Bill’s Italian Food

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Bill’s Italian Food
Bill Granger

Bestselling TV cook Bill Granger brings his trademark fresh flavours and easy-going recipes to the well-loved food of Italy.The cornerstone of Bill’s cooking is also the cornerstone of the best of Italian cuisine: simple, flavoursome dishes with short ingredient lists and uncomplicated methods, centred on ingredients that are easy to find and needn’t be expensive. And better yet, those ingredients don't have to just be tomato, mozzarella and basil, the usual suspects of Italian cooking, but neither do they need to be deli-sourced truffles or champagne-priced olive oil. Bill offers a bold new twist on this hugely popular cuisine.There’s a Roman saying along the lines of: ‘the more you pay, the less well you eat’; Bill shows you how to take common ingredients from your supermarket and achieve healthy and satisfying Italian-inspired dishes.Divided into themed chapters – from quick and easy suppers and deliciously stress-free meals for friends, to no-fuss oven-baked comfort food, lazy weekend food and big Italian-style get-togethers – Bill’s Italian Food will bring fresh ideas to your kitchen. And along with the mouth-watering pastas, meats, salads and grills you’ll be serving happiness, comfort and joy.One again Bill Granger offers maximum flavours with minimum effort giving Italian food an inspiring makeover to tantalise the tastebuds as well as fit into our busy lives.spinach with crushed olive, ricotta salata, pinenut dressingroasted asparagus with black olives and mintgnocchi baked with tomato, ricotta and pecorinopappadelle with spicy chicken ragupumpkin and amoretti lasagnebraised pork meatballs with sultana, pinenut and marjoramfresh salad of peach, prosciutto, treviso and burratapizzette with caramelised fennel, rosemary and salamitagliatelle with courgette, sweetcorn and pecorinosausage stuffed pork loin with garlic and rosemarypancetta roast chicken with walnut stuffingsquash, fontina and ricotta gratinsummer berry and white chocolate tiramisublood orange, almond and mascarpone cake

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Cover (#ua7079fcc-7699-5ca7-bbbd-9e76670e7eda)

Title Page (#u85f9a53e-2ad8-5852-98b9-2c5aec99f82e)

Introduction

Pantry

Instant

Weekday

Slow

Dinner

Party

Sweets

List of Recipes

Credits

Notes

Dedication (#u646ef71c-67cc-56e9-a7c8-ff4abe98ad03)

Bill Granger

Copyright

About the Publisher

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‘These people really know how to live,’ I decide every time I visit Italy. Italians look as if they’re thoroughly enjoying life as stylish extras on the set of Roman Holiday. They don’t suck coffee from disposable sippy-cups on the bus; they lean against marble bars and drink tiny grown-up espressos. They don’t dash down takeaway burgers over computer keyboards; they unwrap paper parcels of spiced salami or creamy cheese in shaded parks. And, while much of the world hums with anxiety in rush-hour traffic, the Italians dress up for the daily passeggiata before zipping off on a shiny red Vespa to eat gelato with a glossy-haired Audrey Hepburn ... My imagination has run away with me, but Italians do seem to have made some great lifestyle choices – just don’t mention politics, please! Sitting down to eat well with family and friends takes high priority, yet no stress accompanies that expectation and there’s a refreshing lack of artifice about what is put on the table. This country is the home of the slow cooking movement, yet no Italian would waste time faffing around with already-perfect fresh ingredients (how they must sigh at our foams and deconstructions). The regional dishes are as old as the hills they come from, yet the freshness of the ingredients gives them modernity. Rich and poor, all are able to eat well in Italy. It’s this joy of life and respect for food that I resolve to take home with me every time I visit. Yes, the Italians really know how to live.