Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights ~ Hardback ~ Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl, one of the most glorious women on the planet, shares delicious secrets from her slinky kitchen, funny stories and favourite recipes in a beautifully illustrated hardback. With delectable recipes for each season, this luscious abundant take on food will delight women everywhere. In this beautifully colour illustrated cookbook, Sophie shares 100 of her favourite recipes that show that healthy can be delicious and indulgent. Sophie lived out the latter part of her adolescence under the public spotlight as the first anti-waif model. Flirting with every food fad from Atkins to raw food, she experienced both misadventures and victories in her quest to have a healthy relationship with food. Now she reveals the recipes that allowed her to eat what she wants while being sylphy as a sapling. Sophie cooks with gusto and passion and here she takes us on a delicious journey through a wonderful collection of her favourite recipes for every meal and every season - from her Grandmother Gee-Gee's ginger parkin, to her dad's amazing chicken curry to what she serves her boyfriend for breakfast. Try out her mama's baked acorn squash and the delicious student-days favourite 'Paris Mash', plus childhood-fun puddings like Carnation milk jelly or decadent desserts like Chocolate chestnut souffle. Sophie reveals compassionate common sense about food, and serves up a lashing of healthy recipes that celebrate the joy of eating so you'll never want to diet again. Original, funny, intimate, and quirky with a bit of whimsy, this glorious book is full of wonderful anecdotes and delicious recipes, scattered with Sophie's own lovely Matisse-like line drawings that slope off the page. Recipes include: Buttermilk Chicken with Smashed Sweet Potatoes, Banana Bread, Monkfish with Saffron Sauce, Beetroot Soup, Cinnamon Peaches with Yoghurt, Chicken Stew with Green Olives, Flourless Chocolate Cake... Reviews 'What a joy' Jamie Oliver “This cook book is a real joy... wonderful recipes and glorious photography... This is a passionate, happy and useful cook book, which come the end of the year, will be in my top ten.” - Sunday Star Times ‘…a book that combines a love of food with a love of life, and a perfect celebration of how we are what we eat.’ - Justine Picardie, Red ‘Bursting with family anecdotes and some of Sophie’s personal favourite receipes, it is, as she describes it, a “food-moire”.’ - The English Home ‘…an unbridled delight.’ - London Lite ‘The recipes are simple … all of them look utterly delicious, but it’s the little touches that make this cookbook stand out.’ - Heat Sample Recipe Poached eggs on portobello mushrooms with goat's cheese I make this when I'm a bit breaded out, but hungry. Portobello mushrooms have a satisfying meatiness about them that sates without the heaviness of a full English. Serves 2 2 generously sized portobello mushrooms Salt and Pepper Olive oil 2 thick rounds of soft goat's cheese 2 eggs 1 teaspoon of white vinegar (for poaching) 1 sprig of fresh tarragon Preheat the grill. Wash the mushrooms and remove the stalks, season with salt and pepper and give them a glug of olive oil; a spoonful should do. Crumble the goat's cheese. Pop the mushrooms stalk-side up under the grill for about 5 minutes. While they are searing away, poach the eggs in a pan of gently boiling water (a teaspoon of white vinegar should stop the separating). You can do one of two things with the goat's cheese: you can add it on top of the mushrooms when you put them under the grill, so it browns; or you can put it on just after they come out. You should poach the eggs for about 3 minutes if you want them soft in the middle (5 if you want them stern and unyielding.) Drain them, put them on top of your crumbly goat's cheese/ mushroom mix, scatter some chopped tarragon on the top, grind on a bit of pepper and voila! Author Biography Sophie Dahl was immortalised in the beloved children's classic, The BFG, by her grandfather Roald Dahl. She began modelling in 1996, after being discovered by fashion maverick Isabella Blow. In 2003 her best-selling novella, 'The Man With The Dancing Eyes' was published. Dahl is a contributing editor for Men's Vogue, and has been published in American Vogue, the Guardian, the Telegraph Magazine and The Spectator. Dahl recently moved back to England after an eight year sojourn in New York.