Cook, Batch, Freeze is the ideal book for anyone looking to save time and money, without scrimping on flavour and nutritious value. By understanding how to make the most of your freezer, by cooking in bulk and freezing leftovers, you can cut down on the cost of your ingredients and the time you spend in your kitchen. Packed with 100 delicious recipes and with chapters on Meat, Fish, Vegetables, Bread, Fruit and Cakes, this comprehensive guide means that you will always have a meal on-hand for any occasion. The flavour-filled recipes include Lentil and Venison Sausage Stew, Thai Coconut Fish Curry, Smoked Aubergine Tagine, Pear, Saffron and Ginger Tarte Tatin, Easy Spiced Banana and Apricot Bread and Peach and Mascarpone Crumble Cake. Cook, Batch, Freeze features all the basic recipes a busy cook needs, as well as family favourites and showstoppers for special occasions. Every recipe features health and safety advice on freezing, defrosting and reheating, and there are handy at-a-glance charts of ingredients that show which ones can be frozen and for how long. With recipes for sauces and quick snacks, as well as full meals, breads and puddings, with this book your freezer is your secret weapon in the kitchen.

In the latest book in this bestselling series, food writer and cook Sara Lewis brings together 70 mouthwatering recipes for jams, marmalades and preserves.

Whether it's the quintessential English strawberry (to dollop onto a scone!) or the more unusual minted marrow & blackberry jam, there is a something for everyone.

As well as delightful fruity jams like spiced apple & bramble, raspberry & rhubarb and High Dumpsy Dearie (a mixture of apples, pears, plums, ginger and lemon) there are tangy jellies such as sloe & blackberry or elderberry & orange, and curds such as gooseberry or St Clement's. Or why not try windfall apple butter on your toast? In addition, there are reduced sugar jams ideal for anyone trying to cut down sugar in your diet.

There are recipes sourced from National Trust properties, making the most of their seasonal produce from their kitchen gardens. Enjoy the Oxford marmalade enjoyed by Churchill at Chartwell, or rose geranium and orange jelly made with fruit from the orangery at Saltram.

The book includes advice on how to grow your own fruit, the best way to use up gluts from the garden and how to achieve the perfect consistency. There are also fun bits of trivia about jam throughout history and in literature. The perfect gift book for any jam-maker.

**The bestselling slow cooker book in the market with over 1 million copies sold** Would you like to cut down on convenience food? Want to eat home-cooked meals but just don't have the time or energy to prepare them after a busy day? Then a slow cooker could be the solution for you. Requiring only minimal preparation, a slow cooker will cook your ingredients throughout the day or overnight, producing a delicious meal that will be ready to eat as soon as you are. Hamlyn All Colour: 200 Slow Cooker Recipes provides over 200 recipes for you to enjoy, with delicious ideas for breakfasts and light bites, meat dishes, vegetarian meals, fish and seafood dishes and desserts. Check out some of the other titles in the series: 200 5:2 Diet Recipes (ISBN 978-0-600-63347-1) 200 Cakes & Bakes (ISBN 978-0-600-63329-7) 200 Family Slow Cooker Recipes (ISBN 978-0-600-63057-9) 200 Halogen Oven Recipes (ISBN 978-0-600-63344-0) 200 One Pot Meals (ISBN 978-0-600-63339-6) 200 Pasta Dishes (ISBN 978-0-600-63334-1) 200 Super Soups (ISBN 978-0-600-63343-3) 200 Veggie Feasts (ISBN 978-0-600-63337-2) 200 Barbecue Recipes (ISBN 978-0-600-63332-7) 200 Cupcakes (ISBN 978-0-600-63335-8) 200 Gluten-Free Recipes (ISBN 978-0-600-63342-6) 200 Juices & Smoothies (ISBN 978-0-600-63330-3) 200 Student Meals (ISBN 978-0-600-63340-2) 200 Super Salads (ISBN 978-0-600-63348-8) 200 Thai Favourites (ISBN 978-0-600-63346-4)

