Love to host but short on time? So many of us enjoy having friends over for dinner, but too often social occasions turn into fussy affairs, leaving you frazzled even before the first guest arrives. This book offers a hassle-free approach to entertaining, championing simplicity over showiness. From quick post-work dinners all cooked in one pan to deceptively simple, but nonetheless showstopping, suppers for a Friday night with friends, along with tips for get-ahead hacks, simplified shopping lists, and freezer shortcuts, this book is here to remove all the stress of cooking for a crowd.

Learn how to pull off the perfect carefree dinner party with a few simple get-ahead hacks. Weekend prepping, shorter shopping lists, and freezer shortcuts all set you up for easy impromptu gathering, while versatile pantry staples will help you elevate your dishes and expand your repertoire.

Once you have perfected the get ahead larder, there’s no need to plan on a daily basis to have a delicious meal at the ready, whether it’s a bloody mary station for a brunch get-together, a classic wedge salad with blue cheese dressing to serve alongside a quick-cooking skirt steak, or, skillet fried gnocchi with wild mushrooms for a cozy fall dinner. Finish it all off with no-churn lemon meringue ice cream or a fudgy chocolate skillet cake.

Last Minute Dinner Party offers everything you need to make your next best-ever dinner party, well within reach.

208 pages

DIY fever + quality meat mania = old-school butchery revival! Artisan cooks who are familiar with their farmers market are now buying small farm raised meat in butcher-sized portions. Dubbed a rock star butcher by the New York Times, San Francisco chef and self-taught meat expert Ryan Farr demystifies the butchery process with 500 step-by-step photographs, master recipes for key cuts, and a primer on tools, techniques, and meat handling. This visual manual is the first to teach by showing exactly what butchers know, whether cooks want to learn how to turn a primal into familiar and special cuts or to simply identify everything in the case at the market.

240 pages

Description
From celebrated blogger Sarah Kieffer whose pan-banging cookie technique "broke the internet," this is a go-to baking book featuring 100 recipes for spectacular cookies, brownies, bars, and more!
Featured in the New York Times, Food & Wine, Wall Street Journal, Wine Enthusiast, The Kitchn, Cup of Jo, Food52, and The Today Show
Nominated for a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Cookbooks

"This is a cookie gold mine! I've been waiting years for all of Sarah's cookie wisdom to transfer from her brain to my kitchen, and here it is! Sarah's recipes are reliable, approachable, and just plain crave-able. This world has reached peak cookie deliciousness thanks to Sarah."--Molly Yeh, star of Girl Meets Farm, author of Molly on the Range

Chocolatey, fruity, crispy, chewy, classic, inventive--there's a foolproof recipe for the perfect treat for everyone in this cookie cookbook, including:

Marshmallow Peanut Butter Brownies
Olive Oil Sugar Cookies with Blood Orange Glaze
Red Wine Cherry Cheesecake Swirl Bars
Pan-Banging Ginger Molasses
S'mores Cookies
Snickerdoodles
and many more!

Organized into seven chapters and introducing innovative baking techniques, 100 Cookies features dessert recipes ranging from the Classic Chocolate Chip made three different ways to bars, brownies, and blondies that reflect a wide range of flavors and global inspiration. With gorgeous full-color photographs throughout, this is the comprehensive-yet-charming cookbook every cookie lover (or those who love to bake cookies) needs.
ACCOMPLISHED AUTHOR: Sarah Kieffer is the beloved blogger behind The Vanilla Bean Blog, past winner of Saveur Reader's Choice Best Baking & Desserts Blog. She is "the one who broke the Internet with her pan-banging cookies, large, chocolate-rich, and rippled like sandbars. And this book offers plenty of bangers, with a whole chapter of crinkly treats for those who like to make some noise on the way to dessert. Baking them all could be your winter challenge."--The Boston Globe

DELICIOUS SUCCESS: With more than 150,000 copies sold, 100 Cookies is a resounding success, and the seasonal follow-up, Baking for the Holidays, is beloved by bakers nationwide.

GREAT GIFT: With anyone-can-do-it recipes, this is a perfect anytime gift (birthday, holiday, Valentine's Day, housewarming, etc.) alongside a cute apron or baking product. Package this book together with Baking for the Holidays to create an adorable set for a lucky baker in your life.

