Good Food, Good Life
Good Food, Good Life

Author: Curtis Stone

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2015-04

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0857981862

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"This collection is a celebration of the dishes that I absolutely love to make at home, from savouring their aromas while they cook right through to sharing them with the special people in my life." For internationally known chef Curtis Stone, cooking is a pleasurable journey, not just a destination. In this wonderful book featuring 130 of his favorite dishes, Curtis inspires us to turn meal preparation into a joy rather than a chore through delicious recipes, mouthwatering photographs, and handy make-ahead tips. He also shares plenty of heartwarming, personal stories from time spent in his kitchen and around the table with family and friends, reminding us that good food and a good life are intrinsically intertwined. His go-to recipes include- Light meals- Roasted Beetroot and Quinoa Salad with Goat Cheese, Fennel, and Pecans; Weeknight Navy Bean and Ham Soup; Pork Burger with Spicy Ginger Pickles Scene-stealing dinners- Porcini-Braised Beef with Horseradish Mascarpone, Herb-Crusted Rack of Lamb with Fennel; Potato and Zucchini Enchiladas with Habanero Salsa Family-style sides- Pan-Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Chorizo; Butternut Pumpkin with Sage and Brown Butter, Cheddar-and-Corn Cream Biscuits Sweet treats- Cherry-Amaretto Lattice Pie; Rum Pound Cake with Lime Glaze; Chilled Yellow Watermelon Soup with Summer Berries Favourite breakfasts- Crepes with Homemade Ricotta and Maple-Cumquat Syrup; Smoked Salmon Omelette with Goat Cheese and Beetroot Relish; Maple Bran Madeleines Satisfying snacks- Popcorn with Bacon and Parmesan; Bruschetta with Spring Pea Pesto and Burrata; Chocolate Hazelnut Milkshake; and many more Good Food, Good Life brings back the pleasure of cooking and the wonder of connection into your home.

Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone
Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone

Author: Curtis Stone

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 2010-10-20

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 0307885631

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“For me, there are few things that are more relaxing than lingering at the table with good friends . . . But I know that for a lot of people, putting together a meal, especially for guests, is the opposite of relaxing . . . I’m here to tell you: It doesn’t have to be that way.” —from the Introduction Aussie Curtis Stone, host of TLC’s Take Home Chef, is best known for his laid-back approach to cooking. Though he’s worked as head chef in several Michelin-starred London restaurants, some of his most memorable meals are the ones he’s shared with friends at home. Now, Curtis shows you how to have as much fun in the kitchen as your guests are sure to have over a comfortable, unforgettable meal. In Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone, you’ll find everything from “First Thing in the Morning” bites and “Brunches to Blow Their Minds” to “Weekend Lunches” and “Something to Eat on the Sofa.” With the home cook in mind, Curtis avoids off-putting culinary lingo and hard-to-find ingredients. Instead, he picks what’s in season and just around the corner. This down-to-earth approach results in wonderfully interesting and flavorful taste combinations that are perfect for parties or just hanging out with a close friend or loved ones. Recipes include: • Caramelized Nectarines with Yogurt and Honey • Crispy Tortilla with Ham, Chile, Spinach, and Fried Eggs • Heirloom Tomato and Burrata Salad with Pepper-Crusted New York Steak • Pan-Fried Calamari with Roasted Asparagus Salad • Homemade Salted Caramel Popcorn • Baby Baked Potatoes with Sour Cream and Chives • Sticky Chicken Drumsticks • Red Curry with Lobster and Pineapple • Veal Cutlet Coated in an Aged Jack Cheese Crust • Slowly Cooked Brisket with a BBQ Bourbon Sauce • Creamy Mascarpone and Parsley Polenta • Brownie Cupcakes These delicious recipes and Curtis’s infectiously easygoing attitude are all it takes to end your entertaining stress and get you and your guests into a relaxing mood.

What's for Dinner?
What's for Dinner?

