National Trust Family Cookbook (National Trust Food)

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To serve, add the fish cakes to the rolls with a leaf or two of lettuce, some mayonnaise, salt and pepper and a squeeze of lemon. Squashed-fly cherry spelt biscuits I’m really pleased that the book has so many vegetarian recipes too as I’m vegetarian and my family eats mainly vegetarian food. There are lots of yummy sounding recipes in here for me to try out. The photography is beautiful too and I love that there’s a mix of food photography and photos of the actual family cooking and kids enjoying the finished result. The only thing I would change is to include photos of all the dishes as that is something that I look for in a cookbook. Other than that, it’s pretty perfect! Bright green, these are tasty little fritters the whole family will love. You can fry them off and keep them wrapped and warm in the oven to serve all at once. Or, if your family is anything like mine, you can fry as many fritters as will fit in the pan at a time, immediately hurling them onto the gobbled-and-wanting-more plates. She can't totally escape pasta though: "I've had some children come for play dates and that's all they want to eat, but as a grown-up, you've allowed that to happen if you're serving plain pasta." We want to get them excited through a Trojan horse of entertainment, so they don't feel they're being preached to."

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It's really important to get them to help you, otherwise the food lands in front of them and they're expected to eat it," Claire adds. Claire Thomson wants to revitalise cooking for the family – making it less of a chore, with separate meals for children and adults, and more of an enjoyable way to refresh your culinary imagination and make cooking for the family something to look forward to. As a mother and a chef, Claire gives real insight into what makes food appealing to all the family and how to shop, cook and eat as a family so that meal times are something for all the family to look forward to.A lifesaver if you're in a recipe rut when it comes to family meals' - BBC Good Food magazine, March 2017 They should set the table or pour the water. There's a community to being in a family; I don't want to be running a restaurant for my children until they're 18 and leave home!" Claire Thomson in the kitchen with one of her daughters I am determined that when my children leave home, we will have spend more hours together eating, talking, and laughing around the kitchen table than on my sofa. I also hope that they will all cook well. In their cooking, I’d like them to be generous with vegetables, able to cook thrifty, wholesome ingredients with a punch and panache, and be confident in using a variety of spices and herbs… and what I would like the most is for them to have a relationship with food that is completely and utterly normal!”

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Her travels have shaped her love of food and the dishes she serves up at home, as well as when she cooks in schools.I don't serve plain pasta and my kids would think it was weird," says Claire Thomson, family food ambassador for the National Trust, chef and mum-of-three. Now based in Bristol, Claire was born in Zimbabwe and travelled "extensively" with her New Zealander husband, before they settled in the UK to raise their daughters Grace, 10, Ivy, seven and four-year-old Dot.

National Trust Family Cookbook (National Trust Food

Melt two-thirds of the butter in a large wide pan over a medium heat. Add the bacon if using, the onion and leek and cook for about eight to 10 minutes until soft and translucent. Add the garlic and cook for one more minute. We've got a tiny kitchen but a great big kitchen table, because I think it's important that Grace should be sitting there doing her spellings, or Dot will be colouring in while I'm cooking - it's just day-to-day a real normalcy around food." In the new book, Claire's recipes are categorised by how long they take to cook, with sections for on-the-go breakfasts and lunch box alternative They're excited by the food in front of them, the kitchen is the axis of my home life and I want them to feel that food is a really normal thing, that it's not fetishised or not given enough credence. Well-illustrated, practical cookbook, a must for any busy young parent' - Sunday Express, March 2017 Bake the biscuits in the oven for about eight minutes until they are just beginning to turn golden.The National Trust Family Cookbook is Claire’s new book and it’s full of beautiful and delicious family dishes with easy to follow recipes. They’re all family friendly and there are over 100 ideas for breakfasts, lunches at home, lunchboxes and evening meals plus desserts and bakes. Now for my personal favourite recipe from the cookbook. The pea and halloumi fritters are so easy to whip up and they taste delicious too.