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Reviews of Gordon Ramsay Cooking for Friends

Here is a summary of the reviews for Gordon Ramsay 's cooking for friends. The book scored very high on average with fourteen of the eighteen reviews on Amazon UK the scoring four or five stars.

"Gordon Ramsay is a great chef-cook – recipes can sometimes be too complex for the enthusiastic amateur like me.

However, this book is exactly right – that the recipes are excellent and there is some great stuff in here, but more importantly yet, the recipes are well written and easy to follow.

I think this is perfect for those who want to cook quality meals for dinner parties but not several days spend in the kitchen preparing for it!

Highly recommended. "

"This book is full of inspiring recipes and easy to use, lovely photography and many personal touches and anecdotes that make it a 'real ' book to follow. I love the way the dishes are made using accessible ingredients like some celebrity cookbooks are filled with ingredients that are difficult or expensive to obtain. In fact, I love the old-fashioned and simple meals '' Element, but most of the recipes for a good 'good food, ideal for family meals and social gatherings, and carefree days of preparation advance.

A must have for anyone who loves good food to cook with simple ingredients. "

"I have about 20 cookbooks, but this is the one most used. I bought it for a few friends, so this speaks volumes. I can not recommend this book enough! "

"It 'S probably the most common gripe in reviews of cookbooks, especially those celeb-chef. "We live ' not enough pictures. How are you meant to know how it looks when it 's ex? What are you striving for? Even for a simple recipe, it 's nice to have a photo. Besides, it 's often the pictures of the recipe-made meal that inspire you to go on creating it yourself.

If this is something that annoys you, maybe steer clear of this book. Although quite handsome, I 'd say that only about one quarter of the meals have accompanying photos. This may not be such bad thing if there are dozens Prevent t 'of irrelevant pictures instead of potentially useful ones. We are treated throughout the book to images Sit Ramsay, of Ramsay rest his head between his hands, and Ramsay sits at a table outside with many friends of Ramsay sit at the table with his friends again. If you book buy, you 'll know what ' Chef Ramsay 'looks like, and probably don ' t give a crap what his friends look like.

There are not many pictures of meals, but the ingredients. Instead of the finished dish, maybe get a couple of mackerel on a worksheet, or a Swede cut in half, or two eggs on a plate with a spring. It 's useless and often a bit annoying.

This rather large annoyances aside, it 'sa pretty nice book. The recipes do taste pretty inevitable, such as the fisherman 's stew. The ingredients list is a bit extended – it 's not a book to be used every day – but most of them are things that are at least readily available. Too many cookbooks call for things like roasted goblin eyes or tense ocelot dreams.

This book won 't make a three-starred chef, cook, and cooking for friends monism is a bit unfair, since there ' s no reason why these dishes are made exclusively for large groups, they can be made for any amount of people. But it does feature some really nice meals to make, which is the purpose of a book like this. You 'll simply to assume that what comes out of the oven the way it ' s meant to look. "

"I bought a signed copy of an independent seller on Amazon, and I was very excited to receive it. So far I have made the Shepherd 's Pie with Branston Pickle, and the lamb and prunes casserole and both were superb. I can not wait for some more recipes to try, because I'm sure they are as well. The book itself is really nice quality with some nice pictures (Unlike most people reading this book, I really like a few photos of Gordon!)

"There seems to have been a shift in the style of the chef Ramsay cook books recently, since the launch of 3 * chief cook, he moved back to more basic home cooking. And for all thats a good home cooks Keem case. Although hos previous books were beautiful to watch and filled with wonderful recipes, they were expensive and time-consuming.

Cooking with friends is a real back to basics, quality cookbook, to have one by the stove the whole time.

