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Pot-Roast Chicken with Lentils, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme excerpted from Midlife Kitchen: Health-boosting recipes for midlife & beyond by Mimi Spencer and Sam Rice. Photography copyright © Issy Crocker 2017.

Midlife Kitchen: Health-boosting recipes for midlife & beyond by Mimi Spencer and Sam Rice

The Midlife Kitchen: Delicious Recipes for Perimenopause and Menopause

“No fads. No gimmicks. Just delicious, health boosting food.” — Daily Mail

As featured in The Times and The Daily Mail

This updated edition, revised by the authors and an expert nutritionist, reflects the latest research and guidance on nutrition for midlife health.

If you have reached a stage where health feels like more of a priority, the perimenopause and menopause years offer the perfect moment to reassess what you eat. Midlife is a time to take back control of your diet in the interests of long term health, happiness and vitality.

That is exactly what The Midlife Kitchen is about: celebrating beautiful, wholesome ingredients in the most satisfying ways to help you thrive through your forties, fifties and beyond. Mimi Spencer and Sam Rice share more than 150 recipes designed to restore, rejuvenate and revive, all with flavour at the forefront. (more…)

One-Pot Chicken & Saffron Orzo excerpted from Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class by Tony Tan. Photography by Mark Roper.

One-Pot Chicken & Saffron Orzo

An Asian cookbook written with fresh eyes by an author whose soul lies in Asia but who has adopted techniques and ingredients from the west that endear his recipes to cooks everywhere.

Structured by food type – from meat, poultry and seafood to vegetables, and dumplings – Tony Tan’s Cooking Class takes readers through the fundamentals of more than 100 beloved dishes, many core to the canon, others dishes that he has made his own. Tan shares insights on the key building blocks, from the art of the wok to understanding the role of oils and fats to noodles 101 and the essential pantry. Beautifully photographed, thoughtfully illustrated and evocatively written, this is the essential book for a new generation on the essential foods and techniques of Asian cuisine from a beloved teacher, cook, writer and respected expert.

Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class by Tony Tan is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

One-Pot Chicken & Saffron Orzo

If it’s not already evident by the number of rice recipes in this cookbook, I cook rice a lot. But when I want a pleasant change, one of my favourite carbs to cook is orzo. It absorbs flavour like a sponge, and when cooked with the right liquid ratio, it can be silky smooth and pleasant to eat. (more…)