Author: Curtis Stone

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0857981404

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Curtis Stone, host of Arena's hugely popular Top Chef Masters and the Discovery Channel's Around the World in 80 Plates, provides a culinary road map of time-saving kitchen solutions and delicious dishes for every day of the week. We're all busy. We can all appreciate using a recipe that we know will cut down on time, expense and even dishes. Curtis Stone maintains that the first step to ensuring a successful meal is to achieve confidence in the kitchen, and so this classically trained, world-renowned, celebrity chef has provided home cooks of all levels with 130 effortless, but inspired, fail-proof recipes that showcase ingredients and can be cooked quickly on any night of the week. He also provides dozens of notes on techniques, tricks and shortcuts that will make home cooking a fun and flavoursome experience for the whole family. Curtis's philosophy is cook, create, celebrate - and these dishes do just that.

Curtis Cooks with Heart & Soul
Curtis Cooks with Heart & Soul

Author: Curtis G. Aikens

Publisher: Wiillam Morrow Cookbooks

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780688140120

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The host of "From My Garden" combines staples from his childhood in Georgia with the greens and pasta of California-style cooking.

Martha Stewart's Vegetables
Martha Stewart's Vegetables

Author: Editors of Martha Stewart Living

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0307954455

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An essential resource for every cook In this beautiful book, Martha Stewart—one of America’s best-known cooks, gardeners, and all-around vegetable lovers—provides home cooks with an indispensable resource for selecting, storing, preparing, and cooking from the garden and the market. The 150 recipes, many of which are vegetarian, highlight the flavors and textures of everyday favorites and uncommon varieties alike. The recipes include: • Roasted Carrots and Red Quinoa with Miso Dressing • Swiss Chard Lasagna • Endive and Fennel Salad with Pomegranate Seeds • Asparagus and Watercress Pizza • Smoky Brussels Sprouts Gratin • Spiced Parsnip Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting Martha Stewart’s Vegetables makes eating your greens (and reds and yellows and oranges) more delicious than ever. — Los Angeles Times: Best Cookbooks of Fall 2016 — Newsday: Top 10 Cookbooks for 2016

In the Kitchen
In the Kitchen

Author: Michele Curtis

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2018-04-01

Total Pages: 1074

ISBN-13: 1743585551

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In The Kitchen is an updated version of the beloved original 2008 cookbook of the same name. Across 17 chapters are more than 700 recipes (plus more than 400 recipe variations), offering cooks a definitive guide to meals for every occasion and a fresh look at everyday favourites.

This new edition includes some sugar-free and gluten-free recipes, quinoa and kale, and a chapter dedicated to basics.

Chapters include: breakfast and brunch; bite-sized; soup; bowl food (pasta, seafood, rice and noodles); 30-minute dinners (chicken, duck, quail, beef, lamb, pork, seafood and vegetarian); roasts; spice; slow cooking; vegetables; salads; pastry (savoury and sweet); desserts and puddings; cakes; cookies and slices; bread; preserves; and the pantry (including basics from stocks, sauces and dressings to custards, icings and frostings).

It's as definitive as definitive gets for the home cook who wants to extend their repertoire – or for someone who is just starting out and wants to establish a foundation for good cooking and experimentation in the kitchen.

Seven Days, Seven Dinners: A Taste of What's For Dinner? (E-SHORT)
Seven Days, Seven Dinners: A Taste of What's For Dinner? (E-SHORT)

