Chef's LibrarySet of 2 Recipe Cooking Books

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Meat Manifesto - Proper and Delicious

Meat Manifesto: Proper and Delicious offers a practical and considered guide on how to choose meat, how to butcher it and how to cook it. Andy believes you can’t sell meat unless you know what to do with it and, in between personal food philosophies and agricultural insights, the book celebrates various cuts of meat, by introducing readers to them and offering delicious recipes best suited to each specific one. Andy smokes, grills and roasts his way through beef, pork, lamb, venison, poultry and even goat as recipes range from exotic (tongue, ears and offal) to basic (how to grill a pork chop). The book will explain how to make bacon at home but also why you should be eating grass-fed beef, as opposed to the feedlot. It will show you how to butcher a chicken at home but also explain how to best cook it. It is meticulously researched but presented in an approachable way. The end goal is to walk people through various meat recipes, sure, but also to strengthen the reader’s relationship with their supply chain by asking them to consider if they really are happy with the status quo.

Something’s Cooking

"My food philosophy is simple: begin with love … this book takes you on a journey of the food I grew up with – the food I simply cannot go without. I hope that it inspires home cooks and chefs and reminds us all that nothing is more important than doing what you love and doing it with passion." – J’Something
His spicy authentic Portuguese heritage and hearty homegrown South African food has become his trademark. This book provides a fascinating insight into the musician and soul foodie’s guarded private life with never released before recipes from his restaurant and national hit television program, Something’s Cooking." -Publisher
Portugal born Joao Da Fonseca, a.k.a. J’Something, is known to millions of fans for his award-winning hits as the lead singer and songwriter of South African band Mi Casa. J’Something has won multiple awards with Mi Casa, including 8 number 1 singles and 5 SAMA awards. They have hosted countless sold-out shows in 31 African countries as well as in Portugal, UK, Netherlands, Italy, and Canada.

In 2014 his passion for food and drink came to the fore culminating in two shows; Something’s Food & Drink and What’s for Dinner that reached over 18 000 000 viewers across South Africa in two years.

Currently, together with David Higgs he hosts and judges the smash-hit My Kitchen Rules South Africa on MNet prime time. When not performing, J’Something can be found at Something’s Cooking by J, his first restaurant. The future is looking sweet for this humble, passionate, talented and creative mastermind.

Forever Summer Nigella Lawson

Here are irresistible summery recipes to be eaten at any time, innovative, versatile and delicious - from scrumptious Italian antipasti and Greek mezze to Spanish dishes, from barbecues to beach picnics, from Moroccan roast lamb to Mauritian prawn curry, from the strawberries-and-cream feel of an English summer afternoon to Indian-summer evenings at home. And to round it off there's a selection of ice creams, summer drinks and melt-in-the-mouth puddings - who could resist Nigella's slut-red raspberries in Chardonnay Jelly?

Clean and Green

Science has proven that green leafy vegetables and fruit knock all others off the top spot for their spectacular concentration of phytonutrients, vitamins and fibre. And the quickest way to get an instant boost of these healthy greens is in a juice or smoothie. Packed with raw, whole vegetables and fruit, as well as herbs, spices and healthy fats, the fabulous recipes in Clean & Green are literally a health boost in a glass--or a bowl of soup. If you juice regularly, you'll be getting all the essential vitamins, antioxidants and minerals that you need. Each chapter covers the main health benefits of juicing: Cleanse your body with a Grapefruit Crush or the Parsley Purifier; get a healthy glow from a Fennel Flush or a Kiwi Quencher; detox with a Grape & Lychee Reviver, a Green Tea Punch or a Mint Rejuvenator; and soothe your digestive system by drinking a Pineapple Pump, a Broccoli Booster or a Spinach Aid. Whether you're trying to get in shape, boost your general health, or give your body a deeply nourishing cleanse, incorporating green juices and smoothies into your diet is the simplest and most effective way to eat clean and green!

YOU Let's Cook 5

Carmen Niehaus does it again with yet another treasure trove of recipes from YOU.

