My Kitchen Table: 100 Recipes for Entertaining (My Kitchen, 18)
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100 essential recipes for entertaining from the legendary Raymond Blanc. This recipe collection – containing 100 full-colour photographs – is not only incredible value for money but the perfect tool to make entertaining simple – and enjoyable. Give your dinner parties that WOW factor!
‘A classy production’ – Sunday Telegraph Magazine
‘Terrific recipes – very simple – with Raymond’s touch’ — ***** Reader review
‘What a gem’ — ***** Reader review
‘Absolutely brilliant book – so inspiring – makes you want to try all the recipes’ — ***** Reader review
‘Superb!!!’ — ***** Reader review
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Raymond Blanc is renowned for his exquisite cuisine and here he has chosen 100 sensational, but easily achievable recipes that will wow your guests and impress your friends.
From a simple, but classic French Onion Soup or Coq au Vin to the finest Roast Rib of Beef or Pork Fillet with Onion and Garlic Puree and not forgetting desserts – a perfect Black Cherry Tart or Strawberry Sorbet, and catering for vegetarian and meat-based diets, the recipes are both simple and elaborate and sure to become household stalwarts and family favourites.
This easy to follow cookbook will ensure that you have a recipe for every occasion and for every taste. It is sure to become the first book you turn to when you need a meal to impress, whether for a weekend banquet or weeknight feast. Guaranteed to get your mouth watering and you itching to get in the kitchen! ???????
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Additional information
| Publisher | BBC Books, Illustrated edition (5 Jan. 2012) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 208 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1849904359 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1849904353 |
| Dimensions | 13.97 x 1.52 x 19.05 cm |
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Excellent product and excellent service, thank you.
by peterD
A chef at the top.
I revere him, but as the recipes are represented there are some better.
In saying that I feel i have just sat on my daughter’s pet rabbit!
I refer to it frequently and it is on the most used section of my bookcase, next to Escoffier – so the boy’s done good!
by S. Lumley
I love French cuisine and own a stack of recipe books. But what I liked about this little book was that it provided a good cross section of recipes across all occasions and the recipes were very well written for the most novice / unconfident cook. It really is hard to make a mistake! Some cooks may find them too basic. I found a good selection of recipes here to cook over the weekend or when having friends round for a hearty but informal supper. When you have these recipes under your belt it will be far easier to then move on to some of Raymond’s more complex recipes found in his other books as well as other more gourmet French dishes. Enjoy.
by Fluff in the belly button
Having watched M. Blanc cooking simple, and not so simple, recipes on TV, I thought this book might be interesting.
When I looked through it, it was.
Plenty of simple, effective, and not over extravagant recipes.
Well worth the purchase.
My Kitchen Table: 100 Recipes for Entertaining
by Eleanor L. Schreiner
This chef is such a likeable and skilled presentor, and this is a quite central and varied set of his recipes. The book has also been recommended as being one of his more comprehensive publications as opposed to other “spinoffs” of this one.
It is a shame that the format of the book is small, cheaply bound so that if one tries to access the recipes and chooses one in the center and bends the book at all to try and utilize it, pages even come out very easily! Very cheaply produced, with inadequate binding. If there is an earlier edition that is better produced, would recommend that instead. Might take some research.
His book deserves better “ingredients!” (quality of binding and pages). The glossy paper also rather detracts from the idea of classic French recipes. Needs a more “classy” presentation in general.
by Joze Urnabncic
Great book. I recommend.
by maggie
All the “My Kitchen Table” recipe books are worth their money – they’re all easy to follow, step by step recipes, one on each page, with a full colour photo of the finished dish, but I was a little wary of “Recipes for Entertaining” by Raymond Blanc at first, because I envisaged elaborate recipes involving a lot of expertise, expensive ingredients and loads of kitchen paraphernalia.
I have too many ghastly memories of ‘entertaining’ with curdled sauces, main course slowly cremating while the starter was nowhere near ready. The guests may have found this vastly entertaining. I didn’t. I used to become mortified. Like the dinner.
But happily, I was wrong about this book on all counts. Most of these recipes are simplicity itself, with the same modus operandi of all the “My Kitchen Table” books. Many of these dishes can be made in advance and ‘finished off’ before serving without much fuss – this applies to all the sections in this book which comprises a comprehensive list of Starters, Mains and Puds.
Quite a few are ‘one pot’ dishes done in the oven. French inspired, rustic. Proper food, just how it should be.
Raymond shows you how.
This book lives on my windowsill now, along with Mary Berry who’s taught me how bake cakes, and Daniel Stevens (River Cottage Handbook No 3) who’s shown me how to bake really good bread.
The title says “Recipes for Entertaining” but the dishes in this recipe book are just as good for family meals as they are delicious for when you do have people come round to share your food.
Raymond Blanc is one of my heroes for giving up 100 of his recipes in this paperback format book, and for getting me away from that mindset that ‘entertaining’ was hell.
‘Sharing food’ that you’ve cooked doesn’t have to be like the final of Masterchef.
by TRUTHBKNOWN
An affordable little book. Packed with a world renowned, fantastic chef’s recipes.
Nice gift to give or receive.