This is a comprehensive directory of the fruits of the world with over 100 tempting recipes. It is a definitive guide to all the well-known and exotic fruits, plus more than 100 delectable recipes, with step-by-step instructions and pictures of every finished dish. It covers every type of fruit, including citrus fruits, summer berries, apples, bananas, melons, peaches, figs and grapes, as well as tropical varieties such as custard apples, Sharon fruit, rambutans and snake fruit. It includes advice on how to select and store, and detailed step-by-step instructions on how to prepare, preserve and cook all kinds of fruits. From pies and puddings to pickles, cakes, ice creams, mousses and souffles, the tempting recipes to try include French apple tart, pickled peach and chili chutney, and date and walnut brownies. It features more than 800 gorgeous photographs. Fruit is nature's most bountiful and versatile creation. This appetizing volume is divided into three sections, making it at once a comprehensive reference, a complete listing of every kind of fruit and a fail-safe recipe collection. It opens with an illustrated guide to preparing, juicing, preserving and cooking fruit. The directory contains essential information about all the common, less well-known and exotic fruits. The book ends with a marvellous collection of classic dishes and contemporary recipes, including over 100 hot and cold desserts, pastries, pickles and preserves, cakes and bakes. As this book proves, fruit is healthy, life-giving and delicious.

15 exciting, contemporary gingerbread projects! Traditional gingerbread goodies are given the modern treatment in this delectable book featuring 15 projects to make, eat or display. Sandra Monger is full of terrific ideas for gingerbread projects, from the traditional Christmas house, decorative gingerbread tiles and wreaths to a Norwegian kransekake delicately crafted from rings of gingerbread. The piece de resistance is Sandra's gingerbread-embellished wedding cake, which will no doubt prove a show-stopper for any budding baker. If you're looking for some quick bakes Sandra's got you covered as it's also packed with fun gingerbread biscuits such as sharing squares, snowflake cookies and cookie favours. Make perfect treats to slip into lunch boxes, serve up to friends at tea, give as gifts or show off as your holiday centrepiece. There are recipes for traditional, coloured and vegan gingerbread. All the projects included in the book are accompanied by full-size templates.

This is an inspiring collection of fabulous, fast recipes with only four ingredients. It is a mouthwatering selection of recipes for anyone who loves simple, easy-to-prepare food. You can discover sophisticated yet stress-free dishes such as Avocado Soup, Tofu and Pepper Kebabs, and Duck with Plum Sauce. You can indulge in outrageously simple desserts such as Coconut and Lime Ice, Baked Blueberry and Almond Tart, and Grilled Peaches with Meringues. It includes helpful step-by-step techniques, and basic recipes for making stocks and sauces. It includes recipes for all occasions, from quick midweek lunches to more elaborate creations to serve at dinner parties. This book puts the emphasis on dishes that are quick and easy to prepare, yet that are still tempting and delicious. It teaches you how to make the most of food with simple, yet tasty recipes that use only four ingredients or fewer. Using a limited number of top-quality ingredients allows you to appreciate the aroma, taste and texture of a dish, and saves time on writing lists and shopping for ingredients. It also allows for fuss-free preparation, giving you more time to sit back, relax and enjoy your food.As well as the 25 selected recipes there are also suggestions for variations and cook's tips throughout, making this a great little handbook.

More than 75 satisfying recipes to warm body and soul as you snuggle up against the cold by the fireside. Winter is the perfect time to stay indoors and prepare comforting home-cooked meals. Lizzie Kamenetzky takes her inspiration from snow-covered mountains, ski towns and cosy winter cabins, to bring you recipes that are perfect for snuggling up against the cold in front of a crackling log fire. Enjoy these delicious recipes from dawn till dusk. Start your day with coffee and a sugar-dusted breakfast bake, still warm from the oven. Rustle up a hearty winter salad or serve a bowl of steaming soup for lunch, as you look forward to a satisfying plate of dumplings, or a rich casserole come the evening. Create creamy gratins, tasty supper skillets, slow-cooked meats and deep-filled pies, or entertain your friends with a traditional cheese fondue. Finish your indulgent meal with a rustic fruit tart, or a baked souffle spiked with a little warming winter spirit. Whatever your craving, you will find the perfect recipe to satisfy it here, as winter food has never been so comforting or delicious.

