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Broccoli Rabe, Sausage & Smoked Mozzerela Pizza
Broccoli Rabe, Sausage & Smoked Mozzerela Pizza

Broccoli Rabe, Sausage & Smoked Mozzarella Pizza excerpted from Williams Sonoma Pizza: Delicious Recipes for Anytime by Williams Sonoma. Photography by Erin Scott.

Williams Sonoma Pizza: Delicious Recipes for Anytime by Williams Sonoma Learn to turn out perfect pizzas at home with this crowd-pleasing collection of fabulous pies that will rival your favourite pizzeria.

With an array of pizza recipes—from classics and seasonal specialties to Italian favourites and more—that will appeal to all palates, this cookbook is the ultimate go-to guide for making pizzeria-perfect pies at home. Recipes are organized by type with chapters for vegetarian options, pizzas topped with meat or cheese, different doughs—including gluten free and cauliflower—flavourful sauces, and fresh salads to round out the meal. Expert tips for troubleshooting to ensure good results will help you become a pizzaiolo at home in no time.

CATERS TO EVERY PREFERENCE: Features recipes for pizzas for any eating preference, from vegetarian to vegan to carnivore. Mix-and-match crusts and sauces make easy customized pizzas for different tastes

GUIDANCE FROM THE BEST: Expert tips will ensure success in every part of crafting a perfect pie at home

MAKE IT CLASSIC OR CLASSY: From a classic margherita to a CA-style pizza with fresh figs and gorgonzola and a cacio e pepe pie, the recipes span old-world favourites and modern combinations (more…)

Classic Pumpkin Pie
Classic Pumpkin Pie

Classic Pumpkin Pie excerpted from Pumpkin: 50 cozy recipes for cooking with pumpkin, from savory to sweet by Ryland Peters & Small.

Pumpkin: 50 cozy recipes for cooking with pumpkin, from savory to sweet by Ryland Peters & Small

Over 50 heart-warming recipes perfect for colder months, from wholesome soups and stews to delicious desserts like pumpkin pie and much more.

A blustery autumnal evening calls for a large helping of something hearty, nourishing and warming – and pumpkin is the ideal ingredient to deliver some warming comfort. Filling enough to leave you satisfied but ultimately a highly nutritious vegetable, it is a wonderful ingredient for use in many meals and desserts and the perfect tonic for a cold grey day. Roasting the bright orange flesh concentrates the flavour to an intensely sweet nuttiness, which whether combined with herbs and salty cheese or spiced with cinnamon and ginger is a delightful option for both sweet and savoury dishes.

Choose from Light Bites such as Roasted Mushrooms Stuffed with Pumpkin and Chickpeas or Spiced Pumpkin and Feta Filo Parcels, each of which are perfect for serving at a winter gathering to soak up a few mulled wines. Or the plentiful selection of warming Soups and Stews such as Chicken and Pumpkin Tagine or velvety Red Lentil and Pumpkin Soup. Pasta and Rice paired with pumpkin is a classic combination, crowd-pleasing dishes include Pumpkin Gnocchi with Buttery Sage Breadcrumbs or Pumpkin and Pancetta Risotto.

Bread and Baking recipes include creative yet easy to master recipes such as Pumpkin Scones or Madeleines. Finally, Desserts and Hot Drinks features sumptuous treats such as an American Pumpkin Cheesecake and a Spiced Pumpkin Latte. (more…)

Maple Pecan Pie
Maple Pecan Pie

Maple Pecan Pie excerpted from Chuck’s Home Cooking: Family-Favourite Recipes from My Kitchen to Yours by Chuck Hughes. Photography by Marc-Andre Lavoie.

Chuck's Home Cooking: Family-Favourite Recipes from My Kitchen to Yours Hardcover by Chuck Hughes

Celebrity chef and TV host Chuck Hughes shares sure-fire advice and 85 of his favourite recipes to cook at home for friends and family.

These days, cooking at home is a top priority for beloved chef and TV host Chuck Hughes. Compared to the hectic pace of his restaurant—where cooking on the line requires lightning speed and expert precision—cooking at home is all about taking things slow, having a good playlist, and knowing a few sure-fire techniques to make meals quick and easy, especially during those busy weekdays.

