For those of us with busy lifestyles and little time to spare, slow cookers are a priceless helping hand in the kitchen - with as little as 10 minutes spent preparing a dish at the beginning of the day, you can enjoy delicious food a few hours later without slaving away at a hot stove. That's why the trusted experts at Good Food magazine, the UK's best-selling cookery magazine, have put together this essential guide to making the most of your slow cooker. With recipes for comfort food favourites like curries, chillis, soups and puddings, through to fresh ideas for meaty stews, braised fish and melt-in-the-mouth vegetarian meals, there is a slow-cooked meal to suit every taste and occasion. Accompanied throughout with full-colour photographs and a nutritional breakdown of every recipe, this collection of Good Food's favourite triple-tested slow cooker recipes will work first time, every time. A blend of timeless classics, clever twists and irresistible flavours, Slow Cooker Favourites is packed with recipe ideas for a whole host of mouth-watering treats. This edition is revised and updated with brand new recipes and a fresh new look.

This attractive book is full of unforgettable al fresco food and is a must-have guide for barbecue lovers everywhere. Pick from a wide range of appetizers, main course dishes and desserts, all explained in easy-to-follow steps and photography. Griddle quick-to-marinate Cheese Bites, or skewer shellfish in the style of Feta-Stuffed Squid: perfect light bites to get your barbecue off with a swing. To follow, choose from meaty Mixed Grilled Skewers or Mackerel with Nutty Bacon Stuffing. A handy section on side-dishes, breads and sauces completes the main course, while refreshing desserts such as Grilled Strawberries and Marshmallows on Skewers round off the perfect summer feast.

For many people, the downside of eating healthily is the thought of having to spend hours preparing and cooking meals. This inspirational, full-colour recipe book shows how a slow cooker can enable you to have a very healthy, home-cooked diet with just a few minutes spent in the kitchen. Author Dannii Martin reveals how her slow cooker changed her life. She ditched her fast food and ready meals habit and learned to cook from scratch, transforming herself from an unhealthy student into a healthy young mum and losing seven stone along the way. The Healthy Slow Cooker includes 100 recipes, each with a colour photo, and indicates clearly how long each recipe will take to cook for easy planning. You'll find: * Sustaining breakfasts such as Superfood Porridge, and Dark Chocolate and Cherry Granola * Healthy meat, fish and vegetarian main meals, including Vietnamese-style Chicken with Pak Choi, Sesame Beef with Broccoli, Lemon and Chive Salmon and Leafy Green Madras * Tasty side dishes such as Baba Ganoush and Salsa * Desserts and drinks including Apple and Pear Crumble and Apple Chai Latte The book also includes healthy options of some popular 'comfort' dishes, together with tips for choosing your slow cooker and how to get the most out of it.

Here is an easy-to-understand, beautifully illustrated guide to smoking and salt curing. Learn how to preserve meat, fish, and game and create delicious smoked and cured foods. Whether you are a hunter or angler seeking to cure and smoke your harvest or a consumer simply looking to save money while creating delicious treats at home, The Joy of Smoking and Salt Curing can help you! Chapters include: All about Smoking and Salt Curing Smokers and Other Tolls The Basics Pork Beef Poultry Fish Wild Game Recipes Rubs, Sauces, and Marinades Recipes for Hot Smoking And more! "In additional to salt curing, I have included both cold smoking and hot-smoking methods in this book. I have also included some barbecuing methods utilizing smoke.... I have smoked everything from salmon to whole hogs, with wonderful results. Which is why it's no wonder the process of smoking in all forms has become increasingly popular. I hope this book bring you the joy of smoking."

We all love to get the barbecue out on a hot summer's day and enjoy some down-to-earth al fresco dining, but why restrict ourselves to only one season in the year? This comprehensive guide shows you how to cook food the Weber way to get the most from your grill throughout the year, and contains everything the avid barbecue enthusiast needs to know. Enjoy over 150 delicious triple-tested recipes for meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables and fruit, as well as invaluable ideas for rubs, marinades and sauces. You will also find expert answers to common questions about barbecuing, plus tips and advice on safety, upkeep, fuel and lighting methods.From simple kebabs to elaborate rotisseries, a grilled cheese salad or a tasty fruit pudding, Weber's Complete BBQ Book is packed with an extensive range of delicious recipes for all-year-round barbecuing.

