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Sugarcane Smoked Chicken
Sugarcane Smoked Chicken

Sugarcane Smoked Chicken excerpted from Islas: A Celebration of Tropical Cooking – 125 Recipes from the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Ocean Islands by Von Diaz. Photography by Lauren Vied Allen.

Islas: A Celebration of Tropical Cooking - 125 Recipes from the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Ocean Islands by Von Diaz i

An intimate reflection on tropical island cooking’s bold flavours and big stories, with 125 recipes, from celebrated food writer Von Diaz. 

The islands spanning the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans are remarkable places, sharing dozens of ingredients and cooking techniques, including marinating, pickling and fermentation, braising and stewing, frying, grilling and smoking, and steaming and in-ground roasting. Bold flavours drip from the edges of each dish with tastes that represent stories of resistance, persistence, and wisdom passed down from generation to generation.

This narrative cookbook by writer, documentary producer, and author Von Diaz travels across oceans and nations to uplift the shared ancestral cooking techniques of these islands in more than 125 recipes, including intimate profiles of the historical context of each technique, stories from islanders, and step-by-step guides for recreating them at home.

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Smokin’ Fiery Chicken Wings
Smokin’ Fiery Chicken Wings

Smokin’ Fiery Chicken Wings excerpted from Recipes From My Indian Kitchen: Traditional & modern recipes for delicious home-cooked food by Nitisha Patel.

Recipes From My Indian Kitchen: Traditional & modern recipes for delicious home-cooked food by Nitisha Patel

A collection of inviting Indian recipes to cook at home, including street food and snacks, curries and rice, and the all-important chutneys and raitas, as well as lightly spiced desserts.

Magical spice powders, sizzling dried whole spices, noisy popping saucepans, aromatic smells, colorful foods… this is what sums up great home-cooked Indian food. In this book, Nitisha walks you through a myriad of spices to understand how each one adds flavour, as well as how they complement each other for different dishes. The excitement, freshness, and snack-friendly appeal of street food leads to an explosive mixture of flavours in recipes for Fish Pakoras, Smokin’ Fiery Chicken Wings, Deep-fried Spiced Potato, Samosa Chaat, and Dhokla Muffins.

The beauty of curry is that nothing defines what makes a good curry—recipes vary meaning that the possibilities are endless. Nitisha’s recipes for curry include Keralan Shrimp Curry, Uncle Rambo’s Goat Curry, Paneer Kadhai, and Gosht Aloo Saag Masala. Celebratory dishes are also here, with Masala Grilled Lobster, Tandoori Spatchcock Poussin, and Hariyali Salmon. While vegetarian dishes are great as sides and entrées: try a variety of dhals, Channa Masala, and Pili Pili Chips. And if all that wasn’t feast enough, finish up with some sweet treats, such as Pistachio and Rose Water Ice Cream, and Mango and Mint Kulfi. (more…)

Chilli-Lime Chicken Wings
Chilli-Lime Chicken Wings

Chilli-Lime Chicken Wings excerpted from Budget Air-Fryer Cookbook: Money-saving meals for all occasions by Jenny Tschiesche. Photography Kate Whitaker.

Budget Air-Fryer Cookbook: Money-saving meals for all occasions by Jenny Tschiesche

Following Jenny Tschieshe’s Sunday Times bestselling Air-Fryer Cookbook, this new book offers nutritious and budget-friendly recipes. Each recipe aims to reduce the amount of energy used to cook food by using the air fryer instead of the oven. Using an air fryer cost from a third to half less than using an electric oven, so the savings could make a big dent in your bills if you swap to this nifty gadget. The popularity of air fryers looks set to last, and why not with its amazing list of benefits not just to the household budget, but for the time-poor cook too. Using an air fryer drastically cuts down on cooking times, making these recipes fantastic for anyone cooking in a hurry too.

The recipes in this invaluable book cater for a wide range of tastes and needs, exploring ideas for using cans, jars, and cartons, cooking from frozen, using up leftovers, using cheaper cuts of meat, grains and legumes, vegetable-based dishes, and much more. Jenny Tschieshe’s first book taught us that an air fryer doesn’t just have to be for beige food, but can be used for all manner of cooking from roast chicken to perfect sweet bakes. Now it’s time to take things a step further by focussing on making the most of your air fryer in terms of flavour as well as keeping your energy and food costs as low as possible. (more…)

Chicken Wing Platter
Chicken Wing Platter

Chicken Wing Platter The Grazing Table: How to Create Beautiful Butter Boards, Food Platters & More by Natalie Thomson.

The Grazing Table: How to Create Beautiful Butter Boards, Food Platters & More by Natalie Thomson

Grazing boards are a wonderful, sociable way to share a meal with family and friends. With surprisingly little effort, you can create eye-catching, delicious spreads for sweet and savory lovers alike.

Whether it’s a midweek meal or a big celebration, there’s a grazing board for every occasion.