Perfect for:

Home bakers of all levels
Fans of Sarah Kieffer's blog, Instagram, and cookbooks
Owners of Dorie's Cookies, Dessert Person, Snacking Cakes, or Pastry Love
Shoppers looking for a hostess or housewarming gift for bakers and cookie lovers

Item Details
ISBN
9781452180731
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Publication Date
August 25, 2020
Binding
Hardcover
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
304
Keywords
Cooking | Courses & Dishes | Cookies; Cooking | Methods | Baking
Categories
Recipes
Cookbooks
Hardcover

Description
Let Laura Strange, a coeliac foodie with 25 years' experience, show you how to make gluten-free life easy and delicious with her debut cookbook, Eat and Enjoy Gluten Free.
Featuring 100 gluten-free recipes, and split into two sections - Meals for Everyone and Baking Up a Storm - the book will take you from speedy midweek meals to easy feasts and perfect pasta, as well as dishing up delicious desserts and giving you advice on how to master baking basics and build your kitchen confidence until you're turning out gluten-free showstoppers!

Recipes include 15-minute Peanut Butter Noodles, Arepas and seriously amazing Chocolate Chip Cookies, as well as hallowed gluten-free foods like Proper Fried Doughnuts, Filo Pastry, Egg Noodles and Sourdough Boule, making it easy for readers to come up with foolproof and fuss-free food in no time.

As well as recipes, Laura will demystify ingredients, such as xanthan gum and psyllium husk (magic ingredients for gluten-free baking), and provide practical advice on living with coeliac disease, including avoiding cross contamination and meal planning.

Eat and Enjoy Gluten Free is a cookbook that everyone can cook and enjoy eating from, allowing your household to find new favorite meals and bakes to share together, proving that gluten-free is easy once you get the hang of it.

Item Details
ISBN
9781784887162
Publisher
Hardie Grant Books
Publication Date
February 27, 2024
Binding
Hardcover
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
272
Keywords
Cooking | Health & Healing | Gluten-Free; Cooking | Methods | Quick & Easy
Categories
Cookbooks
Recipes
Hardcover

Lunches to Look Forward To! 85 recipes for quick, easy-to-prep, and healthy lunches—perfect for taking to work.

Ready to revolutionize your lunch? Ditch boring, soggy, desk-side meals and inject some much-needed joy into your midday break. Instead of sidelining this important meal, use lunch as an opportunity for self-care and a chance to refuel for a productive afternoon.

With 85 energizing recipes, Lunch Well offers a road map to revitalizing lunch: make-ahead meals that take 15 minutes or less, nutritious dishes requiring only five ingredients, and budget-friendly meal prep ideas. It's packed with tips on how to build your pantry for quicker packed lunches, prep while making your morning coffee, and incorporate quick ferments for better gut health. With a focus on reusing ingredients, making clever use of leftovers, and packing meals to avoid spills and sogginess, this is a practical guide to reshaping your relationship with the midday meal.

192 pages

Salads are more than just leaves. Take the best of seasonal produce and make bowls, boards, and jars of salad to enjoy throughout the year.

Salad Meals shows you how to eat the rainbow of fruit and vegetables all year long with delicious and satisfying meals. Organized by season to highlight what is freshest and most delicious at that moment, Salad Meals offers a more sustainable approach to shopping, and one that is better for your overall health.

A few of the over 75 recipes include: Farro salad with shredded kale and pickled onions, roasted root vegetable salad served over whipped feta, roast salmon salad with crunchy greens, and a summer berry salad with maple, lemon and vanilla. In addition to delicious main course salads, Salad Meals introduces readers to the concept of salad boards (a riff on the popular snack and charcuterie boards), which are sure to impress at dinner parties. And for busy workdays, ideas for salad jars to take to work for desk lunches are healthy and time saving. Hearty salads use the addition of grains and proteins for the colder months, and lighter salads take advantage of fleeting spring and summer produce for the warmer months. Salad Meals is sure to expand your idea of what salad can be, and how it can delight.

208 pages

In Love with Rome is an irresistible combination of 50 delicious sweet and savory recipes and stories of epic romance.

Discover all that the Eternal City has to offer from its ancient architecture and iconic landmarks to its famously tasty cuisine. Whip up flavorful pasta dishes such as Spaghetti Cacio E Pepe and Rigatoni All'Amatriciana as well as Italian classics like Pizza Con Salsiccia and Risotto Alle Vongole e Limone.

Indulge in a slower pace of life and linger over a Tiramisu or Affogato al Caffé while you read about famous films such as La Dolce Vita and Eat Pray Love that made this beautiful city their backdrop. In Love with Rome will have you cooking stunning Italian food until your next holiday there!

176 pages

A visual and sumptuous ode to Hong Kong that reimagines 88 classic and iconic dishes as colorful and beautiful plant-based meals.

A common Chinese greeting is 食咗飯未呀? “Have you eaten (rice) yet?” which is how Christine Wong’s paternal grandmother would welcome her home during her childhood in Hong Kong. Food was the language of love, with birthdays and special events always celebrated with family meals, from nine-course banquet-style restaurant feasts to simple home-cooked dinners. After leaving Hong Kong and adopting a vegan lifestyle for health and sustainability reasons, Christine yearned to recreate the flavors and textures of her family’s food at home without animal by-products.

