Throw out the frozen dinners and takeout menus. Who better to show readers how to cook real food, real fast and make it really tasty than Gordon Ramsay, three-star chef and TV celebrity? Gordon Ramsay’s Fast Food includes over 100 delicious recipes that are super-fast and easy to prepare. The book is divided into short sections: 15 feature fast recipes classified by group, such as starters, soups, fish, meat, pasta, working lunches, and desserts, and 15 more sections contain great menus for everyday and entertaining. Many of the dishes can be prepared and cooked in as little as 15 minutes, and none take longer than half an hour. The menus provided take 30-45 minutes from start to finish, each with a timing plan. There’s also advice on essential ingredients to keep in stock for speedy cooking, plus lots of great ideas for shortcuts.
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GORDON RAMSAY's sublime cooking has consistently earned him Michelin stars at his celebrated, eponymous London restaurant in Chelsea, and he has extended his superlative cooking franchise to New York, Paris, and Los Angeles. Now a celebrated TV personality, his award-winning TV series include The F Word, Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen. His bestselling books have sold more than 1.3 million copies worldwide. He lives in London, England.
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129 of 132 people found the following review helpful
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This shouldn't be your first -- or your only -- cooking book. It just ain't a comprehensive everyday kind of tome. But it is a great book for people that want to create high-end food that is fresh and modern -- and do it quickly. I've already cooked several of the recipes, including breakfast eggs, dinner lemon chicken and spiced pan-roasted apples/pears. All have been a real treat. Using fresh ingredients and quick cooking you end up with real tasty stuff. Many of the recipes have a long-ish list of ingredients, but none are very hard to prepare. You will impress anyone you are cooking for with this book.
Good stuff: Covers large range of meals, soup to seafood to meat to vegetable sides to amazing fruit desserts. Excellent photographs. Clear directions. Quality of the finished products. Lack of TV star chef fluff. Originality of the dishes. American kitchen measures. For cooking several of the recipes together as an integrated dinner he includes a really useful timeline listing what to do in what order to make the whole dinner. Brilliant!
Not perfect: Would like more of Gordon's wisdom in picking out the best fresh ingredients. Gordon is British and trained in France, so some things slipped through US editing, like using crème fraîche or Calvados. This is not a diet book.
Overall: Yum! Fancy dishes sure to delight. Cooked Fast. Tasting Fresh. All the better because they are real cooking. I'm off to make sautéed scallops with corn salsa followed by caramelized banana split. It will all be ready in 40 minutes, guessing half an hour the second time I do it . . .
Good stuff: Covers large range of meals, soup to seafood to meat to vegetable sides to amazing fruit desserts. Excellent photographs. Clear directions. Quality of the finished products. Lack of TV star chef fluff. Originality of the dishes. American kitchen measures. For cooking several of the recipes together as an integrated dinner he includes a really useful timeline listing what to do in what order to make the whole dinner. Brilliant!
Not perfect: Would like more of Gordon's wisdom in picking out the best fresh ingredients. Gordon is British and trained in France, so some things slipped through US editing, like using crème fraîche or Calvados. This is not a diet book.
Overall: Yum! Fancy dishes sure to delight. Cooked Fast. Tasting Fresh. All the better because they are real cooking. I'm off to make sautéed scallops with corn salsa followed by caramelized banana split. It will all be ready in 40 minutes, guessing half an hour the second time I do it . . .
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
By annie.nz
Format:Hardcover
This book is going on my shelf with the half dozen or so cookbooks I intend to keep till I'm carted out of the house feet first.
With a few storecupboard exceptions such as canned beans, canned tomatoes, and bottled ready-roasted peppers, all of the main ingredients for the recipes are fresh. The recipes are indeed easy and fast, and really, really appetising. Unlike my experience with most cookbooks.
Like most English cookbooks, there is a reasonable number of seafood recipes, which I guess reflects the high proportion of coastline to land area in the UK, and that fact that transport of fresh fish inland is quick (and the fish therefore reasonably good) because of the short distances involved. However, there are twice as many 'main' recipes based on meat, poultry, cheese, eggs, vegetables or grains, so even if you don't like fish or can't access very fresh seafood, there's still plenty of choice.
There isn't a high proportion of esoteric ingredients required - this isn't one of those books where every single recipe seemingly requires another few exotic ingredients to be bought.
The recipes are suitable for home use and for entertaining.
With a few storecupboard exceptions such as canned beans, canned tomatoes, and bottled ready-roasted peppers, all of the main ingredients for the recipes are fresh. The recipes are indeed easy and fast, and really, really appetising. Unlike my experience with most cookbooks.
Like most English cookbooks, there is a reasonable number of seafood recipes, which I guess reflects the high proportion of coastline to land area in the UK, and that fact that transport of fresh fish inland is quick (and the fish therefore reasonably good) because of the short distances involved. However, there are twice as many 'main' recipes based on meat, poultry, cheese, eggs, vegetables or grains, so even if you don't like fish or can't access very fresh seafood, there's still plenty of choice.
There isn't a high proportion of esoteric ingredients required - this isn't one of those books where every single recipe seemingly requires another few exotic ingredients to be bought.
The recipes are suitable for home use and for entertaining.
48 of 50 people found the following review helpful
By B. Lott
Format:Hardcover
This is by far the best cookbook I own. His recipes are all quick to make but taste like you spent hours. He uses an easy to understand approach to his recipes plus gives you a list of common things that everyone should keep in their kitchen for quick gourmet meals. We've cooked for friends with these recipes on several occasions and they keep asking when they can come back!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not fast, rare ingredients but the best tasting food ever
This book is not fast by far. Sometimes it's taken 2 and a half hours to cook. And that's with two people doing the prepping and cooking. It doesn't include prep time at all. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Shannon O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic deal
Big fan of the F word, though Gordon rushed through the details of his recipes. Now I have a beautiful book with all of the recipes and directions to prepare some fresh, simple... Read more
Published 20 days ago by Andrew Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my two favorite Ramsay books
The recipes in this book are all quite simple to prepare in relation to some of Ramsay's other books, and the results have been quite tasty so far. Read more
Published 23 days ago by B. Bogert
1.0 out of 5 stars
tastless
gordon ramsay is a coccky chef who sometimes does not know what he is talking about.
he is rude. Read more
he is rude. Read more
Published 3 months ago by cjbl30
5.0 out of 5 stars
great gift
I ordered this for my husband, he is a big Gordon Ramsey fan. He loved it and we have madde several things form it!
Published 4 months ago by Tammy Cannon
4.0 out of 5 stars
really good
i always keep up with whatever Gordon Ramsey is putting down in the kitchen and this book is cool because while it is fast food, its also done with flavor and taste. Read more
Published 10 months ago by A customer
4.0 out of 5 stars
We're eating well!
The book came on time and in fairly good shape. The binding is unattached at the bottom which explains the four out of five stars in this review. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Lynroberts
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Soul Food Bible!
It is a little known fact that Gordon Ramsay is originally from Alabama. He grew up
in Birmingham and learned how to cook from his momma who made pies and stuff at Full... Read more
in Birmingham and learned how to cook from his momma who made pies and stuff at Full... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ghenghis
1.0 out of 5 stars
Gathering dust
I bought this along with other Gordon Ramsay cookbooks and after trying a number of recipes that totally disappointed me, the entire collection now sits on my shelf gathering dust. Read more
Published on March 6, 2011 by Food geek
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fast Food
This is a great book with loads of recipes as featured in 'The F Word'. They are all easy to make and can be prepared and cooked in under 30 minutes, and the selected menu ideas... Read more
Published on February 12, 2011 by Spider Monkey
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