Chocolate is always a favorite indulgence and the recipes in this book will show just how versatile this ingredient can be. This mouthwatering compendium contains 60 authentic recipes for delicious cakes, gorgeous puddings, and tempting biscuits with easy to follow instructions. All recipes have the WI stamp of reliability and tips for perfect results every time. As with each book in this new series there is final chapter on more complicated ideas for the experienced cook who relishes a challenge. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book will make your mouth water with its sumptuous color photography accompanying the recipes. There will also be delicious ideas for tempting gifts.

For centuries, the beauty of fireflies has evoked wonder and delight. Yet for most of us, fireflies remain shrouded in mystery: How do fireflies make their light? What are they saying with their flashing? And what do fireflies look for in a mate? In Silent Sparks, noted biologist and firefly expert Sara Lewis dives into the fascinating world of fireflies and reveals the most up-to-date discoveries about these beloved insects. From the meadows of New England and the hills of the Great Smoky Mountains, to the rivers of Japan and mangrove forests of Malaysia, this beautifully illustrated and accessible book uncovers the remarkable, dramatic stories of birth, courtship, romance, sex, deceit, poison, and death among fireflies. The nearly two thousand species of fireflies worldwide have evolved in different ways--and while most mate through the aerial language of blinking lights, not all do. Lewis introduces us to fireflies that don't light up at all, relying on wind-borne perfumes to find mates, and we encounter glow-worm fireflies, whose plump, wingless females never fly. We go behind the scenes to meet inquisitive scientists who have dedicated their lives to understanding fireflies, and we learn about various modern threats including light pollution and habitat destruction. In the last section of the book, Lewis provides a field guide for North American fireflies, enabling us to identify them in our own backyards and neighborhoods. This concise, handy guide includes distinguishing features, habits, and range maps for the most commonly encountered fireflies, as well as a gear list. A passionate exploration of one of the world's most charismatic and admired insects, Silent Sparks will inspire us to reconnect with the natural world.

MASTER YOUR SLOW COOKER WITH 200 MORE RECIPES FROM THE HAMLYN ALL COLOUR SERIES Having limited time to spend in the kitchen need not mean beans on toast every night. With a slow cooker and minimal preparation time you can rustle up delicious stews, sauces and soups, as well as indulgent sweet treats. Simply leave your ingredients to cook throughout the day or overnight, and there will always be a hot meal waiting for you at the end of a busy day. In our second volume of slow cooker recipes in the Hamlyn All Colour series, we show you how versatile a slow cooker really is. Why not treat yourself to a Red pepper, sage and chorizo frittata, a fish terrine or a Salmon and asparagus risotto? And if you thought desserts were not for slow cooking, think again! Here we show you how to create a mouthwatering collection of treats, including; Hot banana and chocolate mousses, Date and ginger syrup pudding and Blueberry and lemon curd upside down puddings. Check out some of the other titles in the series: Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Super Soups Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Halogen Oven Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Fast Vegetarian Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & Bakes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Gluten-Free Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Really Easy Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Pasta Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Tapas & Spanish Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Delicious Desserts Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Veggie Feasts Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 One Pot Meals Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Student Meals Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Spiralizer Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Indian Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cupcakes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Thai Favourites Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 5:2 Diet Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Light Slow Cooker Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Tagines and More Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Low Fat Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & Bakes

Discover just how versatile a slow cooker can be with the new Slow Cooker: 500 Recipes. With 500 recipes to choose from, this tome of slow cooker recipes will fail to disappoint. Featuring sixteen chapters and packed with delicious recipes, you will find a dish to suit any occassion. All you have to do is leave your ingredients to cook throughout the day or overnight, and there will always be a hot meal waiting for you at the end of a busy day.

