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The Kitchen Revolution: A Year of Time-and-Money-Saving Recipes
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 storecupboard ingredients, e.g. Beef and mushroom stroganoff
- 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.
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 storecupboard ingredients, e.g. Beef and mushroom stroganoff
- 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.
304 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2008
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October 3, 2015
The majority of cookbooks produced nowadays and in the last ten years infuriate me because with spaced-out large print on thick paper, whole pages of photography, and (sometimes) less than easily obtainable ingredients, they simply do not justify the shelf space they seek to occupy. Such books are designed for dieters who, for show, want to buy a named-author calorie-free picture book.
My first impressions of “The Kitchen Revolution” were extremely good. This is a remarkably well thought out and practical book, which addresses the whole planning process from inspiration through to the eating. The recipes are imaginative, inspiring. The clear, succinct and precise directions are not difficult to follow, whether cooking for two, four, or six (if you have a family of five, cook for six and put the sixth portion in the freezer).
Week by week, from January to December the imaginative, yet uncomplicated, recipes read very well indeed. Leftovers are used up, not wasted. Shopping lists can be downloaded from http://thekitchenrevolution.co.uk/
The choice to use seasonal produce is nicely balanced by other recipes for those days when events conspire, planning goes awry; and there’s no time to shop, or unexpected guests arrive, so ingredients have to be taken from the larder.
Fundamentally, the key is to make a weekly shopping list based on a weekly menu. Sounds obvious? This really does get easier with practice, saves money, shopping time (whether in store or online), and unethical waste. Overall, because the system of suggested dishes for the week is so very well laid out and explained; it takes only a little tailoring to include some of one’s own existing favourite recipes and food-likes. That’s the key to any successful system; and prevents any awful feeling of tyrannical hopelessness!
There is no superfluous ‘arty’ photography here Indeed there is no space-wasting pictorial illustration whatsoever. Instead it is the clear layout, shopping list, and really well-explained practical (and nice) recipes which direct, assist, explain, encourage, reassure, and do all the talking (including hints, tips, and additional ideas) required. This is clearly a book for the determined cook who wants to feed their family and friends really well, without either getting into a rut or blowing the budget. Commendable indeed! See (for example) http://thekitchenrevolution.co.uk/vie...
The only thing that I REALLY don’t understand is why this book was first published as long ago as 2008, yet it has taken me until 2014 to discover it!
My first impressions of “The Kitchen Revolution” were extremely good. This is a remarkably well thought out and practical book, which addresses the whole planning process from inspiration through to the eating. The recipes are imaginative, inspiring. The clear, succinct and precise directions are not difficult to follow, whether cooking for two, four, or six (if you have a family of five, cook for six and put the sixth portion in the freezer).
Week by week, from January to December the imaginative, yet uncomplicated, recipes read very well indeed. Leftovers are used up, not wasted. Shopping lists can be downloaded from http://thekitchenrevolution.co.uk/
The choice to use seasonal produce is nicely balanced by other recipes for those days when events conspire, planning goes awry; and there’s no time to shop, or unexpected guests arrive, so ingredients have to be taken from the larder.
Fundamentally, the key is to make a weekly shopping list based on a weekly menu. Sounds obvious? This really does get easier with practice, saves money, shopping time (whether in store or online), and unethical waste. Overall, because the system of suggested dishes for the week is so very well laid out and explained; it takes only a little tailoring to include some of one’s own existing favourite recipes and food-likes. That’s the key to any successful system; and prevents any awful feeling of tyrannical hopelessness!
There is no superfluous ‘arty’ photography here Indeed there is no space-wasting pictorial illustration whatsoever. Instead it is the clear layout, shopping list, and really well-explained practical (and nice) recipes which direct, assist, explain, encourage, reassure, and do all the talking (including hints, tips, and additional ideas) required. This is clearly a book for the determined cook who wants to feed their family and friends really well, without either getting into a rut or blowing the budget. Commendable indeed! See (for example) http://thekitchenrevolution.co.uk/vie...
The only thing that I REALLY don’t understand is why this book was first published as long ago as 2008, yet it has taken me until 2014 to discover it!
January 3, 2014
This is my all-time favourite cookbook. It has been covered in Kraft paper and lives on a stand in my kitchen permanently. It provides us with interesting and tasty meals every single day, and the system of using yesterday's leftovers as an ingredient in today's dish works really well. Some of the recipes have become real favourites and they are usually adaptable if I can't get exactly the right ingredients in France. Fantastic!
December 2, 2014
I am going to work my way through this whole year: it's my new year's resolution haha.
That was the beginning of 2014. And now it is almost the end of the year, and I have explored this very interesting cookbook at various times throughout the year.
Kitchen Revolution teaches you another way to buy your ingredients, prepare your food (1xweek a rather long, 1.5-2.5 hours of cooking so reserve this time, you will need it), and combine different flavors into great dishes. I was amazed by some of the new tricks I learned (using phillo sheets, delicious chicken recipe) and interesting desserts. You can tell there are three cooks at work, and the one favors one flavor or direction of cooking (i.e. Italian or French) and the other more Indian/Indonesian flavors in her dishes. The crosspollonation of ideas added an extra dimension to this cookbook.
The one side note I have are that the ladies use rather expensive ingredients, at least for the Netherlands (lamb) and USA (vanilla bean is expensive for some reason, and not in Europe).
But do try this one, Kitchen Revolution gives you a great way of working efficiently and, more importantly, deliciously with all types of vegetables and food.
That was the beginning of 2014. And now it is almost the end of the year, and I have explored this very interesting cookbook at various times throughout the year.
Kitchen Revolution teaches you another way to buy your ingredients, prepare your food (1xweek a rather long, 1.5-2.5 hours of cooking so reserve this time, you will need it), and combine different flavors into great dishes. I was amazed by some of the new tricks I learned (using phillo sheets, delicious chicken recipe) and interesting desserts. You can tell there are three cooks at work, and the one favors one flavor or direction of cooking (i.e. Italian or French) and the other more Indian/Indonesian flavors in her dishes. The crosspollonation of ideas added an extra dimension to this cookbook.
The one side note I have are that the ladies use rather expensive ingredients, at least for the Netherlands (lamb) and USA (vanilla bean is expensive for some reason, and not in Europe).
But do try this one, Kitchen Revolution gives you a great way of working efficiently and, more importantly, deliciously with all types of vegetables and food.
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