Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food: More Than 100 Delicious, Super-Fast, and Easy Recipes

I bought this because as I watched Gordon Ramsay on the TV I kept thinking, MAN I sure wish I could cook like that. Every thing the man touches turns to culinary gold. Then I remembered oh yeah, celebrity chefs have cookbooks. I should get me one of his. Also fast seemed like a good place to start. Initially I was put off by some of the hard to find/expensive ingredients Ramsay uses in this cookbook, but then I either bit the bullet and tracked them down or made substitutions. My family has been really happy with all the food I've made from this book. It especially helps that this is FAST food. So I can turn out awesome dishes without slaving in the kitchen for hours. Some of my favorites that I've made a few times by now are the Chunky Fries (this is now my go-to recipe for potatoes, they turn out so crispy and delicious and are so easy!) Creamed Cabbage & Bacon (which I served with pork chops once and chia crusted chicken another time instead of turbot), Mushy Peas, & Sticky Lemon Chicken. I'm sure I will come across more favorites as I cook my way through this inventive and easy-to-follow cook book. Other aspects of this book I really like are the relatively small ingredients lists, the simple conversational way he explains each recipe and when you should start what, and the casual substitutions he suggests which made me feel that I wasn't a failure if I don't keep palm sugar on hand, for example. So in all this was exactly what I had hoped for when I imagined a cookbook by Gordon Ramsay.

スターシェフ、ゴードン・ラムジーのレシピ本です。 タイトル通り、すごく凝ったものではなく、普通の家庭でも作りやすい、でもお洒落、なレシピが並んでいます。 奇を衒った料理はないので、他の洋書のレシピ本と大きく違うものはなく、ラムジーの書くちょっとしたコツや、「これを常備しよう」（薄口しょうゆやみりんも有）というイントロなどが面白いです。 二部構成で、「スープ5種」「パスタ5種」「野菜料理5種」といった感じで、カテゴリー別に前菜からデザートまで5品づつ並んでいる部分と、「ヘルシーな食事」「夏のスペシャル」「タパス」「インド料理」「メキシコ料理」というように、2〜5品で一食分をイメージした部分に分かれています。そのアイディアはよいのですが、これが前半後半に分かれているのではなく、一項目ごとに交互に並んでいるので、ちょっと見にくい。でも何も考えずぱらぱら見ていっても楽しいです。あと、完成した料理ではなく、素材の写真だけがついているもの（「ロブスター、アボカド、マヨネーズのトーストサンド」には生ロブスターの写真だけ）があり、完成品と盛り付けを見たかったなーというのもあります。 ラムジー本人のようにガタイがちょっと大きすぎ、紙質は普通で高級感はありませんが、料理本は大体大きいし、気軽に扱えると思えばOKです。なぜか日本ではジェイミー・オリ×ーばかりがもてはやされてる気がしますが、私は断然ラムジーが好きなので、1冊持っていて満足です。もう少し本人の写真が入っていると嬉しかった。

Most of these recipes contain ingredients and food combinations that I would not normally have tried before, which makes this book one exciting read. For example, we have all eaten asparagus, and have even used prosciutto ham as a pizza topping, but when you blanch asparagus, wrap it in prosciutto, and then lightly fry it in a little olive oil.... Takes minutes, and that's just one example of a new family favourite. My only challenge is that some of the ingredients are hard to come by locally, as they may be common in Tesco in England, but you won't see them in Thrifty Foods in Victoria, Canada. However, by substituting a local equivalent I have still managed to come up with some great new meals, and maybe some are even better than the original version. Mouth-watering illustrations, preparation times that are all reasonable for people living a busy life, and results that you would not expect from a small home kitchen and an ordinary guy like me. Highly recommended, especially if you entertain and want a memorable meal.

i am very keen of mr ramsay's advice on cooking and the key is always to buy fresh and that it is really not hard to cook fast and good and at home a lotos good ideas and i like the way it is organised by styles

Me gusta mucho Gordon Ramsay, pero el libro es flojito. En concreto, las recetas son flojitas. Al verlas por primera vez no te invade la típica sensación de... "esta la tengo que hacer" "que buena pinta tiene"... En mi opinion el tio es un crack, pero Ramsay + Fast Food no da buen resultado.