Nigel Slater: 6 great alternative Christmas recipes
Celebrate uncomplicated cooking with Nigel Slater, and discover how to follow your instincts and cook without a recipe
Named by the Sunday Times as ‘probably the best food writer around’, Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling and award-winning cookery books, including Real Fast Food, Real Cooking and Appetite, winner of the André Simon Cookbook of the Year 2001.
In Appetite, Nigel argues that we should not be slavishly following recipes, but rather our instincts. ‘Break the rules, experiment with recipes and satisfy your appetite,’ is his rally cry.
Instead of providing a cast-iron list of ingredients and measurements, he gives templates with ideas for how they might be adapted to produce a range of dishes. A cheap spaghetti meal, for example, has eight variations, and you soon start to discover combinations of your own.
'I want to encourage you to take in the spirit of my recipes,’ says Nigel, ‘but then to deviate according to your ingredients and your feelings… To understand that both our ingredients and our hunger are variables that should not, cannot, be subjected to a set of formulas laid down in tablets of stone. I want you to break the rules. I want you to follow your appetite.'
Read Nigel’s New cook’s survival guide
So, what do you want to eat today?
A fast, warming bowl of soup
A tart for lunch, supper or a party
A fishcake to console and another to excite
Chicken, garlic, herbs: a simple supper
A creamy, calming pasta dish
A really great trifle
Appetite is published in paperback by Fourth Estate, and is available online from
www.amazon.co.uk
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