Home Cooked

Home Cooked
Donal Skehan

Bestselling TV cook Donal Skehan is back with 100 delicious new recipes for relaxed home cooking, which anyone can enjoy!In this stunning new book to accompany the 12-part primetime TV series, award-winning food writer Donal Skehan shows how easy and satisfying it is to serve great food every day.Donal’s infectious enthusiasm for cooking encourages everyone to get in the kitchen. Whether you’re time-pressed mum or dad, a culinary novice or a student looking to feed friends tasty no-fuss meals, Donal’s irresistible recipes will get you cooking up a storm.Homecooked includes new takes on well-loved family classics, such as Stuffed Pork with Apple and Ginger Sauce, One-pot Whole Chicken and Failsafe Bread 101, plus original and inspiring new ideas like Blackened Salmon with Green Goddess Avocado Salad, Blue Cheese Beef Sliders and Mikado Coconut Cream Cake.Nothing beats a good home-cooked meal – and Donal’s highly photographic and stylish new book is a must-have for anyone who agrees.CHAPTER BREAKDOWN– Everyday Dinners– Fast and Healthy– Comfort Food– Food for Friends– Big Sunday Lunch– Weekend Brunch– Desserts and Sweet Treats– Home Baking

CONTENTS

Title Page (#litres_trial_promo)

Introduction (#ulink_46de1317-2304-540c-a89f-3fca3fb28767)

List of Recipes

EVERYDAY DINNER

FAST AND HEALTHY

PROPER COMFORT FOOD

FOOD TO SHARE

BIG SUNDAY LUNCH

WEEKEND BRUNCH

DESSERTS AND SWEET TREATS

BAKING DAYS

Acknowledgments

Copyright

About the Publisher

INTRODUCTION (#ulink_7b6909e1-7e9b-55ce-b120-cd3d23146ce5)

There is nothing I love more than a good home-cooked meal. For me, the atmosphere and sentiment goes beyond anything you could have eating out and the idea of sharing food with family and friends is what home cooking is all about.

This book is a collection of 100 tasty and achievable recipes, which I hope are going to encourage people to get into the kitchen and get cooking. The recipes I love to write are ones that I just know will be used time and time again, and in this book I’ve combined family favourites with new and exciting recipes, which I’m so excited to add to my collection.

Inspiration for the recipes I write come mainly from my travels in Ireland and abroad. I always carry a notebook with me to write down any new and exciting ingredients I might come across or memorable meals that I just have to share. Recipes like Crusty Croque Madam from my summers in Paris and my Griddled Beef & Mint Salad from a recent trip to Vietnam are great weekday meals and they are both exciting and easy to prepare.

Every good home cook knows there are many different types of meals that have to fit into busy lifestyles and so the recipes in this book are broken up into chapters based around the different types of meals that I like to cook throughout the year.

From everyday dinners like Maple Pork Chops with Griddled Baby Gem Lettuce or Chilli & Lemongrass Chicken for snappy weekday meals, to food to share with friends like my Jerk Chicken with Mango Salsa and Mexican Fish Tacos and, of course, big dinners like Roast Beef with Salsa Verde and Sticky Pork with Crackling & an Apple & Ginger Sauce for those family Sunday lunches with all the trimmings. Cooking at home is a great way to stay healthy with the right sort of dishes and in my fast and healthy chapter, I’ve put together some of my favourite healthy dishes, which certainly aren’t lacking on the flavour front. Lime & Coconut Chicken, Blackened Salmon with Green Goddess Avocado Salad and Butterflied Rosemary Chicken with Romesco Sauce certainly won’t leave you hungry.

For colder darker days there is a whole chapter on comfort food that is filled with the type of recipes that will bring some warmth when you need it most. Braised Shoulder of Lamb, Three-cheese Lasagne, Howth Head Seafood Chowder and Boeuf Bourginon tick all the boxes.

Weekends are covered, too, and there are lots of recipe ideas for lazy Saturday and Sunday mornings when breakfast becomes brunch. Caramelised Banana Pancakes, Eggs Benedict and Brioche French Toast with Berries & Chocolate – what a way to wake up!

When I was growing up, my favourite recipes to make were sweet, so I couldn’t write a book without satisfying my sweet tooth and I’ve included two delectably delicious chapters full of desserts, sweet treats and baking recipes. Classics like the my Profiterole Mountain dripping with chocolate sauce and a super sweet Lemon Meringue Pie oozing with lemon curd sit quite happily beside my childhood favourites, which I’ve given a bit of a makeover to, like my Mikado Coconut Cream Cake and Salted Caramel Biscuits.

I hope that this book provides you with lots of inspiration for cooking at home and that you will be reaching for it again and again, splattered, dog-eared and full of wonderful food memories.

Happy Cooking!

LIST OF RECIPES (#u47e44389-1f1f-5185-85f8-8ff997bb740a)

Asian Shiitake Mushroom & Chicken Steam-Baked Bags (#litres_trial_promo)

Baked Risotto all’Arrabiata (#litres_trial_promo)

Banoffee Cake (#litres_trial_promo)

Barbecued Butterflied Lamb with Yoghurt & Mint (#litres_trial_promo)

Basic Bread Recipe (#litres_trial_promo)

Beef Carpaccio with Beetroot & Fennel (#litres_trial_promo)

Beer Batter Fish with Pea Mash & Rosti Potato Cakes (#litres_trial_promo)

Blackened Salmon with Green Goddess Avocado Salad (#litres_trial_promo)

Blue Cheese Beef Sliders (#litres_trial_promo)

Boeuf Bourginon (#litres_trial_promo)

Braised Crispy Chicken Thighs with Spring Onions, Baby Gem & Peas (#litres_trial_promo)

Brioche French Toast with Berries & Nutella (#litres_trial_promo)

Bubble Bread Cinnamon Muffins (#litres_trial_promo)

Bun Cha: Barbecued Pork Skewers with Herbs & Rice Vermicelli (#litres_trial_promo)

Butterflied Rosemary Chicken with Romesco Sauce & Simple Steamed Greens (#litres_trial_promo)

Buttermilk Fried Chicken with Sweet Potato Fries (#litres_trial_promo)

Caramelised Banana Pancakes (#litres_trial_promo)

Chilli & Lemongrass Chicken (#litres_trial_promo)

Chilli & Tomato Crab Pasta (#litres_trial_promo)

Chocolate & Hazelnut Semifreddo (#litres_trial_promo)

Chocolate Pistachio Espresso Biscotti (#litres_trial_promo)