WEEKEND

Sub-titled 'Eating at Home: From Long Lazy Lunches to Fast Family Fixes', from casual Friday night dinners to brunch with friends, light lunches and garden feasts to celebratory gatherings and the classic Sunday lunch, all bases are covered here. Matt Tebbutt is never short of a fast meal idea or a menu for guests that will impress. Rustle up fabulous outdoor and barbecue dishes plus indulgent family feasts with his 100 inspiring recipes all beautifully photographed. Make the humble potato more interesting by being crispy on the outside and soft in the middle, using butter, goose or duck fat or even thin strips of lardon or pork fat, a drizzle of olive oil and chopped chives and seasoning. There is a Five-Spice Roast Goose, a Roast Rib of Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Onion Gravy and Chive and Black Pepper Butter, French Onion Soup with Gruyère and Ham Croutons, Chicken, Ham Hock and Jerusalem Artichoke Pithivier which is essentially a puff-pastry pie and a real showstopper, Grilled Veg with Crispy Egg and Almond and Yoghurt Dressing, Roasted Red Mullet with Basil and Sun-Dried Tomato and Chilli Toast with a strong distinctive flavour and an interesting texture which stands up well to punchy herbs. Or try a very healthy looking Toasted Quinoa Salad and Piri-Piri dressing to ruin the reputation that quinoa has for being a bit dull! Plus Coconut Bread and Raspberry Cream, Spiced Lamb Flatbread, Spicy Crisp-Fried Cauliflower, Seared Tuna with Ginger and Soy Dressing, Portuguese Chicken, Coriander and Garlic Soup, and we could go on. Full page colour photos, 224pp, 20 x 25.4cm.