The Vibrant Hong Kong Table celebrates many of Hong Kong’s most iconic dishes with a vegan twist. Organized by a day of eating through the city and paying homage to its culinary heritage, these fresh, bright, vegetable-based recipes include:
Breakfast and Dim Sum 點心: Sampan Congee, Lotus Leaf Rice, “Egg” Tarts
Cha Chaan Teng 茶餐廳 and Lunchbox Favorites: Baked Tempeh Chop Rice, Black-Pink Pepper Cabbage Steak, Jackfruit Brisket Noodles
Family-Style Dinners, from Festival Foods to Dai Pai Dongs 大牌檔: “Fish Fragrant” Eggplant, Sweet & Sour Cauliflower, Snow Skin Mooncakes
Siu Yeh 宵夜 (Late-Night Snacks) and Sweets: Curry “Fishballs,” Three Treasures, Hong Kong Sweet Buns

"Hong Kong Highlights," included throughout, showcase cultural customs such as balancing yin and yang and sharing food family-style. And Mama Wong’s tips for using ingredients like lotus root, taro, and salted oranges, offer an immersive experience of Hong Kong’s culinary and societal traditions. With beautiful imagery, intimate storytelling, and easy-to-follow instructions, The Vibrant Hong Kong Table is a treasury of fresh and inspiring vegan meals straight from the heart of this magnificent city to your home.

UNIQUE VEGAN COOKBOOK: Born out of hardship, hard work, and diverse cultural influences, Hong Kong’s food culture is an integral part of its history. Author Christine Wong taps into her culinary heritage to offer a window into this incredible city through vibrant memories and colorful, flavorful, plant-based spins on classic dishes like Crystal Dumplings, Salt & Pepper "Squid," Laughing Sesame Cookies, and of course, Hong Kong Milk Tea.

GOOD FOR THE PLANET AND YOU: These easy vegan recipes offer a way to move toward a sustainable plant-based diet without sacrificing flavor. Based on time-tested Hong Kong cooking techniques and flavors, these recipes are designed to be easy to follow and sharable, offering nourishing meals for weeknight dinners and work-from-home lunches.

A TOUR OF HONG KONG: Filled with beautiful and evocative photography, The Vibrant Hong Kong Table captures all the intoxicating sights, sounds, and smells that Hong Kong is famous for.

Perfect for:
Chinese cookbook fans looking for East Asian or Hong Kong–specific recipes
Home cooks seeking delicious plant-based and vegan recipes
People interested in ways to eat more sustainably
Travel-inspired gift for birthday, anniversary, holiday, housewarming, and more

"The Balkan Kitchen is a treasure trove of delicious recipes, history and personal stories. A book to cook and learn from, to get lost in the beauty of a colourful diverse culture…and make you dream of visiting the region." – Olia Hercules

"The Balkan Kitchen achieves what only the best recipe books can achieve…It is a book to come to for the food and stay with for the stories." – Tara Wigley

"Irina's food is rich with history that tells of a region at the crossroads of myriad peoples and cultures." – Melissa Thompson

In The Balkan Kitchen, Irina Janakievska gives a voice to the vast and varied dishes and cultural heritage of the Balkan region.

Explore this diverse and expansive region of cuisine with recipes including everything from Aubergine in Walnut Sauce and Leek, Lemon, and Olive Salad to Easter Roast Lamb and Chicken Paprikash, and of course sweet treats such as Vanilici Cookies and Chocolate Baklava. Irina's food is as vibrant and joyful as the stunning location photography and evocative essays, and with over half of the recipes being vegetarian or vegan, this is a book for all to enjoy the flavours of the Balkans.

With cultural anecdotes, history and personal stories, The Balkan Kitchen will be a book that inspires cooks around the world for years to come.

272 pages

Discover how to create over 80 delicious classics of French gastronomy.

In The Essentials of French Cooking, best-selling author Laurent Mariotte shares a collection of French classic recipes. Learn how to whip up starters such Cheese Soufflé and Onion Soup, mains such as Moules Marinières and Beef Stew, and desserts such as Clafoutis, Lemon Tart and Chocolate Mousse.

With step-by-step methods, the recipes help aid home cooks of all skill levels to produce delicious dishes. Even though the recipes are broken into achievable steps, they are specific enough so that they can be used as a jumping point to make these classics your own.

From understanding the importance of high-quality ingredients, to learning basic techniques, you will be guided through the fundamentals of French cooking. Plus, there are menus that offer inspiration for different occasions.

