Tana Ramsay’s Real Family Food: Delicious Recipes for Everyday Occasions
Everyone in the family will love Tana Ramsay's simple and delicious recipes. The secret, says the author of the bestselling Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen, is easy recipes and basic ingredients. Whatever the occasion –school-night suppers, family entertaining, picnic treats or weekend baking– Tana has a fool-proof solution that will work every time.As a busy mother-of-four and the glamorous wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, Tana knows the challenges of pleasing everybody around the kitchen table – especially if you want your family to eat real, healthy food. With the help of her trademark easy-to-follow and mouth-watering recipes, Tana shows how to transform mealtimes with minimum fuss, and make real food something that doesn’t mean spending hours in the kitchen.Lavishly illustrated with over 100 recipes for every family occasion, including:• School-rush Breakfasts, Grab and Go Lunches and Food in a Flash• Easy Entertaining, Try Something Different and Vegetable Temptations• Picnics and Treats, Baking Sensations and Devilish Desserts
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Tana Ramsay’s Real Family Food
Delicious Recipes for Everyday Occasions
For Gordon. Thank you for being you.
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porridge with almond-roasted peaches
avocado, bacon and roasted tomato sandwich
cinnamon eggy bread soldiers with yoghurt, raisins and honey
smoked salmon, cream cheese and scrambled egg bagels
chilled cucumber and mint gazpacho
chicken skewers with sweet and sour sauce
mackerel salad with beetroot and horseradish dressing
warm potato, chorizo and parsley salad
red rice salad with prawns and sun-dried tomatoes
honey and mustard sticky chicken
broad bean, pancetta and goats’ cheese salad
chicken escalopes with green pepper salad
pasta with mushrooms and bacon
salmon and vegetables en papillote
nectarines marinated in honey and ginger
tuna steaks with roasted little gem lettuces, new potatoes and tomatoes
toad-in-the-hole with roasted shallots
lamb cutlets and minted potato salad
black bean chilli with chunky guacamole and soured cream
roasted butternut squash spaghetti lasagne
roasted cauliflower and broccoli with fennel seeds
red cabbage with balsamic vinegar
carrots with star anise and orange zest
pan-fried courgettes with garlic and parmesan
steamed sugar snap peas with soy sauce
roasted butternut squash with red peppers and black olives
marinated topside with jerusalem artichoke and potato mash
mini trout fillets with cucumber dressing
summer gammon with roasted pineapple and red onion and coriander salsa
slow-cooked moroccan leg of lamb with lemon couscous
roast pork with fennel stuffing and simple apple sauce
This book includes reference to nuts and recipes including nuts, nut derivatives and nut oils. Avoid if you have a known allergic reaction. Pregnant and nursing mothers, invalids, the elderly, children and babies may be potentially vulnerable to nut allergies and should therefore avoid nuts, nut derivatives and nut oils.
This year we celebrated Megan’s ninth birthday and, like many parents, Gordon and I couldn’t help wondering how so much time could feel like so little. Even our youngest, Tilly, is five now and she’s meant to be the baby of the family!
With the children getting older, I’ve noticed that what I cook for them has become more grown up too. Although I still add very little salt to my cooking and hold back on hot spices, what I cook the children for tea will nearly always work later as dinner for Gordon and me. This is why I’ve tried to make the recipes in Real Family Food as tempting for adults as they are for children. It also has the added bonus of only having to think about one dinner in the evenings, not two (I call it convenience, not laziness!).
When you think about it, ultimately we only need to eat to refuel and keep ourselves going throughout the day. Even so, I believe that food can play another, almost more important, part in our lives. It can bring us together, slow us down and let us catch up with each other as we rush through the week. Some of the happiest moments of my life have been around the table sharing good food, and the times I treasure most with my family are when we are all together doing just that. This must be why I associate certain foods and dishes with different people and places. For example, blueberry muffins always make me think of my sister as she’s so addicted to them, calamari bring back memories of baking hot holidays in the south of France, and the smell of Moroccan lamb cooking takes me right back to Sunday mornings in the kitchen with my mum. It’s memories like these that make me smile. It’s a bit like a song making you think of someone. I’m willing to bet that different foods conjure up different memories for you too.
