Five Ingredients

Jamie Oliver's recipe book, 5 Ingredients - Quick and Easy Food, is all about making the journey to good food super-simple. 

Every recipe uses just five key ingredients, ensuring you can get a plate of food together fast, whether it's finished and on the table super-quickly, or after minimal hands-on prep, you've let the oven do the hard work for you. It's quality over quantity and in return massive flavour.

Each recipe has been tried and tested to ensure the book is packed with no-fuss, budget-friendly dishes you can rustle up any day of the week.

With over 130 recipes, and chapters on Chicken, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Fish, Eggs, Veg, Salads, Pasta, Rice and Noodles and Sweet Things, there's plenty of quick and easy recipe inspiration to choose from.

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USA: 5 Ingredients - Quick & Easy Food
UK:   5 Ingredients - Quick & Easy Food

French Laundry

Thomas Keller is the chef/proprieter of the French Laundry in the Napa Valley, dubbed "the most exciting place to eat in the United States," by Ruth Reichl in The New York Times.

From innovative soup techniques, to the proper way to cook green vegetables, to secrets of great fish cookery, to the creation of breathtaking desserts; from beurre monte to foie gras au torchon, to a wild and thoroughly unexpected take on coffee and doughnuts, The French Laundry Cookbook captures, through recipes, essays, profiles, and extraordinary photography, one of America's great restaurants, its great chef, and the food that makes both unique.

One hundred and fifty recipes are exact recipes from the French Laundry kitchen and all have been thoroughly tested in home kitchens.

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USA: The French Laundry Cookbook (The Thomas Keller Library)
UK:  The French Laundry Cookbook (Thomas Keller Library)

Eat A Peach

 

When Diana Henry was 16 she started a menu notebook (an exercise book carefully covered in wrapping paper) in which she wrote up the meals she wanted to cook. She kept this book for years.

Putting a menu together is still her favourite part of cooking. Menus aren't just groups of dishes that have to work on a practical level (meals that cooks can manage), they also have to work as a succession of flavours. But what is perhaps most special about them is the way they can create very different moods - menus can take you places, from an afternoon at the seaside in Brittany to a sultry evening eating mezze in Istanbul. They are a way of visiting places you've never seen, revisiting places you love and celebrating particular seasons.

How to Eat a Peach contains many of Diana's favourite dishes in menus that will take you through the year and to different parts of the world.  It's an exquisite book which celebrates the love of food, flavours, seasons and cultures. Beautifully illustrated and written.

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USA: How to Eat a Peach: Menus, Stories and Places

UK: How to eat a peach: Menus, stories and places

At My Table

Around Nigella's Kitchen Table

Nigella Lawson is a champion of the home cook and her new book celebrates the food she loves to cook for friends and family. The recipes are warming, comforting, and inspirational, from new riffs on classic dishes – including Chicken Fricassée and Sticky Toffee Pudding – to adventures in a host of new dishes and ingredients, from Aubergine Fatteh to White Miso Hummus.

At My Table includes dishes to inspire all cooks and eaters, from Hake with Bacon, Peas and Ciderto Indian-Spiced Chicken and Potato Traybake and Chilli Mint Lamb Cutlets; plus a host of colourful vegetable dishes, like Eastern Mediterranean Chopped Salad and Carrots and Fennel with Harissa.

No Nigella cookbook would be complete without sweet treats, and At My Table is no exception, with Emergency Brownies, White Chocolate Cheesecake and a Victoria Sponge with Cardamom, Marmalade and Crème Fraîche set to become family favourites.

As Nigella writes, ‘happiness is best shared’ and the food in this book will be served and savoured at your own kitchen table just as it is at hers.

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USA At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking
UK   At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking

Pasta Recipes

Antonio Carluccio is the Godfather of Italian food and his passion for pasta is complemented by his extensive knowledge. This book collects 100 of his delicious pasta recipes, from the quick to the complicated, traditional to modern, light summery recipes to hearty baked dishes.

Everybody loves pasta and this cookbook will ensure that you have a recipe for every occasion.

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USA  My Kitchen Table: 100 Pasta Recipes

UK    My Kitchen Table: 100 Pasta Recipes