The Weekend Cook: Good Food for Real Life

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It is as much a love letter to her neighbours, friends and, especially, her husband as it is a terrific collection of recipes for the non-cheffy food they eat together. You can put as much trust in Hartnett's Scotch egg method as you can in her gnocchi and floating islands * The Spectator * Angela Hartnett joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky this morning to talk all about her new cookbook, The Weekend Cook, Good Food for Real Life. Everything one wants in a cookbook. Beautiful, elegant simplicity. Angela's gorgeous Weekend Cook is a vital addition to any cook's kitchen." - Stanley Tucci

Once you’ve nailed the starter, it’s time to move on to the main event and blow your guests away with an incredible main. Everything one wants in a cookbook. Beautiful, elegant simplicity. Angela's gorgeous The Weekend Cook is a vital addition to any cook's kitchen' Stanley Tucci I took it home, read it cover to cover on a dark and rainy London evening, and ended up having a little love-at-first-read moment. This was a weekend cooking philosophy I could get behind: “You want simple, easy, fabulous food that doesn’t mean you will be in the kitchen all the time.” An invitation to supper at Angela Hartnett's house is a real treat. Nestled in the middle of Wilkes Street, in London's vibrant East End, you know you're going to get delicious food, great company and a relaxed atmosphere that is as far removed from the high-octane stress of a professional kitchen as it is from the awkward social anxiety that many of us face when hosting a dinner. Angela hopes her new cookbook will help people fall as much in love with cooking at home as she is.The book layout is simple but hooray for all the color photographs showing finished recipes! It's a British book, so American cooks will need to look up the conversion oven temperatures (the book did not include one with their conversion charts). The recipes themselves are not really suited for beginners, while the instructions are clear and easy to understand those having some experience in the kitchen will likely have better success when making them.

Over the years I’ve built up a decent collection of weekend-themed cook books, so here are my favourites: some old, some new, all full of good ideas: Tamasin’s Weekend Food by Tamasin Day-Lewis Angela knows the secrets to throwing the most relaxed and enjoyable dinners for friends and family - sometimes mad, but always magical evenings that people talk about for months afterwards - and in this book she's going to share them.Angela knows the secrets to throwing the most relaxed and enjoyable dinners for friends and family sometimes mad, but always magical evenings that people talk about for months afterwards and in this book she's going to share them. Recipes include:

Everything one wants in a cookbook. Beautiful, elegant simplicity. Angela’s gorgeous Weekend Cook is a vital addition to any cook's kitchen." ―Stanley Tucci Everything one wants in a cookbook. Beautiful, elegant simplicity. Angela’s gorgeous Weekend Cook is a vital addition to any cook's kitchen." —Stanley TucciAn invitation to supper at Angela Hartnett's house is a real treat. Nestled in the heart of London's vibrant East End, you know you're going to get delicious food, great company and a relaxed atmosphere that is as far removed from the high-octane stress of a professional kitchen as it is from the awkward social anxiety that many of us face when hosting a dinner. The Sunday Night Book is another charming little book based on a concept I’m passionate about: that Sunday evening should not be allowed to be curtailed or spoiled by anxious thoughts of Monday morning. Its subheading is pretty self-explanatory: “52 short recipes to make the weekend feel longer”. Rosie Sykes writes a spot-on intro where she describes the Sunday night fearas “a social construct dictated by empty streets, empty pubs and closed curtains”, before going on to start her book with an entire chapter dedicated to things you can eat on toast. Simple, soothing, and just the antidote to that low spot on Sundays. The Weekend Chef by Catherine Fulvio In 2007 Angela was awarded an MBC for services to the hospitality industry, and the following year she opened her own restaurant, Murano, in Mayfair. In 2013 Angela launched the critically acclaimed Merchants Tavern in Shoreditch and Cafe Murano, a little sister to Murano. Years ago, before marriage and kids (and in the days when my weekends often passed in a blur sandwiched between epic after-work drinks on Fridays and a crippling case of Sunday night anxiety, I came across Tamasin Day-Lewis’ book “Weekend Food”. Fairly small and modest-looking compared to a lot of cookbooks, I bought it on a whim, mostly because of its comforting tagline of “Cooking to come home to”. Well-known British chef and author, Angela Hartnett cooks every day for a living, so on weekends, she likes to relax a little and prepare fuss-free down-to-earth cooking at home. She introduces her recipes in her cookbook, The Weekend Cook: Good Food for Real Life.