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Perfect: 68 Essential Recipes for Every Cook's Repertoire | Felicity Cloake
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The Guardian's 'How to Make' food columnist Felicity Cloake is on a mission to find the perfect recipes for staple dishes, from spag bol to apple pie and from brownies to fish pie, in her first cookbook Perfect - 68 essential reciepes for every cook's repertoire. How can I make deliciously squidgy chocolate brownies? Is there a foolproof way to poach an egg? Does washing mushrooms really spoil them? What's the secret of perfect pastry? Could a glass of milk turn a good Bolognese into a great one? Perfect will answer all these questions and many, many more. Having rigorously tried and tested recipes from all the greats - from Elizabeth David and Delia Smith to Nigel Slater and Simon Hopkinson - Felicity Cloake has pulled together the best points from each to create the perfect version of 68 classic dishes. Never again will you have to rifle through countless different books to find the your perfect roast chicken recipe, mayonnaise method or that incredible tomato sauce - it's all here in this book, based on Felicity's popular Guardian column, along with dozens of invaluable prepping and cooking tips that no discerning cook should live without. Whether you're a competent cook or have just caught the bug, Perfect has a place on every kitchen shelf. 'Brilliant. . . finely honed culinary instincts, an open mind and a capacious cookbook collection...Miss Cloake has them all' Evening Standard Guardian and New Statesman food columnist Felicity Cloake is the winner of the 2011 Guild of Food Writers awards for Food Journalist of the Year and New Media of the Year; follow Felicity on Twitter @FelicityCloake.
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SamAnne I‘ve been cooking a lot out of Ottolenghi cook books this year. Delish. 4y
veritysalter My favourite. I was supposed to see him at the theatre in York this week, ‘My Life in Flavour‘ - it‘s been moved to April (hopefully). 4y
KarenUK @SamAnne Love him! 💕.... Hope you get to see him 🤞🤞🤞 @veritysalter (edited) 4y
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#AyUpAugust
This recent buy that I loved is #Perfect for today!
Guardian food writer Felicity Cloake, takes the hard work out of classics for the reader by researching the greats (from Nigel Slater to Elizabeth David) to combine ideas to find the #perfect recipe. From the #perfect roast chicken or Mussels in white wine, to the #perfect vanilla ice cream or chocolate cake, SO many classics are covered.
So now I‘ve added 3 more by her to the #TBR!

squirrelbrain Have you read this one? I read it as an ARC recently from NetGalley although I think it‘s now published... I loved it! 5y
KarenUK @squirrelbrain No! But I‘m stacking it right now! Sounds great! 👍💕 5y
Cinfhen It really is PERFECT 👌🏾 5y
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#secretbookmail 😂🤫📬
I mean, I had to use my Prime day $5 coupon, right?! And I love Felicity‘s writing in The Guardian..
I am supposed to be on a cookbook buying ban (re hubby!) because I‘m at capacity! But this is a little one so I‘m good, right?! Room for one more? 🙃

TrishB Always room for one more! 5y
Cinfhen Echoing @TrishB and it‘s really pretty 🥰♥️ 5y
KarenUK Can‘t resist a naked hardcover 💕🤓 @TrishB @cinfhen (edited) 5y
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As I borrow most of my fiction from the library.... my #mostwantedtopfive are always cook books
1. Anything from the Perfect series by Felicity Cloake
2. Round to ours by Alice Levine and Laura Jackson
3. Modern Sauces by Martha Holmberg
4. Blissful Basil by Ashley Melillo
5. Bowls of Plenty by Carolyn Carreno

readinginthedark Ooh, nice! 6y
Smangela I‘m so impressed with people who use cookbooks. I look through, am so picky I find like 1 recipe and it‘s normally something very similar to my normal meals 😑 I need to get more adventurous! 6y
Tex2Flo Most wanted top five: new stuff from Louise Penny, something about art forgery or theft to supplement my Masters studies, a new murder mystery series, something set in my new hometown in southern Florida. If there was a new author to thrill me, that would be terrific. 6y
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