Tana Ramsay's Real Family Food: Delicious Recipes for Everyday Occasions - Books (Tana Ramsay, Hardcover)

Everyone in the family will love Tana Ramsay's simple and delicious recipes. The secret, says the author of the bestselling Tana Ramsay's Family Kitchen, is easy recipes and basic ingredients. Whatever the occasion --school-night suppers, family entertain

Customer Reviews of Tana Ramsay's Real Family Food: Delicious Recipes for Everyday Occasions

S. Heese

30th March 2008

Absolutlty great for American cooks
I was a little nervous about purchasing this book knowing that a lot of ingredients might not be able, or found here in America as easily. I am happily surprised that every single recipe is easy to make, tastes delicious and every ingredient is available in your local supermarket. Being a vegitarian in a very carnivor home, I find the recipies easily interchangable with meat and non-meat products. I would and have, reccommended this to everyone I know.

And this affects me how?
Bucks County, PA
26th March 2008

Swimming upstream
I just received this book and will hold off on reviewing actual recipes until I've had time to try some. However, I really like the book thus far. I like the layout, the warm comments, and I cannot take offense at the photos throughout as I think they fit very well with the intention of the book: real family food. The graininess of the photos seemed to bring warmth to the style and I didn't mind endless shots of Tana working with food or the kids grinning devishly and seemingly enjoying themselves. I've bookmarked about a dozen recipes that I'm eager to try and, hopefully, my family will approve, too. All in all, I think it's an attractive, well thought out cookbook and a worthy addition to my 100+ volume collection.

Update 4/18/08: Love this book. Every recipe I've tried has worked succesfully and I'm looking forward to getting through more. What I like best about the book is it made me wonder hey, why didn't I think of this? Especially the Mango Chicken Salad, which was to die for. Simple ingredients but it packed a wallop of flavor. I can highly recommend this book and it presented no problem for me as an American cook.

J. McKenna
United Kingdom
7th January 2008

Tana Ramsay's Real Family Food
An unfortunate christmas present I received.

One of the new generation cookbooks that seems to picture more photographs of the author and her family than the actual recipes in the book. I want to see books about family food, how to cook it well, process shots and 'appetising' photos of what it should look like when finally prepared- not a photo album of the author and her family. Which are rather off putting.

The matt paper used to print on in this book and 'grainy' printing don't do justice to the food photos, so why bother with food pics at all - I fear this book will be consigned to the recycle bin or become a bookshelf filler rather than a real kitchen work top manual.

wysiwy-f-g
u.k
6th January 2008

profesional cook sitting on the fence
I think some of Tana's recipes are original and approachable.
The book overall has a comfortable and simple style, which is good.
There is a couple of personal bugbears, which make me reluctant to embrace this book however, which are:
1. Tana uses some superfluous words such as "nice", exmple: "until they are nice and golden", well they wouldn't be horrible and golden, would they?
2. Does there have to be quite so many pictures of her in the book, and mostly grinning ones. And no, I'm not from the "smile police."
3. Too many eclamation marks!
4. She comes over as ever so slightly patronising for example, with a lunch box recipe for kids, "so there is no excuse for not packing something more interesting than a cheese sandwhich in a lunch box....!" o.k Gold Star for you Tana....
5. The smug comment Tana makes of not worrying about being "too perfect" about her cooking,otherwise Gordon would never get fed (pointing out if her food is good enough for Gordon, it must be tops)! I think somehow the big lad is capable of feeding himself ,hmm?

Pat

26th September 2007

I love this book!
what's so great about it is that the recipes are dead easy to follow and taste great. I've just made the orange chicken bake and it went down a treat. If you want a cookbook that you'll actually use buy this one!