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| Book Reviews - Cookery |
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| Sesame Street: C is for Cooking: Recipes from the Street |
Susan McQuillan & Sesame Workshop
£9.99, Frommers
Celebrate Sesame Street's 40th anniversary with this special edition cookbook!
Introducing your kids to cooking is easy-with a little help from the Sesame Street gang. This special anniversary edition of Sesame Street's classic "C" is for Cooking is packed with tasty recipes from Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, and friends, plus brand-new recipes from celebrity chefs to celebrate forty years of fun on the Street.
Includes more than 55 delicious recipes that kids and parents can make together, plus fun food and cooking games and activities
Filled with tasty dishes that appeal to young, picky eaters, such as Grover's Little & Adorable Chicken Nuggets and Rosita's Tortilla Soup
Features 16 pages of simple, kid-friendly recipes and activities from celebrity chefs like Mark Bittman and Emeril Lagasse
Filled with full-color photos and illustrations, plus food facts that engage children and encourage them to try new things
Comes with a sheet of reusable stickers of foods, characters, numbers, and words
With recipes for drinks, breakfasts, lunches, soups, dinners, side dishes, and sweets and treats, Sesame Street "C" is for Cooking is sure to be a hit with adults and kids.
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| From Brenda's Kitchen: 100 Favourite Recipes |
Brenda Costigan
€19.99, Gill & Macmillan
With her no-nonsense style, accessible ingredients and balanced approach Brenda Costigan has long been a favourite of Irish cooks. Constantly aware of healthy eating guidelines, Brenda's recipes are healthy, easy to prepare and suitable for cooks of all abilities. Complimented with beautiful photography and written with busy families in mind this beautiful cookbook is full of inspiring ideas, helpful hints and foolproof favourites that will appeal to cooks of all ages and abilities.
Brenda Costigan is one of Ireland's most renowned cookery writers. As weekly cookery writer for Ireland's leading newspaper the Sunday Independent - Life Magazine Brenda has also written three best selling cookery books. In addition Brenda frequently cooks on TV3. Brenda has a wealth of TV experience and was the resident cook on Live at Three with Derek Davis, Thelma Mansfield, Mary Kennedy and Marty Whelan. Brenda is a frequent radio guest. She is a member of the Irish Food Writers Guild and is a qualified Home Economics graduate. |
| 30 Healthy things to cook and eat |
Usborne Books at Home
£5.99, Usborne Publising Ltd
This factastic pack of 30 cards is full of tasy receipes for healthy things to make and eat. See the ingredients and photograph on one side of the card and turn the card over to see what to do. Easy to follow and beautifully illustrated |
| Slow Cooking - Easy Slow Cooker Recipes |
Katie Bishop
£9.99, Collins
Slow Cooking includes 140 mouth-watering recipes that can prepared in advance and cooked while you're at work or just relaxing at home. More and more people are discovering the benefits these affordable cookers – they are economical, environmental and produce perfect results every time. Cookery writer and journalist, Katie Bishop, shows just how little effort is required to make great family recipes such as Rolled Shoulder of Lamb, Mini Chestnut, Mushroom and Red Wine Pies, Classic Bouillabaisse, Herby Italian Stuffed Peppers and Oat, Sunflower and Honey Bread. This book provides a fresh insight into this old-fashioned method of cooking, with straightforward dishes that will delight your friends and family. |
| Cookbook For Girls |
Fabulous Food for Gorgeous Girls
£12.99, Dorling Kindersley
The cookbook that no self-respecting six to 10 year old girl should be without!
From perfect sleepover snacks to delicious dinners and picnic salads for summertime fun, girls will love cooking up these mouth-watering ideas with their best-friends.
The easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes make cooking together fun and easy. With over 45 recipes from cupcakes to smoothies, they’ll never run out of things to do. |
| Food For Free |
Richard Mabey
£4.99, Collins Gem
Fans of Food for Free will be delighted at this new format -- ideal for carrying in a rucksack.
This new format of a 30 year old best-selling title provides a portable guide for all those who enjoy what the countryside has to offer.
Over 100 plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating information about their use throughout the ages. The recipes are listed so that you can plan your foray with a feast in mind.
This is the ideal book for both nature-lovers and cooks, particularly with today's emphasis on the freshest and most natural of foods. There is also practical advice on how to pick plus the countryside laws and regulations on picking wild plants. |
| Sneaky Veggies |
Chris Fisk
£6.99, Sterling
Lots of really simple but nutricious meals for children, neatly laid out with information about the benefits. Every parent who has children who turn their noses up at vegetables needs a book like this. |
| First Cooking Activity Book |
Angela Wilkes
£5.99, Dorling Kindersley
It’s time to get your child cooking with these fun and easy-to-follow tasty recipes.
Help them serve up all sorts of delicious food to eat from scrumptious biscuits, to a super spud potato feast and mouthwatering pizzas for tea.
Then use the FREE menu and recipe cards to make impressive feasts for the family. Plus, spiral binding means it's easy for them to keep their page and bake.
