Just in case Father Christmas doesn’t deliver lots of brand new cookery books to you on Christmas Day, the lovely folks at Quadrille Publishing have offered me three of their top Quadrille cookery books as a giveaway prize for one of my readers. These will keep you going well into 2013, and will provide you with plenty of inspiration for your cooking in the New Year.
1. James Martin Slow Cooking - Mouthwatering Recipes with Minimum Effort (RRP £20) Quadrille Publishing
Put your hands up if you love James Martin. He’s the cheeky Northern chappie who presents BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and he has a very loyal army of fans. His food is often inspired by British, comfort cooking, the kind of food your grandmother would cook for you. James’ family were pig and cattle farmers, so they would often eat hearty slow cooked stews, such as beef stew with dumplings. Slow Cooking offers a good mix of easy-to-throw-together soups, slow vegetable bakes, fish, one-pots, slow roasts, stews and braises and my very favourite chapters, slow puddings and slow bakes. I would love to lock myself away in a log cabin somewhere for the winter and I’d be very happy if I only had this book to cook from and a stash of red wine. Recipes I immediately want to cook are the Potato and Turnip Dauphinoise, the Miso-Marinated Monkfish, Ultimate Roast Chicken (a recipe based on one by Thomas Keller where the chicken is soaked in brine), the Treacle-Glazed Ham Hocks. To finish, I want to make the Jam roly poly, which has just five ingredients. You’ll love this one.
2. Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts - RRP £19.00 Quadrille Publishing
I met Anjum Anand at Food Blogger Connect in 2011 and I remember her saying at the time that she was writing a vegetarian cookery book. She demonstrated and served us all her Grilled Courgette Carpaccio, with Chickpea Salsa and Pistachio Dressing, a recipe which features in this book. It was one of those dishes that created an immediate impression and I remember coming straight home to make it. I think this is a really interesting book because it has allowed Anjum to draw upon her Indian heritage and memories of being raised by a vegetarian mother. Anjum’s father ate meat and so Anjum remembers eating both rich, meaty curries as well as vegetable and lentil dishes. Anjum also then married a vegetarian, who came from a generation of vegetarians and so she inherited recipes and advice from her new family, too. Her own children are vegetarian. I also like the fact that Anjum says that many of the recipes are a reflection of the diversity of India’s regional food, but she also includes recipes that have inspired her during her travels. She also adds in recipes that she just likes and cooks at home often, the ones that are ‘hanging by a home-spun cotton thread to an Indian heritage, but are too delicious not to be included.’ An example of that is the very first recipe in the book, a Coconut French Toast, or Anjum’s Mango, Pomegranate, Berry and Coconut Trifle towards the back. I’d love to try the Smokey Spiced Aubergines and Anjum’s Easy Everyday Lentil Curry, most of all. Rest assured, I’ll be cooking my way through this colourful book in the New Year!
3. Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers (RRP £20) Quadrille Publishing
For a very long time, I have wanted to take a trip up to Edinburgh to visit Tom’s restaurant The Kitchin. Tom is a renowned Scottish chef who was trained by Pierre Koffmann, Guy Savoy and Alain Ducasse. Tom very quickly received a Michelin star, just six months after opening The Kitchin. I am sometimes wary of books by celebrity chefs, just because I think they often can’t help being cheffy and so the recipes don’t translate well for the home cook. But this book, and I have saved the best to talk about till last, has left me completely smitten. Not only are the recipes homely, comforting and easy to follow, the book reads like a great big Scottish tartan blanket-wrapped hug! In his introduction, Tom says that he and his photographer, Laura Edwards, prepared and photographed all of the dishes in the book, just as Tom would cook them and serve them at home, and I believe him. At the back of the book, Tom thanks his ’wee boys’ for coming along to photo shoots on Sundays and Mondays. Best of all, for anyone, who, like me, has extreme prop envy (think rustic bowls, a roast saddle of lamb nestled in a big pile of hay and tables graced with thick tartan fabrics) there are some props credits sourced by Polly Webb-Wilson in the back, too. I have already made Tom’s Pears Poached in Chocolate (photo below) and will be off to the pet shop to find some eating hay on which to cook my own saddle of lamb with Boulangere Potatoes laying beneath. A stunning book, well worth adding to your list or buying for the foodie in your life.
