Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights

Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights
Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl, one of the most glorious women on the planet, shares delicious secrets from her slinky kitchen, funny stories and favourite recipes in a beautifully illustrated hardback. With delectable recipes for each season, this luscious abundant take on food will delight women everywhere.Sophie Dahl has been both round as a Rubens and as sylphy as a sapling, through trial, error and an episode in India which needn't be discussed in detail with anyone.She lived out the latter part of her adolescence in public, and so her puppy fat, which should have been a tender family joke, became fuel for national debate. At the time this was crippling to her, and one of the reasons she moved to another country. Flirting with every food fad from Atkins to raw food, she has had both misadventures and victories in her quest to have a sound healthy relationship with food.Now in her twenty-ninth year it is suddenly simpler: Sophie cooks and eats, and does both with gusto. It can be lonely and confusing navigating food, particularly with the standards of beauty and weight that are thrust upon us by advertisers. Sophie aims to debunk some of the horrible punishing diet myths, and replace them with compassionate common sense, anecdotal stories and a lashing of healthy recipes. This is a book that doesn't encourage guilt or monastic deprivation, but celebrates the joy in food and eating.Original, funny, quirky with a bit of whimsy, this glorious ebook is full of wonderful anecdotes and delicious recipes and scattered with Sophie’s own lovely Matisse-like line drawings that slope off the page.

Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights

Sophie Dahl

photographs by

Jan Baldwin

Dedication (#ulink_c5877a23-5c2e-5a17-b15e-1142951a908a)

For Jamie, at whose table I wish to grow old. With all my love.

Table of Contents

Title Page (#uc95251ce-cdc5-515b-b30f-0ff227e6fa8b)

Dedication (#u069576e0-7354-5083-9cb7-d0c59d28272a)

Cook’s notes (#ucac80f0f-c6d8-54c6-89b1-70e57e923f14)

Introduction (#u24ade1ed-5663-5768-964f-40ffada88148)

Autumn (#ub7c0db83-3d7e-53bb-9e40-490d7ab2b09f)

Autumn breakfasts (#u606642dd-4f18-51c4-8dd8-2673f1f1acab)

Poached eggs on portobello mushrooms with goat’s cheese (#u767cdc7d-10aa-506f-b32e-e51190da6088)

Rice pudding cereal with pear purée (#u6cb8e0dc-730e-514c-990a-03897271bf34)

Omelette with caramelized red onion and Red Leicester (#u6544d097-9cc8-5b50-9ab9-46575b7fcb5b)

Tawny granola (#uc3bd311a-1d4e-537b-b596-816c5897d003)

Musician’s breakfast (home-made bread with Parma ham) (#u70a72490-d3d8-549b-ab13-d7ba91093ed7)

Indian sweet potato pancakes (#u362270e0-e8f6-5100-a8e2-584deb9c5870)

Baked haddock ramekin (#ubdfc4ffd-1b76-584a-af8c-1cf2726b1354)

Autumn lunches (#ueefa34d3-7015-5998-ac6d-3aadb5d3ae4f)

Spinach and watercress salad with goat’s cheese (#u9ad88af7-0d90-59dd-90f7-2b626eec709b)

French onion soup (#u9f719a2c-ceb0-5ee0-9bec-a98f5b4bf322)

Squid salad with chargrilled peppers and coriander/cilantro dressing (#u3e2cd067-44e3-5d1a-8850-81258e59b1de)

Baked eggs with Swiss chard (#uaebadae3-5215-53f3-acc1-0426262603e4)

Chicken and halloumi kebabs with chanterelles (#u89c618c3-3ee4-5c39-a9d9-5d47795c37f8)

Spinach barley soup (#u5859b7b5-a385-5f7d-894f-b20501a0e2c1)

Buckwheat risotto with wild mushrooms (#litres_trial_promo)

Autumn suppers (#litres_trial_promo)

Peasant soup (#litres_trial_promo)

Sunday roast chicken and trimmings (#litres_trial_promo)

Paris mash (#litres_trial_promo)

Sea bass in tarragon and wild mushroom sauce (#litres_trial_promo)

Lily’s stir fry with tofu (#litres_trial_promo)

Aubergine/eggplant Parmigiana (#litres_trial_promo)

Grilled salmon with baked onions (#litres_trial_promo)

Winter (#litres_trial_promo)

Winter breakfasts (#litres_trial_promo)

Pear and ginger muffins (#litres_trial_promo)

Scrambled tofu with cumin and shiitake mushrooms (#litres_trial_promo)

Kedgeree with brown rice (#litres_trial_promo)

Scrambled eggs with red chillies and vine tomatoes (#litres_trial_promo)

Winter fruit compote (#litres_trial_promo)

Porridge with apricots, manuka honey and crème fraîche (#litres_trial_promo)

Hangover eggs (#litres_trial_promo)

Grilled bananas with Greek yoghurt and agave (#litres_trial_promo)

Winter lunches (#litres_trial_promo)

Warm winter vegetable salad (#litres_trial_promo)