; Plenty; Salt, Sugar, Smoke; A Change of Appetite; A Bird in the Hand; Simple and How to Eat a Peach. Simple“ bezieht sich wohl auf die Zubereitung, aber nicht auf die Beschaffung der Zutaten und nicht auf paar andere Punkte, s. Peppered throughout the book are ingenious ideas such as no-hassle starters and sauces that will lift any dish. The writing is SO British, like it might be the most British thing I’ve ever read, and that’s fantastic.