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| Divine Chocolate Cookbook |
Linda Collister
£14.99, Absolute Press
The hugely popular Divine recipe book has now been relaunched in paperback – with a stunning new cover and the enthusiastic endorsements of Mary Berry and Lorraine Pascale added to the accolades. The ideal gift or culinary companion for chocolate lovers, discerning foodies and those who love to bake, the Divine Chocolate Cookbook is an unashamedly indulgent collection of over 100 chocolate recipes. Illustrated with striking food photography by Lisa Barber, the book features recipes from traditional favourites to more unusual creations which will impress and inspire. The book is published by Absolute Press and is out now at all good bookshops priced at £14.99.
The recipes were created for Divine by Linda Collister who is one of the country’s leading food writers with particular expertise in chocolate. Her most recent publications are the huge bestsellers that have accompanied series one and series two of The Great British Bake Off on the BBC. Recipes include Upside-Down Sticky Pear Pudding, White Chocolate Cookies studded with Cranberries, Hot Chocolate Brandy Soufflé and Sticky Peanut Butter Cake. There are even ideas for exotic chocolate cocktails and savoury dishes such as Roast Venison with Chocolate Sauce.
Divine’s chocolate has become well-known in culinary circles as a top choice in baking, now you can indulge in this collection of specially created Divine recipes -
Queen of Cakes Mary Berry says “A chocolate for all chocolate enthusiasts. Cooking, melting or just enjoying Divine Chocolate is just that”
Lorraine Pascale says “I often use Divine chocolate in my recipes as it tastes great and it’s good to know that I’m playing my part in a more equitable trading partnership”.
Of Divine’s dark chocolate made with 70% cocoa solids, Charles Campion says “[it is] very fruity, with a good texture and a long finish”.
In addition to the wonderful variety of recipes, the Divine Cookery Book also tells the unique story of how Divine was the dream of a co-operative of cocoa farmers in Ghana – and how that dream came true – with beautiful photographs from their cocoa farms. |
| Paddington's Cookery Book |
Michael Bond - illustrated by RW Alley
£12.99, Harper Collins
Get your paws sticky with Paddington in this fun-filled family cook book! From bear-shaped cookies to marmalade sausages, with treats from around the world, there is something for everyone in this unique collection of recipes. The perfect gift for Paddington fans of all ages!
Paddington has collected together all of his favourite recipes in this wonderful family cookbook.
Try your paw at bear-faced party pizzas, sticky marmalade sausages, fizzy jelly, Aunt Lucy's guacamole, Mr Gruber's chicken paprika and Mrs Bird's beef stew.
Packed full of anecdotes of Paddington's own hilarious kitchen experiences, along with memories of sampling various dishes, this book is every bit as fun to read as it is instructional!
Tie on your apron, and get stuck in!
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| Cooks & Kids |
Alan Rustad
£9.99, Graffeg
Take 11 top chefs, a bevy of enthusiastic youngsters, some tasty ingredients, mix together and you have Cooks and Kids – a new recipe and nutrition book for children and teenagers that will be out this autumn.
Cooks and Kids is the brainchild of the National Fostering Agency (NFA), one of the most experienced and long established fostering agencies in the United Kingdom. The aim of the book is to improve children’s knowledge and understanding of nutrition and healthy eating, while at the same time having plenty of fun. The NFA is also highlighting the crucial need to encourage more people to come forward as foster carers.
Among the leading chefs taking part in the project are Lisa Allen, from BBC Two’s Great British Menu; Tom Kerridge, a regular on the Good Food Channel’s Market Kitchen; and leading Indian cuisine chef Atul Kochhar.
Royalties from the sale of Cooks and Kids will be going to Magic Breakfast, a food charity ensuring children get a nutritious start to the day by providing breakfasts to more than 5,000 children at schools in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds and Rotherham.
Andrew Isaac, Marketing Director of the NFA, said: “Cooks and Kids was born out of a passion for food and a fun way to engage children and young people in all the wonderful tastes and combinations you can find on a plate. We were determined to engage and encourage young people to think about food, what is good for them and more importantly to have a go at actually preparing something to eat. Their recipes were wonderful and the chefs helped to hone them to perfection.”
