Raise your weekend cooking game with some of the best cookbooks written all about the joys of weekend food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Years ago, before marriage and kids (and in the days when my weekends often passed in a blur sandwiched between epic after-work drinks on Fridays and a crippling case of Sunday night anxiety<\/strong><\/a>, I came across Tamasin Day-Lewis\u2019 book \u201cWeekend Food\u201d. Fairly small and modest-looking compared to a lot of cookbooks, I bought it on a whim, mostly because of its comforting tagline of \u201cCooking to come home to\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I took it home, read it cover to cover on a dark and rainy London evening, and ended up having a little love-at-first-read moment. This was a weekend cooking philosophy I could get behind: \u201cYou want simple, easy, fabulous food that doesn\u2019t mean you will be in the kitchen all the time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n These days, my life is pretty different to when I first read that book. More suburban, more full of children, less hectic in pace but with the added chaos of family life. And in the course of the pandemic, it has been sadly empty of weekend guests round the table. But my love for the concept of making weekend food<\/strong><\/a> a little more special has never wavered.<\/p>\n\n\n