The Nation’s Favorite Food Fast: 100 Best-loved Recipes for Busy Lives

No. 1 Bestseller - Avonmore Cookbook of the Year 2014

The demands of the modern world mean we're all under time pressure, but whether you're doing long hours at work or staying home to raise a brood - or combining the two - the fact remains the same: we need to eat.

With that in mind, Ireland's most trusted chef has devised 100 new everyday family recipes you can rely on. Recipes include speedy suppers, clever lunchbox ideas, economical meals made from leftovers and fast, healthy alternatives to takeaway.

These tried and tested recipes guarantee you'll have fast, nutritious food that your family will love on the table in minutes - leaving you free to get back to your busy life

From a very young age, one of Neven Maguire’s favourite pastimes was to shadow his mother in the kitchen, watching her cook. He began experimenting with ingredients at home from the tender age of ten and his pastime soon became his passion.

Neven went on to train in some of the highest-profile restaurants in the world, and in 2001 he took over MacNean Restaurant, turning a local establishment into a national phenomenon.

His highly acclaimed MacNean Restaurant Cookbook and hugely popular The Nation’s Favourite Food were both nominated for an Irish Book Award. In 2014 he won the prestigious title of Best Chef in Ireland at the Restaurant Association of Ireland Awards.

Neven presents the top-rated cookery show on RTE One, Home Chef. He lives a very busy life in Blacklion, Co. Cavan, with his wife Amelda and twins Connor and Lucia.