Cooking Passions: Food for Friends by Nico Moretti is a collection of 60 fast, flavour-packed recipes designed around the pleasure of cooking and sharing food with family and friends. Based on favourites from Moretti’s Cooking Passions Cooking School in Perth, the emphasis is on impressive dishes that can be prepared at home without unnecessary fuss.
The recipes draw inspiration from cuisines around the world and cover starters, salads, pasta and noodles, meat and poultry, seafood, desserts and drinks. Dishes range from Thai curries, Moroccan chicken and paella to bourbon ribs, garlic prawns, chocolate mudcake and white chocolate panna cotta. The revised edition also includes Thermomix methods for more than 30 recipes alongside conventional instructions.