Nigel Slater's "Tender" recipes

jaybee

I am wondering if anyone else has this book and is having as much trouble with locating recipes in the index?

After watching last night's programme I decided that I would make the sausage and pasta recipe. I have tried looking it up under 'sausage', 'pasta' etc. but simply can't find it! I'm pretty sure that I can more or less do it from the top of my head, but it's so annoying.

I was trying to look another recipe up last week and was unable to find it in the index.

I do love the book (apart from that) and it is beautifully produced (except for the index).

hotcookie101

I don't think that the book is actually related to the TV show. The sausage and mustard thing from last night you can find here
I think the TV show is to tie in with the dig in campaign and the book is a happy coincidence
I love the book, slowly working my way through reading it, I love to read his books, actually more than I like to watch him on the TV

jaybee

hotcookie101 - thank you so much for your quick reply and the link to the recipes. No wonder I thought I was going crazy!!!

Yes, I love reading his books, too - they are so much more than 'just cookery books'.

mioliere

I've been really enjoying Nigel Slater's latest series - I love the fact that he doesn't like being called a 'chef' and would rather be known as a 'cook'; it makes him far more real, and his recipes are great, cheap, and achievable. I just love his kitchen, too, especially all the herbs just outside his back door - bliss! I have a great book of his that was given away with a magazine a few years ago (Nigel Slater's Real Fast Food), and it's a fabulous book.

thriftlady_2

jaybee wrote: »

I am wondering if anyone else has this book and is having as much trouble with locating recipes in the index?

After watching last night's programme I decided that I would make the sausage and pasta recipe. I have tried looking it up under 'sausage', 'pasta' etc. but simply can't find it! I'm pretty sure that I can more or less do it from the top of my head, but it's so annoying.

I was trying to look another recipe up last week and was unable to find it in the index.

I do love the book (apart from that) and it is beautifully produced (except for the index).

It isn't in Tender. Tender is a book about vegetable cookery. It isn't designed to accompany the Simple Suppers series.

I think you've missed the point of his ideas . He doesn't want you to follow a recipe but take inspiration from it.

All he did was cook some pasta -any kind you like
Fry some onions
Take some sausages out of their skins and break into chunks, fry in a pan.
Add a good dollop of mustard -whatever kind you like
Add a pot of cream (if you like) and some herbs -thyme would be my choice.
Stir in the drained pasta.

I'll be making it next week but I certainly won't be following a recipe. Also love the cheese, ham and beans idea too.

jaybee

Thanks mioliere - I have all of his books and they are among my most used cookery books.

thriftlady - thanks for taking the time to spell it out for me . I think my one remaining brain cell is struggling today (well, everyday actually!). I had remembered most of the ingredients but had totally forgotten about the mustard!

thriftlady_2

Jaybee-I didn't mean to sound patronising! -I do hope you weren't offended -curse the written medium:)

mummysaver

Thanks peeps, missed this series so will catch up online with it, I lurve Nigel Slater, his recipes are always so sensible and edible!

jaybee

thriftlady wrote: »

Jaybee-I didn't mean to sound patronising! -I do hope you weren't offended -curse the written medium:)

No, no, not at all - I didn't mean for my reply to make it look as though I'd taken it the wrong way:rotfl:

jaybee

Just reporting back to say that I made it last night and it was delicious! Thanks again :beer: