"A warm, flexible and deeply comforting cookbook that celebrates feeding the people you love. And reminds you that cooking for yourself can be just as special. "
Oh, this book is a thing of beauty. I adore a good cookbook, but Dinner at Mine? feels like something more than that. This is a book for anyone whose family life doesn’t look like the traditional picture. For families of all shapes and sizes, for households where friends are the family you choose, for those whose loved ones aren’t all under one roof or even in one place.
However your family exists, and wherever they are, this is a book about belonging. It’s about feeding the people you love, including yourself.
Kate Young’s approach to meal planning is quietly revolutionary. If you’ve ever opened the fridge to find ingredients staring back at you accusingly, this book is your answer. Instead of rigid weekly plans, she focuses on fifteen core ingredients commonly found in her kitchen and builds six recipes around each: one for solo suppers, one for two, a midweek meal for three or four, a weekend feast, and even a portable dish.
It’s thoughtful, flexible cooking, designed to make what you already have work harder and more imaginatively.
I am absolutely the person who makes the same pot of pasta when I’m on my own. But this book reminds you that even if it’s just you who needs feeding, you still deserve something delicious. Something special. The joy of Dinner at Mine? is that it’s both celebratory and communal, while also honouring the quiet dignity of cooking for one.
The courgette spaghetti is divinely simple. The okonomiyaki - perfect for those slightly sad, bottom-of-the-fridge vegetables - is inspired and utterly delicious. And then there’s the reassuring roll call of ingredients: a handful of apples, a bunch of spring onions, a punnet of tomatoes, a couple of courgettes, frozen peas, anchovies, cannellini beans, eggs, yoghurt, rice, potatoes, a whole chicken. Ordinary things, transformed.
It feels fresh, generous, comforting. Flexible. Useful. Food that feels like home, yet just a little out of the ordinary. I can’t wait to cook my way through it. Pea soup and cheesy toasties are calling my name for lunch already. And perhaps the one-pot Thai-ish thighs for dinner. Dinner at mine.
There are peas in the freezer, apples in the bowl, a cabbage in the vegetable drawer, tins of cannellini beans and anchovies in the cupboard, and eggs on the side.
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There are peas in the freezer, apples in the bowl, a cabbage in the vegetable drawer, tins of cannellini beans and anchovies in the cupboard, and eggs on the side. You've got the beginnings of dinner, no question.
Dinner at Mine? features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Cookery, Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, General cookery and recipes, Cookery / food by ingredient, Cookery, Food and Drink, General cookery and recipes, Cookery / food by ingredient
Hardback. £22.50, down from the £25.00 cover price. In Stock.
Dinner at Mine? was written by Kate Young and published by Apollo an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Dinner at Mine? has 272 pages
£22.50, reduced from £25.00. In Stock.
