Publisher's Synopsis
Janelle Bloom knows the great pleasure to be received from sharing a beautiful home-cooked meal with family and friends. What can be better than exclamations of delight when you serve up the food you have cooked, apart from maybe the requests for further helpings, the cleared plates, and the satisfied sighs? This collection presents 100 irresistible recipes that will wow everyone who eats them. Janelle has a special knack of creating appealing and do-able recipes that are simply the most delicious you have ever tried. You will be surprised at how easy and straightforward cooking can be; and when it's time to eat, be ready for huge praise for very little effort. This book includes classic recipes for all methods of cooking. Recipes for in the oven include sausage rolls, vegetable lasagne, and slow roast shoulder of lamb with lemon and olives. In the frying pan you can make Peking duck pancakes, pan-seared salmon with green papaya salad, or crumbed cutlets with cheat's chips. On the barbecue is the perfect place for to cook barbecue sticky glazed pork, old-fashioned hamburger, or prawn cocktail with barbecued garlic bread. Marinated chicken Christmas salad, gnocchi with chorizo tomato sauce, and three-cheese macaroni cheese can all be prepared on the steve top. In the wok you can make stir-fry ginger sesame vegetables, penang curry with coconut rice, or tofu laksa. And lastly, in the mixing bowlrocky road ice-cream, eclairs, mini-hazelnut mud cakes, and vanilla slice. Janelle also provides knockout ideas for Christmas lunch and dinner, an easy dinner party, and a barbecue party, and she passes on plenty of handy tips, hints, and secrets picked up from years of cooking. She famously triple-tests everything so cooks can be completely confident in the results.
