{"id":3544,"date":"2013-07-21T11:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2013-07-21T11:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:59:31","slug":"do-ahead-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2013\/07\/21\/do-ahead-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Do-Ahead Dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/812hdXnmXDL._SL1417_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3545\" alt=\"812hdXnmXDL._SL1417_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/812hdXnmXDL._SL1417_-232x300.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/812hdXnmXDL._SL1417_-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/812hdXnmXDL._SL1417_-794x1024.jpg 794w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/812hdXnmXDL._SL1417_.jpg 1099w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>I am about to give birth.<\/p>\n<p>I am about to give birth to a beautiful, shiny, shimmering new book. It&#8217;s called Do-Ahead Dinners and is all about cooking for friends and family without the stress by, as you may have guessed, cooking the majority of the stuff ahead. There are 150-odd recipes (hyphen optional), gorgeous photographs by Yuki Sugiura, and glorious food and prop styling by Valerie Berry and Wei Tang.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TequillaCocktail12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3551\" alt=\"TequillaCocktail12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TequillaCocktail12-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TequillaCocktail12-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TequillaCocktail12-700x467.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/TequillaCocktail12.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ChocolateCake026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3552\" alt=\"ChocolateCake026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ChocolateCake026-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ChocolateCake026-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ChocolateCake026.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CourgetteFlowers0611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3553\" alt=\"CourgetteFlowers061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CourgetteFlowers0611-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CourgetteFlowers0611-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CourgetteFlowers0611.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PeaWatercressToast07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3554\" alt=\"PeaWatercressToast07\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PeaWatercressToast07-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PeaWatercressToast07-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PeaWatercressToast07.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PorkShoulder014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3555\" alt=\"PorkShoulder014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PorkShoulder014-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PorkShoulder014-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PorkShoulder014-700x467.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/PorkShoulder014.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while in the making. Ever since starting the Secret Larder three and a half years ago, I wanted to do a book based on the food I cooked at it, and here it is. I&#8217;m dead excited about it, and would be utterly delighted if you saw your way to buying a copy. You can pre-order one\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Do-ahead-Dinners-Friends-Family-without\/dp\/1862059977\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Do-ahead-Dinners-Friends-Family-without\/dp\/1862059977', 'here');\">here<\/a>\u00a0(it&#8217;s officially out on 15th August), or come to one of the events that are happening around the book&#8217;s publication. More of which to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am about to give birth. I am about to give birth to a beautiful, shiny, shimmering new book. It&#8217;s called Do-Ahead Dinners and is all about cooking for friends and family without the stress by, as you may have guessed, cooking the majority of the stuff ahead. There are 150-odd recipes (hyphen optional), gorgeous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[1246,1244,1247,1245],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zdji-Va","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}