Advantages: Ready meal timing, real meal taste Disadvantages: Have to be organised to make the recipies!
...based on an old idea; Delia's first book was also titled "How To Cheat at Cooking." This book is designed on the same theme, but with new ideas and recipes. I bought the book following Delia's many TV appearances to promote it. The mantra "This is not how to cook, this is how to cook when you're busy" appealed to me, and, ad man's dream that I am, I trotted off to tesco to buy it! The book has a plastic feel cover, which you can wipe clean, half ... ...recipes are all written in Delia's easy to follow style. They are not patronising, but they do not assume a lot of existing culinary knowledge. I was also relieved to see there were no nasty surprises half way down in any of the recipes! I should probably explain that, even though they told me in home economics to ALWAYS read a recipe through before I start, I am always caught out half way through by a comment like, "stir in the beaten egg whites" ...
sk0680 01.05.2008
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Advantages: Quick recipes, most ingredients can be kept in cupboard or freezer Disadvantages: Expensive recipes, need to shop at a lot of different places to find all the ingredients
...expectations, having found many of Delia's other recipes so successful. However, I was abit disappointed: many of the 'recipes' are just a combination of convenience foods - you're not really cooking at all, just mixing things together and heating them up. It also makes shopping for the recipes very expensive and often the specified ingredients are only available at certain supermarkets, with two or three specified supermarkets in one recipe; any ... ...is offset by the time trekking over to tesco to find some 'tomato frito' or similar.
Having said all of that, the few recipes I have tried were very tasty and certainly quick and easy - although now I come to think of it, I did 'cheat' by not using the specified ingredients (Aunt Bessie's frozen mashed potato discs anyone?) and using the cheaper and better for you fresh alternative. ...
joani101 01.05.2008
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Advantages: A great cooking time saver Disadvantages: You may have to source some of the ingredients from other suppliers
How did I ever manage without this book? You have guests for dinner in two hours time, no time to search for and prepare those all important ingredients and want to make something special. I keep this book in the kitchen within easy reach; it's saved me so much time. So what if it asks for packet mash and tinned mince meat! The finished meals always seam to satisfy, and get me compliments. Yes! I know, sometimes even Delia cannot save my bad cooking ... ...I like to blame the oven.) I suppose the book isn't about how to cook, its more about stopping it being a hassle. The book has had lots of criticism, but in this day and age most of the pre-prepared ingredients you buy are s good as the ones you would make yourself. ...
johnny-ray 29.06.2009
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In 1971 Delia Smith published her very first book "How to Cheat at Cooking". She wrote it ... more
as a book for people who didn't want or didn't have time to cook. Three decades later life is even more hectic and tasty healthy uncomplicated food is high on...
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In "How to Cheat at Cooking", Delia has sourced a range of pre-prepared foods ... more
(from tins, chill cabinets, freezers and store cupboards) to help you short circuit cooking times and techniques. Readily available from supermarkets, delis, online...
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