Author: Curtis Stone

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 034554434X

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The host of FOX’s My Kitchen Rules whips up an entire week’s worth of easy, tasty dinners in this exclusive ebook. A happy family starts with a home-cooked meal. But the demands of every day life—soccer games, dance recitals, late nights at the office—can present major challenges to getting dinner on the table each night. Curtis Stone’s Seven Days, Seven Dinners provides a week’s worth of delicious, doable dinner recipes. Inspired by his cookbook What’s for Dinner?, each dish is designed to feed a busy life with quick, easy, and affordable meals. • Motivating Monday: A healthy meal that starts the week off right • Time-Saving Tuesday: Dinner on the table in 35 minutes • One-Pot Wednesday: A flavorful dish made in just one skillet, leaving you with less cleanup • Thrifty Thursday: Feeding your family on a budget gives you more for less • Five-Ingredient Friday: A simple recipe that’s fun and helps kick off the weekend • Dinner Party Saturday: An extraordinary dinner to bring out your inner chef • Family Supper Sunday: A comforting family favorite made with lots of love Seven Days, Seven Dinners is sure to bring confidence to your kitchen and happiness to your table every night of the week.

Made in America
Made in America

Author: Lucy Lean

Publisher: Welcome Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1599621010

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Made in America: Our Best Chefs Reinvent Comfort Food, features updated classic recipes from the most innovative and remarkable chefs working today. Inspired by turn-of-the-20th century regional American cookbooks, Lucy Lean, former editor of edible LA, has delved through thousands of traditional recipes to define the 100 that best represent America's culinary legacy, and challenged today's leading chefs to deconstruct and rebuild them in entirely original ways. The result is the ultimate contemporary comfort food bible for the home cook and armchair food lover. Each recipe is enhanced with an introduction that includes the background and origin of the dish and a unique profile of the chef who has undertaken it, as well as sumptuous photographs of the dish, chef, and restaurant. Representing the entire United States, chefs have been selected for their accomplishments, talent, and focus on local and sustainable cooking. From Ludo Lefebvre's Duck Fat Fried Chicken to Alain Ducasse's French Onion Soup to Mario Batali's Pappardelle Bolognese to John Besh's Banana Rum Cake, Made in America showcases our favorite dishes as conceived by our finest chefs.

Relaxed Cooking With Curtis Stone
Relaxed Cooking With Curtis Stone

Author: Curtis Stone

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0857981218

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Filled with delicious recipes and Curtis's infectiously easy-going attitude, Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone will end your entertaining stress and get you and your guests into a relaxing mood! Australian chef Curtis Stone, host of US TV's hit Take Home Chef and regular judge on Channel 10's ratings-busting Masterchef, is best known for his laid-back approach to cooking. Though he's worked as head chef in several Michelin-starred London restaurants, some of his most memorable meals are the ones he's shared with friends at home. Now, Curtis shows you how to have as much fun in the kitchen as your guests are sure to have over a comfortable, unforgettable meal. In Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone, you'll find everything from 'First Thing in the Morning' bites and 'Brunches to Blow Their Minds to 'Weekend Lunches' and 'Something to Eat on the Sofa'. With the home cook in mind, Curtis avoids off-putting culinary lingo and hard-to-find ingredients and gives you a bunch of recipes that are fast, fresh and easy. Curtis picks what's in season and just around the corner. This down-to-earth approach results in wonderfully interesting and flavourful taste combinations that are perfect for parties or just hanging out with a close friend or loved ones.

Surfing the Menu
Surfing the Menu

Author: Ben O'Donoghue

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781554700820

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Surfing the Menu is based on the exciting eight-part cookery series of the same name, in which two talented chefs, Curtis Stone and Ben O'Donoghue, travel the rugged land and scenic coastline of Australia, sourcing local produce and cooking up a storm. Each chapter is drawn from one programme of the series, incorporating the recipes used, the places visited, and the people met along the way. With Australia now considered the hot spot for innovative cooking and with stunning location shots, this book is a must-have for those in love with food and this beautiful continent. The skills of the two chefs are evident throughout-- Curtis is currently heading an exciting new restaurant concept with The Conran Group and was previously head chef at Marco Pierre White's former eatery, Quo Vadis, in London, and Ben is head chef at London's celebrated The Atlantic Bar & Grill. Overall however, it is their abilities to communicate their love of food and life that make this a delicious and inspiring collection of mouth-watering dishes.