The Kitchen Revolution: A Year of Time-and-money-saving Recipes

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Editorial reviews

Press Association
'This is the book that Delia should have written... the recipes leap off the page - it's inspiring, imaginative food'

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Book Description
The unique lifesaver cookbook that saves time, money and effort on cooking, day in, day out

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Synopsis
Tired of deciding what to cook? Want to maximise your meals, with minimum time in the kitchen? Recent surveys have shown that around a third of the food produced in the UK for human consumption ends up in the bin. This means that every adult is wasting hundreds of pounds-worth of food a year! So the time is right for a kitchen revolution. This is the life-saving cookbook you've been waiting for - home cooking using fresh, seasonal produce, with weekly planners, recipes and shopping lists that will enable you to maximise the weekly shop for you and the family. It's the 'back to basics' approach, minimising waste through thoughtful shopping and a little preparation.Each week, you'll have the opportunity to cook: Big Meal from Scratch - a delicious, filling meal for the whole family, e.g. poached chicken with elderflower and new potatoes; Something for Nothing - two easy meals that use leftovers in a tasty and inspiring way, e.g. new potato, asparagus and egg salad; Seasonal Supper - a quick, simple supper made from seasonal ingredients, e.g. spiced grilled lamb chops with radish and orange salad; Larder Feast - for when the fridge is bare, a whole meal just from store cupboard ingredients, e.

g. beef and mushroom stroganoff; and 2 for 1 - a comforting meal that freezes well so that you can eat half immediately, and store half in the freezer, e.g. oriental pork and spring onion dumplings.Using this fantastic system, Rosie Sykes, Polly Russell and Zoe Heron have come up a recipe for every single day of the year. With foolproof recipes for every kind of occasion, they'll guarantee that you're making the most of your cooker, fridge, freezer and store-cupboard to create healthy and economical meals.

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About the Author
Rosie Sykes has cooked in the kitchens of some of the UK's most celebrated chefs and ran her own gastropub. She also wrote for the Guardian's Weekend magazine as the Kitchen Doctor.
Polly Russell has cooked in restaurants around the world, worked as a product developer for Marks & Spencer and is continuing her PhD research on food and the politics of identity.
Zoe Heron is a senior director and producer for the BBC. Zoe has tested and helped to develop the recipes for The Kitchen Revolution, which has changed her culinary life.

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-08-03 rating:
Great idea but not if you're on a tight budget
I love the premise of this book with its weekly menu of linked-recipes. I did two weeks of July and the food (with the exception of the odd recipe) was excellent. But I had to give it up because I couldn't afford it on a weekly food budget of £60 a week (for three adults and a baby). I also shop locally every day rather than doing a weekly supermarket shop so having a vast array of ingredients just proved a bit too back-breaking for me. I'll be back if a budget version is published with more one-pot recipes.

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review by: date: 2008-07-31 rating:
This book rocked my kitchen
I am not a confident cook, but I committed to two consecutive weeks from this book and loved every minute of it. It was such a relief to not have to think up and shop for a new recipe every day. The authors of this book have done all the hard work, leaving you to enjoy the cooking. It fits in really well with working life, especially if the big meal (day 1) is started on a Sunday. My kitchen, freezer, and belly have never been so full or satisfied! Really much more than a cookbook... Excellent! Seasonal, sensible, but delicious food.

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review by: date: 2008-07-24 rating:
Real ugly duckling of a book
Had I have looked at this book in a store beforehand, I would not have bought it. The design is very uninspiring. And I'm not sure what budget they were working on, but to buy the ingredients each week, I would be spending more than I do now on food. Quite a few of the recipes really didn't appeal, such as using leftover white fish in a salad the next day..yuk!!

Also, if you get a weekly veg/meatbox you may find you don't have the ingredients required.

May suite others, but not for me

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review by: cath21570 date: 2008-07-15 rating:
RECIPES FREE ON THE WEBSITE!!
I received this book yesterday and it has a lot of great sounding recipes. I do agree with an earlier review that a lot of the ingredients are hardly cheap to buy. In fairness however I have'nt cooked anything from the book yet. I was gutted however to learn that there was no need to buy the book as all of the recipes are free on the website accompanying the book.


review by: date: 2008-07-15 rating:
ABSOLUTE RUBBISH
Unless you have very adventurous children who would enjoy meals such as 'Oatmeal Herrings with Warm Beetroot Salad' or 'Purple Sprouting Broccoli with Chilli and Anchovy Sauce and Pasta' this is not the book you want. I also fail to see how it saves money when the ingrediants for a lot of the meals are not cheap when trying to feed a family - guinea fowl, duck and crab for example. VERY DISAPPOINTING!

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