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Recipes from a 3 Star Chef

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:30:35 +0000

Gordon Ramsay has recently become almost more famous for his award-winning TV shows “Kitchen Nightmares” and “The F Word”, than for his expertise as an awardwinning chef and restaurateur. However, at the heart of his talent is a passion for good food and an eye for perfection that has consistently seen him receive three coveted Michelin stars. He has been called the best chef of his generation, and this book sees Gordon at his day job – running a three-star kitchen and producing food often described as ’sublime’. Getting right to the heart of why Gordon is such a celebrated chef, the first part of the book shows 50 classic Gordon Ramsay recipes presented as they would be in one of his restaurants. The second part of the book shows the dishes presented in a domestic situation with full recipes and step-by-step instructions to recreate them yourself. Dishes include Gordon’s signature Lobster Ravioli, Corn Reared Beef Fillet with Marrow Crust, Ginger Mousse and a Bitter Chocolate Cylinder with Coffee Granite.

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Gordon Ramsay’s Family Fare

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:29:03 +0000

Superstar chef Gordon Ramsay’s aim is to get us all cooking up a storm and sitting down at the table with friends and family to share brunch on Saturdays and Sundays and other leisure times. Drawing on different traditions he features home cooked dishes that range from traditional roasts to lighter summer fare, from easy 30-minute meals to Italian, Indian, and Moroccan-influenced family feasts. As always, Ramsay is there to help the home cook at every stage—buying the right ingredients, preparation and serving, and helping coordinate the cooking of several dishes to arrive on the table simultaneously. Featuring twenty-five menus derived from his The F-Word TV show, each features a starter, main course and a dessert, plus an invaluable timetable and all sorts of helpful culinary hints–such as carving and what do to do when things go wrong in the kitchen. For those who want to pick and choose, there are alternative recipe and menu suggestions, as well as expert advice and techniques from Britain’s top chef, making this a must-have purchase for all Ramsay fans.

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Gordon Ramsay’s Passion for Seafood

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:43 +0000

No information available on this book.

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Gordon Ramsay’s Sunday Lunch: And Other Recipes from the ” F Word ” : And Other Recipes from ” The F Word “

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:26:37 +0000

I am a typical male, not a very good cook, but fortunately I know someone who is, my wife. So rather than buy the book for myself I saw it as a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. A present for my wife with the added attraction of getting some of Gordon’s meals thrown in, without having to pay restaurant prices.

By chef’s own admission the food is simple, but innovative and exciting and I have been fortunate to enjoy several of the recipes already.

I admire Mr. Ramsay for trying to coax the British public into getting round the table together on a Sunday lunch time. Whether it will ever happen in our house where the members are usually scattered to the four corners of the property, doing their own thing. A tray on the knee, or even walking around with a plate in their hand, I have my doubts.

I do remember many years ago when I lived at home with my parents that Sunday lunch was a ritual that was virtually impossible to escape from. If you were not at the table, hands and face sparkling, you wouldn’t hear the last of it until Monday morning.

However I digress, the book is a cook book. So is it any good. Well like the curates egg, it is good in parts. By that I mean, or so my wife tells me, that some of the recipes are excellent and some of them are OK and some of them she thinks she can do better herself, and who am I to argue.

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Playing with Fire

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:25:07 +0000

Are you a Gordon Ramsay fan? Do you want to know more about how he started his career? If you answered yes to these questions then this book is a MUST HAVE! This book tells how Gordon Ramsay started out his career, met his wife and how his father in law helped him with this career. I am a HUGE Gordon Ramsay fan, and I love reading this book, it tells you a lot about him and his attitude that he has. I have not completely finished the book yet, but still highly recommend it if you are a “true” Gordon Ramsay fan. It is a must have if you are a fan!!! (This is not a cookbook!!)

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Cooking for Friends

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:23:44 +0000

“As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I’m at home, I want to slow down.”

way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends. The way Gordon cooks here embodies his strongly held views: use in-season, fresh ingredients at their peak; support local producers and farmers’ markets whenever possible; and celebrate the food culture and its many influences.