Here’s how to enter the Quadrille Publishing Giveaway
I hope Father Christmas does bring you a cookery book to add to your collection!
Ren Behan
Ren Behan is a British-born food writer of Polish descent. She is a mum to two young children (6 and 3) and spends lots of time with them in the kitchen. Ren writes about seasonal, family-friendly food on her blog www.renbehan.com and about Polish food on her site www.mypolishkitchen.co.uk. She also contributes recipes and articles to online and print food publications. Ren holds a Diploma in Food Journalism with Distinction and has completed a Food Styling course at Leiths School of Food and Wine. Full Profile on Google+
I’d love the Indian Vegetarian Feast because it’s so hard to come up with interesting meals for my vegetarian friends.
My favourite would have to be James’ book as I love his slow cooking recipes and don’t have this yet. Great prize! Merry Christmas xx
I must admit I know none of these chefs/cooks but the one that takes my fancy is Tom Kitchen – I must look out for him and I do like that do it yourself approach.
it would be james martins
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts great for my big belly
Tom Kitchen please…………
all of them I would love
Have James’ book already and am working my way through the different sections. everything so far has been delicious and even a fool like me can cook them. Would love another copy as I would give it to my daughter to encourage her to cook some of the dishhes for me!
James Martin Slow Cooking
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
Tom Kitchin’s, definitely.
Love the look of that Tom Kitchen book!
James Martin’s Slow Cooking looks good!
James Martin
I’d love Slow Cooking by James Martin as i recently purchased a slow cooker and need inspiration.
a lovely and very generous giveaway… I NEED those books!, thank you x
Has to be James Martin
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
James Martin – Slow Cooking
I’d just like to read and try the recipes – for one/two.
Kitchin Suppers, those pears look amazing!
Tom or James please.
Tom Kitchin’s book would be my choice
I would love the tom kitchin one x
James Martin Slow Cooking because i have a Slow Cooker and am running out of recipes!!
James Martin’s, his cooking is robust and comforting!
My favorite way to promote vegetarianism is to feature flavorful and unique recipes on my blog. I’d love to win *Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast* cookbook in order to share more Indian vegetarian recipes with my readers. Thanks!
James Martin’s Slow Cooking sounds like good Winter Cooking
Not living in the UK, I rely on online recommendations like yours Ren to see what’s hot in the foodie arena. James Martin’s a fave of mine – his desserts book is well thumbed. And I like him all the more for his northern roots meet mine as he lives in Hampshire, where I come from originally, and is often seen around and about in Winchester. Anjum is someone totally new to me, and as my NY resolution is to veer more to veggies, I am all ears and eyes about her book. Just stumbled across you too in fact Ren – and with my having a Polish sis-in-law, and part of my family in Poland, I shall be scouring your Polish food section to impress them! Thanks for such a resourceful site.
I would love the James Martin book please
Anjum ‘s indian vegetarian feast
I would like to win Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers just from the description you gave, sounds amazing! xxx
James Martin – Slow Cooking. Stews, roasts, etc are just perfect for this time of year and the small amount of effort required to cook these tasty meals means more time to do other things.
Kitchin suppers would suit my family the best
James Martin….always a favourite
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
It would have to be the slow cooking book as i love the idea of relaxing as dinner is cooking
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts -
I am definitely a James Martin fan so I’d love that book. I also admire Tom Kitchen but I’m interested in Anjum too. When last in the UK I purchased a James Martin recommended spice grinder and it’s great as I make a lot of chutneys. So favourite vote has to go to James.
Cheers!
Liz
I recently discovered your blog and have really enjoyed reading it so far – bring on 2013! All the cook books look fantastic, and I’m sure will provide some much-needed inspiration in the cold, dark winter months after Christmas. Thanks for a great giveaway!
