Seasonal Food and Drink

Packed with inspirational ideas, impressive menus and fantastic recipes, festive foodies will find everything they need to make Christmas magical every year with "Good Food 101 Christmas Dishes". Add sparkle to your party nibbles, rev up the roast, delight your guests with truly decadent desserts. From canapes to Christmas cake the team at "BBC Good Food Magazine" will take you every step of the way with simple, mouthwatering recipes that won't keep you in the kitchen for days on end.


ISBN: 9780563539292

"Treuille's latest book is, without doubt, the best on the subject I've seen." - "Evening Standard." Fire up the charcoal, grab the tongs and discover how to use smoke, spice, and sizzle to mouth-watering effect. Try rubs, mixes, marinades and finger-licking recipes from around the globe. It contains 150 tasty meals that include cardamom chicken tikka, prawns with salsa fresca, and chargrilled pineapple with rum glaze. Complement your cooking with exciting salsas and sumptuous salads. There's practical information on using gas and charcoal barbecues, advice on the best tools, using fire safely and judging when food is ready to eat. For every season, for every reason, it's the ultimate barbecue cookbook. COVER PRICE £9.99

isbn: 9781405319959

With over 160 recipes and ideas for meat, fish, game, poultry and vegetarian dishes, this book also includes practical advice on choosing the best barbecue and cooking equipment, and information on the right lighting and cooking techniques. COVER PRICE £14.99

isbn: 9780753712139

Whether your barbeque or grill is traditional wood-fired, or high-tech electric or gas, you will find in this beautifully photographed book almost 200 recipes that will expand your outdoor cooking repetoire: from burgers, salads, salsas and sides to kebabs, roasts and desserts. COVER PRICE £9.99

isbn: 9781740452816

Extols the salad as a satisfying meal, which excites the eye, delights the taste buds, and fulfills the drive to eat more healthily. This book offers an introduction on how to prepare key ingredients and guidance on dressings, marinades, dips and salsas to accompany the salads. It features salad recipes including appetizers and starters.

Journeys behind the scenes of some of the most unusual grilling contraptions found across America, in a unique cookbook that highlights innovative cooking techniques and equipment while furnishing colorful photographs, fascinating profiles of cooks across America, and nearly one hundred personal recipes. Original.

ISBN: 9780811853187

More than 100 recipes, arranged season by season, guide the reader through the organic produce year. Over 300 inspirational photographs accompany easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. The benefits of organic produce are widely known, and a wide and exciting choice is now available. In this fabulous collection of over 100 recipes, organic expert Ysanne Spevack shows how to make the most of fresh seasonal food from spring to winter. All the recipes - even the dessert ideas - are as delicious as they are healthy, and there are suggestions for all kinds of meals from light lunches to elegant dinner parties. COVER PRICE £8.99

ISBN: 9781844760480

Britain has the perfect climate for growing the best-flavoured soft and stone fruits in the world, but there is more versatility to these summer delights than a bowl of strawberries and cream for dessert. Clare Ferguson offers a selection of recipes - both sweet and savoury - to make the best use of your strawberries, raspberries, currants, blackberries, gooseberries, plums and cherries. Try giving your Sunday roast a lift with Strawberry and Chilli Salsa, tempt your children to eat their fruit with frothy Raspberry Floats, start your day with Blackberry, Orange and Hazelnut Muffins, or dazzle your friends with a serving of Redcurrants with Rosy rack of Lamb.

Known for her practical and unfussy approach to cooking, Mary Berry has finally taken on the trickiest of culinary periods. In Mary Berry’s Christmas Collection Mary combines all her favourite winter recipes with a selection of new mouthwatering dishes to give us not only the time-honoured traditional roast turkey and classic Victorian Christmas cake, but also a variety of new and exciting food ideas for the festive period. Her Gammon with a Mango Salsa and a crunchy Caramalised Onion Salad or yummy Stilton and Pear Crostini or Quail's Eggs in Pastry Cases take the pressure off entertaining whether it's the Boxing Day crowd or a family New Year gathering.With clues on leftovers, buffets, a Christmas day countdown and a trouble-shooting section, Mary will help you solve all your holiday cooking problems. A wonderful seasonal cookery book from the queen of Aga cooking.

ISBN: 9780755315635

Nigella Christmas comprises reliable, practical, easy-to-follow recipes and reassuring advice about planning and cooking ahead, presented in a gorgeous glittering package which will make this the ultimate gift to yourself and for family and friends. Illustrated with over 150 fabulous full-colour photographs by Lis Parsons (photographer of the bestselling Nigella Express), including method photos and lavish double-page 'spreads', Nigella Christmas is in a new, larger and irresistible format. It includes everything from scrumptious Christmas cakes and puddings, to quick and easy homemade presents (biscuits, preserves and other standbys) and edible tree-decorations, recipes for feeding friends and family over the holiday season with minimum stress and maximum enjoyment (cook and freeze ahead or slow-cook in the oven), as well as Christmas party food and drinks. And, of course, exciting and inspiring variations for the Main Event itself - from traditional super-juicy turkey, festive ginger-baked ham, special trimmings and the Ultimate Christmas Pud, all the way to the special vegetarian Christmas feast, by way of goose or pork-and-cranberry options and a Prodigious Pavlova... Her cakes, as always, gladden the heart, and her 'At-a-Glance Christmas Dinner Countdown' helps take the stress and strain out of the Big Day itself. Nigella Christmas will surely be a perennial favourite, the book we will all reach for - for inspiration and reassurance - as soon as the Christmas lights start going up....

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ISBN: 9780701183226

Whether you're a picnic traditionalist or someone who just loves to host outdoor gatherings of a casual kind, "Picnic Hamper" has everything you'll ever need for al fresco entertaining. It contains over 175 recipes, including old favourites like sausage rolls and raised pork pie, and 'smarter' fare like prawn and papaya salad and almond friands. With tasty barbecued food and refreshing drinks, all the recipes in "Picnic Hamper" are suited for outdoor consumption and can be easily picked up and eaten with fingers or forks, or served without fanfare from bowls or platters.

ISBN: 9781740459679

Food and drink are always welcome gifts - and even more so if they're homemade. But if you're busy, settling down to bake or cook can seem too labour-intensive, and wrapping the results prettily even more so. Surely it would be simpler to pick up a decent bottle at the store, or buy some homemade goodies at the local delicatessen or down at the farmer's market? Not if you know the tricks of the trade. Making and packaging gift food yourself really can be nearly as simple as buying it. And it's not only cheaper, it's also infinitely more satisfying both for the giver and for the recipient."Simple Pleasures" shows you exactly how, with a great range of food and drink you can make at home - from three-fruit marmalade and homemade madeira cake to brown-sugar fudge and limoncello - and the perfect way to present each to its best effect, without frills or fanfare. Whether you are bringing preserve bottles of fresh chutney or neatly folded box of fruit candy, you'll learn how to give every delicious gift an elegant twist that will be remembered long after your present has been celebrated and devoured.This title features a great range of gift food you can make at home. It is divided into four chapters: Jams, Preserves and Chutneys; Cakes and Cookies; Sweets and Chocolates; and Flavoured Liqueurs, Oils and Vinegars.Each chapter features 12 recipes and a couple of spreads on gift wrapping ideas and presentation. It also features a beautiful gift format.

ISBN: 9781845432935

OCTOBER 2008