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Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom

Really good food without the fuss--foolproof recipes, shortcuts and hacks

by Prue Leith
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"It's taken me a long life to know for sure that life is for living, and that hard graft has to be worth it.
So, if you are whacked, short of time or just don't like cooking, cheating is fine. I cheat all the time, and I LOVE cooking."
—PRUE LEITH
"There's nothing quite so charming as a true grande dame of cuisine tackling a contemporary technique—and nailing it...'Hip, hip hooray!'" —BOOKLIST
"Practical and inventive...sure to inspire" —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Chef and TV legend Dame Prue Leith brings us the cookbook you've always wanted – 80 delicious recipes, with accompanying kitchen shortcuts and hacks, for a lifetime of easy cooking.
Every recipe in this book comes with a handy tip, plus you'll find over 25 videos accessed by a QR code to help you learn a skill or get ahead.
Coined by Shirley Conran in her '70s bestseller Superwoman, 'Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom' is a phrase that every time-poor cook can relate to. In this clever cookbook, you'll find really good recipes without the fuss: recipes where a neat trick can save you time, recipes where the cheat versions taste just as good as the home-made, and recipes to help you avoid waste and save you money. How do you cook the perfect steak? What's the best way to dice an avocado? And what about when it just all goes terribly wrong?
With recipes including Celeriac Rémoulade with Prosciutto, Rocket and Pine Nuts, Crispy Pork Belly, Buttermilk Chicken, Sushi for Scaredy-cats, Chocolate Almond Torte and Cherry Clafoutis, Prue's handy hacks show you how a little bit of insight goes a long way.
Perfect for every home cook, the absolute beginner, or someone who has been doing it so long that cooking has somehow lost its attraction – Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom contains years of culinary know-how and inspirational meals, squashed into an accessible cookbook.
Recipes include:

  • Chicory, Pear, Hazelnut and Goat's Cheese Salad
  • Gunpowder Steak with Coriander Chutney
  • Tomato, Chilli and Fennel Sugo with Spaghetti
  • Herbed Salmon Parcels
  • Brown Sugar Meringue, Roasted Pear and Salted Caramel Sauce
  • Passionfruit Yoghurt Cakes
  • Baked Camembert and Olive Wheel

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    • Release date

      October 10, 2024

    • Formats

      • OverDrive Read

        • ISBN: 9780711292512

      • EPUB ebook

        • ISBN: 9780711292512
        • File size: 19690 KB

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • Booklist

        October 1, 2024
        There's nothing quite so charming as a true grande dame of cuisine tackling a contemporary technique--and nailing it. Great British Bake Off host Leith, a restaurateur, novelist, and cookbook author with nine novels and five cookbooks to her name, achieves yet another life milestone by exploring and promoting food hacks--those shortcuts and tips known by professionals, now shared with home cooks. Leith's hacks range from lining a baking tray to prepping a pineapple (complete with QR codes for video how-to's) and are accompanied by dozens of recipes. Some dishes are familiar, like herbed salmon parcels, classic hummus, and whipped feta dip. Others marry Leith's English and world-cooking views: Moroccan chicken b'stilla, Turkish eggs, twice-baked Cheddar and mustard souffl�s. Some standouts include pickle juice added to Bloody Marys, alternatives to the traditional basic pesto, and skirlie, a savory Scottish oat dish to replace ho-hum starchy sides. A few ingredients may puzzle (and require substitutions for) U.S. readers. "Hip, hip hooray!" for adopting Leith's kitchen shortcuts--and her recipes.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        October 7, 2024
        In this practical and inventive outing, Dame Prue Leith (The Great British Baking Show: Love to Bake) offers 80 recipes with a focus on time-saving techniques and shortcuts. Dubbed “Handy Hacks,” these tips appear throughout, many linked to supplementary videos via QR codes. Despite the title, recipes and hacks run the gamut from simple (the best way to chop an onion for French onion soup) to sophisticated (how to skin a fish fillet for “Sushi for Scaredy-cats”). Main dishes include herbed salmon parcels using store-bought puff pastry (hack: preventing a soggy bottom by preheating the baking sheet so it’s the same temperature as the oven), and hot-and-sour vegetable noodle soup (hack: peeling ginger with a spoon). A breakfast chapter features “perfect” scrambled eggs, while a small selection of drink recipes includes a pickle juice Bloody Mary. Leith’s dark chocolate and orange trifle is emblematic of her time-saving approach, combining store-bought chocolate Swiss roll with homemade chocolate mousse and offering hacks for segmenting oranges and rescuing overwhipped cream. Leith also encourages experimentation by delineating key elements of a recipe—for example, a pesto should include “a flavouring ingredient, an oil, a cheese, a nut and fresh garlic”—before offering multiple variations. This is sure to inspire.

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    • OverDrive Read
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