The recipes from Kitchen (Recipes from the Heart of the Home) by Nigella Lawson range from slow and easy weekend to 30 minute weekday meals. They are well written and easy to follow accompanied by glorious colour photos.
Nigella lists her 'must-have' and 'nice-to-have' equipment in 'The Kichen Caboodle Chapter', while in the 'The Kitchen Confidential Chapter she shares her 'tricks of the trade'.
Kitchen is divided into two sections: Kitchen Quandries and Kitchen Comfort.
Kitchen Quandries
The Kitchen Quandries section contains the following chapters:
- What's for Tea?
- Hurry Up I'm Hungry
- Easy Does It
- Cook it Better
- My Sweet Solution
- Off the Cuff
These chapters offer savoury recipes for delicious quick suppers and desserts such as Tarragon Chicken, Cheesey Chili, Speedy Scaloppine, Golden Sole, and Quick Calamari Pasta, and Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Potatoes.
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Kitchen Comfort
The following chapters are listed in the Kitchen Comfort section:
- Chicken and it's Place in My Kitchen
- A Dream of Hearth and Home
- At My Table
- The Solace of Stirring
- The Bone collection
- Kitchen Pickings
- The Cook's Cure for Sunday-Night-Itis
The savoury recipes in these chapters include Homestyle Jerk Chicken, Sweet Potato Supper, Roast Seafood, and Smoke Haddock My Mother's Way.
Dragon Chicken Wings (fiery flavour), Whole Grain Mustard and Ginger Cocktail Sauges (served in a sourdough or rye bread loaf), and Pigs in a Blanket recipes are found in the Kitchen Pickings chapter
Sweet Comforting Desserts
Nigella Lawson is renowned for her extra-ordinary baking skills which are showcased in both the Kitchen Quandries and KitchenComfort sections of Kitchen, with such sublime recipes as Maple Pecan Bundt Cake, Devil's Food Cake, Sweet and Salty Crunch Nut Bars, Coffee and Walnut Layer Cake, Marmalade Pudding Cake, Old-Fashioned Cheesecake and Chocolate Chip Cookies - the mainstay of all cookies.
A Cookbook for the Home Cook
Kitchen, is a 489 page cook filled with wonderful color photos, and fabulous 'Recipes from the Heart of the Home' that will be used over and over again for the great and comforting pleasure of home-cooking.
Listed below is the link to the Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Recipe tested from Kitchen. This is one of Nigella’s quick and easy recipes made with few ingredients and cooked in the oven. The result - a spicy, delicious meal that can be served from oven to table.
Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Potatoes Recipe
Photos excerpted from Kitchen by Nigella Lawson Copyright © 2010 by Nigella Lawson. Photo Copyright © 2010 by Lis Parsons.
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