Kitchenella: The secrets of women: heroic, simple, nurturing cookery - for everyone

Kitchenella: The secrets of women: heroic, simple, nurturing cookery - for everyone
Rose Prince

A passionate, personal account of the battle to feed and nourish family and friends.The continuing story of the rise and fall of good food finds us at the end of a decade of exceptional growth and opportunity, yet once again in crisis. Our food culture has taken a turn for the worse. Recession has slowed the good food revolution as shoppers cut back on quality ingredients and head for the budget lines.Education about food is limited to the voices of TV chefs, mostly men, whose testosterone driven pursuits include hunter gathering, butchery, deep sea fishing and cooking inimitably difficult recipes. Their programmes do nothing to solve the everyday predicament of real people: putting economical, common sense food on the table. Even when a woman gets her small piece of TV airtime, she is either the love interest that licks her chocolaty fingers to camera, or she is a former author of kitchen bibles advising viewers to cobble together meals using unhealthy and expensive processed ingredients. Progress is slowing down, thanks to food television.We believe in food icons, from Delia to Jamie, but their philosophies are no longer convincing, because they cannot possibly understand the predicament of the average family, living through recession and trying to do it right in the kitchen.Where are the cooks with wit, who work out the budget and plan an easy dish that efficiently feeds family and friends? In A Taste of Real Life Rose Prince calls for a return to a system of cooking that is nourishing and energy efficient. Food addressed to real people in real life situations.Full of logical, economical and imaginative recipes that solve the modern cook's dilemma, A Taste of Real Life will teach you the skills of those teachers who work without books, the 'mothers' and the cooks who subsequently learned from them, to decisively show you the easy way to cook and shop.

Kitchenella

THE SECRETS OF WOMEN:

HEROIC, SIMPLE, NURTURING COOKERY – FOR EVERYONE

ROSE PRINCE

Photographs by LAURA HYND

For my children

Contents

Cover (#uaefb4314-d62e-5fcf-9202-cb477baa27f1)

Title Page (#u47155aa8-7cb0-52bc-b287-e5d52a4103d0)

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Introduction

Quick, Cheap and Filling

Things that Please Children

Fast, Good-For-You Lunches and Suppers

A Slow-Cooked Pot

A Pot to Bake in the Oven

A Plate of Something Special

A Clever Rehash

Halfway to a Meal

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

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PLATE 1 (#ulink_1e1d445b-45a1-5ca6-9fce-398d0defd7e7): White bean well-dressed soup

PLATE 2 (#ulink_5a4b872c-fc3b-5824-bf8e-4b82a82a48cf): Summer vegetable broth

PLATE 3 (#ulink_b778ffa4-5b64-5d74-859c-fd3f1e08ea8d): Chickpea and tomato ten-minute soup; Notepaper bread (#litres_trial_promo)

PLATE 4 (#ulink_82dbc890-62fd-53ed-bc5f-a4a677ecd639): Spiced butter and yellow split peas; Instant soft flatbreads (#litres_trial_promo)

PLATE 5 (#ulink_bc383b77-b198-51d3-936d-efb489955cfa): Macaroni cheese with sweet cooked tomato (#litres_trial_promo)

PLATE 6 (#ulink_a34b880a-cf5e-50d1-927b-71d0e8f1aef5): Braised chicken rice, steamed with allspice

PLATE 7 (#litres_trial_promo): Apple tart — quick

PLATE 8 (#litres_trial_promo): Birthday cake

PLATE 9 (#litres_trial_promo): Warm tomatoes, oregano and feta cheese with fridge dough (#litres_trial_promo) breads

PLATE 10 (#litres_trial_promo): Top rump steak with tender herbs and warm olive oil sauce; Potato, garlic and cream gratin (#litres_trial_promo)

PLATE 11 (#litres_trial_promo): Léa’s leaves and fried bread, with a smoked-herring dressing; Jacqueline’s tomato and olive oil (#litres_trial_promo)

PLATE 12 (#litres_trial_promo): Crisp smoked bacon, polenta cubes, bittersweet chicory

PLATE 13 (#litres_trial_promo): Pan-fried plaice with lettuce hearts and lemon

PLATE 14 (#litres_trial_promo): Monkfish and bacon cakes; Caper and tarragon mayonnaise (#litres_trial_promo)

PLATE 15 (#litres_trial_promo): Eighty degrees beef

PLATE 16 (#litres_trial_promo): Oxtail stew

PLATE 17 (#litres_trial_promo): Young lamb shoulder, shrugged off the bone

PLATE 18 (#litres_trial_promo): Pot-cooked spring chicken with young veg

PLATE 19 (#litres_trial_promo): Argiano pork with herbs and garlic

PLATE 20 (#litres_trial_promo): Mother’s aubergines

PLATE 21 (#litres_trial_promo): Picnic pie

PLATE 22 (#litres_trial_promo): Banana and almond cake

PLATE 23 (#litres_trial_promo): Crepe-wrapped asparagus with grated cheese