A wonderful collection of simple yet delicious recipes. A real love letter to those around her. Lots of must-make recipes like the asparagus quiche.

We really enjoyed this cookbook! With a mix of British and Italian recipes, there were a few that we really enjoyed. The photography is well done and not over done. Some challenging and some easier recipes for all.

I’ve read Angela Hartnett’s recipes in The Guardian and Telegraph newspapers for years. They always sound delicious and interesting.
I really liked this cookbook! The recipes are very British and some of them might not be familiar to US readers. The photos are mouthwatering and I’ve enjoyed the recipes I’ve tried so far. 4 stars.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed as in this review are completely my own.

WEEKEND COOK by Angela Hartnett, a professional chef in London, is all about "Good Food for Real Life." However, I agree with other reviewers who point out that this cookbook is probably more suited for British cooks. Note, for example, the recipes which are featured in amazon's look inside preview: Confit Garlic and Goat's Curd Toast or Baked Leeks with Egg and Mustard Vinaigrette. The ingredients and measurements (in grams and milliliters) are more suited to a European kitchen and taste.

I was a little worried when I first started reading this book and realized it was going to have British food recipes in it. I had a friend who travelled abroad there once and she agreed that the food tended to be bland. But actually some of these recipes look very delightful. There's even some Italian ones thrown in to for pasta lovers. Anyone can enjoy this realistic take on home cooking very fine recipes.

I got this book in exchange for an honest review from Netgalley.

Well-known British chef and author, Angela Hartnett cooks every day for a living, so on weekends, she likes to relax a little and prepare fuss-free down-to-earth cooking at home. She introduces her recipes in her cookbook, The Weekend Cook: Good Food for Real Life.

Many of the recipes Hartnett includes in the cookbook are decidedly British, and others are very European. Pasta lovers will enjoy the fact that there are plenty of unique and mouthwatering pasta recipes; most are quite easy to make and will be perfect to make on weekends. Hartnett has also included a few breads, cakes, and other pastries that are definitely worth making. Besides scrumptious savory pasta dishes, there are great recipes for side dishes, including risottos, quiche, and unique main dishes using beef, lamb, poultry, and seafood. There is a good variety of recipes, and the beautiful photographs are mouthwatering. The recipes are written in the traditional manner and can be easily followed by both beginning and advanced cooks. The book is well-organized and is nice enough to generate interest from cooks of all ages.

It’s always fun to cook dishes from other places, especially when they are appealing to everyone in your home or at a gathering at your home. This is a nice cookbook and will inspire some excellent dishes while the family is together over the weekend.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I love reading cookbooks from other countries. That being said not every recipe translates well to another country.

I loved all the stories & pictures included in this book.

The Weekend Cook is exactly what you've come to expect from acclaimed (and Michelin-starred) chef Angela Hartnett. The book is filled with recipes that feature good food for real life cooking. Fancy enough for company, but also just right for family meals. A great addition to a cooking enthusiast's cookbook library.

Thank you to Bloomsbury USA and NetGalley for this ARC.

This book brings you right to her neighborhood and the people there. After reading this cookbook I told my husband we need to start block parties in our neighborhood. The recipes are different to me as the English use different ingredients and cook them in ways we might not here in America. I tried the turnip and celeriac au gratin and wow, just wow. It is tender, flavorful and oh so good. I need to find monkfish tails (not easy in my land locked state) so I can make the Barbecued curried monkfish tails. So many things to try, so little time....

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. A nice cookbook, but I didn't see many recipes that I would want to try.

Thank you Bloomsbury USA and Netgalley for the opportunity to review this ARC. This cookbook will be available September 6th 2022.

I really enjoyed reading this book. Though I'm not a big fan of British foods. Some I really do like. There is an immersion of British and Italian which is an interesting combination. It was a little hard for me to read as an e-book. But than again most cookbook are sometimes as e-books. Nevertheless I'm eager to get a hard copy of it so I can have it in my hands to really devour it. I'm actually looking forward to purchasing it in the fall. Thank you for letting me review!

Hearty, comfort foods with British and Italian influences. I loved that many of these recipes can (and should) be made ahead. Perfect for entertaining.

A beautifully done cookbook by Angela Hartnett, a professional cook in London who shares her life and her very important food weekends with her readers.

