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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; color: #000000} Everyone occasionally finds themselves with a bag of wilting salad in the fridge or a hunk of bread that can't even be revived with toasting, but before you throw away those bendy carrots or that slightly sour milk, let Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall show you what flavoursome meals can be whipped up with your languishing ingredients. In this pocket bible, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall offers nifty and creative ideas to transform leftovers into irresistible meals. Hugh starts by giving practical advice for cooking on a weekly basis with leftovers in mind - helping to save money and avoid waste - and provides tips on how best to store your ingredients to make them last for as long as possible. Hugh shares handy recipe templates that can be applied to all kinds of leftover ingredients, and provides simple and flexible recipes. He shows, for instance, how you can transform leftover meat into Chilli beef noodles, Stew enchiladas, Spicy chicken salad with peanut butter dressing; surplus root vegetables into Roast root hummus, Quick lentil and parsnip curry and Beetroot and caraway seed cake; vegetable peelings into a quick-and-easy stock. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000} Featuring a section dedicated to storecupboard ingredients, ideal for anyone looking for inspiration at the back of their shelves.
A sleek and chic guide to party food and drinks, this book is filled with smart ways to make entertaining effortless. Divided into two sections, food and drink, the book will run the gamut of accessibility. You'll find everything from make-ahead alcohol infusions for a 'just add soda water' situation to big-batch versions of cocktail classics - think negroni-style punches and a serves-10 pina colada. In the Food chapter, there will truly be something for everyone, with date, parmesan and pancetta bites to flavour-packed, free-from options such as bang bang noodle lettuce cups and quick snack ideas that are almost as fast as opening a packet. What's more, you'll find a list of simple menu planners, the dos and don'ts of party hosting that will make your life simple and tips and symbols throughout that will indicate what can be made ahead, batch cooked and frozen, as well as prep and cook times and allergen information.
'What we like most is to produce foods ourselves from start to finish - from farm to table, the Riverford way. Food should tell a story and, because we know what it is, we can tell you.' Guy Watson's ethos is simple: he wants to put fresh, flavoursome, seasonal food back onto people's plates. In 1985, armed with a wheelbarrow and a borrowed tractor, he established his first Riverford farm in South Devon. Since then, and largely thanks to a groundbreaking home-delivery vegetable box scheme, a small network of Riverford farms has sprung up across Britain. Packed with tips on growing your own organic vegetables and brimming with hearty recipes from Riverford's celebrated Field Kitchen, the 'Riverford Farm Cook Book' gives an organic farmer's unique insight into great-tasting food grown with care and cooked with passion.
First published in 1974, The Compleat Cook is a book to inspire any creative cook in the days of tasteless, mass-produced foods. By the subtle use of herbs, wines and flavorings of all kinds Rebecca Price has provided us with multitude of new culinary experiences. These are the recipes of a practical cook, collected, tried and commented upon with meticulous care. Furthermore the book also tells us about Rebecca, her family, friends, servants, her kitchen and even the silver she used as hostess to many guests throughout her life in Westbury, Bucks, in London and in Houghton Regis, Beds. Madeleine Masson in her introduction is able to set Rebecca Price's work in a scholarly historical context to give a lively account of her family background. This book will be a useful resource for collectors of cookery books and also for social historians and students of food history.
Chic & Unique Wedding Cakes Learn how to make a wedding cake with these gorgeous projects and easy-to-follow instructions from award-winning wedding cake designer Zoe Clark. Cake decorating is the perfect way to celebrate a special day, and this book is packed with unique cake designs for you to make at home for weddings and romantic occasions. It features 10 chapters, each with a stunning wedding cake design and two coordinating smaller treats, including cupcakes, mini cakes, cookies, fondant fancies and macaroons. Step-by-step illustrated instructions cover all the essential techniques, such as piping and stencilling, and you will learn how to take inspiration from your own wedding theme: the stationery, the flowers, the venue and, of course, the dress! Inside Chic & Unique Wedding Cakes: Wedding Cake Designs - whether you are looking for a classic floral tiered cake, a colourful macaroon cake, or a contemporary monochrome design, cake decorating expert Zoe Clark has created something just for you. Recipes and Techniques - includes all the cake decorating techniques you need to know to make your own wedding cake, from rolling out sugarpaste to stacking and covering tiered cakes. You will also find baking recipes for sponge cakes, chocolate cakes, fruit cakes and carrot cake, as well as for cupcakes, fondant fancies and other smaller treats, and recipes for fillings and toppings, including buttercream frosting and chocolate ganache.
