Family Favourites

Family Favourites is the eighth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends. 
 
We've added our own little Sorted twist to a whole bunch of dinners that everyone knows and loves, helping you to break up your usual routine of recipes that you cook week in week out. When the average person in the UK only knows six recipes you can see why Britons spend so much money on ready meals, takeaways or eating out, so with our take on family favourites we'll have you loving homecooked meals and saving a little bit of cash as well! Recipes include: Smashed Roots Shepherd's Pie, Slow-cooked Hunter's Chicken, Bacon and Butternut Pasta Bake and Apple Charlotte and Custard. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining. 
 
 
The Sorted Crew came together in their university holidays, sharing their cooking highs and lows with each other in the pub. Headed up by Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor, this original group of 8 mates with an interest in food has now grown into a highly engaged online community of hundreds of thousands, that works together to get food challenges sorted. The SortedFood video recipes on YouTube now get millions of views every month. They self-published two recipe books, A Recipe for Student Survival and A Rookie's Guide to Crackin' Cooking, and Beginners... Get Sorted was their first book with Penguin.

Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor head up The Sorted Crew, a group of childhood friends who got together during their university holidays to share anecdotes, assumptions and problems that they were each facing during their first year away from home. After mocking each other's laughable set of domestic skills in the kitchen, Ben decided to help them out with recipe ideas and 'Sorted' was the result. With Ben cooking and Barry taking photographs and using his design skills, the crew set themselves up on YouTube to upload filmed recipes, and these SortedFood video recipes now get millions of views every month. They have self-published two recipe books, A Recipe for Student Survival and A Rookie's Guide to Crackin' Cooking, and Beginners... Get Sorted was their first book with Penguin.

We've added our own little Sorted twist to a whole bunch of dinners that everyone knows and loves, helping you to break up your usual routine of recipes that you cook week in week out. When the average person in the UK only knows six recipes you can see why Britons spend so much money on ready meals, takeaways or eating out, so with our take on family favourites we'll have you loving homecooked meals and saving a little bit of cash as well! 
 
Recipes include: Smashed Roots Shepherd's Pie, Slow-cooked Hunter's Chicken, Bacon and Butternut Pasta Bake and Apple Charlotte and Custard. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining.

Easy-Going Dinners

Easy-Going Dinners is the seventh chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends. 
 
While there's no magic solution for finding more hours in the day, that's no excuse to eat badly. Most of the recipes in this chapter involve simply throwing a bunch of ingredients into a pan and leaving them to cook. What could be easier? Recipes include: Piquant Pepper-Baked Cod and Filo Crunch, Pork and Parsnip Tray Bake and Moroccan Grilled Lamb with Pilau Rice. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining. 
 
 
The Sorted Crew came together in their university holidays, sharing their cooking highs and lows with each other in the pub. Headed up by Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor, this original group of 8 mates with an interest in food has now grown into a highly engaged online community of hundreds of thousands, that works together to get food challenges sorted. The SortedFood video recipes on YouTube now get millions of views every month. They self-published two recipe books, A Recipe for Student Survival and A Rookie's Guide to Crackin' Cooking, and Beginners... Get Sorted was their first book with Penguin.

While there's no magic solution for finding more hours in the day, that's no excuse to eat badly. Most of the recipes in this chapter involve simply throwing a bunch of ingredients into a pan and leaving them to cook. What could be easier? 
 
Recipes include: Piquant Pepper-Baked Cod and Filo Crunch, Pork and Parsnip Tray Bake and Moroccan Grilled Lamb with Pilau Rice. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining.

Team Cooking

Team Cooking is the sixth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends. 
 
Half the fun of great food can be the making of it, so if you enjoy the getting there as well as the destination, this chapter is for you. Get together with friends and family to create some cracking food that you can all enjoy making and eating. Recipes include: Cider Cheese Fondue, Smoked Haddock and Pea Ravioli and Roll-your-own Truffles. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining. 
 
 
The Sorted Crew came together in their university holidays, sharing their cooking highs and lows with each other in the pub. Headed up by Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor, this original group of 8 mates with an interest in food has now grown into a highly engaged online community of hundreds of thousands, that works together to get food challenges sorted. The SortedFood video recipes on YouTube now get millions of views every month. They self-published two recipe books, A Recipe for Student Survival and A Rookie's Guide to Crackin' Cooking, and Beginners... Get Sorted was their first book with Penguin.

Half the fun of great food can be the making of it, so if you enjoy the getting there as well as the destination, this chapter is for you. Get together with friends and family to create some cracking food that you can all enjoy making and eating. 
 
Recipes include: Cider Cheese Fondue, Smoked Haddock and Pea Ravioli and Roll-your-own Truffles. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining.

Fast Food Snacks

Fast Food Snacks is the fifth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends. 
 