This is a great cookbook for people who want fun, delicious recipes for special weekend meals and parties. It's also a good resource for readers interested in learning more about British cuisine.

In a shelf of fussy, complicated recipe books, The Weekend Cook is a book full of simple but effective delicious sounding recipes often with a little twist which makes them sound even more delicious.
Of course as I am also British, I am immediately drawn to the sausage rolls and scotch eggs, but I am very keen to try the honey biscuits and the shortbread is on my to-do list this weekend!
A cookbook for every kitchen!

THE WEEKEND COOK by Angela Hartnett opens with lengthy introduction from the author. It’s clear she loves cooking, her family, where she lives, and is very happy to let others know it. I would too if I was living my dream.

When I started reading the names of the recipes, and seeing their photos, my first thought was I’ll never be able to make them. They were very intimidating! But when I started reading the recipes, I felt a little more self-assured.

Here’s a taste of the recipes you’ll find . . . Confit Garlic and Goat’s Curd Toast, Crab Salad, Summer Vegetable Soup, Cock-a-leekie Soup, Chicken Pie, Red Mullet and Tomato, Sunday Night Cupboard Spaghetti, Chicory, Blue Cheese and Grape Salad, Backed Vacherin Cheese, Scotti’s Honey Biscuits, Asparagus Quiche, Lemon Butterfly Cakes, Pump Street Chocolate Mousse, and Floating Islands.

THE WEEKEND COOK, is a lovely cookbook. It contains beautiful color photos, which is a must for me. Author Hartnett has compiled an impressive catalog of recipes. There are some I would like to try, but many not my style. I’m a very plain eater, and some of her extraordinary dishes are more than my simple tastebuds care to handle. If I wanted to host a dinner party to impress, one I wanted guests to remember, THE WEEKEND COOK would be a great way to do.

Disclaimer: Received this as an advance copy via Netgalley and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (Thank you!!!)

This is a lovely cookbook by Angela Hartnett, who is apparently a British celebrity chef. Normally I find most celebrity chef cookbooks to be bland but I am happy to report that this is not the case with this book.

The book layout is simple but hooray for all the color photographs showing finished recipes! It's a British book, so American cooks will need to look up the conversion oven temperatures (the book did not include one with their conversion charts). The recipes themselves are not really suited for beginners, while the instructions are clear and easy to understand those having some experience in the kitchen will likely have better success when making them.

As someone who enjoys learning about new recipes and ingredients, this book did not disappoint. The book is a bit of love letter to the author's East London home, family and friends, and provides many traditionally British recipes like Faggots (meatballs), Haggis and Queen of Pudding. While I won't be making those first two recipes anytime soon, I'm not sure how I made it this far without knowing about Queen of Pudding, jam, white bread, meringue, yes please!

Many of the recipes in this book sound wonderful! We will be trying several this week. I loved the photos as they really help you to understand what the finished product should resemble if it is a new dish you haven't seen before. I enjoyed the story at the beginning of each recipe. It reminded me of a mother or grandmother passing along cherished family recipes.

This cookbook is clearly not written for Americans. You have to be prepared to do a quick google search of the ingredients to see what we call them and either buy a scale or convert measurements. Really not that big of a deal and certainly not the only book out there that has this problem. My only negatives are that some ingredients are not common to the US. More suggested substitutions would be nice. I also don't love how every other recipe starts off by saying that the recipe is perfect and shouldn't be messed with. What is perfect to one person could be awful to another. In a cookbook I am looking more for inspiration than personal opinions.

Loved the photography and recipes in this book, however, as most readers said, these are not quick recipes. I guess if you spend a lot of time cooking on the weekends, this would be great but I generally look for quick, healthy recipes to make for my family. Some of the ingredients aren't your typical everyday pantry items either so I feel like some of these recipes are more hard work than anything. I do appreciate the opportunity to review the book though!

The Weekend Cook is a perfectly lovely cookbook which is probably better suited for British cooks. The recipes use metric measurements and many of the ingredients use British terms making it a bit more difficult for American cooks to figure out what the recipe is using to prepare the dish.

At the back of the book is conversion charts which could be used to prepare the recipes.

Recommend with caveats given.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley.