The Hairy Bikers' Great Curries (Hardback)
Hairy Bikers
HBGC
Whether you like a cool and creamy chicken korma or you prefer a lamb biryani with a kick, curry is one of the UK's favourite Friday night suppers and here Si and Dave explore what makes a 'proper' curry. Exquisitely fragrant and delicately flavoured, the best curries surprise and titillate the taste buds and in this fantastic recipe book you can discover how to do just that when cooking your own curries at home. Complete with colour pictures and step-by-step cooking guides, together with top tips for making your dishes simple yet authentic, the Hairy Bikers will teach you how to make everything from starters and pickles to fantastic celebratory feasts. Sharing secrets and techniques from around the world, your kitchen will be transformed into haven for 21st century curry cuisine with the Hairy Bikers' Great Curries.
Skinny Weeks and Weekend Feasts (Hardback)
Gizzi Erskine
GIZI
A revolutionary new approach to losing weight steadily, safely and scrumptiously, Gizzi Erksine's Skinny Weeks and Weekend Feasts will show you how you can have your cake and eat it too! Split into two halves, one section offers delicious and easy-to-follow plans for six days of the week, ideal for helping you drop 1-2lbs every seven days. Featuring mouth-watering recipes like Blackened Mackerel, Korean Beef and Chilli Baked Beans with Sourdough, healthy eating with Gizzi is exciting, adventurous and easy. You can then use her tasty dishes in Weekend Feasts to treat yourself to some truly decadent food, knowing you can eat it guilt-free. Satisfying and achievable, Gizzi's technique will have you feeling good, looking great and staying that way!
How to Bake (Hardback)
Paul Hollywood
HTBA
Paul Hollywood, the star of BBC2's The Great British Bake Off reveals all the secrets of his craft in the glorious hardback How to Bake. In the baking book, Paul shares his finely honed skills and shows that, with the right guidance, anyone can achieve baking success time after time. Packed with easy-to-follow, clearly explained and utterly delicious recipes, Paul takes the reader through the basic techniques and explains how to make an abundance of breads, pastries, cakes and biscuits. Among the tasty treats on offer are wholemeal loaf, tin bread, ciabatta, focaccia, sour cherry and chocolate loaf, fresh croissants, chocolate temptation cake and buttery shortbread. A great book for anyone who wants to start baking!
Paul Hollywood's Bread (Hardback)
Paul Hollywood
PHOL
Following the hugely successful How to Bake, Paul Hollywood is back with a recipe book dedicated to bread making. Accompanying his primetime BBC television series, this stunning hardback features six chapters, each with five bread recipes and then further spin-off recipe ideas where Paul uses each different bread as the basis for a fantastic meal. The days of baking a beautiful loaf and then leaving it to go stale are over! From transforming the basic white bloomer into a picnic delight and using white chocolate and raspberry bread for an unbeatable summer pudding, to creating stilton and bacon rolls with a delicious celery soup and baking fluffy crumpets - the base for eggs Benedict, everything in this baking book is achievable and utterly delicious. With the expert guidance in Paul Hollywood's Bread, anyone can be a star baker!
Food Glorious Food (Hardback)
GFOO
Accompanying the major ITV1 series fronted by Carol Vorderman, Food Glorious Food: Family Recipes for the Nation's Favourite Dishes includes over 100 recipes for a range of delicious meals. The recipes, all from members of the general public, are easy to follow and are accompanied by inspiring stories of their creation, as well as fascinating and revealing photographs from the recipe's creator and their family's archives. Among the recipes included are those for traditional favourites like Lancashire Hot Pot, Cornish Pasties and Bakewell Tart as well as fresh and quirky new ideas. With thoughtful reflections on Britain's food heritage included too, this is a great cookbook for those who love home cooking.