Featuring butter boards, charcuterie, cheeseboards, antipasti, mezze, fruit platters, dessert boards and more, The Grazing Table is full of inspiring ideas for building your own grazing boards at home and includes more than 60 simple recipes for making some of the elements from scratch.

Contents include:

Chapter 1: Dairy, Fruit & Vegetables
Including Whipped salted butter board, Cheesy tear & share bread wreath and Rainbow fruit platter

Chapter 2: Fish & Seafood
Including Seafood platter, Build-your-own poke bowl and Fish tacos (more…)

Nasi Goreng Chicken
Nasi Goreng Chicken

Nasi Goreng Chicken excerpted from Bibimbap: and other Asian-inspired rice & noodle bowl recipes by Louise Pickford. Photography by Ian Wallace.

Bibimbap: and other Asian-inspired rice & noodle bowl recipes by Louise Pickford.

Rice and noodles are at the very heart of Asian cooking, providing the building blocks to what is a varied, healthy, and fascinating cuisine. They are mostly served as one-pot dishes in soups, salads, and stir-fries and provide the carbohydrate element alongside fresh vegetables, herbs, meat, and fish, balancing the nutritional benefits of each dish. Bibimbap itself is a Korean rice dish consisting of rice, topped with a variety of seasoned and sautéed vegetables, plus kimchi and a gochujang sauce. It is also often served with a fried egg on top to finish. The perfect all-rounder delicious meal in one bowl.

“Bibim” means “mixing” and “bap” means “cooked rice,” but this Asian-influenced dish is just the start. It is such a versatile idea and can be used as a basis for all manner of other one-bowl rice and noodle dishes. Begin with the basics of putting a one-bowl rice or noodle dish together and what flavours and ingredients go together well, then move on to trying endless combinations. Discover dishes such as Chilled Soba Noodles with Dipping Sauce, Wild Garlic Miso Pork Stir-fry, or BBQ Pork Noodle Bowls, and not forgetting Chicken Noodle Soup or a Spicy Noodle Seafood Broth.

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Chicken En Adobo
Chicken En Adobo

Chicken En Adobo excerpted from Cocina Mexicana: Fresh, vibrant recipes for authentic Mexican food by Adriana Cavita. Photography by Clare Winfield.

Cocina Mexicana: Fresh, vibrant recipes for authentic Mexican food by Adriana Cavita

Adriana Cavita grew up in a small village in Mexico and was inspired to enter the food industry by her grandmother who ran a street-food business. She has since travelled extensively around the country, from Mexico City the capital (where she was born), across to Oaxaca and the Yucatán.

Visiting the small towns around the coast and perched up in the mountains sparked in Adriana a fascination with traditional cooking methods, and how these vary from region to region. This collection of recipes is built around her experiences, from breathing in the aroma of woodsmoke from a barbacoa (food cooked over open flames), to seeing first-hand the care that goes into preparing seemingly simple dishes, from salsas and moles to tortillas and tostadas.

Adriana’s extensive travels have influenced this collection of recipes. From the northern, more rugged dishes of Baja Fish Tacos and Birria (beef stew), through the centre of the country with a wealth of quesadillas and Pollo en Adobo (chicken adobo), all the way to the southern regions of Yucatan and Oaxaca featuring Tlayudas con Carne Asada (often referred to as the Oaxaca pizza!) (more…)

Chicken Noodle Roast Chicken
Chicken Noodle Roast Chicken

Chicken Noodle Roast Chicken excerpted from In Mary’s Kitchen by Mary Berg. Copyright © 2023 Mary Berg. Photographs by Lauren Vandenbrook. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.

In Mary’s Kitchen by Mary Berg. Copyright © 2023 Mary Berg. Photographs by Lauren Vandenbrook. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.

Everyone loves Mary! This beloved host of Mary Makes It Easy and The Good Stuff with Mary Berg, who Variety calls “the millennial Ina Garten,” is back with a cookbook of 100 all-new recipes guaranteed to become your stress-free sidekick in the kitchen.

The kitchen is Mary’s happy place, where worries melt away, a busy mind calms, and time seems to slow down. But she knows that for many people, the exact opposite is true! However you feel about mealtimes, Mary is here to help, with uncomplicated but delicious recipes, packed with tips and tricks, to produce flavourful results—every time.

  • It’s What You Need: With chapters broken down into their main ingredient to facilitate easy searching, you’ll love Mary’s ideas for breakfast, veg & starch, pasta, fish, chicken, beef, pork & lamb, and, of course, sweets.
  • Make It Easy! It’s not just the name of her award-winning TV program, it’s her culinary ethos. Mary’s recipes look easy because they are easy, and the ones in this book are her most straightforward yet!
  • Find the “Why”: With notes in the margin of each recipe giving you the reason behind a certain ingredient or technique, you’ll learn tips that act as building blocks for all your culinary endeavours. And with call-outs that point to recipes where you can get ahead, build fast flavor, or get more bang for your buck, home cooks of all skill levels will find something to entice.