The recipes in YOU Let’s Cook 5 combine simplicity and flair – with recipes ranging from simple starters such as toasted ciabatta to spectacular desserts such as ice cream bombe with berry sauce, and flavourful curries from Durban and the Bo-Kaap. With traditional favourites as well as dishes from around the world simplified to be used by everyone. Featuring more than 400 mouth-watering recipes for all occasions, this book is guaranteed to inspire. YOU Let’s Cook 5 is a beautiful book – full of practical hints, great ideas and best of all, tried and tested recipes.

Slow Cooking

A feast of rich and rustic dishes awaits you in this fantastic book of slow-cooked delights. Every recipe has been carefully selected by recognised experts who want you to enjoy the ultimate in slow cooking. From hearty, warming stews and classic casseroles to mouth-watering desserts, there is something for everyone. Spoil yourself, because this is as good as it gets. This is the number one cook's choice.

The Supper Club

The Supper Club is a collection of easy-to-follow recipes for every occasion. The author, Phillippa Cheifi tz, and a group of her friends get together for a supper once a month. The venue, host and menu change on a monthly basis and the menu is matched to the season or particular occasion. This is the inspiration for the book: preparing a well-cooked and delicious meal for friends to gather around the table and reconnect.

With 16 chapters and 90 recipes, there is truly something for everyone. The recipes range from basics such as Lemon olives and Feta and phyllo appetisers to Crumbled lamb pie, Lemon-poached fish with fennel and drinks such as Frozen strawberry margaritas and White sangria to delicious desserts such as Warm ricotta cheesecake and hot cherry sauce and Crisp apple wontons with apple sorbet. The Supper Club will inspire young and old to revamp the age-old tradition of gathering around a beautifully set table with loved ones.

Bush Cooking

Bush Food is the answer when you’re camping and you’re in the mood for more than another boerie roll for supper. The recipes are new, innovative and, most importantly, easy! They’ve all been thoroughly tested and can be prepared over an open fire or a camp stove and are so tasty that you’ll want to use this book when you are at home.
If you enjoy cooking outdoors, whether under the stars in the bush, or just in your own backyard, Bush Cooking will be your constant companion.
Contents: Camp Kitchen Packing list; Hints and tips; Breakfast; Soup; Fish and seafood; Chicken; Meat, Jaffles; Pasta; Vegetarian mains; Vegetables; Salads; Side dishes; Breads and bakes; Low carb meals; and Desserts

Bord

Die resepte in dié boek kan elke dag van die week gebruik word vir daardie een hoofmaaltyd wat ons elke dag voorberei, hetsy ons vir die gesin kook of vriende vermaak. Bord is in slegs drie hoofstukke ingedeel – Vleis, Pluimvee en Seekos – en die resepte wissel van bekende klassieke tot moderne geregte, meestal met ’n kontinentale invloed. Alles word voorberei met die skrywer se flair vir tuisgemaakte, hartlike en lekker etes.
Bord is die perfekte geskenk vir diegene wat huis opsit en relatief onervare in die kombuis is, maar selfs gesoute kokke sal inspirasie in dié boek vind.

Plate

The recipes in this book can be used every day of the week for that one main course we cook daily, whether we’re cooking for the family or entertaining our friends. Divided into just three chapters – Meat, Poultry and Seafood – the recipes range from well-known classics to modern dishes, many with a Continental influence. All are prepared with the author’s flair for home-cooked, hearty, and delicious meals.
Plate would make the perfect house-warming gift for those relatively inexperienced in the kitchen, but even seasoned cooks will find inspiration.

Karoo Food

Karoo Food is bigger, better, and tastier than ever, with more recipes, stories and anecdotes about life and food in the Karoo.
Once again, Gordon takes you on a Slow Food journey, via your taste buds, to foodie-nirvana. Tracing the origins of ingredients and the stories behind the dishes, this is a selection of recipes and inspirations from the important people in his life. It’s a mix of the old and the new and a tribute to all those lovely people and their marvellous food over the generations that have helped foster his love of cooking.
This book is a must-have for cooks, foodies and aspiring home chefs.