As usual, well presented with many pictures, hints & tips from the great man and a pretty good number dishes too. It 's the kind of food you want to cook on a regular basis things like chicken pie, broccoli soup, blue cheese, cakes, etc. Real quality home cooking eat. The book is well laid out by chapters on:

1. Hot & Cold Soups – Inc Roast Chestnut, parsnip and Apple, Cheddar & cauliflower curry, oxtail, chilled cucumber

2. Grains & Pasta – linguine with lemon & basil feta, kedgeree, goat cheese and beetroot salad lentils

3. Fish & Seafood – Fish curry, red snapper, mackerel Devilled

4. Meat & Poultry – rabbit stew, honey roasted ham, white port & Duck cherries,

Pies & tarts (my favorite bit!) – Raised Game Pie, Chicken pie, smoked salmon and horseradish cream tarts

5. Vegies & salads

6. Pudding – Apple pie, lemon meringue, Trifle

coffee & chocs – Chock dark cake, choc & coffee pots

A great book that will test your bank happy to take a very long time "

"Full of quick and easy recipes that even someone with basic knowledge of cooking would find easy to follow commend Amazon for a good price. "

"I bought this for my brother who is a talented cook in his own right, we both found it amusing and easy to follow and gives a good insight on how to prepare and cook food in a new variety of ways. A good purchase for even the intermediate culinary operator. "

"Gordon Ramsey 's recipe books have never particularly appealed to me and I ' t own any until I got this as a gift. As mentioned by other reviewers the emphasis seems to Gordon, with many pictures of him sitting on tables, etc, but that 'not entirely surprising as I think he ' s one of the most overexposed personalities on TV these days. He 't even deign to be photographed showing a recipe for this book.

Having said all that, I think that the recipes in this book are very good and the few I've tried are wonderful. I was very shocked to learn that they were written by Gordon 'number two Mark Sargeant, but maybe that 's what it means to be a celebrity is all about. Gordon 's name sell, I doubt whether I would have been this book had not given if it 's was the famous man on the front. "

"This book is full of inspiring and easy recipes, great photography and great personal touches and anecdotes that make it a 'real ' book to follow. I love the way the dishes are made using accessible ingredients like sometimes Celebrity cookbooks are filled with ingredients that are difficult or expensive to obtain. In fact, I love the old-fashioned and simple meals '' element, but especially the recipes for a good 'good food, ideal for family meals and social gatherings, and carefree days of preparation.

A must have for anyone who loves to cook good food with simple ingredients. "

"I'm not usually impressed by Gordon 's" hastily "he" high-energy "approach to cooking. However, recipes are generally easy to follow and as good as it gets – if that 's what you looking for you won 't be disappointed. Cook books do not need anything else than that – so why have I rated as 4 stars only? The simple answer is that I do not have non-cooking, as not related recipe introductions and the title. At one time he 's rant about Delia ' s "cheat" approach that led him to Delia cookery books to donate to a charity shop. My second "favorite" is the revelation that his wife has started something vegetarian cooking for the children once a week. This statements are not only unnecessary, they distract from the subject, which is food. I love cooking and good food, but hey in the end 's food is no peace in the world so Stop yelling, argueing and self-glorification. In my humble opinion, the only absolute in the world of cooking is cooking yourself and avoid fast food / ready meals. So it does not matter if you use cheats and cheap ingredients if it leads to the basic conditions for you to cook.

The other annoying issue is the title. Nothing in This book covers "Cooking for Friends", was 's just a choice of recipes, suitable daily and at any time.

Together in short: a decent cookbook with a misleading title, but a good selection of very good recipes written by a chief cook with an attitude. "

"I all Gordon Ramsay 's books and this is ideal for people who think that everything he creates costly

This book is about things like Oxtail Soup is a simple recipe and easy to make

I really recommend this title for everyday cooking with the Ramsey touch

"I 'ma big fan of Gordon s 'cookbooks, and I think this is the best yet. I agree with another reviewer that the recipes are much easier to follow that the other books I have, and I really think I 'll use them more because of it.

And I love the look of the interior more than the other books. It s not so messy and very clever – but I think I 'll a few of my own to add splashes of cooking. " About the Author

Chief Plonker at The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fanclub

http://www.theplonkerclub.com

when lemon juice is added at the beginning of cooking lentils why is it slowing the kitchen?

why does lemon juice slowly cook the lentils, when added at the beginning? no change in pH affects the way lentils cook at a molecular level?

Boiling Points is largely determined by the intermolecular (Hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic / hydrophilic) interactions. These three functional groups all contain an electron donor (oxygen or nitrogen) with a different willingness to electrons share and thus a different ability to stick to other molecules. The tighter these interactions are, the higher the boiling point will be. The citric acid in lemon juice, a weak carbonic acid, Decomposes below boiling point at 175 ° C while water boils at 100 ° C. ** NOTE: If you juice with a small amount of lemon, then it probably is not really run the boiling point **

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