Good Time Cooking: The new dinner party cookbook from the Pasta Queen for 2024

"Entertaining made easy with beautiful food from the dinner party Queen.” — Gennaro Contaldo Good Time Cooking is your one-stop-shop for cooking cohesive, composed, and delicious dinner party menus for every occasion. This book will be your saviour when hosting: from date night, to the first BBQ of the summer, or even a chic cocktail party, Good Time Cooking will have you prepared to create simple yet impressive multi-course meals whilst giving you confidence in the kitchen and most importantly time to enjoy your own dinner party too! Sharing her expert knowledge from working in busy London kitchens, Rosie MacKean gives you all the tools to host a dinner party with ease . Teaching you what to prepare in advance and how to create a sense of flow in the kitchen, Rosie shares 20 multi-course menus full of crowd-pleasing recipes that will have any guest asking for seconds. Each menu comes with its own curated time plan and mise-en-place to make your life easier. These dishes work in harmony with each other, both logistically and stylistically and if you don’t want to cook every course, you don’t have to. Menus include: The Game is On one: French Onion Dip; Scotch Bonnet, Honey and Lime Wings; Shrimp Po’Boys; and Chocolate Cream Pie The Two Hours Notice one: Tomato and Salmoriglio Toast; Rigatoni Ai Quattro Formaggi; and Raspberry, Orange and Campari Pavlova The Plant-Based one: Pumpkin with Harissa and Dill; Courgette, Kale and Potato Pie; and Clementine Pudding The dishes are vibrant, celebratory, exceedingly delicious and highly cookable. As your confidence grows, you can even mix and match with other menus and our helpful time-plan can start three days before the big event, giving you the option of spreading your prep into manageable chunks. Rosie’s menus enable you to wow your guests without losing a whole evening to cooking, so you can relax and enjoy your own dinner party too. The Dinner Party will be your saviour anytime you find yourself hosting, from date night to game night, to feeding a crowd, this book will have you prepared to create simple yet impressive multi-course meals so you can always have the confidence in the kitchen and find the time to enjoy your own dinner party too. This book is your one-stop-shop to cooking cohesive, composed, and delicious dinner menus for every occasion. Sharing her expert knowledge from working in busy restaurants around the world, Rosie Mackean gives you all the tools to host a dinner party with ease. Showing you what you can prepare in advance and how to create a sense of flow in the kitchen, Rosie shares 20 multi-course menus full of crowd-pleasing recipes that will have your guests asking for seconds. Each menu comes with its own curated time plan, mise-en-place list and styling guide so even the presentation will be made easy. The dishes work in harmony with each other, both logistically and stylistically if you dont want to cook every course, you dont have to. As your confidence grows, you can even mix and match with other menus and use the information given in the time plans to intertwine them. Rosie also provides handy scaling guides and advice so that you can intuitively learn how to increase or reduce serving sizes to suit your needs. The dishes are vibrant, celebratory, exceedingly delicious and highly cookable. Each menu is themed; sometimes for an occasion (date night, BBQs, birthdays) or by a necessity (5 ingredients, hosting with short notice or with popular store-cupboard ingredients only) or simply a style of cuisine (Italian, Mexican, retro, seafood). The time-plan can start three days before the big event, giving you the option of spreading your prep into manageable chunks if you wish where it is possible to prepare in advance a dish or an element of a dish, the option is always there. Rosies menus enable any host to wow their guests without losing their whole evening to cooking, so they can relax and enjoy their own dinner party too.