The Serious New Cook Cookbook features recipes that appeal to the familiar and the new, drawing beginning cooks into the fold by appealing to what they already know and want (meatballs, spaghetti with meat sauce, simple DIY sushi, onion dip with chips, milkshakes, cupcakes) and taking them to the next level with new, multicultural tastes to love: bulgogi meatballs, wild mushroom pot pie, romesco dip, onigiri rice balls, double dalgona milkshakes, and mochi ice cream, and introducing important techniques such as braising meat, making a roux, cooking perfect sushi rice, and fixing a broken buttercream. The recipes are organised into 23 trios, with one core recipe that introduces a technique or concept, followed by two additional recipes that further exemplify the technique or concept. Stunning photos accompany every recipe, including step-by-step photos for the first recipe in every trio, which show readers what each step should look like as they cook. And, unlike other cookbooks that offer a cooking school section that most readers never use, Serious New Cook builds the lessons and tips into the recipes it s like having a chef explaining things as you cook. Readers not only learn to cook each dish, but become more knowledgeable, deeply skilled cooks in the process. There are few cookbooks that address the needs of young adults who have advanced and adventurous palates, but who don t have the cooking skills necessary to make the foods they love to eat. Existing cookbooks lack the built-in lessons and hand-holding young adult cooks and even newbie adult cooks! require. The Serious New Cook Cookbook fills that gap.
Slow-cooked food and what the author likes to call 'good tempered food', is what proper cooking is all about. In fact, it's the chief pleasure of cooking. It's about re-uniting yourself with a sense of pleasure in the kitchen, rediscovering that 'slow' or 'time-taken' doesn't mean difficult. This is a hugely underrated pleasure in its own right - as can be the planning, shopping, reading of cookery books or recipes online, deliberating, or telephoning a friend for a recipe. Good Tempered Food also shows how to plan in advance and half-prepare a dish a day or even a week before. For example, a dish like risotto can be half-cooked before time, the simplest of meat sauces can be converted from lasagna to cottage pie, hot and cold puddings can be pre-cooked and finished at the last minute. The book is full of dishes that will give you pleasure to cook - roasted baby tomatoes mixed with baby broad beans, a handful of chives, mint, chervil and thyme, some lemon zest and cheese thrown onto some pasta of a fat piece of belly of port idling in the oven for several hours, steeped in molasses, sweet brown sugar and star anise.
Get top marks in the kitchen, with over 150 easy, cheap and delicious recipes for students. Never mind essays and exams - one of the biggest challenges you'll face at university is fending for yourself in the kitchen. The Hungry Student Cookbook will take you from freshers' week to graduation, all on a seriously tight budget. You'll never have to resort to a can of baked beans again! Whether you want a simple dinner, a quick lunch between lectures, exam fuel or a slap-up meal to impress housemates, these easy-to-follow recipes are designed specially for students and include all your favourites: from homemade curries, lasagne, fajitas and toad-in-the-hole, to delicious ideas for soups, casseroles, jacket potatoes and homemade dips. Plus great morning-after breakfasts and simple but knockout desserts such as banoffee pie and Baileys cheesecake. With photographs to show what you're aiming for, advice on equipment and stocking your cupboard (even in a tiny shared kitchen!), and essential hints and tips - including how not to poison your friends - you won't want to leave home without The Hungry Student Cookbook!
Weekday lunches are so often a disappointing affair - but they don't have to be! With over 90 ideas for packed lunches, salads, soups, snacks and more, every recipe in Packed has been specially designed to help you use your lunchtime better - to recharge, get the nutrients you need and ensure your energy stays high throughout the day. Packed with expert nutritional advice as well as time-saving tips and shopping strategies, it's never been easier to whip up healthy work-day lunches that leave you feeling great. Quick and easy recipes that will make you say goodbye to soggy sandwiches forever, but still save you money by stopping you buying expensive work lunches.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Each chapter of this brilliant collection of over 130 recipes covers the culinary history and winemaking tradition of a different Rhine country. The literary excerpts, legends, and lore throughout the book accompany the reader-chef on a culinary cruise down one of the world's most famous rivers. Complete with b/w illustrations. "Cradle of European art, culture, history, and folklore for thousands of years, the Rhine River has an appeal for everyone along its verdant shores...In this representative collection of traditional and contemporary Rhine recipes may be found a wealth of culinary treasures, carefully evolved over the centuries by creative cooks. Because the cookery is derived from a jigsaw puzzle of peoples, customs and foods, there are some exotic and exciting contrasts. Indeed, the kitchens of these countries have produced some of the world's most cherished delicacies, as well as flavorful, down-to-earth hearty dishes that have enduring appeal."
Combining his years of culinary globetrotting and passion for British produce, Jack celebrates his favourite dishes from around the world. "In the past 20 years there have been huge movements in the way we British think about produce. As someone is involved in that conversation I have seen it change and now, more than ever, the produce that is available to the keen home cook has increased in variety and quality immensely. What this means is that the home cook is now faced with the fantastic situation of being able to source the produce needed to make great food all year round. It is important that this movement progresses, and that if we choose to source our meat, fish and other major ingredients from Britain, why not have fun with world food concepts?" In this beautiful new book, Jack Stein combines his culinary experience from working in restaurants around the world and his passion for British produce to create 100 dishes to enchant and entice home cooks. From dishes such as chilli crab (using the very finest Cornish crab) and Szechuan-style pigeon to hot and sour Sumatran soup and XO clams, the recipes featured are all easy to follow and simple to make, bringing the taste of exotic holidays to our own kitchen tables. Stunning photography complements these delightful recipes, ensuring this is a book you will cook from time and time again.
