Do you panic when confronted by an apparently empty pantry or refrigerator? Are you a slave to the recipe? In 'The Clever Cook' Diane Holuigue shows how to break free of the tyranny of the larder and the cookbook. A clever cook takes a recipe and makes it their own. With inspiration, information and good old-fashioned commonsense, almost any recipe can be made to suit your tastes and the ingredients you have to hand.
'The Clever Cook' not only provides a delicious range of recipes, but is packed with wonderful advice to help you understand the basic ideas and techniques on which to build successful cooking. Learn, for example:
- which foods you should keep in your kitchen at all times;
- about the properties of the humble egg;
- how to make successful creamed vegetable soups every time or put two soups in one bowl for dramatic effect;
- the secrets for making a roast chicken that is never boring;
- how to get the best results with stuffings, marinades and sauces;
- how to make perfect chips, perfect rice, perfect pasta . . .
Diane Holuigue shows just how different foods work together; how you can take the fundamental idea of a recipe and change the ingredients to suit yourself.