The next time your friends show up on your doorstep without warning, don't simply reach for the takeaway menu because we've got a whole host of ideas to fill you up. From dishes that beat the takeaway to some good old cinema snacks, this chapter has it all. Recipes include: Stuffed Tacos, Popcorn Chicken, Hoisin Ribs and Salt 'n' Pepper Wings. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining. 
 
 
The Sorted Crew came together in their university holidays, sharing their cooking highs and lows with each other in the pub. Headed up by Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor, this original group of 8 mates with an interest in food has now grown into a highly engaged online community of hundreds of thousands, that works together to get food challenges sorted. The SortedFood video recipes on YouTube now get millions of views every month. They self-published two recipe books, A Recipe for Student Survival and A Rookie's Guide to Crackin' Cooking, and Beginners... Get Sorted was their first book with Penguin.

The next time your friends show up on your doorstep without warning, don't simply reach for the takeaway menu because we've got a whole host of ideas to fill you up. From dishes that beat the takeaway to some good old cinema snacks, this chapter has it all. Recipes include: Stuffed Tacos, Popcorn Chicken, Hoisin Ribs and Salt 'n' Pepper Wings. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining.

Food to Show Off

Food to Show Off is the fourth chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends. 
 
If you've been bragging about your killer cooking skills for years, this chapter will help you to put your money where your mouth is! Not only have we got some fancysounding dishes for starters, mains and desserts, we've also gone to the effort of creating different menus for you, with courses that complement each other perfectly. Recipes include: Goat's Cheese and Black Pepper Mousse, Blueberry Duck with Potato Rosti, Tapanade Beef Wellington and Chocolate and Hazelnut Torte. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining. 
 
 
The Sorted Crew came together in their university holidays, sharing their cooking highs and lows with each other in the pub. Headed up by Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor, this original group of 8 mates with an interest in food has now grown into a highly engaged online community of hundreds of thousands, that works together to get food challenges sorted. The SortedFood video recipes on YouTube now get millions of views every month. They self-published two recipe books, A Recipe for Student Survival and A Rookie's Guide to Crackin' Cooking, and Beginners... Get Sorted was their first book with Penguin.

If you've been bragging about your killer cooking skills for years, this chapter will help you to put your money where your mouth is! Not only have we got some fancysounding dishes for starters, mains and desserts, we've also gone to the effort of creating different menus for you, with courses that complement each other perfectly. 
 
Recipes include: Goat's Cheese and Black Pepper Mousse, Blueberry Duck with Potato Rosti, Tapanade Beef Wellington and Chocolate and Hazelnut Torte. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining.

Smart Casual Canapés

Smart-Casual Canapés is the third chapter from The Sorted Crew's new cookbook, Food with Friends. 
 
Things seem so much more sophisticated when translated into French, but while the word canapé sounds pretty classy, these bite-sized appetisers are actually just finger food. The real trick is to make them look as posh as they sound, so each canapé in this chapter is stupidly simple to make, but when you put four or five together they look really impressive. Recipes include: Jerk Chicken Potato Wedges, Mango, Coriander and Crayfish Sticks, Micro Jackets with Guacamole and Tequila Salmon Gravadlax. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining. 
 
 
The Sorted Crew came together in their university holidays, sharing their cooking highs and lows with each other in the pub. Headed up by Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor, this original group of 8 mates with an interest in food has now grown into a highly engaged online community of hundreds of thousands, that works together to get food challenges sorted. The SortedFood video recipes on YouTube now get millions of views every month. They self-published two recipe books, A Recipe for Student Survival and A Rookie's Guide to Crackin' Cooking, and Beginners... Get Sorted was their first book with Penguin.

Things seem so much more sophisticated when translated into French, but while the word canapé sounds pretty classy, these bite-sized appetisers are actually just finger food. The real trick is to make them look as posh as they sound, so each canapé in this chapter is stupidly simple to make, but when you put four or five together they look really impressive. Recipes include: Jerk Chicken Potato Wedges, Mango, Coriander and Crayfish Sticks, Micro Jackets with Guacamole and Tequila Salmon Gravadlax. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining.

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Ben Ebbrell

Get 'curried away' with this chapter devoted to the nation's favourite takeaway dish! From cheap and easy recipes that will be quicker than a takeaway delivery to our 'Indian banquet' options, make sure to remember that all of these dishes will taste infinitely better with an ice-cold beer! Recipes include: Chicken Pasanda, Lamb Rogan Josh, Fish and Red Lentil Curry, Paneer and Pea Curry and Mushroom Rice. 
 
Food with Friends is the second cookbook from The Sorted Crew, with recipes by Ben Ebbrell. It's the ultimate guide for entertaining friends in a fun and fuss-free way, from romantic suppers and family barbecues to curry nights for hungry hordes. Whether you're cooking for two or twenty, Food with Friends by The Sorted Crew is THE book for easy entertaining.

Ben Ebbrell

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