The Fabulous Baker Brothers make a welcome return with Glorious British Grub, the inspiring new book to accompany their Channel 4 TV series. The boys are encouraging the great British public to embrace all-things British in their kitchens as they revitalise trusty British heartland cooking. Giving a tasty new edge to tired British classics like traditional pub grub, pies, fish 'n' chips and cream teas, the talented twosome transform old staples into delicious treats that are sure to fill the belly and warm the soul too! Fall back in love with the best of British food as the boys guide you through simple and sensational ways to uplift your family meals. With full-colour, tantalising pictures too, you'll just need to decide where to start...
MCCC
MasterChef Cookery Course offers keen culinary readers comprehensive and enjoyable lessons in cooking excellence, without the cost and time restraints of an evening or day course. Inspired by the TV show, you can become a MasterChef by learning the very basics and going on to tackle truly ambitious menus through the book's expertly written and full-colour illustrated pages. Find out which equipment and cupboard stocks you can't live without, the perfect staple recipes from roasting and baking to making your own need-to-know sauces, and then show off your expertise with over 120 classic dishes. With advice from John Torode and Greg Wallace, you are encouraged to add your very own flair and creative taste preferences to every dish you go on to cook, making them unique and show-stopping each time they're served.
Nigellissima (Hardback)
Nigella Lawson
NIGE
Taking inspiration from Italian cooking but also adding an Anglo twist, Nigellisima sees popular chef Nigella Lawson celebrate the best of Italian food. Over 100 recipes are included in this cookbook and all are fresh, tasty and unpretentious and this is reflected in how simple and speedy they are to prepare. From traditional fare to unfamiliar treats, the recipes will excite both your tastebuds and imagination, and among those on offer are Crustless Meatzza, Risotto and Sambucca kisses. The hardback cookbook is illustrated with beautiful photographs to showcase the delightful recipes and is a great accompaniment to the hit BBC series!
Rachel's Irish Family Food (Hardback)
Rachel Allen
RIFF
Ireland's best-loved cook presents a wonderful collection of seriously comforting and nourishing recipes that will keep your family happy every mealtime! Tried and tested ideas from her previous books, together with 30 brand new recipes inspired by both traditional and modern Irish cooking, make Rachel's Irish Family Food the ultimate kitchen companion for every home. With quick and simple dinners like Irish stew, Kinoith pork casserole and roast chicken, to celebration food and sweet treats like St Stephen's Day muffins and Irish coffee meringue roulade, the easy-to-follow dishes make perfect and plentiful family favourites every time they're served. Rachel's clear guidance and the accompanying pictures will have you creating hearty Irish classics in no time!
A compelling book, published to mark the forthcoming primetime BBC TV series, Two Greedy Italians sees great friends Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo go back to their roots and uncover the secrets of fine Italian cuisine. As they explore their culinary heritage, these wise and fascinating men uncover more than 100 mouth-watering recipes, which are presented alongside some beautiful photography. Full of insight and reflections on the traditions and soul of Italian dining, this is an inspirational hardback.
Gennaro: Let's Cook Italian (Hardback)
Gennaro Contaldo
GLCI
One half of the Two Greedy Italians, popular chef Gennaro Contaldo shows in Let's Cook Italian that good family cooking doesn't have to be complicated. An inspirational cookbook that features delicious recipes from his own family, he offers ideas for everything from quick suppers to slow-cooked dishes for special occasions. Using traditional Italian treats and preserves, the hardback provides recipes for pizza and pasta dishes, as well as soups, salads, meat dinners and gorgeous desserts.
La Dolce Diet (Paperback)
Gino D'Acampo
VITA
Popular celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo provides a selection of delicious healthy recipes and useful exercises in La Dolce Diet: 100 Recipes and Exercises to Help You Lose Weight the Italian Way. Perfect for helping you keep in shape, this cookbook covers everything from romantic suppers and meals to healthy snacks and treats. The stress-free menu plans are provided by a leading dietitian and there is also advice on what food you should limit while trying to lose weight. Among the recipes included are Light Lamb Burgers with Sundried Tomatoes and Pecorino Cheese and a delicious dessert of Baked Ice Cream in Crispy Meringue.