Chuck’s Home Cooking features Chuck’s favourite go-to recipes to cook for his family, whether it’s an easy weeknight dinner, a delicious weekend treat, or a dish to impress on special occasions. One thing is for sure: they’re all on steady rotation in Chuck’s home. Juggling work and a young family, Chuck knows first-hand that the hustle of everyday daily life can make mealtime feel like a chore—but with his simple planning and prep-ahead methods, delicious dishes with bold flavours come together with ease! (more…)

Hogwarts Roast Chicken with Marvelous Hasselback Roasted Potatoes and Green Bean Salad
Hogwarts Roast Chicken with Marvelous Hasselback Roasted Potatoes and Green Bean Salad

Hogwarts Roast Chicken with Marvelous Hasselback Roasted Potatoes and Green Bean Salad excerpted from Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts: Official Wizarding World Cookbook: Spellbinding Meals From New York to Hogwarts and Beyond! by Jody Revenson and  Sarah Walker Caron.

Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts: Official Wizarding World Cookbook: Spellbinding Meals From New York to Hogwarts and Beyond! by Jody Revenson and  Sarah Walker Caron. 

Create a scrumptious feast inspired by the Wizarding World with more than 80 Harry Potter- and Fantastic Beasts-themed recipes in Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts: Official Wizarding World Cookbook. Filled with stunning full-colour photography, as well as behind-the-scenes facts from the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films, this sophisticated cookbook features classic British-, English-, and French-inspired recipes for magical, memorable meals.

From Great Hall feasts to the sweets at Honeydukes and the treats at Kowalski’s Bakery, food and drink play a starring role in the films of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts. Now you can create those magical treats and libations at home, and dozens more, in the first, comprehensive officially licensed Wizarding World cookbook. Take a culinary journey through each of the eleven films and learn to make traditional treats beloved at the British, English, and French locations in the films and favourite foods of wizards and Muggles from Harry Potter and Hermione Granger to Newt Scamander, Queenie Goldstein, and Jacob Kowalski.

Sprinkled with fascinating behind-the-scenes film facts and bursting with exquisite photography, styled by the recipe’s location, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions on how to prepare more than 80 delicious recipes that can be enjoyed while watching the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films.

From appetizers to main courses and from drinks to desserts, Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts: Official Wizarding World Cookbook is the comprehensive guide to creating enchanting meals for the Harry Potter fan in your life! (more…)

Cioppino
Cioppino

Cioppino excerpted from Around the World in Your Slow Cooker: Global-Inspired, Family-Friendly Recipes by Victoria Shearer. Photography by Candice Bell.

Around the World in Your Slow Cooker: Global-Inspired, Family-Friendly Recipes by Victoria Shearer

People have braised meat to get mouthwatering meals for centuries. And in today’s busy society, there is nothing better than coming home from work and dinner is already done. Perfect for those busy days, Around the World in Your Slow Cooker joins the ease of crock pot, slow cooker, Dutch oven, or Instant Pot cooking with worldwide culinary tastes for family dinner, Sunday football watch parties, card night, or a romantic dinner for two.

Around the World in Your Slow Cooker features 85 delectable recipes from around the world including Beef and Onion Potpie from Africa, Russian Beef Stew, Stuffed Sweet Onions from Cuba, Stuffed Grape Leaves with Lemon Sauce from Greece, Chicken Marengo from Italy, Black-eyed Peas with Tomatoes, Mushroom, and Onions from India, Beef Penang Curry from Thailand and so much more! Your family’s tastebuds won’t know what hit them, and it’s a great way to introduce new flavours! If you love to taste new cuisines or have an adventurous palette, Around the World in Your Slow Cooker is the book you need to create masterpiece mouthwatering meals.

Around the World in Your Slow Cooker: Global-Inspired, Family-Friendly Recipes by Victoria Shearer is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.   