The Anjum Anand one.
James Martin………..Slow Cooking
Wow! these look amazing, would love to win the prize
James Martin Slow Cooking for me please
What a lovely pre-Christmas competition! I love all cook books but would definitely want the James Martin book most – slow cooking, yum yum, especially in this cold wintery weather! Fingers Crossed!
Tom Kitchin’s book looks great, I have tried his recipes before and they are lovely !
I would love Tom Kitchin’s book for my brother ( Tom’s ) birthday as he is an avid cook, and always looking for some new recipes !
Anjum’s Indian vegetarian feast – my partner is a vegetarian and I love finding new recipes for him.
Anjum Anand’s book looks full of fab recipes – her food is so tasty and fresh!
Kitchin Suppers by Tom Kitchin as it seems likely to be the most varied … the picture of the poached pear in chocolate had nothing to do with! Honest!
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers, love Tom’s cooking style and I am sure this would be well used.
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts by far. Love Indian food!
Indian Vegetarian Cookery
I’d love Anjum ‘s indian vegetarian feasts.
I’d love Kitchen Suppers!
James Martin Slow Cooking.
any of them I would love
James Martin. He is one of my favourite chefs and don’t have any of his books yet
It would have to be….Anjum vegetarian…im always trying to think of tasty Vegetarian meals (im not a vegetarian) i love Asian and other cultures food and that’s all my family eats. would be fantastic to give a load of her recipes a try
James Martin Slow Cooking – I adore slow cooking so this would be great.
James Martin Slow Cooking – I need some fresh ideas for slow cooking, one of my favourite ways to cook. Meat is so tender when cooked slowly and having delicious cooking aromas wafting through the house with increasing intensity really helps build up an appetite!
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James Martin
The Slow Cooking book sounds great – perfect food for this dark wet miserable weather.
I think I would prefer Kitchin Suppers
I’d love Kitchin Suppers!
james martin’s Slow Cooking, always nice to have some different recipes to try in my slow cooker
james martin – he is my cooking-idol
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers – his recipes are always fantastic
wow, they are all great
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin slow cooking
Tom Kitchin’s
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martins slow cooking
James Martin Slow Cooking
it would be james martins
Tom Kitchin kitchin supplies, as ive not got anything from him before
Slow Cooking because it brings the best out of cheap ingredients
It would have to be James Martin :0)
Tom Kitchin’s book please, I’d love to try his recipes.
James book – love him on saturday kitchen!
James Martin – Slow Cooking
James Martin’s book
mmmmm james marti
Would love the James Martin book the most, love him on Saturday Kitchen
Well as much as I love James the one I’d covet the most is Tom Kitchen’s. It will be good to see a pro chef doing recipes that anyone can follow.
Kitchin suppers – the poached pears won me over!
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
The James Martin one would be my first choice
james martins for me
It’s difficult to choose between them but I’m going to go foe James Martins book as I’ve got a slow cooker but don’t know what to cook in it.
James Martin Slow Cooking because it would suit my lifestyles
James Martin Slow cooking looks great and I love easy especially with a new baby.
James Martin Slow Cooking
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Tom Kitchin, Kitchin Suppers
James Martin’s slow cooking,I think he’s great!
James Martin’s
Anjum Anand’s book. I have a couple of hers already, and the recipes are fab
I would love the James Martin book – as a new mum with a busy life I love my slow coooker but could really do with some new ideas!
I would love the James Martin book
James Martin Slow Cooking
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James Martin Slow Cooking -
I would love the James Martin Slow Cooking book
The James Martin one, his recipes always seem very easy
What a perfect combination………James Martin and Slow Cooking
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
3. Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Anjum ‘s Indian Vegetarian Feast
James Martin Slow Cooking
It would be James Martins Slow cooking for me
Tom Kitchins Kitchin Suppers looks fab
Kitchin Suppers looks great, think my husband would really enjoy cooking from this.
