Tamasin Day-Lewis. Isn't she only gorgeous?
I’ve always had a soft spot for Tamasin Day-Lewis and her cookery books.
I just love the way she approaches food and have found her recipes in her previous cookery books easy to follow and always resulting in a great outcome. Yes, she is Daniel Day-Lewis’s sister and she grew up in Ireland, which are both positives in my book.
I regularly use recipes from her previous cookbook, Good Tempered Food. It’s brilliant.
So obviously I had to get my hands on her latest tome.
It’s called, Supper for a Song. The whole thrust of her new cookbook is that we should use the best ingredients we can afford, be sparing with portions and then stretch recipes to make two or even three meals. There is no arguing with that.
The right recipes for the times we live in.
These are the type of tips we all need right now.
The recipes are good old fashioned cooking but in the best possible way.
Tamasin makes it very clear she is serious about food and is very careful about the quality of ingredients she uses. But that shouldn’t stop anybody substituting her suggestions for food items they can get their hands on.
So what caught my eye? Beef stew with lemon thyme and tarragon dumplings for one and what about coffee and date pudding?
I have a thing about the taste of coffee in food, I adore it.
- So what did I learn from Tamasin this time out ?- how to use every bit of a roast chicken, what to do with leftover mash, she has recipes using cheaper cuts of meat and how to use up over ripe bananas in a delicious way. I think it’s great when a cookery book makes you think of using food in a different, even thrifty way.
Her cookbook has made me more conscious about wasting food and that has to be good.
And yes, I still think her recipes are brilliant.
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