Mediterranean Cookery Books
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The Janissary tree
Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished off the map. Yashim is a eunuch. Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem. And a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, The Janissary Tree is a fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast, from mystic orders and lissom archivists to soup-makers and a seductive ambassador's wife. Darker than any of these is the mysterious figure who controls the Sultan's harem.
Julie & Julia
Pushing 30, living in a rundown apartment and working at a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell is, in a word, stuck. In her desperate search for an escape, she comes up instead with a deranged assignment - to take Julia Child's 1961 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' and cook all 524 recipes - in a year! Pushing thirty, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell is, in a word, stuck. In her desperate search for an escape, she comes up instead with The Project - a deranged assignment, to take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking and cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the smooth sailing of Potage Parmentier into the obscure culinary backwaters of calves' brains, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. For every triumphant Bifteck Saute au Beurre there is a disastrously soupy Creme Plombieres. Still, with Julia's stern warble steady in her ear, Julie carries on. She haunts the city's butchers buying kidneys and sweetbreads, whilst her husband endures the crying fits and midnight dinners. Together they discover the importance of blanching bacon, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the (kinky) thrills of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realizes something has changed. With spectacular humour and a dash of hysteria, she begins to master the fine art Julia has really always been about - the art of living with gusto.
Jamie's Red Nose recipes
The book will contain 12 delicious recipes you can cook for your friends: Any-way-you-like cookies Tea-party cupcakes My nan's lemon drizzle cake Salad from capri Sausage carbonara My old Man's Superb Chicken Cottage pie Tasty fish bake Chicken Korma Banana and blueberry French toast Easy Peasy Ginger beer Granola with berry compote
Crafty French cooking
Food and Drink's resident cook gathers together more than 130 French recipes which are both delicious and easily achievable using everyday ingredients and simple techniques. They include Lobster Thermidor, Haddock Dieppoise and Apple Jacques This collection, by TV and radio personality Michael Barry, gathers together more than 130 French recipes. It presents recipes that are both delicious and easily achievable, making use of everyday ingredients and simple techniques. He also provides tips on how to make basic French preparations such as rouille, vinaigrette, pate sablee and crepes.;France is divided into 13 regions, each one having its own distinctive character and ingredients. This is reflected in the recipes, with ten typical dishes for each region. From Provence comes recipes such as provencal fish soup, salade de peches and pommes de terre a l'ail. In Paris, the dishes include filet roti, lobster thermidor and creme caramel, whilst from Normandy come apple jacques, haddock dieppoise and duck breasts with buttered apple rings. The other regions covered in this culinary journey are Midi, Lyons, Bordeaux and Bearn, Alsace-Lorraine, Burgundy, Brittany, Loire, Picardy, Nicoise and Haute Savoie. Accompanied by 35 food and location shots, this work aims to bring the complexities and mysteries of French cuisine within the grasp of the home cook.
Fidelma Cook's French Leave
THAT fateful night, two friends were commiserating with high-flying journalist, Fidelma Cook after she'd been made redundant from her job with national Sunday newspaper. Several bottles of red wine had also been thrown in for good measure. Then it came to her in a flash-'I'll just pack my bags and go live in France', she boldly announced. That was the moment Fidelma threw common sense right out of the fenetre. But with no job, a huge mortgage to pay, massive overdraft, several loans and maxed-out credit cards, it seemed like a good idea at the time.'If I'm going to be poor, I may as well be poor with the sun on my back in the south of France,' she mused. The word soon got round that Fidelma was saying au revoir to the big city and bonjour to a new life in the French countryside. There was no turning back. This is the witty and thought-provoking account of how a woman-with only her Afghan hound for company-battled against all odds to make a new life for herself in a foreign country and live the dream we all wish we had the courage to do ourselves. It was a dream that sometimes bordered on nightmare. But who said it would be easy?Well, actually it was Fidelma who did.
Easy Pasta Recipe Book
Pasta is one of the most versatile ingredients-inexpensive and quick to cook, it really couldn't be easier to whip up a delicious pasta dish in next to no time. From simple salads to comforting bakes, this varied collection allows you to create Italian dishes that never fail to impress. Easy Pasta is part of an exciting new series of cookbooks for the modern home cook. Each book is packed with 100 recipes for everyday eating and offers fantastic value and choice. If you're running short of culinary inspiration, each easy-to-follow recipe is accompanied by a photograph of the finished dish to set your taste buds tingling. Cooking has never been simpler-or more delicious!
Easy Pasta - Ryland, Peters and Small - Drink: General
Including tips on making your own pasta sheets and shapes, as well as concocting delicious sauces from scratch, Easy Pasta will motivate even the most reluctant chefs to cook up an Italian-inspired feast. With ideas for lunchtime snacks as well as filling main meals, this informative cookbook is packed with over 100 recipe ideas, many of which cater for vegetarians. Pasta is a versatile ingredient and now with this guide from Ryland, Peters and Small you can learn to manipulate it to fit any meal time. A must for all lovers of Italian food.
Good Food 101: Italian Feasts
For quick, easy and mouth-watering food, look no further than Italian cooking. Using the minimum of ingredients and just a touch of Mediterranean inspiration, Italians have always been able to create dishes that take little effort to create but can delight and dazzle the tastebuds. From light snacks and easy treats to meaty stews and a wealth of pasta dishes - wholesome Bolognese, creamy carbonara, rich lasagne and fresh and zingy pesto to name but a few - there are ideas here to suit every occasion. With the team at the UK's best-selling cookery magazine triple-testing each recipe, you can be confident that each dish will work first time. Accompanied by full nutritional breakdowns and colour photographs throughout, "101 Italian Feasts" is the ideal guide to the delights that Italian food has to offer.
