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Leon

Giveaway: Little Leons (Naturally Fast Recipes) Series

Leon Restaurants are a chain of thirteen branches, the first one having been opened in Carnaby Street. They are owned by John Vincent and Henry Dimbleby and like all good foodie things, Leon cook books soon followed. There are now 4 Leon cook books (book 3 reviewed here) in the main series, and now, they have released some Little Leons – Naturally Fast Recipes –  each containing 64 pages and 40 colour photographs. The Little Leon series includes –

  • Breakfast & Brunch
  • Brownies, Bars & Muffins
  • Smoothies, Juices & Cocktails
  • Soups, Salads & Snacks.

Little Leons

The Leon ‘trademark’ is to offer “naturally fast food” – so there are plenty of wheat, dairy or sugar-free options in baking, super-charged breakfasts, flavour-packed soups, power-smoothies and even a couple of cocktails – including a Vodka Espresso hit!

Hot Chocolate is offered five ways with Mexican, Swedish and Jamaican twists, smoothies are charged with seeds. You can even try sugar-free vanilla cupcakes and vegan vanilla icing if the mood takes you. I’m torn between making Little Leon Breakfast & Brunch my favourite – particularly for the buckwheat Saturday Pancakes – or the Little Leon Brownies, Bars & Muffins for the Salmon & Dill Muffins. There’s definitely something for everyone in this little collection.

Little Leons are published by Conran Octopus and are priced at £6.99 each.

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With thanks to Conran Octopus for the giveaway copies.    

Lemon Pudding (Leon)

As mentioned in my review post yesterday, this week I’ve been enjoying baking from the new Leon Baking & Puddings book. I hope you’ve been enjoying some baking too for National Baking Week!

Octopus Books have kindly offered three books to giveway to my readers as well as giving me permission to share this lovely recipe called Jossy’s Lemon Pudding Delicious.

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Review: LEON Baking and Puddings (Book Three)

In case you’ve managed to miss it so far, this week is National Baking Week. The nation seems to have gone crazy for baking recently, with lots of baking programmes on TV and a whole array of new and very beautiful baking bibles to add to our collections. When Leon Baking & Puddings published by Octopus Books landed on my door mat I knew I was in for a treat.

Who wrote it?

The co-authors of this book are Claire Ptak and Henry Dimbleby. The book is very much a collaboration between the two of them, with recipes from them both. Claire used to be a pastry chef at Chez Panisse in California and now runs her own bakery in East London, called Violet. Henry co-founded the Leon chain of restaurants (along with John Vincent and Allegra McEvedy) in 2004 – with the aim of changing the face of fast food. PLEASE OPEN A LEON RESTAURANT IN ST ALBANS! 

This is the third book in the Leon series. Allegra McEvedy wrote the first Leon book – Leon: Ingredients. Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent wrote the second Leon book – Leon: Naturally Fast Food and now Henry and Claire Ptak have written the third one together – Leon Baking & Puddings.

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