Book Description | "You could cook non-stop from this book for, indeed, a year, without ever getting bored! With over 200 recipes, and with an expansive flavour palette, it is a boon for those in a cooking rut." – Nigella Lawson"this book is very timely... and there are so many wantable dishes here... Among the dishes calling me are sausage and fennel focaccia rolls; squash baked with beer, cheese, cream and pretzels; and cherry Bakewell pudding." – Diana Henry, Telegraph"What a beauty... imaginative, appealing recipes grounded in good sense... you can taste the experience, that these are lived recipes." – Rachel Roddy"the one cook book you really need this autumn is this practical work from the ever-inventive Thomson" – Independent"One of my tests of how much I am excited by a new cookbook is how many recipes I feel driven to mark with a Post-It note. With Home Cookery Year I suddenly realised I was Post-It noting nearly every page." – Bee WilsonHome Cookery Year is the new essential kitchen bible, year-round and every day. Claire Thomson writes foolproof, imaginative recipes to please the whole family – as a professional chef and mum of three, she understands what it’s like to whip up tasty, crowd-pleasing dishes in minimal time at the end of a busy working day.Wearing its seasonality lightly, with the emphasis on usefulness and practicality, Home Cookery Year offers mealtime solutions for:midweek emergenciescooking on a budgeton a budget and storecupboard recipessalads and light lunchestreat yourself (indulgent dishes for special occasions)celebration feastsEvery recipe you will ever need is in here, for every occasion, with twists on classics, and super ideas for jaded palates for young and old alike. |
About the Author | Claire Thomson is a chef and food writer. She has written about food for publications including the Guardian, Telegraph, BBC Good Food Magazine and Countryfile Magazine. Claire has appeared on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen and BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Her previous books include Home Cookery Year, Art of the Larder and New Kitchen Basics. Matt Williamson is a New Zealand-born chef and home economist with over 20 years' experience of working in restaurants all over the world, including running his own renowned Bristol restaurant, Flinty Red. Claire and Matt live in Bristol with their three children, Grace, Ivy and Dorothy. |