Cooking Spanish
Each title in this series features step-by-step recipes and photographs. Additional information on unusual or misunderstood ingredients is included.
Blanc mange
Raymond Blanc, one of the masters of French cuisine, reveals the culinary secrets that can make you a successful home cook, by demonstrating how and why ingredients react in certain ways. Over 80 recipes reflect the techniques highlighted in the book and show the reader how satisfying good cooking can be when you know how and why. Blanc tempts the palette with such dishes as: marinated red mullet in tomato and basil dressing; asparagus with lemon sabayon; fillet of monkfish with herb crust and lemon butter; duck breasts with blackcurrants, apple, cherry and cinnamon sauce; roasted pheasant with bread sauce; and iced pineapple and kirsch biscuit with pineapple sunflowers and apple and calvados mousse. A range of sauces and stocks is included as a base to a variety of recipes which cover starters, main courses, breads, ice-cream and preserves.;"Blanc Mange" also aims to be a practical reference book that offers sound advice and explanations for why some dishes can go wrong, and how they can be improved. Blanc guides the reader to a better understanding of ingredients and introduces basic food chemistry to clarify the processes at work. Many useful chemistry notes have been specially written by Professor Nicholas Kurti, a former professor of engineering science at Oxford University.;Individual cooking techniques - such as roasting, poaching, and microwave cooking, as well as baking, mousse-making and souffle-making - are also explained; Blanc goes on to point out how the size and thickness of cooking utensils and the variety of ovens can affect cooking times and end results, suggesting how to overcome these variables.
Italian Bible - National & Regional Cuisine
This title includes simple and delicious recipes from Italy. "Italian Bible" includes 130 recipes with an emphasis on making the most of seasonal produce. Italian food is simple, flavoursome and achievable, even for those who have never attempted cooking Italian cuisine before. You will find recipes for making simple antipasto, fresh pasta and pizza, slow-cooked meats, and delicious homemade Italian treats - from Veal Saltimboca to Chocolate and Hazelnut Ravioli. Packed with colourful photographs and simple instructions, these recipes are designed to create a satisfying meal on their own or can form part of an Italian-style feast, to be shared with family and friends - this is simple, delicious food with an authentic twist.
Moroccan Bible - National & Regional Cuisine
This title includes fresh, zesty and spicy flavours from Morocco. "Moroccan Bible" includes more than 120 authentic Moroccan recipes from tasty tagines, fluffy couscous and mouth-watering stews to refreshing soups, delicious sweets and traditional mint tea to finish your meal. The market place is at the heart of Moroccan cooking - the fragrance of fresh herbs and pungent spices, the visual thrill of intricately painted serving dishes and glowing fresh produce - and this book will help you to capture this in your cooking. Packed with colourful photographs and simple instructions, the recipes in "The Moroccan Bible" are designed to create a satisfying meal on their own or form part of a dellcious Moroccan feast to be shared with family and friends - this is fresh and spicy food with an authentic twist.
From Pasta To Pancakes
As a new generation of school-leavers leaves home either to university or to seek their fortunes in the outside world many face the daunting prospect of cooking for themselves for the first time. Rather than resort to a diet of expensive takeaways or anything-on-toast this great book by 22-year old newcomer Tiffany Goodall shows first-timers how to cook everything they might want to eat. Whilst at university last year Tiffany wrote From Pasta to Pancakes with a student budget firmly in mind. It covers key basic skills such as how to cook pasta pizza pancakes couscous rice or bake a jacket potato each with many variations and moves on to explain how to whip up delicious breakfasts filling lunches proper dinners and delicious treats. With recipes ranging from Minestrone Soup to perfect Roast Chicken from Spanish Omelette to Thai Green Curry and from Chocolate Brownies to Vodka Watermelon this book will set young adults up for a lifetime of enjoyable cooking. With its brilliant cartoon-strip design more than 750 photographs and over 90 recipes From Pasta to Pancakes makes it easy to learn to cook. It explains the things other books assume you know and crucially includes photographs to illustrate every step. So if you need to know what simmering water really looks like whether your sauce is the right consistency or how to check whether chicken is properly cooked you'll find clear instructions next to some handy pictures. Designed with a comic strip twist and with a photograph of every key step From Pasta to Pancakes is packed with recipes colour and helpful tips. It is an ideal partner for those taking their first steps in the kitchen. ; ;
Easy Halogen Cookbook - Hamlyn - Food & Drink: General
Full of well-informed advice on how to successfully master this modern and exciting form of cooking, Easy Halogen from Hamlyn is an inspiring introduction. Including 80 simple and delicious recipes, this hardback will help you become a master of this wonderfully fast and convenient style of cooking. With the handy hints contained in this book you are sure to get top results as you try out recipes such as Cherry Tomato and Pepper Tart and Spanish Stuffed Chicken.
Gino D'Acampo - Italian Home Baking - Gino D'Acampo - National & Regional Cuisine
Former I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here winner and Ready, Steady, Cook regular Gino D'Acampo will help you enjoy maximum taste with minimum effort in this guide to home baking sweet and savoury Italian food. The popular TV show chef offers a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide on how to cook a wide range of exciting, hearty party food, and the book even includes examples of regional specialities from his home country.
Italian Comfort Food - Julia Della Croce - National & Regional Cuisine
Featuring 125 soul-satisfying recipes, Italian Comfort Food by Julia della Croce is an easy-to-follow hardback bursting with warming flavours that celebrate all that is elegant and rustic about Italian cuisine. A firm favourite in many households and restaurants, Italian food can be wonderfully simple but equally delicious, and this colourful hardback cookbook is packed with mouth-watering photos that are sure to inspire you to cook up your own stews, pasta bakes and much, much more.