One of the participating chefs, Atul Kochhar said: “Cooks and Kids is a great opportunity to encourage children to get involved in cooking and help raise awareness about the importance of nutrition. I am thrilled to be able to provide my recipe for this cause.”
The pictures contained in the 96 pages of Cooks & Kids clearly demonstrate the fun that was had by children and chefs alike. Among the tasty recipes are Macie’s fairy cakes, Rebecca’s Dahl and Almonds, Alyssa’s dairy free apricot rock cakes and Dylan’s Sunday leftovers Risotto.
Andrew Isaac added: “I must say a sincere ‘thank you’ to John Woodward, Executive Head Chef for de Vere Hotels and Venues, who helped sort the recipes into a practical and workable series of dishes that could become part of a cookbook for kids and by kids. De Vere kindly hosted the photo shoots and John and his team of award winning chefs set about pairing up with the youngsters and creating a series of dishes the youngsters would be asked to prepare in addition to their own recipe.
“This was definitely a surprise for many of those taking part. In all honesty I have never seen such fun had by so many for such a long time - and the resultant food was amazing.”
Cooks and Kids, published by Graffeg, will be in the shops and available from online retailers 31st October, priced at £9.99. Further details can be found at www.cooksandkids.com
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| Grow Your Own Food for Free, Well Almost |
Dave Hamilton
£14.95, Green Books
We all know how hard is can be feeding the family on a budget, let alone making sure everyone gets their 5 a day, so this new book by Dave Hamilton may just come in handy. Grow Your Own Food for Free, Well Almost (Green Books 2011) shows you how recycling and reusing materials and by making the most of what you have, you can gather everything you need to start gardening and more importantly, start growing. This practical guide shows you the best way to plan your space throughout the seasons, from making your own shed from scrap to the most efficient way of storing your harvest. With simple diagrams the guide will show you everything from setting up your plot to raising and harvesting your delicious food. The simple step by step instructions help you to create your own vegetable garden, giving you money saving tips to ensure you will create delicious produce time and time again. Grow Your Own Food for Free (Well Almost) is priced at £14.95 and available from www.greenbooks.co.uk.
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| Notes from my Kitchen Table |
Gwyneth Paltrow
£20.00, Boxtree
The Academy-Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is an icon of style and taste around the world. But for her, family comes above everything, and cooking and eating together are the key ingredients of a happy home. Now she has put her passion for food into her first cookbook which is full of 150 fresh, original and practical recipes (both healthy and indulgent) that all the family will love. Both accessible and inspiring, this beautifully illustrated and easy-to-use cookbook is full of lavish photographs, many featuring Gwyneth's family and friends. This is Gwyneth Paltrow as you have never seen her before – a busy working mum who understands the time pressures on all of us as well as the desire to cook delicious and original food. Inspired by precious memories of cooking with her father, it is a truly personal book that celebrates cooking with – and for – the ones you love.
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| Kitchen Hero: Good Food for Everyone |
Donal Skehan
£20.00, Collins
RTE claims Donal is Ireland's answer to Jamie Oliver, and acclaimed by Paulo Tullio of The Restaurant, Donal Skehan is a real cooking talent. His passion for simple, healthy, delicious home cooking will inspire novices and more experienced cooks alike to get into the kitchen.
Armed with gorgeous, do-able recipes, Donal is the champion of the home cook.
In 2007, Donal started his own blog to record his cooking adventures and share his passion for food: http://www.thegoodmoodfoodblog.com. This book takes the blog and Donal to a new level. It contains some of the best recipes from the blog, along with plenty of new ideas. Divided into 6 chapters (Meals in Minutes, Party Food & Drinks, Salads & Sides, Comfort Food, Stretch your Meals, and Mega Desserts & Baking), you'll find quick, easy and tasty ideas for every meal.
Donal's recipes really pack a punch when it comes to flavour, but they are also wonderfully simple and straightforward, making them perfect for novice chefs and equally appealing to the more practised cook. His personality shines through on every page – from his writing, which is as fun and delicious as his food, to the stunning photographs that were all taken by Donal himself. You cannot fail to get caught up in Donal's enthusiasm for healthy home cooking.