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Masala spatchcock chicken
Masala spatchcock chicken

Masala spatchcock chicken excepted from Chetna’s Indian Feasts: Everyday meals and easy entertaining by Chetna Makan. Photography by Nassima Rothacker.

Chetna's Indian Feasts: Everyday meals and easy entertaining by Chetna Makan

Chetna Makan is the queen of Indian home cooking. First introduced to us on The Great British Bake Off, Chetna has since authored several bestselling cookbooks that combine her inventive flavours with a love of simple Indian recipes.

In this newest collection, Chetna provides us with flavour-packed feasts designed to please a crowd. Chetna’s accessible style and supermarket-friendly ingredients prove that you don’t need to be an expert to entertain.

Chetna’s Indian Feasts provides a varied array of delicious dishes, grouped together by theme so you know exactly how to pair your platters. Whether this is a big celebration or a quick-fix family dinner, you will find enticing yet easy recipes for every occasion.

Vibrant, varied and reliably delicious, Chetna’s food will always impress.

 

CONTENTS INCLUDES:

Friday Night Feasts
Onion chickpea bhajis; Chicken tikka masala; Prawn vindaloo (more…)

Baba’s Garlic Shoyu Chicken
Baba's Garlic Shoyu Chicken

Baba’s Garlic Shoyu Chicken excerpted from Cooking with the CrunchBros: Casual and Fun Korean- and Japanese-Inspired Recipes from Our Kitchen to Yours by Jeff and Jordan Kim.

Cooking with the CrunchBros: Casual and Fun Korean- and Japanese-Inspired Recipes from Our Kitchen to Yours by Jeff and Jordan Kim

Hundreds of millions of people have had fun watching the playful kid-and-dad duo, Jordan and Jeff Kim—better known as The CrunchBros—make, eat, and enjoy amazing Japanese- and Korean-style meals and treats on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. But the Bros have posted only a handful of recipes online. If you really want to cook and eat like them, you need the easy-to-shop-for, easy-to-make recipes in this bright and colorful book.

Perhaps you would like to introduce kids in your family to Asian cooking in an upbeat, funny, and positive way that will make them hungry, give them more variety in their diet (as doctors and nutritionists advise), and might even turn them into home cooks themselves. If so, this delectable and accessible book is just the ticket.

Or, if there are no kids in your household, perhaps you would just like something more casual and easy to prepare–think “street foods” like skewers and spring rolls, or grazing fare like dumplings or ramen, or a simple, soul-warming miso soup—then you, too, will find in this book tons of fast and comforting recipes for the busy daily whirl. (more…)

Bone-in Chicken Thighs with Tangy Mustard Pan Sauce
Bone-in Chicken Thighs with Tangy Mustard Pan Sauce

Bone-in Chicken Thighs with Tangy Mustard Pan Sauce excerpted from The Butcher’s Table: Techniques and Recipes to Make the Most of Your Meat Hardcover by Allie D’Andrea.

The Butcher's Table: Techniques and Recipes to Make the Most of Your Meat Hardcover by Allie D'Andrea

Join Allie D’Andrea (Outdoors Allie) to learn how to break down chicken, pork, and venison—then cook your way through recipes featuring your fresh cuts.​

If you’ve been wondering which knives to buy, started to break down an animal but wanted more guidance, or are looking for recipes where meat is the star of the show, you’ll find it in The Butcher’s Table. After a review of basics such as butchering tools and meat preparation, explore chapters organized by meat type: chicken, pork, and venison. Each chapter begins with an illustrated step-by-step tutorial on breaking down the animal, followed by recipes for both the star and showstopper cuts as well as recipes for making the most of bones, fat, and ground meat:

  • Chicken: Oven-Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings, Cherry Almond Chicken Salad, Oven-Roasted Mango Drumsticks, Fresh English Pea and Chicken Thigh Soup, Pan-Seared Chicken Breast with Peanut Sauce and Bright Slaw, Spicy Chicken Meatballs in Marinara Sauce, All-Purpose Chicken Stock 
  • Pork: Bone-In Smoked and Shredded Boston Butt, Reverse Seared Pork Chops with Apple Relish, Picnic Carnitas, Soy-Glazed Country-Style Ribs with Fresh Ginger, Fresh Shank-End Ham with Molasses Glaze, Pork Hock Barbecue Beans, Blanched Bone Pork Stock, Rendered Leaf Lard
  • Venison: Coffee-Rubbed Venison Loin Chops, Reverse-Seared Rosemary Loin Chops with Red Wine Reduction, Wild Mushroom-Stuffed Butterflied Venison Loin, Roasted Eye of Round with Peppercorn Sauce, Sirloin Butt Stir-Fry, Braised Venison Shanks, Maple Venison Breakfast Sausage Patties, Root Beer Venison Jerky
  • And plenty more!

Stunning hunt photography and mouthwatering recipe photos provide ample inspiration as you go. Whether you have a half hog from your local farmer or you’re bringing home a deer fresh from the hunt, everyone’s welcome at the butcher’s table. (more…)