Prashad Cookbook (Hardback)
Kaushy Patel
PIVC
The star of Gordon Ramsay's Best Restaurant TV show, Kaushy Patel showcases some of her finest creations in Prashad, an Indian cookbook packed with delicious and original vegetarian recipes. With over 100 recipes on offer, ranging from simple snacks to hearty family dinners and sweet desserts, among the highlights are Spiced Vegetable Rice, Cinnamon-Spice Chickpea Curry and Indian Coconut Fudge. Throughout the book, Kaushy showcases just how much of an influence her upbringing had on her passion for creating such incredible dishes too.
ANTO
One half of the Two Greedy Italians, Antonio Carluccio has established his place as the leading proponent of Italian cookery and this book is the seminal work that every home cook interested in Italian food should follow. Beautifully simple and bursting with flavour, Antonio has collected his favourite recipes from seven of his bestselling cookbooks into one stunning volume that should definitely take pride of place in your kitchen. With easy-to-follow recipes, this unique culinary journey covers every aspect of the Italian meal from antipasti to dolci and features mouth-watering dishes from each of Italy's distinct regions. It is packed with stunning photographs and infused with Antonio's characteristic voice and style.
Eating In (Hardback)
Sue Lawrence
EATI
A beautiful hardback guide to home cooking from Scotland's favourite chef Sue Lawrence, Eating In includes a recipe for every occasion. Including over 100 brand new recipes that are clearly presented and accompanied by some gorgeous photography, this well-designed cookbook will help you whip up wonderful meals for a range of events, from a New Year's Day breakfast to a posh picnic or Sunday roast dinner.
Hix Oyster & Chop House (Hardback)
Mark Hix
OYST
Featuring lavish and delicious food without a hint of pretence the Hix Oyster & Chop House cookbook features some of the gorgeous dishes that have lit up the restaurant’s menu over the past year. Well set out, making each of the 100 mouth-watering recipes easy to follow, this book is a great gift for passionate food lovers. Going into great detail to ensure that you are able to recreate the fine oyster and meaty dishes that Hix’s restaurant is so well known for, this lavish guide is likely to be in constant use in any kitchen.
GRUC
An accompaniment to the hit TV show, Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course sees the famous chef go back to basics and show you how to cook good food at home. By stripping away all the hard graft and complexity when it comes to preparing, he aims to prove how cooks of any level can produce mouth-watering recipes. The cookbook contains over 120 modern, simple and accessible recipes that are all aimed at giving home cooks the desire, confidence and inspiration to start cooking good and healthy food.
CWMC
The star presenter of MasterChef: The Professionals, Michel Roux Jr presents a range of delicious recipes in Cooking with the MasterChef: Food for Your Family and Friends. In the cookbook, he showcases a range of professional cooking techniques and shows how these can easily be used by home cooks. With a reputation for being someone who knows everything there is to know about food, how it should taste and how it should be cooked, by following his advice you too may have the skills to become a chef! The star chef uses all his knowledge and experience to provide a range of tasty recipes too!
Vintage Tea Party Year (Hardback)
Angel Adoree
VTPY
Written by Angel Adoree, the founder of popular vintage hosting company The Vintage Patisserie, The Vintage Tea Party Year will guide you through 12 months of parties, celebrations and teatime treats. The stylish hardback will also introduce a variety of games and craft projects that will complement your chosen theme. Whether you'd like to see the New Year in with vintage style, or give a child their dream tea party, this is an inspirational and beautiful party book.
The River Cottage Handbook Collection - 10 books (collection)
RCHC
The River Cottage Handbooks Collection features ten practical guides that will help you get the most out of the food you love, including mushrooms, fruit, cakes, herbs and edible seashore produce. Each book has been written by a local expert and features an introduction from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Delightful reading that also offers sensible, user-friendly advice you can rely on, the books focus on the local, seasonal produce that is at the very heart of Hugh's River Cottage and each book reflects the quality, thought and pride that goes into living the good life.
