The bestselling author of Midnight Chicken delivers another sumptuous love letter to food, featuring over a hundred irresistible and accessible recipes to elevate your everyday, ranging from crispy leek latkes to lemon curd cake and beyond.
The new cookbook from award-winning writer Ella Risbridger. Home cooking, but make it gorgeous. Make it just, like, 10% better. Make it the thing that makes your day better.
From kale caesar sandwiches, no-knife potato curry, crispy leek latkes, pistachio chilli, Marmite soup, turmeric satay salmon, roasted raisin rice, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; to rhubarb and custard, lemon curd cake, one-bowl cannelés, and supermarket cherry pie; to bread, butter and breakfast bars: this is real-life cooking done right.
Featuring more than 100 delicious and achievable recipes that you’ll want to cook again and again, it’s about how to cook, how to eat, how to live, and how to make things nice.
With weeknight dinners, week-ahead shortcuts and kitchen counter meals, Ella Risbridger also gives plenty of options for roasting a chicken, hosting elegant and delightful gatherings, and a failsafe cookie formula for all occasions and emergencies. These are dishes that deliver even when you don’t have an abundance of time or energy, and all of them promise to make your life at least ten per cent more lovely (even after the washing up).
Make them; change them; fit them into your life, and cook them so often that you (almost) forget where they came from.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008831479
Number of pages: 336
Dimensions: 252 x 195 x 32 mm
Weight: 1180 g
Language: English
'An important kitchen companion … This is a book of passions (for garlic soup, for making your own butter) and of comforts (dumpling omelette, sheet-pan leek latkes) … recipes which you will want to make even when you feel you can hardly get up from the sofa' Bee Wilson
'The Kitchen Book is my favourite cookbook ever … It isn’t just that it’s crammed full of useful and ingenious tips and methods, or that the recipes are fantastic. It’s the tone of it, the friendliness and warmth, the sentences, the intelligence and funniness and joy with which [Ella] writes. She is alive to every pleasure and it communicates itself in the most contagious way' India Knight, Sunday Times
'It’s everything I want from a cookery book: longform food writing you can lose yourself in, complete pragmatism and excellent recipes. Like all of Ella’s books, it’s filled with love – but it’s also funny and delicious and wise’ Olivia Potts, Spectator
'There is a lot to be said for adding to the repertoire of very simple things you can cook at “lowest ebb, lowest effort”, as Ella puts it, and she is particularly attuned to ensuring recipes meet those criteria. This one, for example, involves almost no washing up’ Harriet Fitch Little, Financial Times
'Original, inspiring and joyously delicious. I want to eat everything in this book' Nigel Slater, author of A Thousand Feasts
'There is so much to love in this book … I love Ella's style, conversational and chaotic in the best possible way. And the recipes really drew me in with their ease and cleverness' Anna Jones, author of Easy Wins
'Ella guides us squarely toward the delicious while mercifully freeing us from the tyranny of rules. Both the writing and the recipes are deeply warm and encouraging' Nicola Lamb, author of Sift
I don't say it lightly when I say you might never need another cookbook considering I love cookbooks and collect them. I first read Ella Risbridger's work in her debut, Midnight Chicken, and remember feeling... More
I loved Midnight Chicken, and I'm pleased to report that Ella Risbridger's latest offering is just as good. She brings all her trademark warmth and charm to this, and her sheer love of food shines through on... More
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