From ancient Greece to the Victorian era and into modern times, vinegar and oil have been used for an infinite variety of purposes. This book explores the many varied applications of these wondrous substances, looking at their distinct properties, the range of types available and their uses as valued ingredients in medicinal treatments, household cleaners, beauty treatments, aromatherapy, as well as 130 irresistible culinary recipes for sauces, marinades, soups and desserts and everything in between. Illustrated with more than 700 beautiful photographs, this wonderful compendium explores the amazing versatility and health and household benefits of these magical everyday ingredients.

This title features 90 delicious recipes using apples, shown in over 245 mouthwatering photographs. It is a complete guide to cooking with apples, including breakfasts, appetizers, salads, side dishes, main courses, desserts, cakes, sauces, preserves and drinks. It features fascinating information about the apple in history and mythology, and how apple trees have been bred and used in commerce. Tempting recipes include Apple and Cranberry Soup, Bacon Chops with Apple and Cider Sauce, Roast Duck with Apples and Prunes, Apple Strudel, Mulled Cider and Rowan and Crab Apple Jelly. It is the ultimate recipe collection for this wonderful fruit. The humble apple is a much-loved fruit throughout the world. Recognized for its versatility, it is a very popular ingredient in many tasty recipes. This beautifully illustrated volume contains a collection of 90 delectable apple recipes. Dishes include classics such as Roast Goose with Apples, Apple Crumble and Baked Apples, as well as more unusual recipes such as Pumpkin and Apple Risotto, Curried Apple Soup and Apple and Kumquat Sponge Puddings.Red, green, sweet or sour, apples are as important in today's health-conscious society as they have ever been. With over 245 inspiring images, this book is an essential companion for every kitchen library.

This title deals with nature's wonder ingredient: 100 amazing uses from traditional cures to food and beauty, with tips, hints and 40 tempting recipes. You can learn how to use the remarkable powers of honey in your medicine chest, household, bathroom and kitchen. It features dozens of safe natural remedies and preparations - how to make honey compresses, anti-fungal ointments, digestive tonics, cough syrups, antiseptic balms and sleeping aids. It contains a guide to all the different kinds of honey, and over 40 classic recipes that make the most of nutritious honey in all kinds of delicious ways - from sweet-and-sour marinades to delectable honey pastries. It comes with step-by-step instructions and 275 photographs. The first sweetener, honey predates sugar by hundreds of years. But as well as its culinary uses, honey has long been valued in folk remedies. This book presents in one volume not only a fascinating history of an ancient ingredient but a comprehensive and practical guide to the many amazing and beneficial uses of honey in the home. Combining history, a guide to the different types of honey, household uses, medicinal preparations and beauty treatments, as well as many delicious recipes, it demonstrates the amazing versatility of honey. This is a delightful sourcebook of ideas you will turn to time and again.

'There's not a recipe here I don't want to eat immediately.' - Nigella Lawson Roast Chicken and Other Stories provides an insight into Simon Hopkinson's unique style of unpretentious cooking with 160 of his favourite recipes. Simon Hopkinson's forty favourite ingredients include everyday basics as potatoes, chicken and cod as well as more exotic foods such as asparagus and truffles. The cookbook is arranged alphabetically with a chapter on each food. Unable to hide his great love of food, Hopkinson writes about why he likes each particular ingredient, and gives sensible advice on quality, variety and good cooking principles together with the recipes. The book is aimed at home cooks and all the recipes can be prepared by anyone with basic cooking skills. From Grilled Augergine with Pesto to Roast Chicken and Homemade Ice Cream, Simon Hopkinson's food is always honest and inviting, designed to please rather than simply to impress.