Full of tips and anecdotes, The Essentials of French Cooking is the perfect companion for any home cook.

256 pages

Fall in love with Paris, the food, the stories, and the city's most romantic spots. A celebration of one of the world's most beautiful cities, In Love with Paris is an irresistible combination of mouth-watering sweet and savory recipes and heart-melting love stories. Take a culinary walk through the city of love, enjoy classic French cuisine, from croque madame to coq au vin and madeleines, and immerse yourself in famous love stories.

176 pages

Recipes from Sicily is a culinary exploration of this well-loved Italian island.

Join husband and wife team Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi as they head to the island of Sicily to delve into its diverse food scene through more than 90 delicious recipes.

Starting in the capital, Palermo, the couple come across some exciting street food that features tasty Arancini (rice balls stuffed with meat sauce and cheese) to Sfincione, a thick Sicilian pizza, topped with tomatoes, onions, anchovies and caciocavallo cheese. Heading to Noto, almonds feature in some of Italy’s most memorable desserts including a classic Semifreddo to a refreshing Almond Granita (served with fresh brioche, for dunking). No Sicilian book would be complete without Pasta Alla Norma (pasta with tomatoes and eggplants) and the classic, ricotta-filled sweet delight Cannoli.

Set against the backdrop of breathtaking photographs of the islands and Katie’s anecdotes of their travels, Recipes from Sicily is a stunning cookbook and visual feast of one of Italy’s most amazing destinations.

272 pages

Sofra (Lebanese Arabic)
Noun (regional): gathering for eating and drinking, feast

Through traditional family-style spreads, mother-daughter duo Karima Hazim and Sivine Tabbouch present a gorgeous array of dishes, perfect for sharing, in Sofra, a love letter to Lebanon.

As Lebanese diaspora living in Sydney, Australia, Karima and Sivine guide you through typical Lebanese feasts that tell the story of the rich and diverse regions of the country and evoke feelings of home. Sofra contains a mother’s recipes for achievable, traditional, homely dishes, with everything from a tall pot of freshly rolled Warak Enab or a charcoal bbq lined with Kafta and Meat Skewers, to a deluxe Fattoush and wholesome Tabbouleh. Alongside, you’ll find a daughter’s beautiful stories of cooking, sharing and identity that have been passed down to her around the kitchen table.

This is a collection of generous and nourishing recipes that have travelled across the world – from Tripoli, Beirut, and beyond, to Sydney, Australia – and through generations. Created with love, to feed the soul and preserve heritage, the recipes are woven together with stories of belonging that celebrate history, culture and the culinary traditions that bind families together.

224 pages

Everybody loves pasta: no other food is so versatile, so comforting and so delicious. Seriously Good Pasta features every pasta recipe you could ever need, whether you’re making your own or taking store-bought shortcuts.

Beginning with clear instructions for basic pasta doughs, followed by recipes on meaty, fishy and veggie pasta, as well as bakes, salads and soups, you'll have a mouth-watering variety of dishes to choose from every time that pasta craving calls. With everything from Crispy Sausage Orecchiette, Wild Garlic Spaghetti and Crab and Saffron Linguine, through to Mac and Cheese Arancini, Hot Smoked Salmon Farfalle Salad and Baked Aubergine Caponata, this is the ultimate cookbook for pasta lovers everywhere.

Feeling fancy? Whip up some homemade pasta dough. Stuck for time? Use store-bought pasta instead. Either way, with easy-to-follow instructions and a photo for every recipe, this book takes any pasta-based meal and makes it seriously good.

176 pages

Healthiest Vegetables focuses on 15 of the most nutrient rich vegetables, including sweet potatoes, beets, carrots, onions, and kale and how to use these in easy and delicious recipes. Each section is devoted to a vegetable and has a detailed chart with cooking methods and timing, photos of different varieties, and nutritional information.

With over 75 recipes like Pea & Chervil Soup with Crispy Pancetta, Polenta & Rosemary Sweet Potato Fries, and Beetroot and Chocolate Brownies alongside, basic information on the vitamins and minerals your body needs—plus which vegetables provide them, buying and storage tips, and common alternatives, your best health is well within reach.

Healthiest Vegetables will change the way you nourish yourself and teach you delicious recipes along the way.

224 pages

Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Epicurious, Vice, Food Network, Good Housekeeping, and more, and a Best Cookbook of Fall 2023 by Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Eater, The Strategist, and more.

From the bestselling author of The Flavor Equation and Season and winner of the 2023 IACP Trailblazer Award: A fascinating exploration of the unique wonders of more than fifty vegetables through captivating research, stunning photography, and technique-focused recipes.

352 pages