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Martina

Nigel's Real Fast Food in modest paperback is on permanent rotation in my kitchen
It accompanied me from Australia on our Cambridge sabbatical eleven years ago. With a cracked spine and many loose pages, it so very treasured and I look forward to introducing it to its more recent sibling.

Sue

What more indeed. I probably won't follow any of the recipes but it has already inspired tonight's supper.

Cornflower

NS talks about Real Fast Food in his introduction and says that Eat is a result of his wish "to update that dear little book and bring it in line with modern eating".

Cornflower

I do like his style, e.g. he says "cooking should, surely, be a light-hearted, spirited affair, alive with invention, experimentation, appetite and a sense of adventure", so I'm sure he'd heartily approve of his writing being used as inspiration!

Liz Davey

Appetite is our 'bible', though the pages are rather disgusting these days! NS makes cooking so easy and adaptable. If I had to give a cookery book to a student, if would definitely be one of his

Cornflower

I agree, Liz, he's a no-fuss cook and the results are always good.

Dark Puss

We have acquired this book too. We tried the roasted beetroot & carrot & sausage dish Beetroot with Sausage and Rosemary and liked it a lot even though we are not massive fans of the "Devil's Food" :-)

I agree that he is a splendid writer of cookery books and have liked almost everything we have made from his many books that we own. However we are very wary of his timings for certain ingredients, particularly potatoes where he seems to use some sort of nuclear reactor as opposed to our ordinary oven(s).

Dark Puss

We can strongly recommend his Thai inspired hot and sour soup Green Vegetable Soup on page 51 which we had for lunch today with the end-of-season asparagus and new-season broad beans and peas. Lovely!

Dark Puss

Hi, last night we had his warm salad (well moderately hot salad if I am honest) of speck, potato, broccoli and dill flavoured creme fraiche which he describes on page 393. If you haven't tried it we commend it to you - dead easy too! Speck is uncooked of course and added on the plate so an excellent choice if you have a mixture of meat and non-meat eaters.

Dark Puss

Today for lunch I made the Bresaola, Emmental and Pickled Cucumber sandwich (p 25). Very nice indeed, though we dispensed with frying the bread in butter (not my idea of a good thing and another bit of faffing about too) and just toasted it. Easy and piquant.

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