Simple Food

by Jill Dupleix

Simple Food is a collection of recipes for people who love real food, simple ingredients, and fast preparation. Jill Dupleix's one hundred innovative recipes are based on fresh ingredients and effortless culinary techniques, from light summer dishes to comforting winter foods. Separate chapters for each meal of the day feature easy recipes that suit every occasion, from tasty snacks to trouble-free entertaining.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2002

Reviews

[G.G. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I expected to like cooking from this collection more than I did: the author grew up on a sheep farm in Victoria and--true to her origins--all the ingredients she calls for are real, "food your grandmother would have recognised as food," in Michael Pollan's formulation. The photographs are ravishing too. But somehow I didn't find myself longing to cook many of Dupleix's recipes, some of which are rather more suggestions than instructions anyway. There's a bit too much meat for the way we eat now; and a lot of the food strikes me as the sort of thing you'd once have ordered at a smart café. Which is fine if you want to see how to reproduce that sort of thing at home.

My favourite of the recipes I did try: equal parts whipped cream and Greek yogurt, sprinkled with brown sugar and left to melt in the fridge for an hour. Good with almost anything!

[Fiona Peterson-Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a fabulous writer, I regularly cook from this book