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
I fancy them all but particularly James Martin! His book I mean!
james martin, slow cooking
James Martin would be the one I’d most like, but they all look pretty great to me!
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin as I have just had a Slow cooker as a moving in gift but have no idea what to cook in it!!
Like them all, but would really love the Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts as would love to cook some more interesting veggie meals
James Martin Slow Cooking
I’d like Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast best because I’m always looking for new recipes that up my intake of veg
Tom Kitchen for me please
James martins please, the man is my cooking god lol
Tom Kitchen please – sounds like my sort of cooking
James Martin – Slow Cooking – I think he is the best chef
The Indian Vegertarian Cookbook for me! I’m not a vegetraian but there is nothing tastier than a saag aloo!!
I would love t win the Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts, recipes look very tasty.
Anjum’s Indian book would be my first choice
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin Slow Cooking would be my choice!
James Martin definitely. For the front cover alone, I may cook something from it… may just look at the pictures. Of him…
James Martin – Slow Cooking
James Martin, love Saturday Kitchen!
tom kitchin looks a fab book although it would be hard to choose
James Martin
gotta be james martin and i have just bought a slow cooker so this would be fab
Tom Kitchin.
As much as I like the sound and look of the other two books, I’d love to get a hold of Anjum’s book. I’ve become more interested in Indian cookery over the past few months and, as I don’t actually eat a lot of meat myself, I’m sure there are many vegetarian-type dishes that I could dig into
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin for me everytime – love his Saturday Kitchen programme
James Martin’s book!
Anjum’s book…because i love Indian food, and would love to try more vegetarian alternatives.
Anything Indian is always going to be my first choice – it’s Anjum’s book for me.
James Martin Slow Cooking please!
James Martin’s Slow Cooking because I love slow cooking food but really need inspired with some new recipes.
James Martin slow cooking!!
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Slow Cooking by James Martin
Tom Kitchin, please!
Tom Kitchin
James Martin, he seems nice and down to earth, with recipes that are easy to follow
James Martin Slow Cooking. I love slow cooked meals!!
Oh what a good year 2013 would be
Slow Cooking with James Martin
Having fun in the “Kitchen” with Tom
And hoping Anjum is with me eating Coconut French Toast
A foodie dream 2013, hope it comes true
Tom Kitchins Kitchin Suppers
James’ – he’s great!
James Martin Slow Cooking – love my slow cooker and always looking for more great recipes!
James Martin
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian feast
I’d like them all but Tom Kitchins Kitchin Suppers would be the one I’d buy first
James Martin Slow Cooking because I just bought a slow cooker!
Got to be the James Martin book – I love having the smell of food in the house all day and anticipating the evening meal!
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Simon.
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin’s book
anjum anand one looks really good
Id love the james martin book.
I would love Tom Kitchin’s Kitchin Suppers. His restaurant is fab!
Tom Kitchin’s Kitchin Suppers.
James Martin, slow cooking. I love slow cooking but it was a hard choice
My favourite would have to be James’ book as I would love to try more slow cooking recipes
Tom Kitchin’s Kitchin Suppers. I have long admired his cookery and would love to try his recipes.
Kitchin Suppers x
James Martin Slow Cooking – Mouthwatering Recipes with Minimum Effort
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast – would love to try some of her recipes
I’d love Anjum’s indian Vegetarian feasts as I cook a lot of indian food but struggle to find enough variety for my vegetarian daughter,mother and sister x
Tom Kitchin’s Suppers
Slow cooking definitely!
Any of the books would be great. I am trying to cook more this year instead of just buying ready made.
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
I would love to win James Martins book the most
james slow cooking
Indian Vegetarian Feast
James Martin – Slow Cooking
Any, i can use all the help i can get in the kitchen
Oooh I did get Cookery books for Christmas, but none of these ones! Would be brilliant additions to my collection.
James Martin’s Slow Cooking would be ideal for cosy weekends in
Kitchin Suppers
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast – I’d love to be able to cook vegetarian dishes like my Indian friends do at home. Veggie dishes in restaurants are never as good.
