Review and Giveaway: Three Quadrille Cookery Books by James Martin, Anjum Anand, Tom Kitchin
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.
James martin – slow cooking
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts please
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 !
I’d love the Slow Cooking, just assemble everything, prep and forget that’s my kind of cooking.
James Martin’s Slow Cooking
James Martin fabulous recipes
I’d love the Indian vegetarian feast as three of my kids are vegetarian
James Martin – slow cooking, bought a slow cooker and so far only managed cooking a joint of beef! Need ideas.
Slow Cooking by James Martin
Tom Kitchen as I haven’t heard of him and like to try something new!
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 😉
James Martin – I’m a huge fan, I think he’s great!
James Martins book please!!
James’s Martins book as i’m just getting into Slow Cooking
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Definitely Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast
It’s Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts for me.
Has to be Anjum Anand
James Martin – Slow Cooking. I think it looks great and would have some fab ideas.
Tom Kitchin – I don’t have anything like his yet!
As a veggie and an Indian food lover, the Anjun Anand tickles my fancy the most
The Indian vegetarian feast book would be great as my girlfriend is veggie and I want to cook something nice!!
James Martin Slow cooking – it looks fab 🙂
James Martin – Slow Cooking
I would love the James Martin Slow Cooking book.
Indian Feast would be something new to try
Slow Cooking by James Martin please
James Martin
The James Martin book
James Martin Slow Cooking please
Kitchin Suppers, as it sounds so different with the hay!
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin Slow Cooking
Hiya, I’d choose James martin’s Slow.
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin Slow Cooking
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts – yummy
james martin although i really wanna read the tom kitchin one 😉
My favourite would have to be James’ book
3. Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
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!)
James Martin Slow Cooking is the one I am most interested in but they all look good!
I love Indian food, so it would definitely be Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts that I’d love the most.
James Martin – Slow Cooking
Tom Kitchin – brill chef!
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast
James Martin
James Martin
James martin I love his simple yet fabulous food
James Martin Slow Cooking
tom kitchen please
James martin for sure
James Martin – Slow Cooking please
The James Martin one 🙂
James Martin – Slow Cooking for when i need a rest and what to sit back and let the oven do the work!
Anjums Vegetarian Cooking…. what a treat!
Love cookery books 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!!
They all sound awesome, but would love the James Martin one!
tough choice but James Martin would be my first.
Slow Cooking by James Martin looks lovely!! 🙂
James Martin – Slow Cooking please 🙂
James Martin book, although they all look great:)
Anjum Anand’s book for me!!
James Martin slow cooking -cheaper cuts of meat, which taste fantastic when cooked slowly
It has to be James Martin
The James Martin book would be the one I want the most…. tasty food from a tasty chef! 😛
James Martin is definitely my favourite! 🙂
I would love Kitchen Suppers by Tom Kitchen
James Martin – i think hes great
ooh sounds fab. I struggle with vegetarian cooking as it can get very ‘samey’.
Tom kitchins book
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.
Being a veggie and hating bland food … it would have to be Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts !!
Slow cooking would be my book of choice
James Martin’s Slow Cooking
I’d love the James Martin book I’ve tried a lot of his recipes in the past and always liked them !
They all look great books but if i had to choose it would be Tom Kitchens Suppers, thank you for the giveaway!
Definately Tom Kitchens Kitchen suppers!
James Martin… some of that lovely Yorkshire cookery!
TOM KITCHEN
James Martin Slow cooking, he’s my favorite chef! x
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers. I love him & his food always looks seriously delish!
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.
Kitchin Suppers
James Martin’s Slow Cooking would be ideal for cosy weekends in 🙂
Oooh I did get Cookery books for Christmas, but none of these ones! Would be brilliant additions to my collection.
Any, i can use all the help i can get in the kitchen
James Martin – Slow Cooking
Indian Vegetarian Feast
james slow cooking
I would love to win James Martins book the most 😀
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Any of the books would be great. I am trying to cook more this year instead of just buying ready made.
Slow cooking definitely!
Tom Kitchin’s Suppers
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
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast – would love to try some of her recipes
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
James Martin Slow Cooking – Mouthwatering Recipes with Minimum Effort
Kitchin Suppers x
Tom Kitchin’s Kitchin Suppers. I have long admired his cookery and would love to try his recipes.
My favourite would have to be James’ book as I would love to try more slow cooking recipes
James Martin, slow cooking. I love slow cooking but it was a hard choice
Tom Kitchin’s Kitchin Suppers.
I would love Tom Kitchin’s Kitchin Suppers. His restaurant is fab!
Id love the james martin book.
anjum anand one looks really good
James Martin’s book
James Martin Slow Cooking
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Simon.
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Got to be the James Martin book – I love having the smell of food in the house all day and anticipating the evening meal!
James Martin Slow Cooking because I just bought a slow cooker! 🙂
I’d like them all but Tom Kitchins Kitchin Suppers would be the one I’d buy first
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian feast
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James Martin
James Martin Slow Cooking – love my slow cooker and always looking for more great recipes!
James’ – he’s great!
Tom Kitchins Kitchin Suppers
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 🙂
James Martin Slow Cooking. I love slow cooked meals!!
James Martin, he seems nice and down to earth, with recipes that are easy to follow
Tom Kitchin
Tom Kitchin, please!
Slow Cooking by James Martin
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James Martin slow cooking!!
James Martin’s Slow Cooking because I love slow cooking food but really need inspired with some new recipes.
