Introducing Jane-Anne Hobbs’ Scrumptious Food for Family and Friends

by Amanda on Jun 27th, 2012

Creating memorable feasts for family and friends is one of life’s great pleasures: how better to celebrate life and love than to gather at a happy table laden with scrumptious home-cooked food?

You don’t need to be an expert cook to produce heart-warming dishes that sing with flavour – all that’s required is passion, patience and smart preparation well in advance.

With Scrumptious Food for Family and Friends, Jane-Anne Hobbs has created over 90 original, triple-tested recipes designed to take the fuss out of home entertaining and bring smiles to the faces of the people you love. Whether you’re planning a relaxed get-together over a homely dish of soup, stew or salad, or a lavish spread with all the bells and whistles, you’ll find plenty of inspiring new ideas here, plus top tips for planning and preparing a meal to remember.

Contents: Introduction; Starters; Salads; Soups; Vegetables, Pulses and Pasta; Seafood; Chicken; Meat; Desserts; Basic Recipes; Index

About the author

Writer, editor and self-trained cook Jane-Anne Hobbs has been fervently interested in food for most of her life. Her successful independent blog Scrumptious – which pioneered recipe blogging in South Africa – launched a new career for her as a food writer and recipe developer, and features a collection of her original, triple-tested recipes. Jane-Anne lives in Hout Bay in the Cape with her husband and three children. Scrumptious Food for Family and Friends is her third book.

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