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A must-have cookbook and guide for food lovers who want to be greener A Good Appetite is packed with practical information and recipes for making the way you shop and cook more planet-friendly.There are brilliant bite-sized guides to everything from eating with the seasons, batch cooking and the best ways to use your freezer to foraging and growing some of your own food.And there are more than 50 delicious recipes that are designed to be adapted in hundreds of ways to suit what’s in season or your store cupboard. It’s the foundation of years of great meals.By avoiding food waste and stretching expensive ingredients, there’s a payoff for your pocket too, which is important in these thrifty times.Jenny Chandler has created an invaluable guide that can change the way you cook – for yourself, friends and family – for good.

Learn how to create your very own capsule kitchen. A pot of beans or grains can be like your favourite pair of jeans and form the basis of your meals throughout the week, to be dressed up or kept simple. These quiet cupboard superstars are transformed into dressed up show-stoppers or reliable, warming bowls of comfort for all the family. In your capsule kitchen just one pot gives you myriad meal options that are good for your health, and for the planet. Jenny Chandler shows you how to make pulses and grains the basis for hundreds of suppers, lunches, snacks, sides dishes, prep and batch meals, and even desserts.One of the great advantages of legumes and cereal grains, aside from being a great source of protein and fibre, is their versatility, so there’s certainly no chance of monotony. Just consider a chickpea: crispy snack, hummus, creamy soup, spicy chana chaat, smoky Spanish stew, or even a nutritious addition to your morning smoothie. The Capsule Kitchen covers chickpeas, lentils, dal, black beans, cannellini, borlotti, flageolet and haricots, carlin peas, whole grains, polenta, rice and quinoa.Including:• Tips for cooking, storing and freezing pulses and whole grains.• Over 100 recipes to take your basic ingredients around the world – with plenty of flexibility and swap-in options to suit.• Free-wheeling formulas for putting together your own brilliantly balanced plates.The Capsule Kitchen gives you recipes that can be easily adapted for seasonality and availability, helpfully illustrated with bold, graphic depictions.Recipes include: Chickpea chaat salad with rhubarb; black bean brownies; cheesy rice frittata; quinoa and coconut porridge with star anise-poached plums; zaalouk and rice stuffed aubergines and roast tomato and white bean gratin.Hugely versatile, great for your health (and for your wallet) this is the book to revolutionise your approach to pulses and the way you cook – giving you the skills and confidence to use these beans and grains as the starting point for your meals throughout the week.

Cool Kids Cook is an informative, fun and stylish first cookbook for the pre-teen market. Children from ages 7 to 14 are getting more and more interested in getting into the kitchen. Moreover, they want a cook book that looks quite cool and grown-up, has lots of interesting and fun facts about food background, but that doesn't include recipes for rice crispy cakes and doesn't patronise. This books aims to do just that – to empower kids to a point where they could put a great supper on the table (with a bit of help/guidance for the first few years) and then give them a few exotic dishes with which to show off. This is NOT 'children's food', but real, achievable dishes that teach children about how to eat healthily, shop cannily and learn the vital basic cooking skills to set them up for life.Alongside the classic recipes for muffins and a great birthday cake, you will also find nutritious ideas such as fish en papilotte, adventurous stir fries, vegetable slaws or homemade granola. 50 recipes will teach the basic skills and offer variations to build on those skills. With easy-to-follow step-by-step photography, a fun graphic style to the food facts and kitchen safety, plus loads of basic info on how to shop, plan and balance your diet, this is the book to get kids cooking properly for life.

Pulses are incredibly economical as well as healthy and, increasingly, people are looking for new sources of protein as meat eating wanes (for both environmental and economical reasons).This is a truly modern look at preparing under-exploited protein-packed pulse ingredients. Including an illustrated guide to pulses, this exhaustive volume also covers all you need to know to buy, prepare, cook and store your superfoods. Chapters include: The Power of the Pulse, The Recipes and Check Your Pulse. Try canellini, parmesan and basil frittelle or perhaps celeriac and Puy lentil remoulade before tucking into Adzuki bean ice cream with crystallized ginger. Divided into nibbles & dips, small bites, soups & salads, big dishes and sweet treats, Jenny Chandler has collected a mouthwatering range of recipes that are truly international in flavour and will provide plenty of tips for everyday catering. With modern, crisp photography and an elegant design this is a book to update every foodie’s bookshelf and will be a go-to book for years to come.Other titles in this series include: Super Root Spices and Super Grains, Nuts & Seeds.

Jenny Chandler, is back with Green Kids Cook, after focusing on classic family recipes and techniques in Cool Kids Cook, she is here with over 50 easy and adaptable recipes to teach the cooks of the future how to eat well, look after themselves and think about the planet all at the same time. With spreads on the environment and craft projects too.There is a massive rise in interest in veganism, vegetarian cooking and reducing meat consumption and, whilst this book is not purely plant-based, the world of vegetables, grains, pulses, nuts and seeds are at its core, with the odd tip about using sustainable meat and fish. It’s undeniable that, with rising levels of obesity and all the related health issues, we need to get kids eating more veg; there can be no better way to get children eating more greens than letting them take the reins in the kitchen.Where Jenny’s earlier book, Cool Kids Cook, focused on classic family recipes and basic techniques, Green Kids Cook is about learning to cook and eat in the most environmentally sound and sustainable way we can, and having fun with it too – with recipes for Breakfasts, Snacks, Soups & Salads, Mains and Sweets, this is an inspirational and empowering cookbook for kids everywhere.