James Martin Slow Cooking please!
Anything Indian is always going to be my first choice – it’s Anjum’s book for me.
Anjum’s book…because i love Indian food, and would love to try more vegetarian alternatives.
James Martin’s book!
James Martin for me everytime – love his Saturday Kitchen programme
James Martin Slow Cooking
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 🙂
Tom Kitchin.
gotta be james martin and i have just bought a slow cooker so this would be fab 😀
James Martin
tom kitchin looks a fab book although it would be hard to choose
James Martin, love Saturday Kitchen!
James Martin – Slow Cooking
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 would be my choice!
James Martin Slow Cooking
Anjum’s Indian book would be my first choice
I would love t win the Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts, recipes look very tasty.
The Indian Vegertarian Cookbook for me! I’m not a vegetraian but there is nothing tastier than a saag aloo!!
James Martin – Slow Cooking – I think he is the best chef
Tom Kitchen please – sounds like my sort of cooking
James martins please, the man is my cooking god lol
Tom Kitchen for me please
I’d like Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast best because I’m always looking for new recipes that up my intake of veg
James Martin Slow Cooking
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 as I have just had a Slow cooker as a moving in gift but have no idea what to cook in it!!
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
I fancy them all but particularly James Martin! His book I mean!
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Kitchin Suppers looks great, think my husband would really enjoy cooking from this.
Tom Kitchins Kitchin Suppers looks fab
It would be James Martins Slow cooking for me 🙂
James Martin Slow Cooking
Anjum ‘s Indian Vegetarian Feast
3. Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
What a perfect combination………James Martin and Slow Cooking 😉
The James Martin one, his recipes always seem very easy 🙂
I would love the James Martin Slow Cooking book
James Martin Slow Cooking –
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James Martin Slow Cooking
I would love the James Martin book
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!
Anjum Anand’s book. I have a couple of hers already, and the recipes are fab
James Martin’s
James Martin’s slow cooking,I think he’s great!
Tom Kitchin, Kitchin Suppers
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martin Slow cooking looks great and I love easy especially with a new baby.
James Martin Slow Cooking because it would suit my lifestyles
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 martins for me
The James Martin one would be my first choice
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
Kitchin suppers – the poached pears won me over!
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.
Would love the James Martin book the most, love him on Saturday Kitchen
mmmmm james marti 🙂
James Martin’s book
James Martin – Slow Cooking
James book – love him on saturday kitchen!
Tom Kitchin’s book please, I’d love to try his recipes.
It would have to be James Martin :0)
Slow Cooking because it brings the best out of cheap ingredients
Tom Kitchin kitchin supplies, as ive not got anything from him before
it would be james martins
James Martin Slow Cooking
James Martins slow cooking
James Martin Slow Cooking
Tom Kitchin’s
James Martin slow cooking
James Martin Slow Cooking
wow, they are all great
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers – his recipes are always fantastic
james martin – he is my cooking-idol
james martin’s Slow Cooking, always nice to have some different recipes to try in my slow cooker
I’d love Kitchin Suppers!
I think I would prefer Kitchin Suppers
The Slow Cooking book sounds great – perfect food for this dark wet miserable weather.
James Martin
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
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!
James Martin Slow Cooking – I adore slow cooking so this would be great.
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. He is one of my favourite chefs and don’t have any of his books yet
any of them I would love
James Martin Slow Cooking.
I’d love Kitchen Suppers!
I’d love Anjum ‘s indian vegetarian feasts.
Indian Vegetarian Cookery
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts by far. Love Indian food!
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers, love Tom’s cooking style and I am sure this would be well used.
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!
Anjum Anand’s book looks full of fab recipes – her food is so tasty and fresh!
Anjum’s Indian vegetarian feast – my partner is a vegetarian and I love finding new recipes for him.
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 !
Tom Kitchin’s book looks great, I have tried his recipes before and they are lovely !
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!
James Martin Slow Cooking for me please
Wow! these look amazing, would love to win the prize
James Martin………..Slow Cooking
The Anjum Anand one.
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!
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
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts –
It would have to be the slow cooking book as i love the idea of relaxing as dinner is cooking
Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers
James Martin….always a favourite
Kitchin suppers would suit my family the best
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.
I would like to win Tom Kitchin – Kitchin Suppers just from the description you gave, sounds amazing! xxx
Anjum ‘s indian vegetarian feast
I would love the James Martin book please
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.
James Martin’s Slow Cooking sounds like good Winter Cooking
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, his cooking is robust and comforting!
James Martin Slow Cooking because i have a Slow Cooker and am running out of recipes!!
I would love the tom kitchin one x
Tom Kitchin’s book would be my choice
Tom or James please.
Kitchin Suppers, those pears look amazing!
I’d just like to read and try the recipes – for one/two.
James Martin – Slow Cooking
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
Has to be James Martin
a lovely and very generous giveaway… I NEED those books!, thank you x
I’d love Slow Cooking by James Martin as i recently purchased a slow cooker and need inspiration.
James Martin
James Martin’s Slow Cooking looks good!
Love the look of that Tom Kitchen book!
Tom Kitchin’s, definitely.
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts
James Martin Slow Cooking
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!
all of them I would love
Tom Kitchen please…………
Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feasts great for my big belly
it would be james martins
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.
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’d love the Indian Vegetarian Feast because it’s so hard to come up with interesting meals for my vegetarian friends.