Chefs at Home: 54 chefs share their lockdown recipes in aid of Hospitality Action

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Without a home, without a kitchen, without any kind of certainty, it’s impossible to cook good nutritious food. While for others they recounted the despair of losing their teams and the dream of the future they were building, Alexandre Silva , owner of Loco in Lisbon, Portugal wrote: “I felt the accountability of having 70 people at risk of losing their livelihood and the risk of leaving my daughters without anything to eat and the risk of me and my wife Sara falling into a bottomless pit of depression. She's one of the most brilliant, exciting chefs in the UK and in this book she's managed to share on her skills with all of us who are cooking for our families with limited time, money and expertise.

She has since revealed that she grew up “surrounded by a family who loved cooking”, which ultimately inspired her to become a professional chef. For 2022, they worked with more than 12,000 people in 28 local authorities across the country, delivering homes for people in need. As the new series gets well under way, viewers up and down the country are trying to find out everything they can about the cast of cooks and competitors. Anna Haugh was born in Dublin in the 1980s, and has trained and worked as a professional chef for 20 years.

When I was about 19 and doing my professional cookery course as a young commis on Cathal Brugha Street in Dublin, my parents bought me Jamie Oliver’s Italian cookbook, The Naked Chef.

Anna has worked on numerous TV shows for the BBC, including being the guest chef on MasterChef: The Professionals, Saturday Kitchen, Royal Recipes and the breakfast show Morning Live. I want to be associated with a programme that I felt was a high enough calibre that you had to be able to cook, that was really important for me.Huge thank you to Town and County magazine for having me on the cover with a lovely interview on my journey from corporate world to wearing an apron and featuring some delicious recipes from my latest book CANNED. Massimo Bottura, of Osteria Francescana, Modena, Italy, who spoke at Food On The Edge 2016, shared a recipe he used while working in Refettorio in Rio de Janeiro with Food for Soul, the non-profit organization he founded with his wife Lara, and Gastromotiva. Included in this book, alongside the wonderful recipes, are stories from some of the people we have supported out of homelessness – what their new home means to them and how it has changed their lives. The Ready Steady Cook star grew up in Dublin (Credit: BBC) How did Anna Haugh become a chef and how does she know Gordon Ramsay?

In a 2015 interview with The Irish Independent, she revealed that she has previously separated from her husband of 13 years, explaining that not having children helped her fully commit to the rigours required of a career in fine dining.

I've eaten her simplest dishes and her fanciest and they are all incredible: she manages to make meals affordable but luxurious; decadent but healthy and fresh; innovative but accessible.

A few years ago he did a very low-key little cookbook for people who were moving into their homes but he also had an idea in his head about doing something on a bigger scale. Knowing full well the reality of juggling busy family life with work, Anna includes mouthwatering recipes that are easy to prepare for weeknight dinner without using every pot and pan in the house, such as Mammy's shepherd's pie with forked spuds, baby gem lettuce and chicken taco night, lentil bolognaise, coconut cod curry, and Anna's Tuesday night stir-fry. Dublin-based chef Sunil Ghai of Pickle, Tiffin and Street Indian restaurants sums it up in his headnote for sweet and sour fish curry: “Home means food cooked by or for your loved ones. Having started cooking at l’Ecrivain with Derry Clarke, Anna has spent the last 14 years in London working for celebrated chefs Philip Howard, Shane Osborne and Gordon Ramsay. In this, her debut cookbook, she shares 85 recipes that are as straight-forward as they are delicious, such as Braised beef cheeks with sweet potato and basil crush, Dad's fish pie from Howth, vegan pulled pork and Guinness chocolate cake.all developed in conjunction with Fruit Bowl including videos for every recipe to help parents cook each dish.