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Butternut squash & orange pie
Butternut Squash & Orange Pie

Butternut Squash & Orange Pie excerpted from A Cookbook for Winter: More than 95 nurturing & comforting recipes for the colder months by Theo A. Michaels. Photography by Mowie Kay.

A Cookbook for Winter: More than 95 nurturing & comforting recipes for the colder months

Get cosy with this comforting collection of seasonally inspired recipes—the ideal cook’s companion for the winter months.

A study of 2,000 adults found they anticipate spending 72 hours rustling up meals during the winter months, compared to just 55 hours during warmer months!

And what better way is there to spend a frosty day than preparing delicious food to enjoy with family and friends? When it’s chilly outside, make the most of being holed up indoors and get creative in the kitchen with these comforting and nourishing recipes. And if you do have to venture outside, why not pack some sustaining snacks for winter walks and perhaps a flask of something hot to drink to keep your fingertips toasty and your spirits high.

Featuring more than 95 recipes for winter eating and entertaining, from soups and stews to melted cheese, pasta, pies, and dessert plus warming hot beverages, this book provides all the inspiration you will need. (more…)

Chocolate Lover’s Soirée
Chocolate Lover's Soirée

Chocolate Lover’s Soirée excerpted from The Curated Board: Inspired Platters & Spreads for Any Occasion by Bebe Black Carminito. Photography by Marie Reginato.

The Curated Board: Inspired Platters & Spreads for Any Occasion by Bebe Black Carminito

Elevate the art of composing delicious small-bite meals with inspiration from The Curated Board. From family breakfast and afternoon tea to date night and game night, food stylist Bebe Carminito presents twenty-eight themed boards and platters with more than sixty-five effortless recipes and suggests perfect pairings along with styling tips for optimal presentation.

Presenting a diverse array of platters from culinary influencers celebrating their gastronomic heritage, The Curated Board invites you to create spreads for all your special occasions. Raid your pantry and fridge and pair your favourite prepared foods with Bebe’s delicious homemade dips, snacks, baked goods, salads, cocktails, and sweets.

Relish in Green Chile, Spinach & Artichoke Dip, Pineapple-Jalapeño Cheese Balls, Herbes de Provence Grissini, Campanelle Pasta Salad, Basil Gimlets, and Cherry-Almond Oat Bars, among many others—the possibilities are endless.

Enjoy themed boards for any occasion, including:
• Granola, Fruit & Yoghurt Board
• Lebanese Sheet Pan Brunch
• An English Tea Party
• Girl’s Day Charcuter-Yay Board
• Ukranian Budmo Board
• Aperitivo Time
• Dim Sum Celebration
• Chocolate Lover’s Soirée
• Halva-Licious Board

These fun and easy-to-prepare meals will have you pulling out your platters and boards, making the most of your pantry, and gathering with loved ones around a cornucopia of delectable small bites. (more…)

Chili Beans
Chili Beans

Chili Beans excerpted from The Modern Navajo Kitchen: Homestyle Recipes that Celebrate the Flavors and Traditions of the Diné. Text and Photography © 2024 by Alana Yazzie.

The Modern Navajo Kitchen: Homestyle Recipes that Celebrate the Flavors and Traditions of the Diné by Alana Yazzie

Nourish your body and mind through food with these 60 recipes celebrating Navajo culinary traditions.

The Modern Navajo Kitchen​ takes you on an exhilarating journey for your taste buds. This beautifully photographed cookbook ties together traditional Navajo recipes as well as global recipes with a Navajo spin, creating a truly unique culinary experience! Choose from a plethora of drinks, breads, breakfasts, soups, mains, sides, and desserts—the sky’s the limit.

Incorporating traditional and modern ingredients, some of the deliciously nourishing and comforting recipes include:

  • Navajo Boba Milk Tea (Abe’ Boba Dééhk’azí)
  • Fry Bread (Dah Díníilghaazh)
  • Navajo Burgers (Atsį’ Yik’ą́ Náneeskadí Bił Ałch’į’ Át’éhí)
  • Sumac and Strawberry Greek Yogurt Ice Pops (Chiiłchin Yogurt Tiní)
  • and more!

