Nenagh chef's book sells like hot cakes!
Nenagh chef Stuart O'Keefe has a new cook book out, and it's been selling like hot cakes!
'The Quick Six Fix' sold over 10,000 copies in seven minutes when it was released in the US last week. Stuart, who is based in Los Angeles, has become a celebrity chef Stateside, where he runs his own personal cookery business and exclusive catering firm.
A son of Frank and Margaret O'Keefe of Tyone, Nenagh, Stuart has cooked for some of the biggest names in Hollywood. He recently ran his own cookery series - 'Stuart's Kitchen' - on TV3 in Ireland.
His latest venture is a book, in which he insists that preparing a meal doesn't need to be difficult or require a lot of time. If you work efficiently while keeping your space clean, and cook with minimal yet flavourful ingredients, you can get a great meal from stove to table fast.
In 'The Quick Six Fix,' Stuart offers dozens of delicious recipes for breakfast, salads, soups, pasta, fish, chicken, pork, beef, sides, and desserts that will get you in and out of the kitchen in 30 minutes or less. Each rewuires no more than six key ingredients, six minutes of prep work, and six minutes of clean-up. Stuart says: 'There's an Irish proverb that best describes my approach to cooking: 'There's no use boiling your own cabbage twice.' It actually has nothing to do with cooking; it's usually said when someone tends to revisit worries over and over. But if you take it more literally, it simply shows the folly in making too much of a fuss over anything- including cooking.
'I find that people tend to unnecessarily stress out over preparing a meal. it needn't be hard, and it doesn't have to require a lot of time. We're modern people living in modern times withh all of the savvy, tools and tricks to cook efficiently about sacrificing delicious results. Think about it: what good is a twice-boiled anything?'
'The Quick Six Fix' has been listed a No 1 bestseller by Amazon, from which people can order copies now. It is to be released in Ireland at the end of the year.