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers. I love him & his food always looks seriously delish!
James Martin Slow cooking, he’s my favorite chef! x
TOM KITCHEN
James Martin… some of that lovely Yorkshire cookery!
Definately Tom Kitchens Kitchen suppers!
They all look great books but if i had to choose it would be Tom Kitchens Suppers, thank you for the giveaway!
I’d love the James Martin book I’ve tried a lot of his recipes in the past and always liked them !
James Martin’s Slow Cooking
Slow cooking would be my book of choice
Being a veggie and hating bland food … it would have to be Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts !!
Anjums indian vegetarian feast i haven’t got an indian cook book and my boys love anything indian and spicy would love to make from scratch.
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts!
Tom kitchins book
ooh sounds fab. I struggle with vegetarian cooking as it can get very ‘samey’.
James Martin – i think hes great
I would love Kitchen Suppers by Tom Kitchen
James Martin is definitely my favourite!
The James Martin book would be the one I want the most…. tasty food from a tasty chef!
It has to be James Martin
James Martin slow cooking -cheaper cuts of meat, which taste fantastic when cooked slowly
Anjum Anand’s book for me!!
James Martin book, although they all look great:)
James Martin – Slow Cooking please
Slow Cooking by James Martin looks lovely!!
tough choice but James Martin would be my first.
They all sound awesome, but would love the James Martin one!
Anjums vegatarian cooking looks great – really need to eat more veg – just get put off if its bland – need something to spice things up – Anjum can do that!!
Love cookery books but would love the James Martin one
Anjums Vegetarian Cooking…. what a treat!
James Martin – Slow Cooking for when i need a rest and what to sit back and let the oven do the work!
The James Martin one
James Martin – Slow Cooking please
James martin for sure
tom kitchen please
James Martin Slow Cooking
James martin I love his simple yet fabulous food
James Martin
James Martin
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast
Tom Kitchin – brill chef!
James Martin – Slow Cooking
I love Indian food, so it would definitely be Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts that I’d love the most.
James Martin Slow Cooking is the one I am most interested in but they all look good!
I’m most interested in James Martin’s book as I already have a few of his books and I find all his recipes work very well (and he’s lovely!)
3. Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
My favourite would have to be James’ book
james martin although i really wanna read the tom kitchin one
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts – yummy
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin Slow Cooking
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Hiya, I’d choose James martin’s Slow.
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin Slow Cooking
Kitchin Suppers, as it sounds so different with the hay!
James Martin Slow Cooking please
The James Martin book
James Martin
Slow Cooking by James Martin please
Indian Feast would be something new to try
I would love the James Martin Slow Cooking book.
James Martin – Slow Cooking
James Martin Slow cooking – it looks fab
The Indian vegetarian feast book would be great as my girlfriend is veggie and I want to cook something nice!!
As a veggie and an Indian food lover, the Anjun Anand tickles my fancy the most
Tom Kitchin – I don’t have anything like his yet!
James Martin – Slow Cooking. I think it looks great and would have some fab ideas.
Has to be Anjum Anand
It’s Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts for me.
Definitely Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James’s Martins book as i’m just getting into Slow Cooking
James Martins book please!!
James Martin – I’m a huge fan, I think he’s great!
The Tom Kitchin book because I’ve liked him since I saw him on Great British Menu and liked his whole ethos – plus I fancy him
Tom Kitchen as I haven’t heard of him and like to try something new!
Slow Cooking by James Martin
James Martin – slow cooking, bought a slow cooker and so far only managed cooking a joint of beef! Need ideas.
I’d love the Indian vegetarian feast as three of my kids are vegetarian
James Martin fabulous recipes
James Martin’s Slow Cooking
I’d love the Slow Cooking, just assemble everything, prep and forget that’s my kind of cooking.
Without hesitation, Tom Kitchin. I’ve always loved his food.
Being a classically trained chef, most of his recipes are complicated for the home cook. This book looks like the one that was missing : High quality, home-cooked supper ideas !
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts please
James martin – slow cooking