Good Time Cooking: Show-stopping menus for easy entertaining

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"Entertaining made easy with beautiful food from the dinner party Queen. Gennaro Contaldo

Good Time Cooking is your one-stop-shop for cooking cohesive, composed, and delicious dinner party menus for every occasion.
This book will be your saviour when hosting: from date night, to the first BBQ of the summer, or even a chic cocktail party, Good Time Cooking will have you prepared to create simple yet impressive multi-course meals whilst giving you confidence in the kitchen and most importantly time to enjoy your own dinner party too!

Sharing her expert knowledge from working in busy London kitchens, Rosie MacKean gives you all the tools to host a dinner party with ease. Teaching you what to prepare in advance and how to create a sense of flow in the kitchen, Rosie shares 20 multi-course menus full of crowd-pleasing recipes that will have any guest asking for seconds.

Each menu comes with its own curated time plan and mise-en-place to make your life easier. These dishes work in harmony with each other, both logistically and stylistically and if you dont want to cook every course, you dont have to. Menus include:

The Game is On one: French Onion Dip; Scotch Bonnet, Honey and Lime Wings; Shrimp PoBoys; and Chocolate Cream Pie
The Two Hours Notice one: Tomato and Salmoriglio Toast; Rigatoni Ai Quattro Formaggi; and Raspberry, Orange and Campari Pavlova
The Plant-Based one: Pumpkin with Harissa and Dill; Courgette, Kale and Potato Pie; and Clementine Pudding

The dishes are vibrant, celebratory, exceedingly delicious and highly cookable. As your confidence grows, you can even mix and match with other menus and our helpful time-plan can start three days before the big event, giving you the option of spreading your prep into manageable chunks.

Rosies menus enable you to wow your guests without losing a whole evening to cooking, so you can relax and enjoy your own dinner party too.

Reviews

Visually stunning, simple recipes but above all else, super tasty. Every recipe packed full of flavour! Tom Kerridge

"A gorgeous cookbook, packed with joyous and deeply delicious recipes, that makes entertaining easy and stress free. Edd Kimber

"Rosie is a master of effortless entertaining, offering a mouth-watering collection of menus, the hardest part will be picking which one to cook next. Ben Lippett

Rosie makes the art of entertaining effortless and beautiful. I love every single menu she has in her book, they are very well thought through, full of delicious recipes and tips. Dina Macki

"With Rosie you know you are in very safe hands. Good Time Cooking is a wonderful world of fresh flavour combinations and outrageously delicious food. Utterly mouth watering dishes that have you dreaming up reasons to have a gathering. I want it all now, all at once, it is that good." Joe Woodhouse

Rosie encapsulates the beauty of hosting with every single page." Basma Khalifa

Nothing short of delightful! Every page has a menu for every occasion, with vibrant recipes that are as fun to make as they are to eat. Whether youre a novice or a seasoned cook, this cookbook is a bible for anyone who enjoys hosting dinners with friends with a lot of flair." Ana Da Costa

"You can count on Rosies recipes to deliver comfort and flavour. I love how her food is routed in the classics yet with Rosies own unmistakable style. It is exactly what you want to cook and eat when you have people coming over." Sophie Godwin

Author Bio

Rosie MacKean is a freelance chef, food stylist, home economist and recipe developer. Having completed chef training and 2 years working in London kitchens, Rosie turned her lifelong obsession for cookery books and shows into a career which includes the hugely popular Substack, 'The Dinner Party'. Rosie is comfortable with all elements of cookery and relishes the variety of challenges she encounters in life behind the camera. Rosie lives in Hackney, London and is usually eating or cooking when she is not working. She has a degree in Modern Languages and speaks Spanish, Italian and French.