Summer Food (Hardcover)

Chef Tjaart Walraven may trace his ancestral roots to the North Sea, but his heart is firmly set in Africa – it’s sun, beautiful scenery, warm hospitality, and long summers. And it’s precisely those seductive, lazy summers that have prompted him to write a cookbook that celebrates our summer lifestyle.
The chapters include breakfasts, soups and starters, mains, salads, bakes, desserts, and basics, with the emphasis on easy entertaining, interesting, and tasty twists, as well as ideas for cooking outdoors. Accompanied by Tjaart’s charming background stories, gorgeous colour photography and packed with tips throughout, his recipes prove that enjoying summer on a plate has never been simpler. Anyone will be able to expand their cooking repertoire and impress both family and friends alike.

Botter & Liefde - Boerekos uit 'n Plaaskombuis

'n Anderste, trots Suid-Afrikaanse Afrikaner kookboek waarin vertellinge van plaaslewe, doilies, koeksisters en ander Afrikaanse ikone saamgevleg word. Anna Carolina put uit die tallose invloede van die Suid- Afrikaanse platteland om iets unieks en eietyds, ‘n viering van ‘n ryk nalatenskap, aan te bied.

Butter & Love - Boerekos from a Farm Kitchen

Anna Carolina Alberts invites you into her family’s farm kitchen, a magical place filled with aromas, flavours, and stories. Containing more than 80 tried-and-tested recipes, Butter & Love is a tribute to a rich culinary heritage. A funky, proudly Afrikaans cookbook, (in English) combining accounts of farm life, doilies, koeksisters and other Afrikaans icons. Anna Carolina draws on the myriad influences in South African urban culture to present something uniquely contemporary, celebrating a rich culinary heritage

Everyday

As a working mom, Lisa Clark is constantly on the clock and trying to find ways to cheat time. There are days where she literally mothers her twin tweens remotely from her phone, making sure they have arrived home safely, that they have changed out of their school clothes, that they are doing their homework or are on their way to horse-riding. And when her day gets busier, the last decision she wants to make is what to cook her family for dinner. In Everyday shares some insights into how to provide healthy, balanced and quick recipes for the mom (or dad) on the move!
The book is divided into 10 chapters, each starting off with a basic recipe and then followed by several others that show how to turn one quick meal into several appetising dishes. From muesli, tomato sauce and roasted vegetables to fish, chicken, pastry and sponge cake, there is sure to be a recipe to inspire your everyday cooking.

Sweet - Delectable Vanilla, Caramel, Chocolate And Fruit Treats

Sweet – a word that in the culinary realm conjures up notions of decadence, irresistible deliciousness, indulgence and yes, basically palate bliss. Those treats we crave when we’re happy, sad or in need of a pick-me-up, and which make the world feel like a wonderful place. These are what Samantha Linsell presents in Sweet – and so much more! The dizzy array of sweet temptations will make your head spin and take you back to that state of excited contemplation that you last experienced as a child before a birthday party. Cakes, tarts, butters, confectionery sweets, muffins, biscuits, bars, pastries, sauces, puddings, beverages, ice creams, preserves, sorbets, mousses, scones – they’re all there. But unlike the sweet treats of childhood, Samantha offers a very adult twist to many a traditional offering, such as Vanilla and Baileys® French toast bake, and Chocolate waffles with bourbon butterscotch sauce. And if you really need to salve your conscience, all the recipes in one of the chapter include fruit.
As if the recipes titles aren’t sufficient to set the tastebuds alight, special mention should be made of the photography. Sam is a food stylist par excellence and the photographs (she took them herself) are sure to kick that last vestige of resistance into the wild yonder. The only sensible thing to do is to yield to temptation and move into the kitchen.

