Rachel's Favourite Food - Season 3
Season 3
Rachel's Favourite Food at Home
Episodes
Dining Al Fresco
Mother of two Rachel Allen prepares quick, easy and tasty dishes. Using ingredients that are accessible and recipes that are easy to follow, this series is aimed at working parents with a limited amount of time on their hands. Rachel prepares meals ideal for eating outside, including two salads, a South American beef steak with chimichurri salsa, a Sicilian pasta dish and two desserts - a no-pastry pear and almond tart and a summer fruit tiramisu.
Easy Family Meals
Rachel Allen cooks up some of her family's favourite meals.
On the menu are broccoli soup with Parmesan toasts, an oven-baked risotto verde and upside-down rhubarb ginger cake - all designed to appeal to all ages, be nutritious as well as tasty, and stress-free to prepare.
Picnic Food
Rachel cooks hearty picnic food including retro ham and egg pie and jam tarts, and the more sophisticated duck, lentil and red cabbage salad, a Spanish frittata with feta cheese and chorizo and an amazing Italian sandwich called a muffelletta, made by scooping out a loaf of bread.
Food for a Crowd
Rachel cooks for special group occasions. She recommends chicken pilaff with a green salad, Southeast Asian salmon, beef stir fry, and baked meringue with fruit - perfect for a christening or a house-warming party.
Food for Children
Rachel tackles the challenge of cooking food that children like the taste of and enjoy eating.
She presents recipes popular in her own household, including meatballs and tomato fondu, chicken goujons with homemade tomato ketchup, cheese quesadillas, chewy seed bars, and drop scones.
Home Cinema
Rachel recommends food for a night in front of the television. Suggestions include stuffed baked potatoes, lamb samosas with coriander and lime rayta, spicy popcorn, sausages with a honey mustard dressing, a very special toasted sandwich and amaretti ice cream with a hot mocha sauce.
Dinner Party
Rachel focuses on dishes for dinner parties, including asparagus with Hollandaise sauce, green leaf and pea soup and pomegranate couscous.
Hearty Breakfast
Rachel Allen presents more of her favourite meals from her kitchen in East Cork. Here she tackles the most important meal of the day - breakfast, serving up suggestions such as granola, banana and peanut butter muffins, white soda bread scones, scrambled eggs, pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, and tropical fruits with honey and lime juice.
Sweet Celebrations
Rachel Allen presents some of her favourite meals from her kitchen in East Cork. This edition focuses on desserts, as Rachel shows how to make porter cake with Guinness, chocolate and almond cake with rhubarb cream, lemon biscuits, cardamom buns and almond brittles.
Fish Dishes
Rachel Allen presents fish dishes with an Asian twist, including light coconut broth with Dublin Bay prawns, spicy salmon fishcakes with a Thai dipping sauce, Vietnamese crab salad with noodles and a lemon and ginger ice cream.
Comfort Food
Comfort foods – food that is best eaten curled up on a sofa, warming, comforting, nourishing and maybe even a little nostalgic. This programme features some of cook Rachel Allen's favourite winter comfort food recipes: chunky Mediterranean pasta soup with basil pesto, cheese fondue, home-made sausages with apple sauce and a banana butterscotch pudding.
Edible Gifts
Rachel Allen proves that it's not hard to make home-made jams, chutney or pickles, and even sweets - and it's not necessary to be a paid up member of the WI. Featuring spicy tomato and apple chutney, onion jam, stem ginger biscuits, fudge and summer fruit jam.
Big Family Get Together
Rachel Allen creates recipes that are great favourites with her extended family, including chicken pie with ham, peas and puff pastry, winter broth with haricot beans and chorizo, gratin of fish, and toffee apple and almond crumble.
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