Cooking With Curtis

Easy, Everyday And Adventurous Recipes For The Home Cook.

Curtis Stone, a chef with impeccable credentials, is a master at developing recipes for the home cook.

In this book, his mission is to celebrate fresh seasonal ingredients, to stir up a passion for using them innovatively, and to demystify the techniques needed for cooking with them.

He has chosen a mix of traditional favourites (lamb, chocolate, rhubarb) plus more unusual fare (scallops, vanilla, truffles) - the kind of food that gets chosen from restaurant menus time and again, but that few people know how to prepare at home. The unique three-step approach offers a simple, a standard and a more challenging recipe for each basic ingredient, so that kitchen confidence is built gradually. Everyone should be able to master the basics - the simple recipes usually feature just five ingredients and four or five steps of preparation. The challenge is to take it further and successfully prepare restaurant-style food in the home kitchen.

With useful chef's tips and pictures of every recipe to whet the appetite, Curtis carefully develops the reader's cooking confidence so that even beginners will find themselves with an impressive repertoire of knock-out dishes before long.