Rachel's Favourite Food for Living

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• Bistro Food Rachel Allen visits Isaac's Restaurant in Cork, where she helps the chef to make a classic French onion soup, before turning her hand to the much-loved dish of steak, chips and bearnaise sauce, a chicken and puy lentil salad and a lemon tart for dessert.
• Romance Rachel, a romantic at heart, suggests some romantic dishes to cook for someone special on that all-important first date, or on a twentieth wedding anniversary: buttered lobster, spicy rack of lamb and `mocha kisses' - crumbly, delicious biscuits.
• Soul Food Rachel cooks up some comfort food, including Italian baked pancakes, chickpea and chorizo soup, and white chocolate and raspberry brownies.
• Sunday Lunch Rachel is invited to cook a `grown-up' Sunday lunch at a friend's house. She makes slow shoulder of lamb, piperonata, broccoli with garlic and lemon, and chocolate amaretti cake.
• Fish Rachel cooks Bretonne prawns, squid salad and mussels.
• Childhood Memories Rachel meets her mother and watches her prepare some of her own childhood favourites. Back in her own kitchen, Rachel cooks her mother's roast chicken with stuffing, and makes lemonade and white chocolate buns.
• Chocolate Rachel devotes a whole programme to chocolate, introduced from O'Connell's chocolate shop in Cork. Includes white chocolate mousse, hazelnut and caramel bars, and cappuccino torte.
• Holiday Memories Rachel recreates some memorable dishes she has had on holiday - Zac's Aztec soup, baked fish, basil and prawn pate, and pannacotta.
• Afternoon Tea Formal afternoon tea is enjoying a revival and Rachel demonstrates some of her tea-time favourites, including scones and blueberry jam, afternoon tea cake, Greek almond crescents, and chocolate melting moments.
• Pub Food Good, homemade pub food is always a treat and quite often pubs serve classic favourites, such as leek and potato soup, chicken Kiev, and sticky chocolate pudding with toffee sauce, which Rachel makes.
• Fast food doesn't have to be greasy and unhealthy, so Rachel demonstrates how to make home-made pizza, spicy chicken wings, burgers with guacamole and cheese croquettes.
• Pleasure Without the Guilt Asian food is wonderful for providing flavour without fats or dairy products. Rachel Allen visits the English Market in Cork to buy ingredients for crab and prawn soup and Korean beef.
• Celebrations Rachel Allen cooks some very special dishes for a grown-up celebration, including salad with beetroot, goat's cheese and toasted hazelnuts, baked black sole with champagne sauce, clams and julienne of vegetables, and pavlova.