Eet vir Twee

Elke swanger vrou wil die regte voedsel eet vir haar eie gesondheid en ter wille van die ontwikkeling van haar ongebore baba. Die betroubare gids sal jou help om heerlike, gesonde maaltye voor te berei tydens jou swangerskap en ook daarna. Die regte voeding is van kardinale belang tydens jou swangerskap.
In die boek verskaf kosskrywer Annabel Karmel met die hulp van dieetkundige Fiona Hinton, belangrike raad en nuttige wenke vir optimale voeding tydens elke stadium van jou swangerskap, toegerus met eenvoudige, dog heerlike, gesonde resepte.
Die boek bevat ook raad oor hoe om met oggendnaarheid, slapeloosheid, sooibrand en lusteloosheid klaar te speel. Toegerus met die raad van kenners en meer as 90 resepte, kan jy verseker wees dat jy die beste voedsel inneem vir jou en jou ontwikkelende baba.

Evita's Bossie Sikelela

Evita – acclaimed chef and icon of the nation – presents her recipes for delicious dishes gathered on travels in South Africa and around the world.
From the Cape to Limpopo, the West Coast to our president’s home province, come divine platefuls: guineafowl with prunes, potroasted quail, quince bredie and orange duck. Pofadders, oxtail and even sweet and sour warthog. Evita reinvents old favourites, and deliciously prepares veldkos – who would have thought of waterblommetjie chicken or dandelion salad for the dinner table? Each recipe has been tested and vetted, and they’re all ridiculously easy to make. My liewe aarde, just paging through the book is a mouth-watering experience, with all these pictures taken on her visits. First there was Kossie Sikelela, now there is Bossie. A new culinary front hits your table!

Cook From The Heart - Food For Every Mood

These are recipes specially created to suit your mood - food that will give you a lift when you are feeling down, add that extra bit of joy to your celebrations, turn a romantic occasion into something fantastic, enhance moments of calm and serenity, and even cover those days when you feel too lazy to cook but need to feed yourself and your family.
Get inspired by Alida Ryder's enthusiasm, her fresh ideas and her easy to follow instructions and cook scrumptious food, whatever your mood. Alida Ryder's first book, Simple & Delicious, was published by Penguin South Africa in 2012. Apart from her expertise in the kitchen, she is a food stylist, photographer, award-winning blogger and the mother of twins.

Vegetarian Sheet Pan Cooking

What’s not to love about sheet pan cooking? It is super- convenient, healthy, easy on the washing up and, as Liz Franklin proves here in 101 inspired meat-free recipes, big on flavour! More and more of us are cutting out animal protein and products from our diets, or at very least reducing them. Liz Franklin reveals how all manner of truly scrumptious dishes can be created when oven, sheet pan and vegetables conspire. Most of the recipes are built on a rainbow of roasted vegetables, grains, cheese and vegan sources of protein, but there are also recipes for things you might not associate with oven cooking too, such as fabulous fritters, glorious soups and the best- ever baked porridge. Taking their lead from dishes enjoyed all around the world, recipes include delicious dishes from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Africa and the Americas as well as ideas designed to showcase your own local seasonal produce.

The 2 Meal Day Max Lowery

'I love the 2 Meal Day! I feel healthy, happy and full of energy' Suki Waterhouse

Welcome to intermittent fasting - eat just two meals a day, either breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner, to burn fat and get fit fast.

Rather than grazing on food all day or having to do complicated calorie calculations for the 5:2 diet, simply eat two meals to lose weight, reduce hunger and feel more energised.

Choose your two meals from Max's delicious, nutritious and easy-to-prepare recipes; start the day with Salmon Mini Frittatas or a Breakfast Burrito; Lunch on Thai Green Chicken Curry or Tuna Casserole or enjoy Creamy Mushroom and Parmesan Risotto or Sea Bass Sauce Vierge for Dinner. There are even healthier desserts to satisfy your sweet tooth without over-indulging - choose from Two-Ingredient Chocolate Mousse or Banana Pancakes.

Max shows how to combine your 2-meal day with High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) - short duration and maximum effort exercises - and resistance workouts to help you drop fat and get fit quickly. So ditch the calorie-counting and the sugar highs and lows and enjoy two meals a day alongside Max's workouts for a leaner, fitter, healthier body.