And while Gordon loves to celebrate traditional food, he proves that it doesn’t have to be boring, bland, or uninventive. Cooking for Friends is full of Gordon’s best-loved versions of classic dishes—try a slow-cooked dish like Honey Roast Ham or Corn-Fed Chicken Legs with Braised Peas and Onions, or invite people around for a Sunday lunch of Roast Rib-Eye with Caramelized Shallot and Red Wine Gravy. Cook the ultimate in comfort food, Shepherd’s Pie with Branston Pickle or Bakewell Tart, and get the kids involved in making Farfalle with Bacon, Peas, and Sage or Grilled Vegetable Lasagne.

Cooking for Friends contains more than one hundred of Gordon’s favorite recipes that he loves to cook and eat with friends and family—uncomplicated recipes but all with Gordon’s remarkable feeling for flavor and his extraordinary technical know-how.

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Gordon Ramsay: The Biography

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:22:42 +0000

He has changed the way Britain eats, has cooked for prime ministers, has thrown Hollywood actresses out of his restaurants, is one of only three chefs in England whose restaurant is rated at three Michelin stars, and is on record for swearing more times in a single hour of prime-time television than anyone in the history of British broadcasting. Better known in the United States as the host of FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen, this former professional soccer player is one of the most driven, successful, and angry chefs around, and this first major biography details his story. Nothing is off-limits when Ramsay talks. He discusses the violent, alcoholic, absent father who died just days after the pair had been reconciled as adults; the best friend and protégé whose bizarre suicide came hours after the two had shared a final meal; the decade-long battle to save his younger brother from heroin addiction and crime; and the real reason why Ramsay wasn’t at the birth of any of his four children—and has never changed a diaper in his life. Sometimes hilarious and frequently heartbreaking, Gordon Ramsay’s inspiring tale runs from the low-income housing of Glasgow to the picture-postcard countryside of Stratford-upon-Avon to some of the finest and most expensive restaurants in the world.

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Gordon Ramsay’s Just Desserts

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:21:49 +0000

Gordon Ramsay’s Just Desserts is a very fine book of last courses from energetic three-star Michelin chef Gordon Ramsay, expertly marshaled for the domestic kitchen by Roz Denny. Ramsay’s imagination is obviously caught by the sweet course: he expends a great deal of innovative thinking to it with fascinating results. He is inclined to roast his fruit, for example, caramelizing it for greater intensity of flavor; or he might deep-fry it, as in the elegant and fantastically nonchalant Fruit Tempura. Asian flavors appear in ethereal dishes like the Thai Rice Pudding with Coconut and Lemon or Banana and Passion Fruit Sorbet. Cheesecake is light and flavored with pumpkin. Proper homage is paid to comfort food, with recipes for Bread and Butter Pudding (Ramsay makes his with a baguette and laces it with Baileys Irish Cream) and Steamed Toffee, Banana, and Pecan Pudding. The chocolate recipes are particularly fine, with a Chocolate Mocha Tart standing out. Just Desserts is also an excellent primer of patisserie techniques; its explanations and illustrations of the standard syrups, pastes, sponges, and pastries of the restaurant kitchen, here translated into domestic terms, are particularly lucid. The professional mysteries of the mousse, the parfait, the bavarois, and the various manifestations of the meringue are made wonderfully clear.

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Kitchen Heaven

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:20:50 +0000

With over 100 brand new recipes-including some of the most accessible and delicious he has ever produced-Kitchen Heaven is a cookbook for everyone who loves food, from the complete novice to the more accomplished cook.
As well as meat, fish, and vegetarian dishes, there are recipes for soups, dressings, sauces, puddings, and “Things on Toast”. With practical insights and fascinating anecdotes, it also provides for the first time, a glimpse of what really drives this professional footballer-turned world renowned chef, who induces not only sheer terror in all those who work with him, but also fierce loyalty. That number is about to include you. Let Gordon into your kitchen-and you’ll soon be cooking like never before.

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Passion for Flavour

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:19:47 +0000

More than 100 recipes – manyu of them Ramsay’s most famous – from the fiery, 3-star Michelin chef on Fox’s hit series, “Hell’s Kitchen.” Each recipe puts a premium on lightness and flavor using a low-fat approach.

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