200 TASTY RECIPES FOR ALL KINDS OF BAKED TREATS With this complete guide to all things cake, you'll be able to bake everything from simple, delicious biscuits such as Chocolate & Cinnamon Shortbread Fingers and Coconut & Pistachio Fridge Cookies for your family to the impressive Apricot & Orange Swiss Roll and Chocolate & Hazelnut Meringue Gateau to impress guests.Every recipe is accompanied by a full-page colour photograph and clever variations and new ideas to give you over 200 delectable goodies to choose from. Check out some of the other titles in the series: Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Super Soups Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Halogen Oven Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Fast Vegetarian Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Gluten-Free Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Really Easy Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Pasta Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Tapas & Spanish Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 More Slow Cooker Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Delicious Desserts Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Veggie Feasts Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 One Pot Meals Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Student Meals Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Spiralizer Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Indian Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cupcakes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Thai Favourites Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 5:2 Diet Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Light Slow Cooker Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Tagines and More Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Low Fat Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & Bakes

200 DELICIOUS SLOW-COOKED MEALS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY TO ENJOY Requiring only minimal preparation, a slow cooker will cook your ingredients throughout the day or overnight, producing a delicious meal that will be ready to eat as soon as you are. Hamlyn All Colour: 200 Family Slow Cooker Recipes provides over 200 recipes for your entire household to enjoy - stews, sauces and soups, as well as desserts and sweet treats. Check out some of the other titles in the series: 200 5:2 Diet Recipes (ISBN 978-0-600-63347-1) 200 Cakes & Bakes (ISBN 978-0-600-63329-7) 200 Halogen Oven Recipes (ISBN 978-0-600-63344-0) 200 One Pot Meals (ISBN 978-0-600-63339-6) 200 Pasta Dishes (ISBN 978-0-600-63334-1) 200 Super Soups (ISBN 978-0-600-63343-3) 200 Veggie Feasts (ISBN 978-0-600-63337-2)

New 2021 Paperback Edition now includes brand new sourdough recipes for your Bread Machine There's nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked bread, but not everyone has the time to hand-make their own from scratch. With Bread Machine Easy, discover how quick and effortless it can be to make delicious homemade bread in just a few easy steps with the help of a bread machine, saving you time and money. From the simplest daily loaf to preparing fancy rolls for special occasions, the 70 mouth-watering and easy-to-follow recipes in this book make bread-making simple. With recipes like spiced coriander and lentil bread, garlicky olive and rosemary focaccia, coconut and cranberry bread, and classic sourdough loaves, there's something for every occasion. Bread Machine Easy includes wheat and gluten-free breads that can be made at home in a bread-machine. And with an introductory section on basic techniques and troubleshooting, Bread Machine Easy takes all the effort out of baking the perfect loaf. Bread Machine Easy includes chapters on: Everyday Classics including Wholemeal Spelt Bread and a Simple White Loaf Gourmet Breads including Buckwheat, Cranberry and Pomegranate Bread and Hemp and Sunflower Seed Bread Sweet Breads including Stollen and Chunky Chocolate and Vanilla Bread Shaped Breads including Cracked Pepper and Parmesan Grissini and Chocolate and Prune Brioches Wheat- and gluten-free breads including Banana and Sultana Bread and Spiced Coriander and Lentil Bread Sourdough including Olive and Walnut Sourdough and Rye Sourdough Loaf

200 TASTY TREATS FOR EVERY OCCASION Presented in a handy format with colour photographs and easy-to-follow recipes, Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook: 200 Delicious Desserts is great value for money. From fresh and fruity to rich and creamy, here you will find recipes to suit all tastes and seasons. With recipes including Chocolate mousse cake, Lime crunch tart and White chocolate fondue, this book with satisfy even the sweetest tooth. Check out some of the other titles in the series: Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Super Soups Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Halogen Oven Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Fast Vegetarian Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & Bakes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Gluten-Free Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Really Easy Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Pasta Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Tapas & Spanish Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 More Slow Cooker Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Veggie Feasts Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 One Pot Meals Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Student Meals Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Spiralizer Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Indian Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cupcakes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Thai Favourites Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 5:2 Diet Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Light Slow Cooker Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Tagines and More Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Low Fat Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & Bakes

