The Kitchen Book

The new cookbook from award-winning writer Ella Risbridger. Home cooking, but make it gorgeous. Make it just, like, 10% better. Make it the thing that makes your day better.

From kale caesar sandwiches, no-knife potato curry, crispy leek latkes, pistachio chilli, Marmite soup, turmeric satay salmon, roasted raisin rice, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; to rhubarb and custard, lemon curd cake, one-bowl cannelés, and supermarket cherry pie; to bread, butter and breakfast bars: this is real-life cooking done right.

Featuring more than 100 delicious and achievable recipes that you’ll want to cook again and again, it’s about how to cook, how to eat, how to live, and how to make things nice.

With weeknight dinners, week-ahead shortcuts and kitchen counter meals, Ella Risbridger also gives plenty of options for roasting a chicken, hosting elegant and delightful gatherings, and a failsafe cookie formula for all occasions and emergencies. These are dishes that deliver even when you don’t have an abundance of time or energy, and all of them promise to make your life at least ten per cent more lovely (even after the washing up).

Make them; change them; fit them into your life, and cook them so often that you (almost) forget where they came from.