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• Fleetwood, Jenni

Nothing is more enjoyable than a gathering of friends and family around food. One of the best ways to spend quality time with people is to prepare some food, sit down around a table and enjoy it together, taking the time to listen and communicate with one another. This fantastic book is a tasty collection of great recipes, perfect for sharing with family and friends. It covers every aspect of planning main-course meals from what appetizers, side dishes and sauces to serve, to table settings, techniques, and what to buy. 80 delicious main course dishes are designed to take all the stress out of cooking for a large group of people, meaning the occasion can be just as enjoyable for the cook as for everyone else. All tastes are catered for with a tempting selection of vegetarian, fish and meat and poultry dishes, making it refreshingly straightforward to find something that everyone will appreciate. Traditional old-favourite recipes such as Barbecue Chicken, Quiche Lorraine and Sizzling Steak feature as well as more adventurous cuisine from all over the world, including Black Fettucine with Seafood, Lamb Parsi and Provencal Beef and Olive Daube. More than 300 visually impressive images illustrate this book, proving how tempting the finished dishes are. Practical step-by-step instructions clearly demonstrate how to reproduce the recipes in this book and clear nutritional notes, detailing calories, carbohydrate and fat content, sodium, sugar and other nutrients make it very easy to ensure a healthy balance for the family and to plan for special diets. Each recipe also features detailed nutritional notes allowing the health conscious to make informed decisions about what they eat. Whether it is simply a weekday family dinner, a Sunday lunch or a more special occasion, this is the indispensable book for people who like spending time with family and friends and good food.