Rachel's Favourite Food at Home was Rachel Allen's third book. The updated paperback version (the same as the dooyoo picture) was released in 2008 and contains 240 pages. The book tied in with the television series of the same name shown on BBC 1. In keeping with Rachel's usual books, Rachel's Favourite Food at Home is pretty and girly and mostly makes use of pastel shades of pale pink, green and blue. The book contains lots and lots of pictures of Rachel and her family and friends eating and doing stuff like walking on the beach. Whilst these pictures are a nice enough to look at there are simply just too many of them. After all, this is ultimately a cookery book, so I .  Read the complete review

This is one of the earlier books in Rachel Allen's career, I picked mine up at a discount bookshop for around £5 and I think it is probably readily available at this price now due to her latest releases. According to the back of the book, the RRP is £17.99, which seems a bit steep to be honest when the book is quite thin in comparison to most other cookbooks on my shelf (including Rachel's other books). The book I have has a different cover to the picture on Dooyoo - the front cover on mine is Rachel in a blue top sitting at a table with her chin resting on her hand. The title and contents are the same though, so I'm not sure whether she was just ...  Read the complete review

I'm a fan of Rachel Allen and i bought this book after having loved the food for living book. I paid £10 for this book in Tesco which i think is fairly reasonable. The style of the book is very much similiar to her other work with family photo's and vibrantly coloured. The book is split in the same way as her food for living. Sections include Easy family food, picnics and days out, home cinema, edible gifts. I like the gifts section as in this cfredit crunch it gives some good ideas to give to people and save some money. At the end is a "Useful extras" section which i think is good as it shows you how to do little things like make ...  Read the complete review

This is the first of Rachel Allen's cook books that I have bought and it lead me on to buy others. The title says it all for me. It's food for at home, with the kids or family. Nothing incredibly fancy or fussy but not plain food either. The book is divided into 10 sections, from Easy Family Food and Sweet Celebrations to Home Cinema and Edible Gifts. It's very bright and colourful with lots of family photos and photos of the food. As a mother of young children I found it useful. It encouraged me to branch out a little in what I fed them and gave me lots of ideas of fun and often wholesome (sometimes not) things to make for and with them. ...  Read the complete review

I bought my Rachel Allen Cookbook after sitting and reading my sisters cover to cover whilst I was babysitting for her! I expected to flick through it in two minutes flat noticing all the glassy pictures not many recipies and all for dishes that I could aready cook but I was wrong! This cook book has dishes that you might not have cooked before as well as twists on old favoutites. Her ingrediants lista are comprehensive and not to exotic or comprehensive. May of her recipies are good for special occassions or when you have loads of time on your hands - I say this because some of them take ages- well longer than I would want to spend on making tea on a Wednesay ...  Read the complete review