This book features delectable mousses, ice creams, terrines, puddings, pies, pastries and cookies, shown step by step in more than 270 gorgeous photographs. It is an irresistible collection of recipes, which demonstrate the wonderful versatility of coffee in the kitchen. It features all the classic coffee desserts and cakes, such as Tiramisu, Coffee Coeurs a la Creme, Mocha Sponge Cake and Cappuccino Torte. It also includes coffee-infused variations of recipes, such as Coffee Custard Tart, Sticky Pear Pudding, Danish Coffee Pastries and Coffee Cream Profiteroles. You can choose from delicious souffles and meringues, puddings, fruit and iced desserts, melt-in-the-mouth cakes, pastries, breads and biscuits. It contains over 270 photographs, which include step-by-step instructions and a glorious picture of every finished dish. This sumptuous cookbook is dedicated to exploring coffee with new and exciting recipes for all occasions, from iced delights, luxurious tortes and melt-in-the-mouth pies and pastries, to satisfying and more-ish biscuits and breads. The recipes give full scope to the imagination, showing how the rich taste of coffee can transform classic dishes into something really special. From simple sponges to tempting tarts and velvety cheesecakes, there are desserts to rival any professional confection. Some, such as Coffee Almond Marsala Slice, are perfect with mid-morning coffee. Others, like Coffee Chocolate Mousse Cake and Cappuccino Torte, make unforgettable dinner party finales. With updated recipes and classic pastries and cookies from all around the world, this is a beautifully presented book with clearly explained instructions and photographs.

Honey has the sweetest associations. Put a dab on your tongue and let its smooth sugars dissolve into a long hit of flavour and energy. It makes you think of summer days when bees buzz between flowers in the sunshine.

Made from nectar concentrated down to a sweet stickiness by tens of thousands of bees working together in the hive, honey can be found all over the world. Caribbean jerk, Spanish tapas, French sauces, British biscuits and Turkish cakes all gleam with the sweet stuff. It can take no more than a spoonful of honey to bring its deep flavour to a dish. As a marinade it enhances meat and poultry, and works particularly well with nuts and fruits, cream and cheese, and herbs and spices.

Join award-winning author Hattie Ellis in the kitchen as she shares over 80 recipes covering meals throughout the day, snacks, sweets, puddings, sauces and drinks.

From Honeyed Chicken and Aubergine Biryani and Honey Sauce Vierge to Honey, Apple and Rosemary Jelly and Sicilian Honey Balls (Sfingi), Hattie explores different flavours and varieties of honey from around the world.

Spoonfuls of Honey also explains what to consider when buying and storing honey, gives tips on its use in your cooking, examines the benefits to your health and includes the role bees and honey play in nature.

Chapters include: What is Honey?; A-Z of honey; A-Z of honeybees; Honey in the kitchen; How to buy and store honey; How to taste honey; Honey and health; Honey and the natural world; Around the world in 90 pots. Recipe chapters include: Breakfast and brunch; lunch and supper; Snacks, sides and sauces; Teatime baking; Puddings; Preserves, Sweets and drinks

This is a superb collection of 60 recipes using wild and cultivated mushrooms shown in over 350 photographs. It features 60 delicious recipes using this natural and versatile ingredient, all shown step by step. It contains everything you need to know about preparing and cooking the most popular mushroom varieties, including ideas and techniques for preserving and drying them. Dishes are divided into five mouthwatering chapters: Soups, Starters & Salads; Poultry & Game; Beef, Pork & Lamb; Fish & Shellfish; and Vegetarian Dishes. Varied recipes take inspiration from all over the world, from Fresh Tuna Shiitake Teriyaki to Buckwheat Blinis with Mushroom Caviar. Easy-to-follow instructions and over 350 photographs, including step-by-step sequences, make it easy to achieve success with every dish. Mushrooms are an irresistible source of tastes, textures and aromas. The increasing availability of wild and exotic varieties in supermarkets and delicatessens, as well as the possibility of finding them in our forests and fields, makes it easy for cooks to explore the qualities of this fascinating ingredient. This book presents an original collection of 60 dishes using fungi of all types, for every meal and menu. The introduction covers over 30 varieties of mushroom, with preparation techniques. The delicious recipes include Mushroom Boreg, Creamy Fish and Mushroom Pie, and Roast Chicken Stuffed with Forest Mushrooms. Illustrated with stunning photography, this is a must-have recipe book and kitchen reference manual for every keen cook.