Learn how to prepare meals that are both healthy and tasty with the recipes in this steaming cookbook! Steaming is an ancient Asian cooking technique that will perfectly complement your contemporary eating habits. It is not only an easy and quick way to cook, but the results are also delicious and healthy: the steaming process gently envelops food with even heat to retain food's natural juices, vitamins, and minerals, which might otherwise be lost in the cooking water. Steaming food holds a firm texture, securing all of its flavor and brilliant colour. Steaming, the comprehensive guide to steaming food takes the home cook through each recipe with step-by-step instructions, and provides information on how to use a variety of steaming equipment, including tips for creating steaming implements at home. Learn how to include steam cooking in the preparation of many meals, with 40 steaming recipes for: Appetizers and starters Rice, noodles and grains Meat and poultry Seafood Vegetables and salads Delicious desserts. Every chef needs a repertoire of steaming recipes. Your body and taste buds will both thank you when you start cooking with Steaming!

The Instant Pot was first created in 2010 as seven cooking gadgets in one: pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, fryer, yoghurt maker and warmer. It has fourteen built-in smart programs: Soup, Meat/Stew, Bean/Chilli, Poultry, Saute, Steam, Rice, Porridge, Multigrain, Slow Cook, Keep-Warm, Yoghurt, Pasteurise and Fermenting. Over the last six months Instant Pots have become a viral sensation in the UK, achieving what the Daily Mail has called 'cult-like' status. Despite already selling many thousands in the USA (one machine has 24,000 reviews on Amazon.com), Amazon.co.uk (with 1,500 reviews for the same machine) quickly ran out of stock of the device, which sells for under GBP100. Pinterest is flooded with the various recipes you can make in the device, from stews to cheesecake. The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook provides plenty of failsafe recipes such as a whole roasted chicken with mushroom gravy and decadent New York cheesecake, also a hearty array of contemporary meals, such as Greek-style Gigantes beans with fresh feta, braised pork loin with balsamic vinegar and caramelized onions, and much, much more!

In the past twenty years, interest in wood-fired ovens has increased dramatically in the United States and abroad, but most books focus on how to bake bread or pizza in an oven. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers many more techniques for home and artisan bakers-from baking bread and making pizza to recipes on how to get as much use as possible out of a single oven firing, from the first live-fire roasting to drying wood for the next fire. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers a new take on traditional techniques for professional bakers, but is simple enough to inspire any nonprofessional baking enthusiast. Leading baker and instructor Richard Miscovich wants people to use their ovens to fulfill the goal of maximum heat utilization. Readers will find methods and techniques for cooking and baking in a wood-fired oven in the order of the appropriate temperature window. What comes first-pizza, or pastry? Roasted vegetables or a braised pork loin? Clarified butter or beef jerky? In addition to an extensive section of delicious formulas for many types of bread, readers will find chapters on: * Making pizza and other live-fire flatbreads; * Roasting fish and meats; * Grilling, steaming, braising, and frying; * Baking pastry and other recipes beyond breads; * Rendering animal fats and clarifying butter; * Food dehydration and infusing oils; * And myriad other ways to use the oven's residual heat. Appendices include oven-design recommendations, a sample oven temperature log, Richard's baker's percentages, proper care of a sourdough starter, and more. . . . From the Wood Fired Oven is more than a cookbook; it reminds the reader of how a wood-fired oven (and fire, by extension) draws people together and bestows a sense of comfort and fellowship, very real human needs, especially in uncertain times. Indeed, cooking and baking from a wood-fired oven is a basic part of a resilient lifestyle, and a perfect example of valuable traditional skills being put to use in modern times.

Mixing elegance with an island attitude, Louie's Backyard is an award-winning Key West, Florida restaurant famous for its fine food and relaxed oceanfront ambience, and what marks the food at Louie's backyard is innovation. Chef Doug Shook likes to create new variations daily. "Inventing is the joy of cooking," he says, which means the recipes in The Louie's Backyard Cookbook are the best of many recipes Shook has created over the years. They are for people who enjoy the entire process of creating a meal, from procuring the ingredients to making a handsome presentation of a finished dish. In this cookbook, you'll discover delicious dishes such as: Conch Fritters, Key Lime Pie, Jerk-Rubbed Free-Range Chicken Breast, Sauteed Key West Shrimp with Bacon and Stone-Ground Grits, Conch Chowder, and more! The Louie's Backyard Cookbook contains not only 150 of Chef Shook's most creative recipes, but takes you behind the scenes through photos and stories to learn about the restaurant and the Key West culture that lures people with its beauty and keeps them with its liberty. This cookbook is the next best thing to experiencing the islands themselves!

