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Perfect for the young and young-at-heart, the continental style has taken hold in the UK in a big way, with top chefs, restaurants and cafes all embracing this modern and vibrant style. Using only the freshest ingredients in new and imaginative combinations, menus feature such mouth-watering dishes as Crispy castello on rocket with fresh cranberry dressing, Tuna steaks with a herb and anchovy vierge and baby chargrilled peppers, Warm duck breast salad with courgettes and fresh raspberries, or Mango and passion fruit creme brulee. But these are not selections from a riverside cafe menu! They are just some of the dishes from this fascinating new book, so everyone can enjoy the cafe style at home.

Its Friday, your tired, everyone is hungry and tomorrow its shopping day. You need a quick and easy supper from the storecupboard. Friends drop in for coffee and stay for lunch. What can you rustle up for a quick, enjoyable meal? They've come for tea and there's certainly no cake or biscuits! What can you do in just a few minutes? In this one brilliant book, you'll find 1000 solutions. Be it tasty soup, an imaginative salad or light lunch, some sauces to brighten up your favourite grilled meat, a sweet treat or a complete meal, it's all here. Quick and easy. Imagination and an instant preparation is the order of the day and everything will be on the table in half an hour. Recipes include: Baked Garlic and Egg Soup, Sticky Orange Steaks, Thai Chicken with Coconut, Tuscan Tuna and Bean Macaroni, Broccoli with Garlic and Mustard Seeds, Chocolate Chip Shortbread.

You're going to have to fend for yourself. And you've probably never had to cook in your life. Without some great ideas you aren't going to be eating as well as you do at home - right? Here you have 1000 brilliant ideas to feed you without expecting much skill on your part. And they're all very inexpensive. This student recipe book is unique. All the recipes are organised into batches. For the first batch you only need a knife and a chopping board - tasty meals with no effort. Then nothing more than a kettle and a toaster, and onwards and upwards to slap-up meals to impress and share with friends. These recipes don't need scales or measuring spoons either - everthing works with an ordinary spoon and a mug. This is the only cookery book that you need to eat well when you've got practically nothing to work with! P.S. There's plenty for vegetarians too!

With every recipe calorie counted, this title deals with low-fat, health-conscious eating to keep readers in great shape. It contains all original material not simply resourced from existing titles. It features clever and imaginative recipes which produce a better figure all round! This series has been so successful that it has now established itself as a brand. Here we turn our research to healthy eating for a well-toned body. This brilliant and diverse range of recipes provides a completely fat-reduced, calorie-controlled lifestyle. With this book you may be on a diet, but the food won't keep reminding you of it. Everything you eat is figure-friendly and health giving. Here is the book that provides the answer for weight-watching families. With it they will never again have to find themselves anxiously back on the scales.

Can you remember the last time you noticed the sheer pleasure of the flavour in your food? It's not easy when the food in our supermarkets has spent so long in the food chain. But if you buy the best seasonal ingredients, they will bring your taste memories flooding back. Here is a flavour book where the ingredients are sensational and everything tastes as it should taste. Each month target a few recipes that interest you. Add their ingredients to your shopping list and you're on your way to the best lifestyle change you can make for yourself and the environment. 'If this doesn't improve your quality of life I'll eat my hat!' Restaurant Quality Eating at Home This is one of the bestselling titles in the Premier UK Slow Cooker Library. Foulsham, the Publishers of this library, have been researching Slow Cooker Recipes for more than 33 years. Their research Cooks have tested and published more than 2,500 recipes. The mission statement that drives this research is Recipes that produce Restaurant Quality eating at Home.A" And their work has taken them through every major culinary tradition - American, British, French, Italian, Indian, Mexican, Thai and more!No other publisher has made such a commitment to this lifestyle. And no other Publisher can match the depth of quality to be found in their Slow Cooker Recipe Library.

There's no easy fix. We have to change our lifestyles - one step at a time. It's not difficult and it will even save money. So why aren't we all doing it? Because we don't know where to start. And because we are surrounded by confusing and conflicting information. Everyone needs a cohesive plan to make their contribution. That's what we have produced here. Step by step, you will look at how you are living and be introduced to eco-friendly ways of doing almost everything.

This book focuses on eating certain foods as part of a normal, healthy diet, to help improve the digestive system. Eating higher levels of fibre, naturally fermented foods and those that contain probiotics or prebiotics means that good bacteria is encouraged to grow in the gut, leading to waste products being eliminated more efficiently. A helpful and clearly explained introduction sets out what foods should be eaten and how to add quick-fix pre- and probiotic foods to your meals. The book also offers a two-week eating plan and recipes for dishes that are packed with the right foods to balance your diet. Increase beneficial bacteria for optimum gut health, and improve your digestion and well-being with naturally fermented foods. Make your own pantry of probiotic goodness: pickled vegetables, kimchi, sauerkraut and sourdough. The book offers help and advice on how to improve digestion, detox naturally, counteract bloating, reduce cholesterol, and reach and maintain the correct weight. Contains 80 recipes and ideas, together with food lists and an eating plan, to help alleviate the symptoms of diarrhoea, constipation, IBS, coeliac disease and diabetes.

This book will give you the knowledge and confidence to creat complete meals for every time of day and occasion - quickly. It will also teach you how to bake great cakes and breads, and make simple snacks and side dishes. Many meals are complete in their own right or have different elements that can be cooked one after the other (food needs to 'rest' before serving so this is quite possible and still keeep it all hot.). But it can be used alongside your conventional hob. You may, for instance, want to quickly boil some rice or pasta to accompany a delicious meat, fish, chicken or vegetable main course in the combi. You can also use ti as a conventional microwave, grill or convection oven.

This book will show you how you can use it to whip up the most velvety, vitalising smoothies and drinks, even using tough, fibrous raw vegetables. You will be able to quickly make AND heat up nutritious soups and sauces and, amazingly, produce perfectly frozen, fabulous, ice creams and sorbets in minutes. It will also show how you can use your blender as a food processor, too, for chopping or mixing ingredients and making - to name but a few - fresh, vibrant salsas; fast-kneaded doughs; light, airy batters; even-textured minced mixtures; quick-mix cakes and bakes; effortless ground spice pastes; and even your own flours. if you want a gadget that's amazingly versatile, stunningly efficient and easy to clean, then why not make it a high-speed blender? You'll be able to whiz up drinks, sustaining soups, dips, and spreads, omelettes, bakes, desserts, in fact just about everything you need to make in next to no time, using the freshest ingredients with very little effort.