120 Recipes for Busy Families

The Veggie Family Cookbook

The Veggie Family Cookbook is the new essential kitchen bible for year-round family cooking. 
 
 Claire Thomson writes foolproof, delicious recipes that will please everyone around the table &ndash; as a professional chef and mum of three (two of which are vegetarian), she understands the challenge of whipping up tasty, crowd-pleasing dishes with vegetables centre stage, and all with minimum fuss at the end of a busy working day. 
 
 With an emphasis on practicality and flavour, The Veggie Family Cookbook provides you with every veg-forward recipe you will ever need, whether you&#39;re a vegetarian family or simply looking for easy ways to get everyone eating more veg. Including Broad Bean Falafels and Spring Rolls for lunchbox heroes, Fried Rice with Tofu and loaded veg traybakes for speedy suppers, ideas for veggie feasts for celebrations and weekends, and fruity desserts that can be rustled up in no time, this book is jam-packed with inspirational ideas for the curious home cook.

Claire Thomson is a chef, food writer and a constant source of family-cooking inspiration to her 200,000 Instagram followers. Claire has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, BBC Good Food Magazine and Delicious and is a Guild of Food Writers award winner for Tomato. She has appeared on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch and BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. On her podcast The 5 O’Clock Apron, she chats and chops with people from other professions about what they cook for dinner. @5oclockapron

70 All-in-One Chicken Recipes For Simple Meals, Every Day

One Pan Chicken

A staple of every kitchen, this is the ultimate guide to cooking chicken in just one pan. Providing solutions for if you&rsquo;re cooking in the oven, on the stovetop, or need to use up leftovers, best-selling author and professional chef Claire Thomson offers up her best 70 recipes with chicken as star of the show, revealing just how simple it is to create delicious one-pan meals that all of the family will love. Whether you&rsquo;re using a casserole dish, roasting pan, baking tray, frying pan, or stockpot, you&rsquo;ll find delicious and inventive recipes using all your favourite and most popular cuts, including Chicken Piccata, Miso Butter Chicken and Chicken Wrapped with Ham and fried with Sage and Grapes, to Caesar Salad, &lsquo;Get Better Soon&rsquo; Chicken Soup and Peri Peri Chicken. There are even whole bird recipes, to gather everyone around the table, like Chicken Roasted with Fennel and Bay, Roast Chicken with Porcini and Truffle Stuffing to wow friends, and Whole Poached Chicken with Tarragon. An essential cookbook for easy mealtime solutions, or simply if you want to explore new flavours and techniques, One Pan Chicken is a practical and dynamic source of kitchen inspiration.

80 Recipes Celebrating the Extraordinary Tomato

Tomato

Winner of Delicious magazine&rsquo;s Book of the Year award (2022)Vibrant, bright and bursting with flavour, this is the definitive guide to the much-loved tomato. Where would we be without the tomato? From South America, on through much of Europe, Northern Africa and Southern Asia, almost every culture and cuisine has found ways of making tomatoes their own. Fresh and also tinned, tomatoes have proved themselves to be an endlessly versatile ingredient, much loved by all. In Tomato, best-selling author and professional chef Claire Thomson offers up her best 80 recipes with tomatoes as star of the show. From Burnt tomato salsa and Peach, tomato &amp; feta salad, to Tomato beignets, Crab &amp; tomato tart, and Lamb, tomato &amp; black olive ragu, the gorgeous recipes will satisfy and delight. Celebrating juicy, seasonal produce at the height of tomato season, there are also dishes that work just as well (or better) with tinned tomatoes during the colder months, ensuring year-round feasting. A fascinating cookbook for when you&rsquo;re stuck with a glut, or simply if you want to explore new flavours and techniques, Tomato is a colourful and dynamic source of kitchen inspiration.

From Quick Fixes to Family Feasts, 70 Recipes, All on the Move

Camper Van Cooking

Camper Van Cooking offers 70 recipes and meal solutions that will make the road trip a breeze.Life on wheels doesn&#39;t have to mean eating out of cans and packets: from the romance of fireside cooking, to cooking on one burner, through easy lunches, greedy brunches and leisurely picnics, and simple sweets and treats, there are so many inspiring options.Chefs Claire Thomson and Matt Williamson have all the advice, tips and tricks you will need to plan the food for your trip, from essential equipment to basic store cupboard staples. The fabulous recipes include spinach and paneer curry, egg-fried rice, frying pan toad-in-the-hole, Spanish tortilla sandwiches, Bloody Mary prawn subs, toasted waffles with grated chocolate, one-pan fry-up, cherry chocolate mess, and raspberry ripple rice pudding.Make your camper van feasts special with Camper Van Cooking and enjoy life on the wild side!

