Good knife skills are the most important ingredient in every recipe
- knowing the right knife to use for each task & how to use
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Jenny is determined to make her own way in the world & she secures a job as the kitchen maid in a grand house in Beverley. She gradually gains the attention of Christy the young master of the house & they fall in love. But slowly their hopes & dreams turn to nightmares & culminate in a scandal which will force Jenny to leave Beverley & everything she knows. Cast aside by her own family & all alone in the world Jenny has to rely on her ailing aunt Agnes who was banished from the family many years before. Living with Agnes & her husband Stephen St John Laslett she learns that Stephen's wealthy family have disowned him & they have to eke out a meagre living on their small farm. Times are hard & as Agnes grows weaker she asks Stephen to make her an unusual promise one that will affect the rest of Jenny's life. Jenny the kitchen maid becomes the mistress of Laslett Hall & although she tries to fit in with the world that she now inhabits she never forgets the words that the gypsy told her: that one day she will return to where she was once happy
- & there Jenny will find her true love.
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Lucy Boyd head gardener for Michelin-starred cafe Petersham Nurseries & trained chef understands ingredients & knows how to turn them into extraordinary food. I absolutely love this book
- exactly the sort of food I'd love to eat every day for the rest of my life."
- Jamie Oliver "A spectacular cookbook
- sensitively & intelligently written from a great gardener chef & the daughter of a cooking legend."
- Jamie Oliver Quality ingredients
- in season simply cooked & perfectly prepared
- are at the heart of Lucy's cooking. This beautiful debut collection of irresistible ingredient-inspired recipes is full of Lucy's passion & knowledge of produce. Following a serendipitous apprenticeship into cookery as the daughter of Rose Gray founder of the River Cafe Lucy went from planning & cooking dishes alongside Rose for both the family & customers to lovingly creating the much-lauded kitchen garden at Petersham providing vegetables & salads for the cafe & for Petersham's owners Francesco & Gael Boglione. Her myriad cooking & gardening experiences has guided Lucy throughout her 8-year partnership with award-winning chef Skye Gyngell as well as nurturing a fascination for Italian vegetables & salads herbs & edible flowers a fascination which continues to heavily influence her cooking. This cookery book complete with stunning fresh photography & Lucy's poignant memories describing a recipe's origins is essential for anyone with a passion for good food. From Summer Girolles Veal Loin & Rocket to Cicoria Mozzarella Tomatoes with Marinated Salted Anchovies Lucy's food effortlessly combines quality & simplicity making this the perfect gift for foodies everywhere."





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Raymond Blanc is revered as a culinary legend whose love of delicious food is lifelong. Years of experience have given him a rich store of knowledge & the skill to create fantastic dishes that work time after time. With a range of achievable & inspirational recipes for cooks of all abilities Kitchen Secrets is all about bringing Gallic passion & precision into the home kitchen. Raymond has done all the hard work refining recipes over months & even years until they are quite perfect. Every recipe

Includes:: explanations & hints to ensure that your results are consistently brilliant. Dishes that once seemed plain or impossibly complex suddenly become simple & elegant; the books sixteen chapters include classics like watercress soup chicory & Roquefort salad cep ravioli apricot cassoulet chicken liver parfait confit salmon moules marniere grilled dover sole home cured ham pot au feu lambs liver persillade roast wild duck lamb cutlets galette des Rois cherry clafoutis & Maman Blancs own chocolate mousse. With scores of recipes from both series of Kitchen Secrets this is guaranteed to be a must-have for anybody with a love of French cuisine & finesse.

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Raymond Blanc is revered as a culinary legend whose love of delicious food is lifelong. Years of experience have given him a rich store of knowledge & the skill to create fantastic dishes that work time after time. With a range of achievable & inspirational recipes for cooks of all abilities Kitchen Secrets is all about bringing Gallic passion & precision into the home kitchen. Raymond has done all the hard work refining recipes over months & even years until they are quite perfect. Every recipe

Includes:: explanations & hints to ensure that your results are consistently brilliant. Dishes that once seemed plain or impossibly complex suddenly become simple & elegant; the books sixteen chapters include classics like watercress soup chicory & Roquefort salad cep ravioli greengage cassoulet chicken liver parfait confit salmon moules marniere grilled dover sole home cured ham pot au feu lambs liver persillade roast wild duck lamb cutlets galette des Rois cherry clafoutis & Maman Blancs own chocolate mousse. With more than 100 recipes from both series of Kitchen Secrets this is guaranteed to be a must-have for anybody with a love of French cuisine & finesse.

