Flash Cooking: Fit Fast Flavours for Busy Bodies

by Laura Santtini

Flash is the everyday cooking of the future. Using Laura Santtini's clever and easily prepared 'flavour bombs', fast flavourings literally flash in the pan. The difference between her dishes and other fast food, however, is that they are designed to promote wellbeing and keep you trim and fit. She makes the ordinary extraordinary by showing readers how to transform familiar basic everyday ingredients - fish fillets and steaks, chicken breasts, etc. - into a wide range of exciting and nutritious meals that draw on many popular cuisines of the world to keep the taste buds tingling. Readers will be able to ring the changes on favourite foods from salmon fillets glazed with maple syrup and ginger to pork cutlets with sage and anchovy butter and cauliflower steaks with harissa and feta cheese. There are dishes for all occasions, even energizing breakfasts and all-day snacks. Fast, healthy, simple and flavour-packed, Laura's recipes sparkle with magic. This book will inspire readers to embrace new flavours and will become the essential guide for everyone looking for fabulous fast food for a fit life.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2011

Reviews

[Hobbes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fit Fast Flavours for Busy Bodies

In all honesty, a lot about flash cooking is common sense and many heavy users of herbs, spices and condiments already cook using this philosophy adding flavour bombs to most dishes. There are inspiring dishes here, healthy for the most part, and I like the wheat-free element too. I've tried a fair amount of recipes over the last year and they have been delicious (although I've added carbohydrates to the protein & veg meals sometimes as I find the food-combining element too hard to stick to all the time).

For novice cooks it is a great way to learn about being quick and creative in the kitchen. Flash Cooking offers above par daily meals that are quick but look like you've slaved over the stove much longer. A handy addition to the cookbook shelf.

[Andrea James · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've given this book 4 stars mainly because I like the "transformations" pages - ideas on how to change the feel of a dish by varying a few ingredients. They are approximations of "Western", "Middle Eastern", "Far Eastern" flavours (and it's likely that some people from those regions would be insulted by the simplistic reduction of their cuisines) but it's how I think about quick meals so I found it helpful to see the information laid out in this way.

Another reason is that the very simple cauliflower recipe prompted me to try it and it turned out to be quite tasty.

I didn't find the playful names of the dishes as offensive as one of the other Goodreads reviewers. And actually most of the dishes have very plain names like "Grilled lemon halloumi" and "Maple-glazed salmon".

[Sabriel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not sure whether I should laugh or cry. Clearly I was mistaken to take Flash Cooking for merely a title, behold, it is a philosophy. One with page titles like "Lick the world" (p.25) and recipe names like "Tortured Sole" and "The Thighs The Limit". I don't think I can comment on her remarks about health, fat and the use of olive oil without crying, so I shall forgo those.

The author is the creator of the Taste Nr 5 Umami Paste and surprisingly this can be an ingredient in about any of her recipes.

However, a lot of the recipes look sensible in terms of ingredients and prep and I will definitively try them, but using the book will certainly flash cook my brain with OMG.

[Kate]

Need to add the cover. Very nicely designed book that I found somewhere? Haven't tried any of the recipes yet but they look good.