Life was fine for Tom Good, called Good by almost everyone. He was actually getting paid to play music, started the band Point Blank, and penned three hits that became forever lodged in his generation's collective memory. Then, for no apparent reason and to everyone's surprise, he walked away from it all. That was more than twenty years ago. Now Good has settled into a low-key life, writing and recording songs in his closet studio during the day and bartending in a San Diego music club at night. He feels so grounded and secure in his well-established routines with regard to his relationships, his clothes, his food, and his apartment, that minor alterations in these rituals can cause him to break out into a sweat. But the carefully crafted predictability of his life flies out the window the day Good learns that one of his old girlfriends is the single mother of a ten-year-old boy who looks just like him. Sara Lewis, who won readers over with her previous novels, including Second Draft of My Life and The Answer Is Yes, once again reveals the ironies of everyday life with her signature humor and poignancy. The Best of Good is an irresistible tale of coming-of-age at the mid-point in life.

Forty-two years and five books into her life, Charlotte Dearborn abandons her noncommittal boyfriend and her sinking-ship writing career, and becomes an elementary school teacher. Sure, she's giving up her dream of being a famous novelist, but in exchange she'll find a stable income, job satisfaction, and maybe even love. At least that's how it'd work if she were a character in one of her novels. In real life, she's busy coping with twenty yelling first-graders, a teacher's lounge full of nasty coworkers, and a series of romantic misadventures that fall far, far short of the real thing.

Charlotte's struggle to navigate the waters of a new career, a new single life, and the loss of her identity as a writer make Second Draft of My Life a funny, compulsively readable gem. From an author The Boston Globe applauded as "very, very good on the business of falling in and out of love," it is part romantic comedy, part manual for living, and wholly triumphant.

200 DELICIOUS SOUP RECIPES FOR EVERY SEASON Soup is the ultimate comfort food: warm, filling and satisfying. It is also extremely good for you - most soups are low in fat and packed with nutrients, especially if they are homemade. Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook: 200 Soups provides you with recipes for everything from classic favourites, such as Potato and parsley soup, to creative new ideas. The book also contains a section on chilled soups, perfect for when the weather begins to get warmer. Each recipe is accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions and a full page colour photograph to ensure perfect results every time. Check out some of the other titles in the series: Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Halogen Oven Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Fast Vegetarian Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & Bakes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Gluten-Free Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Really Easy Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Pasta Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Tapas & Spanish Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 More Slow Cooker Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Delicious Desserts Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Veggie Feasts Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 One Pot Meals Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Student Meals Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Spiralizer Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Indian Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cupcakes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Thai Favourites Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 5:2 Diet Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Light Slow Cooker Recipes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Tagines and More Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Low Fat Dishes Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & Bakes

Slow cookers are very cheap to run, environmentally friendly and incredibly versatile - everyone should have one! The Complete Slow Cooker will guide you through a fantastic selection of dishes you can make with a slow cooker, helping you to understand how to get the most out of this essential cooking tool. Discover how to make soups, stews, pies, puddings, risottos, fondues, preserves, terrines, drinks and a host of desserts and cakes. There is also advice on adapting your own recipes, adjusting cooking times and making the most out of forgotten cuts of meat and other economical ingredients.

Stimulate your child 's creative talent and imagination with fun crafts for two to ten-year-olds. This colourful book contains more than 100 fun projects plus numerous variations that will keep little hands busy using a range of materials. There are novel ideas for cards, gifts, decorations and accessories, attractive ways to jazz up a T shirt or create a costume, and delicious recipes for fancy cakes and other edible treats. Each project comes with easy-to-follow instructions including an at-a-glance guide to age suitability, time taken and materials needed, while handy templates allow you to cut the perfect shape.