Let’s Eat Recipes from My Kitchen Notebook

Tom Parker Bowles gives us more than 140 of his kitchen staples; the dishes he cooks day in, day out. This is home cooking at its best – Fish Pie, Shoulder of Lamb with Pommes Boulanger, Noodle Soup, Treacle Tart – all shamelessly indulgent, but straightforward to prepare and affordable. Accompanied by beautiful photographs by Cristian Barnett.

Tireless in the pursuit of a good dinner, award-winning food writer and broadcaster Tom Parker Bowles has concentrated a life spent in thrall to his appetite into one cookbook, Let’s Eat. Bringing together flavours and cooking styles from his extensive travels, and the unbeatable food cooked for family and friends, this is a book about flavour, succour and good cheer, and home-cooked food at its very best.

Chapters include:

• Comfort food
• Quick fixes
• Slow & low
• From far-flung shores
• Cooking for children

The recipes range from the resolutely traditional and British (My Mother’s Roast Chicken or the classic Sticky Toffee Pudding) through the speediest of quick fixes (Asian Steak in Lettuce or Hot Buttered Crab) to the slow and low (Tom’s 10-Alarm Chilli or Oxtail Stew) and the recipes recreated in his kitchen after his global travels (Cochinita Pibil or Gong Bao Chicken).

There’s shameless indulgence (Baked Potato with Caviar or Eccles Cake Ice Cream), as well as cocktails, salads and even a chapter on cooking for kids (Coriander Chicken or Fishcakes).

Packed full of classics, crowdpleasers and future favourites, all have been recreated by Tom to make them easy for the home cook to prepare. Tom has cooked every recipe in his home kitchen again and again before including it in this notebook. He also explores the basic ingredients that are essential to a good dinner, such as fats and stocks, offering suggestions on how to prepare and cook with them. Everyday staples such as eggs and steak get a close inspection too, with ideas and advice for dishes to prepare with them. Let’s Eat is an irresistible hotchpotch of delicious recipes; a trusty cookbook written in Tom’s distinctive voice means it’s a book that you’ll want to read from cover to cover.