This comprehensive cookbook also includes instructions for how to make such things as juniper ash, roasted cornmeal, and roasted chiles that will bring your Navajo cooking skills to the next level. A short history of Navajo culinary traditions is provided to provide cultural context behind your new culinary experiences, and sample meal plans will help you put together the perfect menus for the week ahead or for those special occasions with family and friends.

Reconnect to your cultural heritage or treat your palate (or both!) with The Modern Navajo Kitchen. (more…)

Midnight Fried Chicken
Midnight Fried Chicken

Midnight Fried Chicken excerpted from Gremlins: The Official Cookbook by Jenn Fujikawa and Erik Burnham.

Gremlins: The Official Cookbook by Jenn Fujikawa and Erik Burnham

Break the most important rule, the rule you can never forget, with fifty recipes in Gremlins: The Official Cookbook. But don’t worry, these snacks, appetizers, main dishes, desserts, and drinks can all be eaten well after midnight.

Gremlins are everywhere, messing with everything—your car, your television, your stereos, those little radios you stick in your ears, your watches, and your cookbooks! You better look out for the little green guys with big teeth running around wrecking things, especially family heirlooms. And while Lynn Peltzer got as many out of her kitchen as possible during Gremlins, the rascally creatures still managed to rough up this Peltzer family cookbook. Thankfully, you can still learn to make family-favourite recipes from snacks to desserts, inspired by the Peltzer’s unbelievable story in Gremlins: The Official Cookbook.

Revisit the events of the zany films through delicious Christmas classics, such as Killer Gingerbread Cookies and Sheriff Frank’s Eggnog, and Kingston Falls favourites, such as Dorry’s Tavern Special, alongside Rand’s notes about his quirky kitchen inventions for Artichoke-Powered Appetizer, Five-Egg Omelet, and Peltzer’s Perfect Mocha.

Gremlins: The Official Cookbook features suggestions for alternate ingredients and tips and tricks if your appliances suddenly go on the fritz—remember, before you call the repairman, turn on all the lights, check all the cupboards, and look under all the pots and pans, because there just might be a gremlin in your kitchen! (more…)

Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Perfect Scrambled Eggs

Perfect Scrambled Eggs excerpted from Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom: Really good food without the fuss – foolproof recipes, shortcuts and hacks by Prue Leith. Photography copyright © 2024 Ant Duncan.

Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom: Really good food without the fuss - foolproof recipes, shortcuts and hacks by Prue Leith

Chef and TV legend Dame Prue Leith brings us the cookbook you’ve always wanted – 80 delicious recipes, with accompanying kitchen shortcuts and hacks, for a lifetime of easy cooking. 

Every recipe in this book comes with a handy tip, plus you’ll find over 25 videos accessed by a QR code to help you learn a skill or get ahead.

Coined by Shirley Conran in her ’70s bestseller Superwoman, ‘Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom’ is a phrase that every time-poor cook can relate to. In this clever cookbook, you’ll find really good recipes without the fuss: recipes where a neat trick can save you time, recipes where the cheat versions taste just as good as the home-made, and recipes to help you avoid waste and save you money. How do you cook the perfect steak? What’s the best way to dice an avocado? And what about when it just all goes terribly wrong?

With recipes including Celeriac Rémoulade with Prosciutto, Rocket and Pine Nuts, Crispy Pork Belly, Buttermilk Chicken, Sushi for Scaredy-cats, Chocolate Almond Torte and Cherry Clafoutis, Prue’s handy hacks show you how a little bit of insight goes a long way.

