This guide offers expert advice on selecting the best cheeses and creating beautiful cheese boards. It provides insights into pairing cheeses with various beverages, including wines, fortified wines, ciders, beers, and whiskeys, ensuring a delightful tasting experience. Perfect for both beginners and seasoned enthusiasts, it enhances your understanding of flavor combinations and presentation techniques.
According to the Government's nutritional standards, a child's lunch should contain at least one portion each of fruit and veg, protein (meat or alternative), dairy products and starchy food, such as bread or pasta. But a recent survey found that nine out of ten children still take packed lunches to school that contain too much saturated fat, sugar and salt. The Healthy Lunchbox is full of suggestions and ideas to help you provide your child with an appetizing and appealing meal each day. It will explain why many lunchboxes are unhealthy. What a healthy lunch should consist of. What children and adults of different ages should have (size of portions etc). Seasonality. Variety. Encouraging children to experiment. Personalising your lunchbox and making your lunchbox special. How to adapt your lunchbox for different age groups. How to get over children's fears of being different. Dealing with the reluctant/fussy eater and the overweight. Dealing with pester power. How to get kids involved in making their own. What children from other countries take to school. Lunchbox notes. Finally how to plan a week's meals on the basis of one or two shopping expeditions, and a table with a month's suggestions for lunch boxes, as well as food safety and food hygiene.
Beyond Baked Beans, is firmly geared towards revolutionising the way that students eat. Dispensing with patronising assumptions and cartoon-style design, this is a book for the student who wants to prepare meals that are worthy of the name, not just 'grub'. Every angle is covered, from simple meals-for-one to communal kitchen banquets. A must-have cookery book for the post-Jamie generation in search of great food and fun times around the table.
Comprising more than 300 recipes, this book is suitable for students.
Here’s an indispensable companion for anyone who likes to indulge in that just-right mix of delicious wine and fabulous food. Fiona Beckett is one of the UK’s most respected authorities on how to pair up these two pleasures of life, and in this practical, compact guide she matches a multitude of dishes—from soups to seafood, chorizo to chocolate—to a variety of wines in all price brackets. Whatever you like to eat, Beckett lets you into the secrets of picking the perfect glass to go with it.
Explore a collection of over 70 recipes that highlight the culinary possibilities of cooking with wine. This book offers a variety of delicious dishes, showcasing how wine can enhance flavors and elevate meals. Each recipe is designed to inspire both novice and experienced cooks, making it easy to incorporate this magical ingredient into everyday cooking.
Fiona Beckett presents over 70 recipes for cooking with wine - the magic ingredient. Throughout this amazingly informative book, food writer Fiona Beckett expands on the idea that cooking with wine is an easy way to make meals special. Starting with Soups, Salads & Appetizers, there are recipes such as Warm Scallop Salad with Crispy Pancetta and Parsnip Crisps, Radicchio and Blue Cheese Salad with Moscatel and Honey Dressing and Pea Velouté. The next chapter, Pasta and Grains, includes Sticky Pork Mac'n'Cheese, Slow-cooked Ragu and Red Wine Spaghetti with Olives, Garlic and Anchovy. Fish & Seafood has recipes for Moules Mariniéres with Muscadet, Fine Wine Fish Pie and Cioppino Fish Stew. Meat and Chicken features a classic Coq Au Vin and a delicious Duck Casserole with Red Wine, Cinnamon and Olives. Try some of the surprisingly good recipes in the Vegetable Dishes and Pulses/Legumes section such as Caponata and Chestnut, Mushroom and Madeira Tarts. The book rounds off with delightful Sweet Things & Baking with Peaches in Prosecco and Chocolate & Cabernet Pots, then concludes with Sauces, Butters & Relishes. Each dish includes a recommended wine match to ensure every meal will be a perfect marriage of food and wine.
Fiona Beckett is the author of more than 10 books including Fiona Beckett's Cheese Course and Food, Wine & friends (Cico) and How to Match Food and Wine (Mitchell Beazley). She is the wine writer for the Guardian and her Matching Food and Wine website has followers around the world, with 230k unique users a month, 17k registered subscribers and a social media reach of over 130k across all channels. Fiona outlines the rise of teetotalism and the health benefits of including alcohol-free days as part of a healthy lifestyle. This beautiful and inspiring book includes tips and recipes for flavoring waters, creating rhubarb bellinis and marmalade bucks fizz, as well as delicious cardamom syrups, roiboos tea punch and root beer floats. Whether you wish to create a watermelon cooler or an alcohol-free fruit punch to get a party started or simply wish to make a pair of herb-flavored spritzes for a Friday night in, this book proves that 'no-lo' drinks are every bit as interesting as alcohol. Learn how to create flavorsome, delicious drinks so that anyone can join in a party or celebration. Sections include water, drinks made with nonalcoholic wine, drinking vinegars and shrubs, syrups and cordials, alcohol-free and low-alcohol cocktails, wines, beers and spirits.
Was gibt es Schöneres, als mit Freunden und Familie gemütlich beisammen zu sitzen, sich zu unterhalten und dabei zu schlemmen und zu genießen? Dies ist jedoch für die Gastgeber meist mit viel Arbeit verbunden, müssen sie doch für einen reibungslosen Ablauf des Mahls sorgen. Mit diesem Buch gelingt jede Einladung - sei sie ein lockerer Brunch in der Küche unter Freunden oder ein offizielles Familienfest am Abend. Wertvolle Tipps, worauf man achten sollte und was man im Vorfeld schon erledigen kann, sowie informative Ratschläge zu Gedeck, Getränken und Dekoration sind nur die Einleitung für zahlreiche delikate Rezepte aus aller Welt, die die Gaumen Ihrer Gäste verzaubern werden. So wird jede Einladung ein Erfolg!