Have fun cooking together and fill your tummies with these fantastic tasty treats to encourage your budding young chef in the kitchen - for five to eight year olds.
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| Dairy-free &/or Wheat-free &/or Soya-free BUT Always Totally Nut-free Family Cookbook |
Clare Constant and Suzanne Wood
£14.99, Strategic Business Transformation Ltd
At last an easy-to-use restricted diet cookbook with 100+delicious recipes that everyone in a family can enjoy whether it’s dairy&/or wheat &/or soya and nuts that individual members have to avoid.
Available today at www.amazon.co.uk; www.waterstones.com; www.whsmithonline.co.uk or purchased through local bookshops. Priced £14.99. Food allergy is an increasingly common problem affecting approximately 5-8 % of children and 1-2% of adults. Therefore the majority of your readers will either have or know someone with a food allergy and needed to cook a meal for them. That can be challenging enough, but when people have to produce meals every day for a family with member/s who are allergic to one or more of these commonest ingredents: dairy, wheat, soya and nuts it can be a complete nightmare.
This book provides parents with:
• Easy-to-follow, safe and delicious recipes
• Information about dairy, wheat, soya and nuts
• Clear explanations of food allergy and intolerance
• Discussion of diseases linked to these key ingredients
• Advice on making sure a restricted diet is healthy
• Busy cook’s shopping and cooking tips
• Separate baby and toddler recipe sections
• Recipes that children on restricted diets can learn to cook for themselves
‘Drawing on their own personal and family experiences, the authors offer very practical, ingenious and creative solutions for the preparation of nutritious, healthy and tasty meals, while still staying away from the various types of foods that allergic members of the family should avoid.’
Dr Diab F Haddad MD MRCPCH, Consultant Paediatrician, St Peter's Hospital, Surrey
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| A Lazy Cook's Christmas: Mouthwatering Recipes for the Time-pressured Cook |
Mo Smith
£4.99, Lazy Cook Mo Smith
'A Lazy Cook's Christmas' makes the most perfect stocking filler or small gift - healthier than a box of chocolates and longer lasting than a bottle of wine. The recipes promote healthy eating and many are made from off the shelf and store cupboard ingredients.The suggested menus (listed under the following headings), help you to plan ahead leaving plenty of time for you to enjoy Christmas and join in the fun and activity. Extracts from 'A Lazy Cook's Christmas' Come for the weekend! It is not unusual for me to invite visitors for a weekend just before Christmas. It seems to me a good time to get together with family or friends, a time to relax and to reflect, and to gently get into the rhythm of Christmas and I can think of no better place to do this than round a table sharing a meal. The Lazy cook recipes I have selected for such a weekend enable you to serve meals which look attractive and taste good but take the minimum of time to prepare. Careful shopping and just a little preparation before the visitors arrive will be time well spent and will ensure a happy and relaxed weekend for everyone. A Lazy Cook's Christmas Day Despite all the extra activities involved on Christmas Day and the many meals and extra little luxuries expected, my duties as head cook are almost reduced to as little as roasting the turkey and cooking the sprouts. How can this be so, you may ask. Look through my Christmas Day menus, read the recipes and the useful tips given with them and you will discover how easy it is to enjoy a traditional family Christmas if a little advance planning and preparation is done. The rewards, I promise, are far greater than the effort needed. Boxing Day Our Boxing day usually starts late and is mostly taken up with a long walk with friends and neigbbours. Towards the end of the walk thoughts turn to ginger wine and something nice to eat. The menu I suggest is intended to give the cook another day out of the kitchen. The meal can be prepared by anyone who can handle a knife, a chopping board and a saucepan and who happends to be first up. Let's have a party! Christmas is party time and one of the easiest ways I know of entertaining lots of people is to give a 'Soup and Mincepie' party. Although the preparation is minimal everyone leaves feeling well satisfied, if not replete. 'Soup and Mincepie' parties are also a very easy and enjoyable way to fund raise. New Year's Eve Dinner Party I always look forward to our New Year's Eve dinner party. There are usually between eight and ten of us and at the end of the meal, which is often around 11.30p.m. we all don our outdoor clothes and walk across the road to church in time to hear the bells ring in the new year. We take mincepies |
| Four Seasons Cookery Book |
Delia Smith
£12.99, Grub Street Publishing
This volume brings back to the kitchen the cycle of the seasons. It is written for people who care about eating well by using fresh foods in season and about feeding families with good food which is neither elaborate nor time-consuming |
| How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking |
Nigella Lawson
£17.99, Chatto and Windus
Nigella shows that there can be more feelgood mileage from running up a tray of muffins or baking a sponge cake than in almost any other cooking - and that it's not actually hard! A domestic goddess has to maintain her cool when faced with pastry, it's true- but with Nigella's guidance even shortcrust pastry can be pain-free. How to be a Domestic Goddess is the book that understands our anxieties, feeds our fantasies and puts cakes, pies, pastries, preserves, puddings, bread and biscuits back into today's kitchen and our lives. Everything from cup cakes to chocolate cakes, from brownies to bagels, from gooseberry-cream crumble to double apple pie, from pizza to pistachio macaroons, scones and muffins to cheesecakes and steamed syrup sponge, from baklava to a Barbie cake, as well as children's cooking, Christmas baking and other wonderful family festive treats |
| Christmas Made Easy |
Mary Cadogan
£7.99, BBC Good Food
The Good Food Team and their favourite celebrity chefs have been planning and cooking Christmas for their readers for fifteen very successful years. This book, which represents amazingly good value at GBP7.99 for the paperback, is the culmination of all that experience and the definitive guide to seasonal cooking and entertaining over this most important time of the year. Full of tips and secrets to ensure that every dish is a rip-roaring success, the cook will be relaxed in the knowledge that all the dishes are practical and easy to follow. Time is of short supply during the festive season so the book shows the reader what can be done ahead, what can be frozen and how to cheat successfully when the chips are down. Readers will find over 80 festive recipes, all photographed, and features also include the complete Christmas day feast with timeplan, and guest contributions from all the top chefs.
