Rachel's Favourite Food

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• Great Family Meal Temptations in this episode are a pea and coriander soup, nutty scones, quick-roast chicken with roasted vegetables, a spicy roast chicken alternative, and an upside-down plum cake.
• An Indoor Picnic Rachel Allen prepares an indoor picnic including lamb with raisins and pinenuts, butter beans with rosemary, spicy pitta wedges, aubergine and garlic puree, couscous hummus, and strawberry meringue.
• Oodles of Noodles Featuring Thai coconut soup with bok choi and rice noodles, Japanese chicken and udon noodle soup, Noodle salad with chicken and mint, and Vietnamese prawn salad with noodles.
• Vegetarian Food for Everyone Featuring spiced toasted nuts and seeds, onion bhajis with tomato salsa, dall with chilli and garam masala mash potato, mangoes and bananas in lime syrup, and fresh gingerade.
• Sunday Brunch Featuring a protein and carbohydrate rich selection, including pancakes with maple syrup, scrambled egg with smoked salmon, 30-day muffins, tropical fruit salad, and a mango and banana smoothie.
• Comfort Food Rachel Allen's here with some great comfort-food recipes, including risotto with wild mushrooms, Ballymaloe Irish stew, chicken and bacon casserole, and a hot lemon pudding.
• Children's Birthday Party Busy mum Rachel Allen's here with some old-fashioned birthday party favourites to keep the children happy, including toad in the hole, colourful iced buns and little gingerbread men.
• Winter Sunday Lunch Rachel prepares lunch for a winter afternoon, including parsnip and chorizo soup with soda foccacia, lamb shanks with barley, and individual apple and blackberry crumbles.
• This edition shows us how to make the perfect summer lunch, making use of the best seasonal ingredients, and it's also useful for some formal entertaining where you want something that looks impressive.
• Formula One Lunch Boys This week's programme features a Formula One lunch for boys featuring Homemade tortilla chips with tomato, Homemade burgers and homemade mayonnaise, Steak sandwich and homemade chips and chocolate sundaes.
• Chilli Night Tonight Rachel prepares cheese tortillas with chilli and spring onion, green salad, and lemon ice - a refreshing, tangy, cooling dessert after all those chillies.
• The Italian Job: Easy Entertaining The first programme includes goat's cheese, honey and rocket salad, pasta with spicy sausage, tomato and rosemary gremolata sauce, and chocolate pudding with Amaretto and macaroons.
• When the Boat Comes In! Featuring mussels steamed in coconut milk with lime and coriander, pan-fried john dory with chilli and parsley oil, and pannacotta with raspberries.
• Dining Al Fresco Rachel prepares some really nice dishes to enjoy al fresco including two salads, a South American beef steak with salsa, and a Sicilian pasta dish.
• Easy Family Meals Rachel prepares some of her own family's fave dishes including broccoli soup with parmesan toasts, oven baked risotto verde, and upside-down rhubarb and ginger cake - all stress-free recipes.
• Picnic Food Rachel mixes some good old traditional picnic fare such as jam tarts and ham and egg pie, with some more exotic things such as duck, red cabbage and lentil salad, Spanish frittata with chorizo and feta cheese, and some amazing Italian sandwiches.
• Food for a Crowd On offer are chicken pilaff with green salad, Asian Salmon, beef stir fry and baked meringue with fruit.
• Food for Children Rachel's ideas for children's meals include meatballs and tomato fondu, chicken goujons with homemade tomato ketchup, cheese quesadillas and chewy seedy bars.
• Home Cinema Rachel demonstrates how to make some great TV dinners such as stuffed baked potatoes, lamb samosas, specially toasted sandwiches and amaretti ice cream with a hot sauce. All you need now is a good film.
• Dinner Party On the menu: asparagus with Hollandaise sauce, green leaf and pea soup, lamb tagine and a chocolate, hazelnut and caramel tart.
• Hearty Breakfast Rachel tackles the most important meal of the day - breakfast, serving up suggestions such as granola, banana and peanut butter muffins, white soda bread scones, scrambled eggs, pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, and tropical fruits with honey and lime juice.
• Sweet Celebrations These cake recipes will certainly tempt you - Porter cake made with Guinness and chocolate, almond cake with rhubarb cream, lemon biscuits and cardomom buns.
• Fish Dishes Fish is on the menu with a slightly Asian slant - coconut broth with Dublin Bay prawns, spicy salmon fishcakes with a Thai dip and a Vietnamese crab salad with noodles.
• Edible Gifts Rachel Allen proves that it's not hard to make your own jams, chutney or pickles and even sweets - and you don't have to be a paid up member of the WI. Spicy tomato and apple chutney, onion jam, stem ginger biscuits, fudge and summer fruit jam. These all make great gifts too.
• Big Family Get Together Rachel Allen demonstrates how to entertain even the largest family without becoming a stressed out wreck in the kitchen. Chicken pie with ham, winter broth with haricot beans and chorizo, gratin of fish and toffee, apple and almond crumble.