John Torode – författare

My Kind of Food is a very personal book from John Torode, full of the food that he loves to cook and eat, recipes that he makes away from the cameras and professional kitchens. In John's words:'My world as I know it started with my Nanna's roasting tin, a chicken and a wooden spoon. The food she cooked was always simple, but delicious. Her cauliflower cheese was awesome, her caramel slice wonderful and I am still searching for a recipe to make her apple tea cake.So life started simply for me. Since then I have cooked in professional kitchens, run my own restaurants and done a lot of telly. Some of you may have eaten in my restaurants, some may have seen me on MasterChef, but I guess that not many of you know what I really cook for myself and my friends and family.This book is about how I cook at home and the chapters reflect me and the things in life I love - how I eat and how I cook. At its heart, it is simple, but it's definitely also influenced by my years in restaurant kitchens. I don't tend to define my food by type or style. I guess you could say that these are my real favourites - a behind-the-scenes look at my own kitchen!' BRUNCH TO LUNCHThe Aussie in me is all about eating through the morning. My perfect day starts slowly - if breakfast is the meal of kings, then brunch is the food of emperors.FOR THE FAMILYAlthough I am a professional cook, I have a number of dishes that I rely on at home. They are all tried-and-tested, some are posh, some are simple, but all are favourites.IN A RUSHI cook every day, but sometimes it needs to be quick and easy. But there's no reason why a quick meal should not be tasty.STORES AND LEFTOVERSGreat food is created from necessity. Open your cupboards and look for the potential in your fridge. For many a minefield, but for me a gold mine. These are the recipes I know well from being a boy and watching in wonder what could be made with a bit of this and a bit of that. Not complicated just delicious.ALL OUTSIDEWell, I am an Aussie. Some of the best food in the world is cooked outside, where having fun is as important as cooking.AND TO FINISHI love a good dessert. A proper steaming pudding with thick custard or real ice cream. It's all about being a kid and not caring about sugar and spice. Cakes and tarts and pies and lots of them.

This cookbook offers the authority of a professional chef with the accessibility of a home cook, for truly delicious recipes.John and Lisa love to entertain and they both love to cook. What they enjoy the most is to see other people really enjoy cooking, feeling empowered and confident to just go for it, as much as they do. They understand that busy families need simple recipes for them to succeed in eating nourishing food from scratch, so they’ve collated some of their favourite, super-easy recipes from their ITV show John & Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen for you try at home. John and Lisa’s Kitchen covers all bases, including chapters on Breads and Brunch, One Pan Wonders, Fakeaways, Speedy Go-tos, Family Favourites, Special Night In dinners and Sweet Treats. Whether you want to rustle up a Veggie Chilli Bake for a midweek meal, make Turkish Eggs with Yoghurt Flatbreads for brunch, impress your weekend guests with Beef Wellington, or do some family baking with Lisa's Favourite Double Chocolate Cake, John and Lisa want to bring love, creativity and inspiration into your kitchen.

After the success of their first book together, celebrated chef John Torode and bestselling cookery writer Lisa Faulkner are back to offer simple and delicious solutions for weeknight cooking. Having cooked together for 10 series of ITV's John & Lisa’s Kitchen, they want to encourage people to cook from scratch with foolproof recipes that are achievable and packed with flavour. They use everyday supermarket ingredients, straightforward techniques and no fancy gadgets, to give people the confidence to cook and, most importantly, enjoy creating dishes for their friends and family.Including chapters on Crowd Pleasers, One-Pan Dishes, Quick Fixes, Friday Night In, Late Night Bites and Something Sweet, these are inspirational recipes that can be used on repeat. If you’re time-poor and in need of spicing up your repertoire, this cookbook is for you!