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| Delia Smith's Christmas |
Delia Smith
£9.99, BBC Books
This collection of Christmas recipes from Delia Smith includes five different Christmas cakes, a complete vegetarian menu, recipes for gifts such as chocolate truffles, and many traditional favourites. There are also ideas for festive occasions from drinks parties to dinner parties, with dishes such as roast goose with potato, sage and apple stuffing; caramelized orange trifle; and a terrine with four cheeses |
| They are What You Feed Them |
Dr Alex Richardson
£12.99, Harper Thorsons
Dr Alex Richardson, the UK's leading authority on how nutrition affects behaviour and learning, exposes the truth behind the foods we are feeding our children and offers simple, practical solutions all parents can use. This is an empowering, cutting-edge book that will transform the lives of children and help them reach their full potential. Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University and former school teacher, Dr Alex Richardson is the UK's leading expert on how what we do and do not feed our children impacts their learning, concentration, co-ordination and behaviour. Empowering and extremely practical, this book sorts out food fact from food myth and shows parents how to bring the best choices into their children's everyday diets. It includes simple meal plans and recipes, as well as practical guidance on other lifestyle factors, such as time spent in front of TV and computer screens. It is a highly influential book that offers concerned parents concrete information and real solutions.
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| Yo! Sushi The Japanese Cookbook |
Kimiko Barber
£15.99, Harper Collins
YO! Sushi: The Japanese Cookbook brings YO!'s delicious Japanese dishes to the home and shows you how easy it is to make your own sushi and other Japanese fare. This eye-popping book includes YO!'s most popular dishes: california rolls, salmon maki, prawn yaki soba and chilled roasted aubergines. Original recipes encourage readers to expand their repertoire and enjoy a range of flavoursome dishes. Learn to cook soy-marinated chicken, make healthy salads such as beetroot with sweet vinegar and impress friends with red snapper rice.
Written by renowned Japanese food expert, Kimiko Barber, YO! Sushi: The Japanese Cookbook includes 120 delicious recipes. Forget complicated rolling or bizarrely named ingredients, Kimiko explains all the terms and shows how to make sushi rolls and other dishes through step-by-step photography. No recipe takes more than 30 minutes preparation or requires special cooking techniques. The book is divided into six colour-coded sections which reflect YO!s famous coloured plates, taking the reader chapter by chapter from novice to samurai so that you can work your way up the rungs until you're rolling with gusto.
The book is fully illustrated in YO! Sushi’s exuberant style: Crisp finished food photography, bright graphics, and atmospheric reportage shots bring the energy of the YO! experience to the reader. |
| Yummy Mummy Pregnancy Cookbook |
Hope Ricciotti
£12.99, Dorling Kindersley
Help to ensure baby comes out bouncing
Eating the right foods in pregnancy means better health for you and your baby, so follow this menu for success. Follow trimester-by-trimester nutritional guidance on the best foods for your baby’s development.
Enjoy over 60 no-fuss delicious dishes for optimum nutrition, with daily menu plans, and yummy ideas for snacks, breakfasts, and lunches on the go. Plus pick up advice on breastfeeding, postnatal recovery and how to get your pre-baby figure back!
Cooked up by Hope Ricciotti, an obstetrician and Associate Professor of Obstetrics at Harvard Medical School with recipes created by her husband, Vincent Connelly, an experienced chef.
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| Wonderfoods for Kids |
Natalie Savona
£8.99, Quadrille
A beautifully produced cookbook that reveals the health giving properties of over 70 different foods fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins and seeds that are vital for your child's growth, mental development, energy and ability to fight off illness. For every wonderfood there are at least two delicious, easy recipes that will appeal to children and the whole family as well as sample menus and lunchbox ideas. A special symbol highlights recipes that children can help to prepare so that they can feel involved in their own diet and learn to be more adventurous in what they eat. |
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