A wonderful gift you can give your child is healthy eating habits. Once your baby needs solids, you may be tempted to buy prepared baby foods. Resist that urge With tips from Jozi, you can make healthy and tasty baby food at home in less than three hours. The benefits of homemade baby food are endless. You know exactly what's included, you'll save money, you can go organic if you wish, and you'll be teaching your child to try and enjoy a variety of foods. Also, the convenience is unbeatable; once you make baby's purees, it is simple to transport frozen cubes and finger foods when the family is on the go. Using easy-to-understand techniques, I Want What Mamma Wants includes recipes for your baby's nutrition through the first year. The book also offers tips for gradually introducing foods, presented in a clear and uncomplicated way, and addresses issues you may encounter, such as allergies and baby's likes and dislikes. There's even a yummy teething cookie that will relieve upset tummy due to its special ingredient. After reading "I Want What Mamma Wants "you'll see how easy it is to make and preserve healthy food-food that your baby will enjoy and that you'll take comfort in serving.
With the addition of just a few store cupboard staples or a handful of fresh ingredients picked up on your way home, Batch But Better shows how easy it is to transform one meal into three - saving you time and money and reducing waste. For every recipe cooked from scratch, Lizzie provides ideas for two more fuss-free dishes. Roast aubergine with tomatoes transforms into a pasta bake and mini calzones. A supper of lamb koftes becomes a comforting moussaka as well as spiced lamb and hummus wraps. Deliciously sticky short ribs cooked at the weekend give you a fresh and feisty Thai beef salad and Vietnamese summer rolls in the days after. From vegetable-based dishes to fish, meat and also desserts, this book will not only help you save time in the kitchen, spend less and avoid waste, but also cook simple, good-for-you meals that you really want to eat.
In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves
philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding
ourselves well. "An Everlasting Meal "demonstrates the implicit
frugality in cooking. In essays on forgotten skills such as
boiling, suggestions for what to do when cooking seems like a
chore, and strategies for preparing, storing, and transforming
ingredients for a week's worth of satisfying, delicious meals,
Tamar reminds us of the practical pleasures of eating. She explains
what cooks in the world's great kitchens know: that the best meals
rely on the ends of the meals that came before them. With that in
mind, she shows how we often throw away the bones, skins, and peels
we need to make our food both more affordable and better. She also
reminds readers that almost all kitchen mistakes can be remedied.
Summoning respectable meals from the humblest ingredients, Tamar
breathes life into the belief that we can start cooking from
wherever we are, with whatever we have.
The Presley Family & Friends Cookbook is a special blend of recipes, memories and photographs compiled by the people who knew Elvis best: his personal cook, family, friends and fellow performers. Simmering with nearly 300 recipes, it contains an amazing variety of foods, from Elvis's All Shook Up Milkshake to his You Ain't Nothin' but a Hot Dog to the family's King Creole Lobster and Clam Bake, plus his favourite banana pudding and hamburger recipes. Also included are recipes from his favourite restaurants and Memphis juke joints. The Presley Family & Friends Cookbook contains more than 100 personal family photos - many of which have not been published - and provides personal reminiscences from Elvis's family and friends. Also included are dozens of fan-friendly sidebars and useful information about Elvis movies available on video, plus lists of his many hits and albums and when they appeared on the pop charts. Come and enjoy platter after platter of some the King's favourite foods, straight from the kitchens of some of his most beloved cooks.
This comprehensive book takes the reader - subject by subject - through every aspect of food preparation and cooking. Skills are comprehensively explained and clearly illustrated with step-by-step photographs throughout. Here you will find the essentials that most cookbooks leave out: how to prepare every ingredient from scratch, including vegetables, fish, shellfish, poultry and game; how to judge when meat is perfectly cooked and the best way to carve roasts; the correct texture at every stage of pastry, cake and bread making; and how to make the perfect pasta and risotto. And if things don't turn out quite right, there is help on hand to identify what's gone wrong and how to rectify the problem and/or avoid it happening next time. Home cooks will feel there is a Leith's chef looking over their shoulder and guiding them every step of the way. Recipes are clearly set out, easy to follow and illustrated with full-page photographs, plus detail shots showing key preparation stages. There are over 500 recipes plus 250 variations, taking in contemporary dishes from cuisines worldwide as well as great classics with a modern twist. The perfect wedding, graduation or leaving home gift, this ultimate cook's reference book, should be on every kitchen shelf.
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