Cioppino

The word “cioppino” comes from the Ligurian language’s “ciuppin,” which is the name of a classic seafood soup from the Italian region of Liguria. Flavoured with garlic, herbs, and a tomato-wine sauce, it was similar in flavor to today’s American version of cioppino but with less tomato. Italian-Americans who fished off of Meiggs’ Wharf in San Francisco in the late 1800s are credited with developing present- day cioppino. Legend has it that when a fisherman came back empty-handed, he walked around the wharf asking the other more fortunate fishermen to “chip in, chip in” and share some of their catch. Cioppino is a combination of fish, shrimp, and shellfish with fresh tomatoes in a wine sauce.

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Party Chicken with Feta & Fennel
Party Chicken with Feta & Fennel

Party Chicken with Feta & Fennel Recipe excerpted from Big Night: Dinners, Parties, & Dinner Parties by Katherine Lewin © 2024. Published by Union Square & Co. Photographs © Emma Fishman.

Big Night: Dinners, Parties, & Dinner Parties by Katherine Lewin © 2024. Published by Union Square & Co. Photographs © Emma Fishman.

Elevate your home entertaining with the ultimate guide to hosting unforgettable dinner parties and celebrations.

When Katherine Lewin opened up her first store—a dinner party shop—she had one goal: to help everyone make their meals at home feel a little bit more special. A little bit more joyful. A little bit Bigger. In her debut book, Katherine channels her New York City–based brick-and-mortar’s irresistible energy into a treasure trove of tips, tricks, and hosting essentials for every kind of Big Night. Learn how to Stop Worrying About Everything Matching and Just Set the Table; the step-by-step formula for discovering your (and your guests’) Perfect Martini; and the Cheese Plate of Dreams math of how many ounces to plan per person.

On top of these helpful sidebars—and in addition to more than 80 recipes for snacks, apps, mains, desserts, and cocktails—you’ll find full menus for 12 Bigger Nights to take you through every occasion, all year long. The first hint of sun in March calls for An Almost-Spring Thing, where you’ll serve ricotta toast with English pea pesto; in the peak of summer, treat everyone to an Italian Vacation Without Leaving the House, starring clam and corn pasta followed by lemon granita; when the leaves have turned, confidently plan The Best Friendsgiving, complete with the ultimate stuffing; and in the dead of winter, lure your friends over with A Noodle Soup to Get People Excited. From date night for two to pull-out-all-the-stops dinner parties to low-key weeknight hangs (delivery pizza encouraged—just make A Big Chopped Salad to go with), this hosting cookbook will help you find all the inspiration you need—and confidence you want—to make any and every night a Big Night. (more…)

Warm Potato Salad
Warm Potato Salad

Warm Potato Salad excerpted from Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches: A Cookbook by Matty Matheson. Photography by Quentin Bacon.

Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches: A Cookbook by Matty Matheson is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

Chances are you’ve eaten a soup, salad, or sandwich in the past day (or maybe all three). This trio makes up so many of our meals but is rarely given the attention it deserves–until now. Matty Matheson, known for his bold, innovative flavours, has created a cookbook that will revolutionize how you think of these kitchen basics. This book is for anyone and everyone, offering up Matty’s signature twists on the classics, delivered with minimal effort for maximum flavour.

Find your favourite combination by mixing and matching dishes like:

• Soups: Giant Meatball Soup; Crab Congee; Creamy Sausage Soup with Rapini and Tortellini; Caldo de Pollo

• Salads: Everyone’s Mom’s Macaroni and Tuna Salad; Griddled Salami Panzanella Salad; Peaches with Goat Cheese, Mint, Honeycomb, Olive Oil, and Espellete

• Sandwiches: Cubano; Italian Combo; Sun Warmed Tomato Sandwich; Banana Bread French; Toast with Fried Egg, Peameal Bacon, and Maple Syrup

Packed with character, personal stories, scrumptious recipes, and vivid photographs of a day-in-the-life with Matty and his family, Soups, Salads, Sandwiches will have you fearlessly whipping up your own combinations in the kitchen.