A comprehensive, deeply personal, and visually stunning guide to growing and cooking vegetables from Britain's foremost food writer, with more than 400 recipes and extensive gardening notes.
In the tradition of "Roast Chicken and Other Stories" comes "Tender," a passionate guide to savoring the best the garden has to offer. An instant classic when it was first published in the UK, "Tender" is a cookbook, a primer on produce, and above all, a beloved author's homage to his favorite vegetables. Slater's inspired and inspiring writing makes this a book to sit with and savor as much as one to prop open in the kitchen. The chapters explore 29 vegetables and offer enticing, comforting recipes such as Potato Cakes with Chard and Taleggio, a Tart of asparagus and Tarragon, and Grilled Lamb with Eggplant and Za'atar. With wit, enthusiasm, and a charming lack of pretension, Slater champions vegetables--through hands-on nurturing in the garden and straightforward preparations in the kitchen--with this truly essential book for every kitchen library.

2020 James Beard Award Winner With recipes for gumbos and stews-plus okra pickles, tofu, marshmallow, paper, and more! "A love song long overdue. It is anything and everything you wanted to know about this hallmark ingredient."-Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene Chris Smith's first encounter with okra was of the worst kind: slimy fried okra at a greasy-spoon diner. Despite that dismal introduction, Smith developed a fascination with okra, and as he researched the plant and began to experiment with it in his own kitchen, he discovered an amazing range of delicious ways to cook and eat it, along with ingenious and surprising ways to process the plant from tip-to-tail: pods, leaves, flowers, seeds, and stalks. Smith talked okra with chefs, food historians, university researchers, farmers, homesteaders, and gardeners. The summation of his experimentation and research comes together in The Whole Okra, a lighthearted but information-rich collection of okra history, lore, recipes, craft projects, growing advice, and more. The Whole Okra includes classic recipes such as fried okra pods as well as unexpected delights including okra seed pancakes and okra flower vodka. Some of the South's best-known chefs shared okra recipes with Smith: Okra Soup by culinary historian Michael Twitty, Limpin' Susan by chef BJ Dennis, Bhindi Masala by chef Meherwan Irani, and Okra Fries by chef Vivian Howard. Okra has practical uses beyond the edible, and Smith also researched the history of okra as a fiber crop for making paper and the uses of okra mucilage (slime) as a preservative, a hydrating face mask, and a primary ingredient in herbalist Katrina Blair's recipe for Okra Marshmallow Delight. The Whole Okra is foremost a foodie's book, but Smith also provides practical tips and techniques for home and market gardeners. He gives directions for saving seed for replanting, for a breeding project, or for a stockpile of seed for making okra oil, okra flour, okra tempeh, and more. Smith has grown over 75 varieties of okra, and he describes the nuanced differences in flavor, texture, and color; the best-tasting varieties; and his personal favorites. Smith's wry humor and seed-to-stem enthusiasm for his subject infuse every chapter with just the right mix of fabulous recipes and culinary tips, unique projects, and fun facts about this vagabond vegetable with enormous potential. "If you are an okra lover, this book is an affirmation, filled with interesting stories and great ideas for using pods, flowers, and more. If you are not yet an okra lover, Chris Smith's enthusiasm may well convert you."-Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation

Whether you drizzle it over salads and breads or use it in cooking, olive oil is a magical ingredient that enhances food, soothes sharp tastes, and provides an extra richness during or after cooking. This enticing book offers a selection of classic olive oil recipes, taken from the countries that have produced it for centuries, along with detailed information on the healthy benefits of olive oil.