Whether you're cooking on the go or not this summer, this book is a fabulous collection of family-friendly recipes that everyone will love.

Claire Thomson (Author) Claire Thomson is a chef, food writer and a constant source of family-cooking inspiration to her 200,000 Instagram followers. Claire has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, BBC Good Food Magazine and Delicious and is a Guild of Food Writers award winner for Tomato. She has appeared on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch and BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. On her podcast The 5 O’Clock Apron, she chats and chops with people from other professions about what they cook for dinner. @5oclockapron Matt Williamson (Author) Matt Williamson is a New Zealand-born chef and home economist with over 20 years' experience of working in restaurants all over the world, including running his own renowned Bristol restaurant, Flinty Red.

Four Seasons, Over 200 Recipes for All Possible Occasions

Home Cookery Year

"You could cook non-stop from this book for, indeed, a year, without ever getting bored! With over 200 recipes, and with an expansive flavour palette, it is a boon for those in a cooking rut." &ndash; Nigella Lawson"this book is very timely... and there are so many wantable dishes here... Among the dishes calling me are sausage and fennel focaccia rolls; squash baked with beer, cheese, cream and pretzels; and cherry Bakewell pudding." &ndash; Diana Henry, Telegraph"What a beauty... imaginative, appealing recipes grounded in good sense... you can taste the experience, that these are lived recipes." &ndash; Rachel Roddy"the one cook book you really need this autumn is this practical work from the ever-inventive Thomson" &ndash; Independent"One of my tests of how much I am excited by a new cookbook is how many recipes I feel driven to mark with a Post-It note. With Home Cookery Year I suddenly realised I was Post-It noting nearly every page." &ndash; Bee WilsonHome Cookery Year is the new essential kitchen bible, year-round and every day. Claire Thomson writes foolproof, imaginative recipes to please the whole family &ndash; as a professional chef and mum of three, she understands what it&rsquo;s like to whip up tasty, crowd-pleasing dishes in minimal time at the end of a busy working day.Wearing its seasonality lightly, with the emphasis on usefulness and practicality, Home Cookery Year offers mealtime solutions for:<ul><li>midweek emergencies</li><li>cooking&#160;on a budget</li><li>on a budget and storecupboard recipes</li><li>salads and light lunches</li><li>treat yourself (indulgent dishes for special occasions)</li><li>celebration feasts</li></ul>Every recipe you will ever need is in here, for every occasion, with twists on classics, and super ideas for jaded palates for young and old alike.

Delicious, unboring family-friendly recipes for any eventuality. Properly useful.

10 Essential Ingredients, 120 Recipes - Revolutionize the Way You Cook, Every Day

New Kitchen Basics

"Claire is a clever cook who writes recipes, which are useful, affordable and practical (not as easy as it sounds). This is a book filled with recipes which you WILL cook, new ideas and twists on old friends. Bravo Claire, a lovely book in every way." &ndash; Anna JonesMost of us buy the same ingredients week in, week out, and cook the same old recipes. Cookery writer Claire Thomson wants to encourage people to ditch the boring chicken stir-fry, the all-too-predictable spag bol and dreary fish pie, and enliven their cooking and eating.Claire takes our 10 favourite supermarket ingredients and reinvents them as modern classics. With sections on chicken, tomatoes, eggs, cheese, minced meat, pasta, potatoes, salad, lemon and chocolate, each chapter covers the basics about that ingredient, then offers recipes using each in ways that will brighten up mealtimes. Claire&#39;s cooking is simple yet imaginative, and her kitchen expertise and knowledge of flavour combinations mean that these dishes will become your new standby meals.This is the new essential cookbook, a modern solution to the eternal question: "What shall I cook tonight?"

Claire Thomson

Creative Recipes Using Beans, Chickpeas and Lentils for Everyday Meals

Best-selling author and professional chef Claire Thomson offers up her best 70 recipes with pulses as star of the show, revealing just how simple it is to create delicious one-pan meals that all of the family will love. 
 
 Beans, chickpeas and lentils&#160;are so versatile &ndash; you can roast, bake, fry, stew them, or make salads, soups, dips and snacks from them and reap the rewards of their nutritious goodness. They are full to bursting with protein and fibre, iron, potassium and folate and are loved the world over. Drawing inspiration from across the globe, Claire showcases recipes that will inspire you to choose pulses as your budget-friendly midweek go-to ingredient. From Turkish Lentil Tomato Soup and Pasta e Fagioli to Pork Belly with Butter Beans and Sage,&#160;One Pan Beans is a practical and dynamic source of kitchen inspiration.

Claire Thomson

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