Matty Matheson is a New York Times bestselling author as well as an executive producer and actor on the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning show The Bear. Matty owns Cassoulet Palace Inc. and is a partner in Our House H.C., Blue Goose Farm, Rosa Rugosa, Matheson Cookware, and Matheson Food Company. He lives in Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada with his wife and three children. (more…)

Yellow Pea Soup 

Disney Frozen: The Official Cookbook: A Culinary Journey through Arendelle by Daytona Danielsen and S. T. Bende  

Feel like you are visiting Arendelle with Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf in this cookbook inspired by Disney’s Frozen and Frozen 2, featuring open-faced sandwiches inspired by Anna, Christmas kransekake inspired by Elsa, beloved lefse, a giant cookie in the wavy shape of Norway, and more!

For the first time in forever, fans of Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf will get to experience sights, smells, and tastes of Arendelle. This all-new cookbook features Scandinavian recipes celebrating some of the people and cultures that inspired Disney’s Frozen and Frozen 2.

The Tastes of Arendelle: The Official Frozen Cookbook features step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs so chefs of any age or skill level can learn to prepare traditional Scandinavian treats. Featuring more than fifty-five recipes with historical tie-ins to each recipe’s significance in the films and culture, this comprehensive cookbook brings the tastes of Arendelle into your very own hus.

Disney Frozen: The Official Cookbook: A Culinary Journey through Arendelle by Daytona Danielsen and S. T. Bende is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.    (more…)

French Onion Soup with Comté Toasts
French Onion Soup with Comté Toasts

French Onion Soup with Comté Toasts excerpted from Melted Cheese: 60 gorgeously gooey recipes.

Melted Cheese: 60 gorgeously gooey recipes.

Whether you are hangry, hungover or just longing to indulge in a little greediness, Melted Cheese is the book to turn to!

From alpine-inspired raclette and tartiflette to grilled cheese toasties, deep-fried croquettes, unctuous pasta bakes, creamy potato gratins and more, you could never have imagined there were so many inspired ways to serve your cheese melted.

With recipes for everything from solo nacho bowls to fondue parties, there is no shame in enjoying melted cheese on your own, but equally it is good to share the love too!

Melted Cheese: 60 gorgeously gooey recipes by Ryland Peters & Small is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.   

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Pumpkin and Ginger Teacake with Bourbon Maple Glaze
Pumpkin and Ginger Teacake with Bourbon Maple Glaze

Pumpkin and Ginger Teacake with Bourbon Maple Glaze excerpted from Crust by Tom Moore with Rebecca Wellman. Copyright © 2024 Tom Moore and Rebecca Wellman. Photographs by Peter Bagi and Rebecca Wellman.

Crust by Tom Moore with Rebecca Wellman. Copyright © 2024 Tom Moore and Rebecca Wellman. Photographs by Peter Bagi and Rebecca Wellman. Photo on page xiii by Dominic Hall. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.From the go-to boutique bakery in Victoria, BC, this cookbook—with over 85 recipes—satisfies every sweet, savoury, and in-between craving you might have, all while making you a better baker.

Every morning, for over a decade, locals and visitors alike have lined up outside Crust Bakery, eager to taste their delicious, rustic baking. It’s the kind of baking you dream of filling your home with. And now, you can! Within the pages of this debut cookbook, Crust founding chef Tom Moore shares recipes for the bakery’s most popular menu items, breaking them down into manageable steps and peppering in hints and tips to help you achieve success at home. You’ll have no trouble making the perfect baked good, whether you’re craving:

  • Pies and Tarts: Impress with Crust’s famous Lemon Passion Fruit Slice, the genius Vanilla Crème Brûlée Tarts to go, or the breakfast/lunch barrier-breaking Bacon, Tomato, and Smoked Cheddar Quiche.
  • Muffins, Scones, and Squares: Explore Tom’s Australian-inspired Banana and Macadamia Muffins, or the simple yet scrumptious treat from his daughter: Abby’s Favorite Chocolate Rice Krispie Squares.
  • Cakes: Indulge in the multi-season celebration of Zucchini Marmalade Cake or the multi-tiered decadence of Mr. Rich Birthday Cake.
  • Cookies: Share Tom’s cheeky take on a Down Under favorite with Tom Tams or the “little black dress of cookies,” the Pecan and Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
  • Breads: Nurture a surefire Sourdough Starter day by day (to use for a number of recipes) or enjoy Cinnamon Brioche Scrolls and Aussie Crunch Rolls.

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