Outward Bound Backcountry Cooking is a handy resource on the fundamentals of great trail food, including information about food preparation and storage, cooking tips for different weather, keeping food fresh, and planning and packing meals plus recipes for great outdoor meals. In partnership with outdoor leader Outward Bound, this book combines expert instruction with practical tips to ensure a fun and a satisfying meal for your next outdoor adventure.

The secret is out: That slow cooker that's been collecting dust in your kitchen cabinet is a wonderful and easy tool for making delicious entrees at the touch of a button. With new U.S. sales estimated at 6 million a year, more people are finding slow cookers indispensable in getting a home-cooked meal on the table. Besides tasting good, slow cooked meals are convenient and nutritious because you use fresh, wholesome ingredients.

Slow Cookers For Dummies is for working families, couples, single people, students, and anyone who is tired of takeout. Perhaps you love cooking but have little time to do it or want to decrease your reliance on prepared mixes or boxed convenience foods. Slow cooking may be right for you if you want to

• Save money on food and utility bills
• Control your sodium and fat intake
• Free up your oven and cooktop for more holiday cooking
• Take a hot dish to a potluck supper

If you already know how to use a slow cooker, the delicious recipes in this book can help you expand your repertoire beyond soups and stews. If you're thinking of getting a slow cooker, Slow Cookers For Dummies takes you from the basics of how these cookers work to preparing special occasion meals, to troubleshooting slow cooker problems.

Here's a closer look at what Slow Cookers For Dummies includes:

• Guidelines on how to choose the right slow cooker for you
• Techniques to help you slow-cook the right way
• Easy recipes for snacks, beverages, chili, stews, and casseroles
• Scrumptious recipes for roasting beef, pork, lamb, and poultry
• How-to's on cooking and freezing in batches
• Ways to adapt favorite traditionally cooked dishes for the slow cooker

In Slow Cookers for Dummies, food and appliance cooking experts Tom Lacalamita and Glenna Vance show that this classic cooking appliance is really a wonderful tool for making creative, delicious meals. With 75 recipes for making the most out of your slow cooker, you'll never put that slow cooker in your cabinet again.

Flavorful vegan-friendly meals meet the ease of air frying--without the fat.

If you're serious about eating a healthy, plant-based diet but still have cravings for the crispy crunch of fried foods--this book has good news for you. The Essential Vegan Air Fryer Cookbook serves up the most comprehensive collection of good-for-you vegan recipes that pack deep-fried taste--without all the guilt.

From Sweet Miso-Glazed Brussels Sprouts to BBQ Jackfruit Nachos to Cinnamon Crisps, these yummy recipes use the healthiest real food ingredients without ever compromising flavor. But this air fryer cookbook book doesn't just give you healthy recipes--you'll also learn the ins and outs of air frying with expert advice and a handy troubleshooting guide. And yes, you CAN have French fries.

The Essential Vegan Air Fryer Cookbook includes:

• Air frying 101--Learn the benefits of air frying, plus how to choose and use the right model for you with this air fryer cookbook.
• Good food that's GOOD for you--Forget about fake substitutes. This air fryer cookbook embraces the rich and varied ingredients of the vegan diet so that you never compromise your health for great tasting food.
• 80 Whole health recipes--Get all the best recipes for breakfasts and breads, sides and snacks, main dishes, desserts, and must-have staples.

In Korean BBQ & Japanese Grills, Jonas Cramby explores the best of Korean and Japanese barbecue - the techniques, philosophy and historical roots. He shares his favourite recipes, which include, among others, yakitori, yakiniku and izakaya-style classics. From succulent skewered meats to marinated bulgogi bowls, there's a whole host of delicious dishes, as well as complementary umami-rich sauces and sumptuous sides to be enjoyed. Trimmings and sauces all take minutes to prepare and the meat seconds to barbecue. There are also guides on how to cut the meat, source your ingredients and, for an authentic experience, the best table grills to use that are simple, portable and so cheap that anyone can have a feast - anywhere. The art of Korean barbecue and Japanese grilling is not just a meal, it is a mindful practice. Produce and tools are carefully chosen and something so simple as a piece of chicken, a little salt and fire can, with practice and the right technique, be transformed into something sublime. Chapters include: Yakitori/grilled chicken Yakiniku/grilled meat Korean BBQ Izakaya/bar snacks