Recipes include:
• Thai Beef and Mango Salad
• Oats and Seeds Fish with Lemon
• Mini Rustic Steak Sandwiches
• Chorizo and Spring Onion Quesadillas
• Swedish Meatballs with Dill Spring Potatoes
• Creamy Spinach Chicken Pasta
• Vodka Penne
• Blueberry and White Chocolate Cheesecake
• Classic Whoopie Pies
• Mojitos and Simple Strawberry Daiquiris
NEWS! Donal's new 13 part TV series on RTE1 begins Monday 16th May 2011 at 8.30pm. |
| The River Cottage Fish Book |
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher
£20.00, Bloomsbury
More than just a cookbook, this beautifully produced volume in three parts promotes a total understanding of British fish, from their natural habitats to what sauce they go best with to how to respect their seasonality, in keeping with the River Cottage ethos. The first part is dedicated to understanding fish - Hugh and Nick explain the ins and outs of procuring a good fish, discussing fish farming, aquaculture, sustainability and harvesting issues, how to buy and catch fish in an ethical way, and how to prepare it for the kitchen. Next they open up a whole world of fish cooking - pickling, salting, barbecuing, frying, potting, stewing, smoking and more are explained in depth, each technique followed by classic recipes from gravadlax to kedgeree, from sashimi to chip shop battered cod. Finally, Hugh and Nick present Britain's best fish by species, giving portraits with notes on seasonality and ecology, as well as listing the relevant recipes from part 2 with alternatives. "The River Cottage Fish Book" is the only book on fish that the adventurous fish lover will ever need. It's entertaining, with plenty of pictures and recipes, it's a great read and will inspire you to try different varieties of fish.
Don't forget to check out www.fishfight.net |
| Alice & Megan's Cookbook |
Judi Curtin
€9.99, O'Brien
Get cooking with Alice & Megan!
Alice and Megan are writing a cookbook. But Alice is not the world's the greatest cook … so could it be a recipe for disaster? Well, not with Megan's help - as well as advice (whether the girls want it or not!) from Megan's mum, little sister Rosie, Miss Leonard, the Home Economics Teacher …
This fun-filled cookbook is packed with brilliant recipes. Why not wake up to French toast and tropical smoothies? Or go to school with raspberry muffins and pasta salad? Or snack on smores and quesadillas? Or impress your friends with home-made burgers followed by ice cream with toffee sauce? All this and more included!
Brilliant Breakfasts . Lucky Lunchboxes . Super Snacks . Marvellous Main Courses . Delicious Desserts . Cakes & Cookies.
Innovative cookery book that's easy to use and lots of fun, for readers aged 10 years and over.
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| Catherine's Italian Kitchen |
Catherine Fulvio
€19.99, Gill & Macmillan
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Following her hugely popular RTÉ TV series, Catherine’s Italian Kitchen, and her latest show, Catherine’s Roman Holiday, Catherine Fulvio presents her personal collection of recipes to brighten up Irish kitchens with delicious flavours of Italy.
This wonderful selection of vibrant recipes, influenced by Catherine's long summers spent at her home in Sicily, have been gathered from Italian friends and her husband’s family in Sicily and Rome, and perfected at her Wicklow cookery school.
With over 100 dishes for all levels of cooks, including familiar recipes with a twist – pizzas, pastas and risotto – as well as the unfamiliar – homemade limoncello, a traditional lemon liqueur, or Stromboli, a mouth-watering bread filled with mozzarella and pancetta, from the volcanic island off the coast of Sicily. So, expect the passion of Sicilian cooking, the heartiness of Roman fare, along with tasty treats from Tuscany, Naples and Venice.
Catherine’s infectious enthusiasm for food pervades every recipe as she leads you through your Italian cooking experience. Featuring photography of spectacular Sicilian and Roman scenery taken from the TV series, this is truly Italian food for an Irish kitchen. Buon Appetito!
