The new cookbook from award-winning writer Ella Risbridger.
Home cooking but make it gorgeous. Make it the thing that improves your day. Make it beautiful, useful and delicious. Make your life just, like, 10% better.
'Inspiring and joyously delicious' NIGEL SLATER
'Deeply warm and encouraging' NICOLA LAMB
'So much to love in this book' ANNA JONES
No-knife potato curry, cumin lamb ragù, turmeric satay salmon, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; breakfast bars, rhubarb and custard, sticky lemon cake, and one-bowl cannelés. This is cooking for real life – the kinds of recipes you will actually make and actually love.
There are plenty of ideas to get you through the week with minimal faff and maximum reward, whether you’re at your lowest ebb or striving for elegance:
- The big list: how to stock the fridge, freezer, spice drawer and more
- On the sofa: sticky-crispy Korean tofu, pistachio chilli, pumpkin and raisin roasted rice
- At the kitchen counter: brown butter cornbread, herby mango salad, green chickpea quesadillas
- For a gathering: sheet-pan leek latkes, pig cheek and queen bean burritos, smoky rosemary palomas
- With a tablecloth: asparagus fritters, miso mushroom ragù, smoky tea chocolate pots
- For the week ahead: bread and butter, cure-all one-pan beans, pink onions, caramelised garlic
- On the floor: carbonara rice, fish finger and smoked sweetcorn tacos, sausage and rocket gnocchi
Roasting a chicken. Planning for the week ahead. Throwing a party (for three or thirty or more). Baking fail-safe cookies (for when failure to have cookies really isn’t an option). The Kitchen Book is your source of wisdom for the 4pm what’s-for-dinner panic, and the definitive answer to ‘Maybe just toast and an early night?’
These are recipes that will stick with you for life.
Ella Risbridger is a writer and journalist from London. With bylines in the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Vogue & many others, her books span from cookery to picture books, poetry to essay collections. Her best-selling debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), won Cookbook of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards, and was named a book of the year in multiple publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sunday Times, New York Times, Daily Mail and Washington Post. She was described by the Times as "the most talented writer of a generation", which is nice. Ella is also the creator of You Get In Love And Then…?, a best-selling newsletter with thousands of paid subscribers; an amateur painter, potter, and candlestick maker; and the part-owner of one very fat orange cat.
