Dan Doherty, the author of Duck & Recipes and Stories is back with the recipes he cooks at home for family and friends - informal, easy and as indulgent as ever. With ideas based around eggs, hash, pancakes, toast, simple savory dishes and sweet bakes, this is food inspired by the best a breakfast or brunch menu can offer - but to eat all day. Recipes include Ricotta, Pear & Honey on Toast, Smoked Salmon, Horseradish & Sour Cream Hash, Mexican Eggs and a whole chapter devoted to food to defeat a hangover, including the Ultimate Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
Great title, great cover, great photos ...............but scratch below the surface and I'm really not sure about this cookbook at all. Call me old fashioned but I still think a recipe book really is all about the recipes and I try not to get side-tracked by anything else. A review called this a 'hipster cook book' whatever that might mean, but I guess that description confirms I'm no hipster! Maybe the whole chapter devoted to 'Hangover Recipes' is supposed to be trendy or maybe even amusing but I actually found it rather sad. I've personally never seen such a subject given its own chapter in a cookbook before and I hope I never do again.
I was hard pressed to find a recipe in this book that tempted me enough to take action and try making it, which I find sad. Overall, it seems like an eclectic assortment with quite a number of recipes featuring eggs.
This book features some of the most original recipes I've seen in cookbooks. And I read a lot of cookbooks. The recipes are tempting and the photos are beautiful.
Another lovely looking recipe book. The sign of a good one is if reading through gives you a list of ingredients to buy and a series of recipes to try asap. Toast, Hash etc certainlyan aged to pull this off. I think this may be one of my go to books from now on.