National Trust Family Cookbook (National Trust Food)

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Over 100 delicious recipes perfect for a busy family life. Make family meals fun again with this approachable guide to adventurous cooking.

National Trust Family Cookbook by Claire Thomson | Goodreads

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. Transfer to a plate lined with kitchen towel to soak up excess fat while you fry the remaining fish cakes.

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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."

National Trust Family Cookbook by Claire Thomson - AbeBooks National Trust Family Cookbook by Claire Thomson - AbeBooks

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. Well-illustrated, practical cookbook, a must for any busy young parent' - Sunday Express, March 2017 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. It’s fab share with you an easy peasy recipe from the National Trust Family Cookbook by Claire Thomson. 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.

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the creamed butter mix, add the cherries and stir through. Mix thoroughly to combine. Cover with cling film and place in the fridge for half an hour to firm up. 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. And she's not a total stranger to fussy eaters, admitting that "Dot's not a saint - there are some days she just wants to eat boiled eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner". 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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Bake the biscuits in the oven for about eight minutes until they are just beginning to turn golden.That's fine, but I don't let her do it every day, and I don't let her say she doesn't like vegetables because I'm a chef and I make them taste nice! I think fussy eaters are a problem, but you just carry on and eventually, they turn a corner and start eating."