Filled with stunning yet simple recipes guaranteed to impress dinner guests, chef Rosie Mackean's exciting debut book features perfect easy-to-cook menus for any occasion, from barbeques to date nights.
Good Time Cooking will be your saviour anytime you find yourself hosting, from date night to game night, to feeding a crowd, this book will have you prepared to create simple yet impressive multi-course meals so you can always have the confidence in the kitchen and find the time to enjoy your own dinner party too.
This book is your one-stop-shop to cooking cohesive, composed, and delicious dinner menus for every occasion.
Sharing her expert knowledge from working in busy restaurants around the world, Rosie MacKean gives you all the tools to host a dinner party with ease. Showing you what you can prepare in advance and how to create a sense of flow in the kitchen, Rosie shares 20 multi-course menus full of crowd-pleasing recipes that will have your guests asking for seconds.
Each menu comes with its own curated time plan, mise-en-place list and styling guide so even the presentation will be made easy. The dishes work in harmony with each other, both logistically and stylistically – if you don’t want to cook every course, you don’t have to. As your confidence grows, you can even mix and match with other menus and use the information given in the time plans to intertwine them. Rosie also provides handy scaling guides and advice so that you can intuitively learn how to increase or reduce serving sizes to suit your needs.
The dishes are vibrant, celebratory, exceedingly delicious and highly cookable. Each menu is themed; sometimes for an occasion (date night, BBQs, birthdays) or by a necessity (5 ingredients, hosting with short notice or with popular store-cupboard ingredients only) or simply a style of cuisine (Italian, Mexican, retro, seafood). The time-plan can start three days before the big event, giving you the option of spreading your prep into manageable chunks if you wish – where it is possible to prepare in advance a dish or an element of a dish, the option is always there.
Rosie’s menus enable any host to wow their guests without losing their whole evening to cooking, so they can relax and enjoy their own dinner party too.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008641399
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 960 g
Dimensions: 252 x 195 x 17 mm
"Instantly been promoted to the special shelf. I want to make literally everything in it” – India Knight "Entertaining made easy with beautiful food from the dinner party Queen.” – Gennaro Contaldo “Visually stunning, simple recipes but above all else, super tasty. Every recipe packed full of flavour!” – Tom Kerridge "A gorgeous cookbook, packed with joyous and deeply delicious recipes, that makes entertaining easy and stress free.” – Edd Kimber "Rosie is a master of effortless entertaining, offering a mouth-watering collection of menus, the hardest part will be picking which one to cook next.” – Ben Lippett “Rosie makes the art of entertaining effortless and beautiful. I love every single menu she has in her book, they are very well thought through, full of delicious recipes and tips.” – Dina Macki "With Rosie you know you are in very safe hands. Good Time Cooking is a wonderful world of fresh flavour combinations and outrageously delicious food. Utterly mouth watering dishes that have you dreaming up reasons to have a gathering. I want it all now, all at once, it is that good." – Joe Woodhouse “Rosie encapsulates the beauty of hosting with every single page." – Basma Khalifa “Nothing short of delightful! Every page has a menu for every occasion, with vibrant recipes that are as fun to make as they are to eat. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned cook, this cookbook is a bible for anyone who enjoys hosting dinners with friends with a lot of flair." – Ana Da Costa "You can count on Rosie’s recipes to deliver comfort and flavour. I love how her food is rooted in the classics yet with Rosie’s own unmistakable style. It is exactly what you want to cook and eat when you have people coming over." – Sophie Godwin "A generous and exuberant guide for the home cook, Good Time Cooking delivers joy on the page and most certainly the plate."– Dara Klein
We have followed Rosie on Instagram and were very excited to receive our very own copy of her book.
Beautifully written, fabulous recipes, great pictures, fun - What's not to like?
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