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You don't need to be Wiccan to enjoy this friendly book of home cooking & natural remedies. To the kitchen witch every recipe is like a little spell bringing the opportunity to create love & positive energy in the home & for loved ones. This year-round guide to seasonal recipes & rituals for all the pagan festivals will be invaluable to Wiccans wishing to celebrate the good things that are given to us by the l&. Wicca is a peaceful balanced & harmonious way of life. The word 'witch' comes from the words 'wise' or 'wisdom' & witches or Wiccans originally were called ' The Wise Ones.' They also study natural remedies & the infl uences of the cycles of the moon & the planets. Witches seek to harm noone knowing that the energy they send out comes back threefold. The Kitchen Witch follows the eight pagan festivals: Samhain Yule Imbolc Ostara Beltane Litha Lughnasadh & Mabon. This book is about being at one with nature & the four elements. During these festivals birth life death rebirth & union are celebrated. The celebrations involve sharing food with loved ones or friends. Each of the eight festivals has delicious recipes using a variety of seasonal foods & foods commonly found in most kitchens. There is also information on herbs plants spices fl owers & essential oils that you can use for spell or circle work & homemade lotions & potions. This book is a guide for the everyday witch that can be enjoyed by everyone. Soraya is a white witch & an internationally renowned author & psychic. She writes for The Weekly News a leading weekly paper. She is the author of Tarot Spells Psychic Powers & Runes. ...

Kitchenella: the heroic feminine cook. The continuing story of the rise & fall of good food finds us at the end of a decade of exceptional growth & opportunity yet once again in crisis. We believe in food icons & celebrity chefs but their philosophies are no longer convincing because they cannot possibly understand the predicament of the average family living through recession & trying to do it right in the kitchen. Where are the cooks with wit who work out the budget & plan an easy dish that efficiently feeds family & friends? Full of logical economical & imaginative recipes that solve the modern cooks dilemma Kitchenella will teach you the skills of those teachers who work without books the mothers & the cooks who subsequently learned from them to decisively show you the easy way to cook & shop. Promoting a modest simple way to cook Kitchenella shows cooking is not about showing off & extravagance but generosity & kindness; a subtle & intelligent way to nurture. It is cooking that is economically sustainable & achievable. It has its roots in the learned spirited cooking of generations food that can claim to have helped win wars & saved lives; a style of cooking that is still relevant today by practically addressing the struggles of modern cooks both men & women. The ambition to cook is a fantasy for many yet Kitchenella shows how the everyday struggle to put food on the table can be transformed into cooking that is clever & beautiful. ...

Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War & is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. In Kitcheners Last Volunteer" he vividly recaptures how life was lived in the Edwardian era & how it was altered irrevocably by the slaughter of millions of men in the Great War & by the subsequent coming of the modern age. Henry is unique in that he saw action on land sea & in the air with the British Naval Air Service. He was present at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 with the British Grand Fleet & went on to serve on the Western Front. He befriended several of the young pilots who would lose their lives & he himself suffered the privations of the front line under fire. In recent years Henry was given the opportunity to tell his remarkable story to a wider audience through a BBC documentary & he has since become a hero to many meeting royalty & having many honours bestowed upon him. This is the touching story of an ordinary mans extraordinary life
- one who has outlived six monarchs & twenty-one prime ministers & who represents a last link to a vital point in our nations history."
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Scotlands hottest chef takes us into his home kitchen to show just how accessible inexpensive & uncomplicated gourmet food can be. Tom draws on his experience of home cooking to provide a superb collection of recipes for time-pressured cooks that makes the most of fresh seasonal food. From one-pan wonders & meals that can be put together in half-an-hour to intensely flavoured braises that can be assembled in next to no time & left alone to cook there are brilliant ideas for easy midweek meals. These are recipes that have been created specifically for the home kitchen not dishes adapted & compromised from a chefs restaurant. Shopping for them is easy techniques are straightforward & they are fun to cook. Tom also offers readers his Kitchin Secrets covering a host of topics including sourcing the best ingredients preparing ahead getting the timing right & balancing the flavours in a dish. This beautifully illustrated contemporary cookbook will appeal to a wide audience not least Toms many fans from his engaging television appearances. ...

Princess Cinnamon Stitch is a tomboy who has no interest in courtly life. To her parents dismay she cartwheels through puddles & dances with flea-ridden cats. Discover how she succeeds in teaching the king & queen that there are more important things in life than decorum & show. Laura-Kate Chapmans eye
- popping artwork makes this fun rhyming text soar. Comes with storytime CD featuring narration of text by much-loved actress Imelda Staunton. about this title: Encourages children to express themselves in their own way & reminds parents of the benefits of individuality. Features easy-to-remember rhyming couplets that build memory skills.

Includes:: a kite-making activity at the end of the story.


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