Contents
Guide
Dedication
For Chris, who has been my number one supporter and business partner since we started this amazing food journey. From filming and editing our recipe videos, managing the company finances, implementing tech solutions, managing objective setting meetings, to taste testing mushroom-laden recipes (when he hates mushrooms), hes the best husband a girl could wish for. Also, for Gracey (main washer-upper) and Lewis (dish-washer emptier), thank you for being the best (and most brutally honest) taste testers.
Notes:
* All oven temperatures are for fan oven.
* Unless otherwise stated, salt is always regular table salt.
* Unless otherwise stated, pepper is always freshly ground black pepper.
* If soy sauce isnt listed as light or dark soy sauce, it means standard soy sauce. You can use light soy sauce as a replacement if you dont have standard soy sauce.
* I use stock in a lot of my recipes. If you make homemade stock, thats great, but water + stock cubes will work just fine for any of the recipes.
* I use full-fat (whole) dairy (milk, cream, butter, yogurt, cheese) and full-fat coconut milk and coconut cream in my recipes. I find they taste better, and full-fat versions are a lot less likely to split when heating.
Contents
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Introduction
Some people say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Dinner is the meal I think about the most, look forward to all day, and plan for, usually days in advance. If were lucky, work and school are done for the day and its the time to sit down with the family, relax and have a good catch-up. If we can sit at the table, then so much the better, but sometimes, dinner on a tray on our knees, in front of a good film, is perfect too.
I love the way dinner can take so many different forms.
* Sunday dinner a big family affair, with all the trimmings and a proper pudding that leaves you full to bursting.
* Super-fast weeknight dinners, when youve got to fit it in between work and after-school clubs.
* Friday night fake-away with a spicy curry or a delicious stir-fry.
* Date night, where you pull out all the stops to recreate some restaurant-style food, without having to worry about taxis or babysitters!
* Or something cooked long and slow put in the slow cooker in the morning, so its tender, tasty and filling the house with the most glorious aromas come dinner time.
However you do dinner, I hope youll find lots of recipes here thatll become family favourites, and your go-to, whatever the occasion.
Why should this book be on your recipe book shelf? My Kitchen Sanctuarywebsite is my online cookery book, which I constantly add to. Ive been testing, photographing and sharing recipes since 2014, and weve now got hundreds and hundreds of recipes on there!
I wrote this book to share the best of the best the recipes that our readers constantly come back to. With a book, you can also flick through lovely photos and recipes for dinner inspiration, without any adverts or other distractions that can get in the way when youre looking at things online. Of course, I didnt want to only bring you existing recipes. So Ive included a selection of brand-new recipes too. Recipes that I hope youll love as much as I do.
My dream is for this book to be that well-thumbed, dog-eared, ingredient-spattered book that you always come back to when youre planning and making dinner.
Check out the videos!
Not only does each recipe in this book have a photo, but there is also a recipe video. Ive included a QR code for every single recipe, which will take you through to a video, so you can see how the recipe is made, every step of the way.