Perfect for every home cook, the absolute beginner, or someone who has been doing it so long that cooking has somehow lost its attraction – Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom contains years of culinary know-how and inspirational meals, squashed into an accessible cookbook. (more…)

Banana-Hazelnut Bread
Banana-Hazelnut Bread

Banana-Hazelnut Bread excerpted from MILK STREET BAKES by Christopher Kimball. Copyright © 2024 by CPK Media, LLC. Photograph by Connie Miller of CB Creatives.

Milk Street Bakes: A Baking Book with 200 Sweet and Savory Recipes by Christopher Kimball

Turn your kitchen into the world’s best bakery with this “comprehensive [and] extraordinarily useful” collection of 200 sweet and savory baking recipes from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street. 

The American baking repertoire may be unparalleled in our claim to pies, biscuits, and cakes. But step off a plane in London, Mexico City, Istanbul, or Paris, and you realize how much more there we can learn about the art of simple, delicious baked goods.

We found a simple Spanish almond cake that uses no wheat flour. Loaf cakes that balance the sugar with slightly-bitter rye. Super-creamy Basque cheesecake that requires no water bath. Mexican sweet corn cake made in a blender. Or Catalan biscotti, sticky chocolate cake from Sweden, and crispy spinach and cheese borek from Türkiye.

We also include forgotten American recipes such as maple-glazed hermits and new classics such as peanut butter banana cream pie. And we go beyond sweets to include yeasted breads, savoury tarts, pizzas, and flatbreads (some made in a skillet in minutes).

Most of these recipes are easier than you’d think, from beer pretzels to Danish dream cake. But in baking, the little things count—so Milk Street is here to help you avoid pitfalls with recipes that you can count on.

Our promise to you is that you will become the best baker you know!

Milk Street Bakes: A Baking Book with 200 Sweet and Savory Recipes by Christopher Kimball is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk  and Indigo.ca.    (more…)

Potato Gnocchi with Fontina, Chives, and Crispy Shallots
Potato Gnocchi with Fontina, Chives, and Crispy Shallots

Potato Gnocchi with Fontina, Chives, and Crispy Shallots excerpted from The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant by Nick Curtola, Gabe Ulla and James Murphy. Photographs copyright © 2024 David Malosh.

The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant by Nick Curtola, Gabe Ulla and James Murphy

The highly anticipated cookbook from the Michelin-starred restaurant, written by acclaimed chef Nick Curtola, James Murphy, James Beard Award–winning wine director Justin Chearno, and co-author Gabe Ulla.

Much like the irresistibly warm restaurant that inspires it, The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times is about more than just amazing food.

The story begins in 2014, when four friends with practically zero restaurant experience between them naively decided to open a restaurant in New York City. They called the place The Four Horsemen, and they hired a largely unknown chef, Nick Curtola, to lead its tiny kitchen.

Even though they did almost everything wrong at the start, The Four Horsemen now has a Michelin star, a waiting list for tables seven nights a week, and a James Beard Award for the best wine program in the United States—not to mention a global reputation as a must-visit destination in New York City. Of Curtola’s food, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells wrote, in a glowing review, “The effortlessly casual plates are not, in fact, effortless or casual, a realization that only dawns on you as you’re wondering why this sausage or that pickle is the best thing you’ve tasted in ages.”

In the acclaimed restaurant’s debut cookbook, Curtola explains his approach to simplicity with warmth, clarity, and more than 100 recipes. The book begins with a humorous and moving introduction by co-founder James Murphy, which sets the stage for Curtola’s writing and recipes, casual and informative essays by natural wine pioneer Justin Chearno, and appearances by Murphy and Chearno’s fellow horsemen Christina Topsøe and Randy Moon. (more…)

Messy Sausage Pasta
Messy Sausage Pasta

Messy Sausage Pasta excerpted from Country Comfort: Hearty, wholesome meals in minutes by Hari Beavis. Photography © 2024 Dan Jones

Country Comfort: Hearty, wholesome meals in minutes by Hari Beavis

The debut cookbook from TikTok and Instagram sensation Hari Beavis. Wholesome, hearty, delicious meals that feel like a hug without the hassle.

