We all love having family and friends round to enjoy a meal, and Allyson Gofton makes it easy for us by sharing over 130 of her favourite recipes for entertaining at home.

With chapters on barbecues, picnics, afternoon teas, mid–winter meals and more, you can prepare a sumptuous feast for loved ones without spending hours at the stove and breaking your budget.

Allyson has also put together a helpful chapter on large gatherings, with useful tips on getting organised, preparing a menu and how much food and drink to allow for each guest.

With beautiful photography by Alan Gillard, Cook will become your treasure trove of favourite recipes – perfect to share on any occasion with those you love.

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Introduction

The wall with its 1970s orange–and–brown wallpaper featuring geometrical designs was also adorned with family pictures and other memorabilia, the kind of stuff that all families have – no matching frames or even–sized pictures, but the stories from each memento were worth being remembered or recalled each day. The tea towel and its welcoming grace has remained with me.

It began with the line God bless my little kitchen, and while we were never church–goers, my parents believed in the custom and tradition of a grace at dinner, especially when we were all eating together instead of scattered over sports fields or working late.

Our kitchen was small, in fact it was tiny by todays standards (and that was after the upgrade)) but from this little alcove–like kitchen came good food – the kind of food we are all aiming to get back to today.

The meals we really savoured required no recipes, and those that did were handwritten in my mothers perfect and beautiful copybook script and kept in an exercise book. Other recipes torn from newspapers and magazines were glued or simply tucked infirmly, always with a view to being used again – well, maybe. No photos required, and if a picture did accompany a recipe it was black and white and the size of a postage stamp.

Good cooking and good family food do not need elaborate kitchens, equipment and ingredients and, whats more, the good old favourites seem never to date. But in recent times the knowledge to cook them with ease and confidence has not been passed on from one generation to the next. With this in mind, in this book I have assembled those very recipes – some with a more modern twist for todays eating styles, along with suggestions to make the recipes kid–friendly, and of course plenty of helpful tips and variations.

Enjoy.

Allyson Gofton

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Allyson Gofton

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ISBN:

9780143202554

Publish Date:

10/2009

Pages:

240

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Penguin

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Paperback

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Approximately 6-10 days
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