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| The Good Green Lunchbox |
Jocelyn Miller
£5.99, Lion Hudson
Give your food an eco-makeover! This make-and-do book contains 16 ideas for tasty and healthy lunches and picnics which at the same time highlight a range of ethical issues around sourcing food. In preparing lunchtime and picnic snacks, these activities encourage the use of seasonal, locally sourced and fairtrade products as well as encouraging children to consider how their lunch is packaged to minimise resources. Photos and step-by-step guides show children how to make appealingly tasty yet nutritious food including bean burgers, pizza pods, popcorn, lemonade and vegetable crisps as well as their own handy packaging. |
| You Can Cook |
Annabel Karmel
£12.99, DK
Get your child involved in all aspects of cooking - from choosing the ingredients, basic preparation and adding flavour to nutrition. Your child will pick up key cooking techniques; from slicing, dicing and chopping to how to cream, sift, knead and whisk. Plus, they'll learn how to whip up over 60 delicious and healthy recipes that the whole family will enjoy, from pancakes to risotto.
A complete cooking course for kids, from food guru Annabel Karmel for six to 12 year olds. |
| Annabel Karmel’s Top 100 Pasta Recipes cookbook |
Annabel Karmel
£9.99, Ebury Press
Award-winning children’s food guru Annabel Karmel MBE shows busy families how to appease the fiercest of food critics – their babies and children – with her Top 100 Pasta Dishes cookbook (published by Ebury Press) launching on the 13th May 2010.
Her latest instalment of creating healthy, hearty meals for the family is filled with mouth-watering recipes especially created to help babies and toddlers develop an early appreciation for various tastes and textures - perfect for refining the tastebuds of our little budding chefs of tomorrow.
Wholesome and nutritious, pasta not only is the quintessential base for many gourmet dishes; it is one of the simplest, most cost-effective ways of getting your family to eat organically, even gluten-free, and ultimately makes vegetables – its natural partner – tastier even to the fussiest of palates.
Example: Cheap Tricks – Feed Your Family at 94p a head (based on a family of four)
Try Annabel’s Bow-tie pasta with bacon and peas
• Preparation time: 5 minutes (equivalent to one reading of The Gingerbread Man)
• Cooking time: 10-12 minutes (equivalent to singing The Wheels On The Bus, Baa Baa Black Sheep, This Old Man, If You’re Happy And You Know It and Old MacDonald Had A Farm back-to-back)
• Ingredients: From the store cupboard - bow-tie pasta 58p; from the freezer - frozen peas 87p; from the deli - bacon lardons £1 and Parmesan cheese £1.08; and from the local green grocers - parsley 25p*
According to the British Nutrition Foundation, wheat-free pastas or cereals are perfect for weaning babies onto solid foods. It encourages them to chew, enabling the easy introduction of vegetables like carrots, tomatoes and sweet potato, essential for growth, into their diets.
Baby, toddler and child nutrition is a minefield for even the savviest of parents. Annabel Karmel’s Top 100 Pasta Dishes is usefully sectioned into ‘Baby’ and ‘Toddler’ recipes, with more family-orientated recipes at the back, for easy navigation. Nutritional benefits and other useful titbits accompany each recipe within the ‘Baby’ and ‘Toddler’ sections, providing busy parents with at-a-glance guidance on which dishes are best suited to their growing family’s needs.
Annabel Karmel comments: “Modern life has done little to displace the importance of meal times in Italy, where busy families unite after a hard day’s work to catch up over a feast of fresh pasta, salad, bread and fruit. In the UK, modern life means that families seldom meet collectively at the table to enjoy lively banter over a home cooked meal. With my Top 100 Pasta Recipes I hope to really show how pasta is the perfect weekday meal for busy families – simple to prepare, takes a matter of minutes to cook and is versatile for family members aged 7 months to 70 years”.
Annabel Karmel’s Top 100 Pasta Dishes complements her existing range of cookbooks and meal planners which encompass everything – from lunchbox ideas to superfoods for babies and children. Annabel Karmel’s Top 100 Pasta Dishes, available in hardback, retails at £9.99 and is available to buy in all good bookstores nationwide from 13th May 2010 as well as online at www.annabelkarmel.com.
*Based on Tesco store prices
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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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