Country Comfort contains 90 recipes for quick and easy comfort food, inspired by country living. Each chapter is organised by time – Comfort in 10, 20, 30 or 40 minutes – with a baking chapter at the end for that special treat.

You’ll find delicious quick bites such as Honey-Kissed Camembert and One-Pan Salmon Orzo, and recipes which take a little bit more time, but are totally worth it such as Mushroom and Prosecco Risotto and Butter Chicken Pie. There are plenty of easy wins including Leftover Roast Dinner Hotpot and ‘Wellies Off; Traybake In’, plus a host of moreish bakes from Almond Bundt Cake to Traditional Tiffin.

Every recipe comes with a list of swaps and additional options, so you’ll be able to create a tasty fix for every occasion.

Country Comfort shows you how to create wholesome meals that have been perfected through generations of love and warmth –  the ultimate crowd-pleasing cookbook. (more…)

Asian-Inspired Salmon Steaks
Asian-Inspired Salmon Steaks

Asian-Inspired Salmon Steaks excerpted from Essential Fish and Game Cookbook: Delicious Recipes from Shore Lunches to Gourmet Dinners (Fox Chapel Publishing) For Hunters, Fishers, and Trappers to Make Amazing Meals from the Day’s Catch by Scott Leysath. Photography by Kcuxen.

Essential Fish and Game Cookbook: Delicious Recipes from Shore Lunches to Gourmet Dinners (Fox Chapel Publishing) For Hunters, Fishers, and Trappers to Make Amazing Meals from the Day's Catch by Scott Leysath

Create delicious meals from the wild game and fish you’ve caught!

  • Easy and accessible recipes, with minimal ingredients, simple preparation, and the understanding that wild game needs to be cooked differently
  • Uses seasonal ingredients you can source locally, rather than already prepared soups, bouillon, and sauces
  • Interesting facts about fish and game, with quotes that show the passion hunters and fishermen have for their sport
  • Use the whole animal, not just the prime parts, with information on how to make stocks and sauces from fish and game parts that are often discarded
  • Stunning photos and sidebar information relevant to preparing fish and game, field care, processing, and storage
  • Author Scott Leysath is a leading authority on the proper preparation of fish and game

Calling all anglers, hunters, outdoorspeople, and cooks! Essential Fish and Game Cookbook is jam-packed with ways for you to enjoy mouthwatering, wholesome meals—from shore lunches to gourmet dinners—using the fish you’ve caught and the wild game you’ve harvested! (more…)

Queer Eye Guacamole Cups
Queer Eye Guacamole Cups

Queer Eye Guacamole Cups excerpted from The Official Netflix Cookbook: 70 Recipes from Your TV to Your Table by Anna Painter. Photography by Beryl Striewski.

The Official Netflix Cookbook: 70 Recipes from Your TV to Your Table by Anna Painter.

Enjoy 70 delicious dishes inspired by iconic Netflix movies and series with Netflix: The Official Cookbook!

You’re settling in for a night of watching the next volume of your favourite show and you’re going to need snacks! Netflix: The Official Cookbook offers Netflix-inspired food and drinks to create the best menu to devour along with the latest season of your favourite show.

Pair your Netflix home menu of shows, movies, docuseries, and stand-up comedy specials with the perfect snacks, main courses, desserts, and drinks. Each chapter, from TUDUM to Watch Parties, offers delicious recipes based on popular Netflix shows and films. that will give viewers the perfect additions to their Grace & Frankie, Squid Game, Sex Education, and Heartstopper marathons! Prepare a themed meal to enhance your Witcher viewing experience or make Sweet Inspirations based on Nailed It! Prepare to Watch It Again and cook it again!

70 RECIPES INSPIRED BY NETFLIX: Netflix: The Official Cookbook serves up appetizers, meals, and desserts inspired by Netflix’s series and popular categories to create the perfect snacking and streaming experience (more…)