perfect roast chicken

Just Roast Chicken
Just Roast Chicken

Just Roast Chicken excerpted from Cook Once, Eat Twice: The ultimate guide to getting the most out of your time spent in the kitchen as featured in the BBC2 TV show by Nadiya Hussain. Photography by Chris Terry.

Cook Once, Eat Twice: The ultimate guide to getting the most out of your time spent in the kitchen as featured in the BBC2 TV show by Nadiya Hussain

Pressed for time to cook in a busy week?

Cook Once, Eat Twice is all about delicious convenience, showing how to get ahead in the kitchen by cooking more efficiently and economically.

Nadiya Hussain shares a host of creative time savers, including trusty batch-cooking and meal-prepping ideas, clever ways to spin leftovers into new meals, simple baked treats that are easy to store and eat later, and even recipes to use up your scraps.

With recipes such as:

  • Chick Pea and Chicken Tray Bake
  • Sticky Honey Mustard Toad in the Hole Burgers
  • Cheese and Lamb Samosas
  • Courgette Spaghetti
  • Cheats Biria Tacos
  • Paneer Karahi
  • Lemon Sherbet Loaf

Nadiya shows how easy it is to stretch your meals, reduce your waste and make life simpler, so you always have satisfying food at your fingertips.
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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…)

Roast chicken with spring vegetables
Roast chicken with spring vegetables

Roast chicken with spring vegetables excerpted from Go-To Dinners” Copyright © 2022 by Ina Garten. Photographs copyright © 2022 by Quentin Bacon.

Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

Even Ina Garten, America’s most trusted and beloved home cook, sometimes finds cooking stressful. To make life easy she relies on a repertoire of recipes that she knows will turn out perfectly every time. Cooking night after night during the pandemic inspired her to re-think the way she approached dinner, and the result is this collection of comforting and delicious recipes that you’ll love preparing and serving. You’ll find lots of freeze-ahead, make-ahead, prep-ahead, and simply assembled recipes so you, too, can make dinner a breeze.

In Go-To Dinners, Ina shares her strategies for making her most satisfying and uncomplicated dinners. Many, like Overnight Mac & Cheese, you can make ahead and throw in the oven right before dinner. Light dinners like Tuscan White Bean Soup can be prepped ahead and assembled at the last minute. Go-to family meals like Chicken in a Pot with Orzo and Hasselback Kielbasa will feed a crowd with very little effort. And who doesn’t want to eat Breakfast For Dinner? You’ll find recipes for Scrambled Eggs Cacio e Pepe and Roasted Vegetables with Jammy Eggs that are a snap to make and so satisfying. Ina’s “Two-Fers” guide you on how to turn leftovers from one dinner into something different and delicious the second night. (more…)

One­-Pan Chicken Dinner
One­-Pan Chicken Dinner

One­-Pan Chicken Dinner, Bare Minimum Dinners: Recipes and Strategies for Doing Less in the Kitchen by Jenna Helwig. Photography by Linda Xiao.

Bare Minimum DinnersGetting a home-cooked meal on the table every day is an admirable goal, but it shouldn’t get in the way of your life! In Bare Minimum Dinners, Jenna Helwig—food director at Real Simple magazine—shares delicious, easy recipes so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying your meal…or doing whatever else you want!

Chapters include: Bare Minimum Time (30 minutes or less); Bare Minimum Ingredients (7 ingredients or less, including salt and olive oil); Bare Minimum Hands-On Time (slow-cooker and Instant Pot meals); Bare Minimum Clean-Up (one-pot/sheet pan/skillet meals); and Bare Minimum Sides (super-simple vegetables, salads, and grains so you can feel good about serving healthy, well-rounded dinners).

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Chile-Maple Roasted Chicken 
Chile-Maple Roasted Chicken, Antoni in the Kitchen by Antoni Porowski, Photography by Paula Brissman.

Chile-Maple Roasted Chicken, Antoni in the Kitchen by Antoni Porowski, Photography by Paula Brissman.

Antoni Porowski, the food and wine guru on Netflix’s sensation Queer Eye, meets people where they live—literally. With appealing vulnerability, he shows cooks of all levels how to become more confident and casual in the kitchen. The verve and naturalness of his approach earned raves from Food & Wine and Bon Appétit to GQ and the New York Times, which noted his dishes prove that “sometimes simple is anything but simplistic.”

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