Fab Food For Family And Friends

Janelle Bloom knows the great pleasure to be received from sharing a beautiful home-cooked meal with family and friends. What can be better than exclamations of delight when you serve up the food you have cooked, apart from maybe the requests for further helpings, the cleared plates and the satisfied sighs?

Fab Food for Family & Friends presents one hundred irresistible recipes from the popular TV cook, Janelle Bloom.

One thing is guaranteed: these recipes will wow everyone who eats them. Janelle has a special knack of creating appealing and do-able recipes that are simply the most delicious you have ever tried. You will be surprised at how easy and straightforward cooking can be; and when it's time to eat, be ready for huge praise for very little effort.

This book includes classic recipes for all methods of cooking --

• IN THE OVEN (sausage rolls; vegetable lasagne; slow roast shoulder of lamb with lemon and olives)
• IN THE FRYING PAN (Peking duck pancakes; pan-seared salmon with green papaya salad; crumbed cutlets with cheat's chips)
• ON THE BARBECUE (Barbecue sticky glazed pork; old-fashioned hamburger; prawn cocktail with barbecued garlic bread)
• ON THE STOVE TOP (marinated chicken Christmas salad; gnocchi with chorizo tomato sauce; three-cheese macaroni cheese)
• IN THE WOK (stir-fry ginger sesame vegetables; Penang curry with coconut rice; tofu laksa)
• IN THE MIXING BOWL (rocky road ice-cream; eclairs; mini-hazelnut mud cakes; vanilla slice)

Janelle also provides knockout ideas for Christmas lunch and dinner, an easy dinner party and a barbecue party. And she passes on plenty of handy tips, hints and secrets picked up from years of cooking. She famously triple-tests everything so you can be completely confident in the results.

Nothing beats homemade food. It's often cheaper than anything in the supermarket, always much better for you and can be made with love and care. These fabulous recipes will make you the successful home cook you’ve always wanted to be. Your loved ones will be dying to sample your next meal and you'll be bursting with pride when you share your culinary creations.