Bad Cook电子书

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Prologue

How to Stay Married

Lamb Shank Curry

Connie’s Mango Salsa

Osso Buco

Why I Hate Myself Part 1

Note: How to Be a Good Host

Meat Fear Part 1

My Husband the Eighties Hero

Are You an Alcoholic?

The Shitty Food Diet

Note: What You Need in Your Kitchen

Toad in the Hole

Offal

Home Alone

Cheat’s Mayonnaise

Baba Ganoush

Advice

Things No-one Ever Tells You About Cooking

Valentine’s Day

Poached Pears in Marsala

Brain Fail

How to Make a White Sauce

Fig and Goat’s Cheese Salad

Juicing

Who Needs Friends?

Choritzo

Where I Get Pregnant

Where I Go on About Being Pregnant Quite a Lot

… Pregnancy Chat Continues …

Being Pregnant Becomes Tedious

My Mother

Padrón Peppers

Julia Churchill

Banana Bread Part 1

Where I Get Depressed

A carrot cake with a frosting of mascarpone and orange by Nigel Slater

My Very Own Chicken Pie

Here Come the Gays

Opinions

Christmas Sausages

Macaroons

January

The Best Curry in the World

Roast Garlic and Camembert

Fat

Fish

Interlude: Things to Make Sure You Have Done Before You Bring a Baby Home from Hospital

Courgettes

Golabki

Auntie Hannah’s Courgette Thing

Meat Fear Part 2

WWKMD

Falling Asleep in Cars

Small Things

Please Do Not Invite Me to Your Party

What the Hell to Do with Red Mullet

The Time I Went on a Date with Jason Orange

I Hate Summer

Worst Holiday Ever

You Can’t Fake a Family (AKA Worst Holiday Ever Part 2)

Premature Middle Age

How Not to Look a Fright

Where I Finally Go Completely Mad

An Obligatory Cocktail Recipe

Dead Prostitute Friends

Just So Tired

Gumbo

The Perfect is The Enemy of the Good

What Makes a Perfect Kitchen?

Make-Amends Brownies

Life Stoves My Head in with a Plank

Banana Bread Part 2

Cullen Skink

Meat Fear Part 3

Kitchen Gadgets

How to Cater for a Lot of People Without Going Insane or Having to Be a Very Good Cook

Kitty’s Jersey Royal Hash

Breaded Scallops

Interlude: How to Talk to a Butcher

Making Dinner, Night after Night, Without Going Insane

A Mouse

A Ham is Not Just for Christmas

Meatballs

Welsh Cakes

Nasi Goreng or Dirty Rice

Scones

Asian Baked Salmon

Treacle Tart

Tex-Mex Chicken

A Pork Pie

Note: How to Clean Your Kitchen

Epilogue

Recipe Index

Appendix: Pastry

Thank You

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