Sophie Wright inspires you to create quick, stress-free delicious meals—in less than an hour. Chapters include: Every Day—recipes destined to become old favorites to cook time and again, like Honey-Roasted Pork with Pears and Parsnips; Watching the Pennies—with cheap, exciting recipes like Zucchini, Basil and Chile Linguine, suitable for a night in for one or entertaining friends; Posh Nosh—for more extravagant meals, such as Rare Seared Tuna with Grapefruit Salsa, perfect for special occasions; plus desserts and drinks, too.
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Sophie Wright is one of the youngest and most attractive stars of British cuisine. At twenty she was the UK's youngest head chef, running the kitchen at one of Notting Hill's most famous celebrity hang outs, BBB. During her training at the highly acclaimed Westminster Kingsway College she regularly took part in national and international culinary competitions and is still a regular competitor. Sophie has won over fifty medals, including twenty golds. Sophie has appeared on Great Food Live, ITV's Daily Cooks and Food Poker on BBC2. In 2011, she launched her new venture Sophie Wright Catering, capitalising on her experience catering for private events and guests including Leonardo DiCaprio and Avril Lavigne. Her first book, 'Easy Peasy', won the Gourmand Easy Cookbook of the year award in 2008 and the follow-up 'Home at 7, Dinner at 8' was published in 2011 and has been translated into German, French and Dutch. 'Sophie's easy-to-follow recipes make whisking up a feast effortlessly simple' Food and Travel www.sophiewrightcatering.co.uk Twitter: @SophieW_Chef
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sophie Wright is an award winning, young English chef. She has made a cookbook with some interesting meals that take less than an hour to cook and prepare. The book contains; every day, watching your pennies, posh nosh, informal eating, desserts and drinks. Most dishes have large pictures. Each recipe has the total time and then broken down into preparation and cooking. For many dishes there are also ideas of ingredients that can be substituted. There is a 30 minute meals index, a 30-60 minute meals and an ingredients index. Some simple lists included in the beginning are; essential ingredients and equipment and some cooking tips.
The recipes are all relatively easy, most of what makes them easy to prepare are ready cooked rice, lentils, bouillon. There are comments on the recipes, usually one recipe to a page and even some help like: if you do not have a bamboo steamer, use an upturned sauce in the bottom of a shallow pan with a lid. Terms such as lardons are translated in to American = smoked bacon.
We have enjoyed these recipes especially; chicken, leek and bacon pie, and easy mess - much like Eton mess- a delectable dessert that you should try, and her version of creamy macaroni and cheese made with Boursin, cream cheese and mozzarella - it's very good.
The recipes are all relatively easy, most of what makes them easy to prepare are ready cooked rice, lentils, bouillon. There are comments on the recipes, usually one recipe to a page and even some help like: if you do not have a bamboo steamer, use an upturned sauce in the bottom of a shallow pan with a lid. Terms such as lardons are translated in to American = smoked bacon.
We have enjoyed these recipes especially; chicken, leek and bacon pie, and easy mess - much like Eton mess- a delectable dessert that you should try, and her version of creamy macaroni and cheese made with Boursin, cream cheese and mozzarella - it's very good.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By nada
Format:Paperback
I received this book as a gift when I started a new job where I was going to be working late, given that I loved cooking and eating home-cooked meals.
I have tried 4 recipes so far, and they have all been delectable (the chermoula was yuuuum, and so was the baked gnocchi)
However, I think it suffers from a few flaws:
1. the timing is really off, and I am not a novel cook! Of course, if you are trying a new recipe for the first time, it takes some more time, but still. For instance, I timed myself for a salad that is supposed to take 20 minutes and it took 40! True, I do the dishes as I cook, but if you don't you end up with an amazing dirty dishes production..
2. most recipes are not very healthy: the time you cut in cooking is made up with fat: butter, cream, etc..
I would definitely recommend this book for creative yummy recipes but I would consider it a cookbook to use once a month or two weeks..
I have tried 4 recipes so far, and they have all been delectable (the chermoula was yuuuum, and so was the baked gnocchi)
However, I think it suffers from a few flaws:
1. the timing is really off, and I am not a novel cook! Of course, if you are trying a new recipe for the first time, it takes some more time, but still. For instance, I timed myself for a salad that is supposed to take 20 minutes and it took 40! True, I do the dishes as I cook, but if you don't you end up with an amazing dirty dishes production..
2. most recipes are not very healthy: the time you cut in cooking is made up with fat: butter, cream, etc..
I would definitely recommend this book for creative yummy recipes but I would consider it a cookbook to use once a month or two weeks..
By H Retka
Format:Paperback
I received this recipe book as a gift from friends about a year ago and have enjoyed a number of meals from it. Most of the recipes are simple, but do take 30-40 minutes; still, that's within the "Home at 7, Dinner at 8" time-frame.
I appreciate that the margins include ideas for changing up the recipes slightly as well as Sophie's suggestions in the beginning of the book for items that you should always have on hand and ways to cut down on prep time.
A caveat: DO NOT believe her portion sizes. Time and time again I've reviewed recipes prior to shopping for ingredients and thought "this is supposed to serve 4? Seems more like an 8 person dish" but went ahead with her quantities. I usually like to make 2-4 person dishes for myself to have leftovers for a couple days, but it does me no good to have a dish for 8 that I'll get bored of halfway through the week. Even for recipes she indicates will feed 1 or 2 light meals, they've proven to yield about double. Trust your gut.
I appreciate that the margins include ideas for changing up the recipes slightly as well as Sophie's suggestions in the beginning of the book for items that you should always have on hand and ways to cut down on prep time.
A caveat: DO NOT believe her portion sizes. Time and time again I've reviewed recipes prior to shopping for ingredients and thought "this is supposed to serve 4? Seems more like an 8 person dish" but went ahead with her quantities. I usually like to make 2-4 person dishes for myself to have leftovers for a couple days, but it does me no good to have a dish for 8 that I'll get bored of halfway through the week. Even for recipes she indicates will feed 1 or 2 light meals, they've proven to yield about double. Trust your gut.
By Giovanna
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Great, easy, and appetizing recipes. The only defect is that they often require more time to make than what is suggested. Add at least an extra 20 to 30 minutes to the total time suggested.
By A. Majumdar
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because I liked the way the book was together. The recipes also looked simple and easy. So far I have made 5 or 6 of the recipes and only one has been good. The remaining recipes though pretty were missing something so much that I did not feel like going back for seconds. The flavour profile is missing as I had really high hopes for this book. I will try a few more of her recipes but the recipes definitely need much tweaking to truly delish!
By BigMac1007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Excellent Recipes and easy to make! Cant put it down. My entire family loves using this book and they never like to cook!
By Gosia
Format:Paperback
Sophies' book shows that, simple ingridients and little time spend in the kitchen, makes it easy and possible, to get a complete meal (restaurant critics worth), on the table in few minutes worth!
Format:Paperback
Sophie's recipe book tells you how to prepare fantastic three course meals (with cocktails!) in an hour. If you work for an hourly rate, then buying this wonderful book is better value than buying a meal at the most expensive restaurant.
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