Rachel's Favourite Food - Season 4

Season 4
Rachel's Favourite Food for Living

Episodes

Bistro Food
Cookery series with Rachel Allen, demonstrating easy everyday recipes made using readily accessible foods. This time, she visits Isaac's Restaurant in Cork, where she helps the chef to make a classic French onion soup, before turning her hand to the much-loved dish of steak, chips and bearnaise sauce, a chicken and puy lentil salad and a lemon tart for dessert.Cookery series with Rachel Allen, demonstrating easy everyday recipes made using readily accessible foods. This time, she visits Isaac's Restaurant in Cork, where she helps the chef to make a classic French onion soup, before turning her hand to the much-loved dish of steak, chips and bearnaise sauce, a chicken and puy lentil salad and a lemon tart for dessert.

Romance
Rachel suggests recipes for romantic occasions, including buttered lobster, spicy rack of lamb and 'mocha kisses'.

Soul Food
This edition sees Rachel cook up some comfort food, including Italian baked pancakes, chickpea and choriso soup and white chocolate and raspberry brownies.

Sunday Lunch
Rachel is invited to cook a 'grown-up' Sunday lunch at a friend's house, with slow shoulder of lamb, piperonata, broccoli with garlic and lemon, chocolate amaretti cake.

Fish
Rachel cooks Bretonne prawns, squid salad and mussels.

Childhood Memories
Rachel meets her mother and watches her prepare some of her own childhood favourites. Back in her own kitchen, Rachel cooks her mother's roast chicken with stuffing, lemonade and white chocolate buns.

Holiday Memories
Rachel recreates some memorable dishes she has had on holiday, including Zac's Aztec soup, baked fish, basil and prawn pate and Pannacotta.

Chocolate
Rachel devotes a whole programme to chocolate, introduced from O'Connell's chocolate shop in Cork. Includes white chocolate mousse, hazelnut and caramel bars and capuucino torte.

Afternoon Tea
Formal afternoon tea is enjoying a revival and Rachel demonstrates some of her tea-time favourites, including scones and blueberry jam, afternoon tea cake, Greek almond crescents and chocolate melting moments.

Pub Food
Good, homemade pub food is always a treat. Quite often pubs serve classic favourites, such as leek and potato soup, chicken kiev and sticky chocolate pudding with toffee sauce. Rachel makes these dishes at home.

Good Fast Food
Fast food doesn't have to be unhealthy, and Rachel Allen demonstrates how to make home-made pizzas, spicy chicken wings, cheese croquettes and burgers with guacamole - children's food that adults love too.

Pleasure Without the Guilt
Asian food is wonderful for providing flavour without fats or dairy products. Rachel Allen visits the English Market in Cork to buy ingredients for crab and prawn soup and Korean beef.

Celebrations
Rachel Allen cooks some very special dishes for a grown-up celebration, including Salad with Beetroot, Goat's Cheese and Toasted Hazelnuts, Baked Black Sole with Champagne Sauce with Clams and Julienne of Vegetables, and Pavlova.
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