Annie Bell's How to Cook: Over 200 Essential Recipes to Feed Yourself, Your Friends & Family by Annie Bell

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    from Annie Bell's How to Cook: Over 200 Essential Recipes to Feed Yourself, Your Friends & Family Annie Bell's How to Cook by Annie Bell

    • Categories: Pies, tarts & pastries; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: plain flour; butter
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  • Whole roast sea bream with lemon & thyme

    • etcjm on October 08, 2021

      We really enjoyed this. I looked for a recipe having bought some lovely sea bream, purely because I am not a person who cooks fish and needed this guidance. This seemed easy enough. The recipe didn't say though whether I needed to cover it after having done the layering and browning thing? After the required time, the fish was nearly done, but the onion was raw tasting. If it was covered it wouldn't have been, so I should have just gone with what I thought. I also don't see the point in browning the fish, when you are layering with onion etc? I don't think it added anything and was just fiddly. Overall though, we both really enjoyed it. Might short cut next time - this is supposed to be a How to Cook book though...

  • Pesto sauce

    • etcjm on December 02, 2018

      Tasty. Always winged pesto before, but weighed out the ingredients this time. 2 packs of basil gave me half of the 90g recipe! Guess I haven't been using enough basil before... Good flavour and looking forward to using it.

  • Pilau rice

    • etcjm on February 26, 2026

      If you're new to indian cooking - follow this recipe. I found it very similar to another one I cook so it wasn't that special. However - it's tasty, it's got texture. Leftovers are particularly good. It is not the pilau rice from an indian takeway - do not expect it to be. I would spend a few moments picking out the whole spices before serving and give the usual warning to your fellow eaters. Lovely, but I prefer my anjum recipe with pistachios and sultanas!

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  • ISBN 10 0857832425
  • ISBN 13 9780857832429
  • Published Sep 03 2015
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 320
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Kyle Books
  • Imprint Kyle Books

Publishers Text

How to Cook stands out as an excellent stand-alone cookbook that will keep you coming back again and again. Much more than a collection of recipes, the aim of the book is to give the reader the confidence and the tools they need to be independent. After 30 years of cooking professionally, Annie Bell knows which recipes work and which ones don't. In this volume she has assembled her core repertoire of dishes that she would choose to hand down to her children to see them through life. But this is also an indispensable guide for the more experienced cook, with all the essentials in one volume, along with lots of up-to-date alternatives and ideas that reflect Annie's personal style of cooking.

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