Cosy Cooking (National Trust)

For me, visiting a National Trust property is the promise of a tasty meal or snack, especially the cakes.
This book offers a nice range of recipes from their menus. It is all comfort food and suitable for every taste. There are lovely soups to make (the carrot and ginger and the super green soup with cashew cream sound delicious). The mains are going from classics (like the Lancashire hotpot, the shepherd pie or the fish pie) to more exotic ones (the coconut and lime prawn curry and the butter chicken are mouthwatering) and offer also great options for vegans and vegetarians (I liked the idea of the lentils and mushroom lasagna and I thought the vegan macaroni and cheese sounded nice, and I will definitely make the roasted cauliflower korma). There are also many desserts and cakes to choose from, and everyone who has been to a National Trust property has enjoyed a millionaire shortbread, a lemon drizzle cake, a mincemeat and frangipane tart and many others the book offers.
The presentation is very colourful and pleasant (although I would love also some pictures of the finished recipes). The recipes are very detailed, with many really useful tips, and there is a good closing chapter of basics such as a recipe for shortcrust pastry, onion gravy, hollandaise sauce and more.
This is a lovely and well presented book with a very cosy range of very precise recipe one can make with simple ingredients. Nice to have and nice to gift. Another beautiful National Trust Publication.

Thank you to NetGalley and National Trust for giving me the opportunity to review this book. All opinions are my own.

And for those who would like to explore more recipes of the National Trust, there is a really lovely corner of their website for it.