Become a MasterChef in your own kitchen Impress your friends and family with MasterChef at Home, the fantastic follow-up to The MasterChef Cookbook. With over 200 recipes from the three 2010 series, as well as nine complete menus from the winners, and top tips on how to present your food, for a real show-stopping feast. MasterChef is an incredibly popular BBC1 show with over 7.8 million viewers tuning in for the finale in 2010. All the techniques for preparation, cooking and presentation are demonstrated in step-by-steps. To make MasterChef at Home a true companion to the series, judges John Torode and Michel Roux offer handy hints, and MasterTips throughout to demonstrate the best flavour combinations and how to make the most of unusual ingredients. MasterChef at Home is the perfect addition to the kitchen of any budding MasterChef.
A volume of deeply personal comfort food recipes by the legally blind Master Chef champion offers insight into how the loss of her sight compelled her to learn to cook by sense, drawing on her experiences with both Vietnamese and American culinary cultures to share advice on how to produce professional results in a home kitchen.
In the first cookbook from Graham Elliot, cohost of the popular Fox series MasterChef and MasterChef Junior, 100 deliciously creative recipes show home cooks the basics of cooking and combining flavors—and then urge them to break the rules and put their own spin on great meals. Graham Elliot wants everyone to cook. To push up their sleeves and get some good food on the table. It’s Graham’s simple philosophy that, while there is no right or wrong when it comes to creativity in the kitchen, you will benefit from knowing some time-honored methods that enable you to serve tasty meals to your family day after day, week after week. So, to teach you his methods and infuse some fun into the process, he’s written Cooking Like a Master Chef, an easygoing, accessible guide for the home cook to create delicious, beautiful food for every occasion. Grouped by season (without being a strictly seasonal cooking book), Graham’s 100 recipes are illustrated with gorgeous, full-color photographs and accompanied by simple, straightforward instructions—with great twists for every palate. That’s because being a top-notch chef or a talented home cook means being a free thinker, spontaneous, like a jazz musician. Cooks need to change the music every so often—once they’re comfortable with the basics—to stay on their toes and infuse their routine with new excitement and energy. Here you’ll find recipes for pork chops with root beer BBQ sauce, halibut BLTs, buffalo chicken with Roquefort cream, corn bisque with red pepper jam and lime crema, smoked salmon with a dill schmear and bagel chips, truffled popcorn, and much more. Kids will love whipped yams with roasted turkey, potato gnocchi with brown butter, PBJ beignets, and classic banana splits. It’s no wonder so many people love Graham and his energetic creativity in the kitchen. With Cooking Like a Master Chef, now you can learn to be a skilled, resourceful, and endlessly inventive cook who makes food everyone, adults and kids alike, will absolutely relish.
Everything you need to know to become a winner in your own kitchen The MasterChef Kitchen Bible - all the know-how you need to become a MasterChef in your own kitchen. Featuring 100 classic recipes essential for every chef's repertoire from Eggs Benedict to luscious Lemon Tart and 30 iconic recipes from the TV series. Impress your friends by filleting flat fish or baking a perfect soufflé with 150 skills classes and find out the recommended kit all aspiring MasterChefs should have from the best knives to the perfect pans. Plus, "Ingredients Know-How" sections will point you in the right direction demonstrating favourite flavour pairings and tips on what's in season when so you can create a winning menu. Do you know an aspiring MasterChef? If so, then the MasterChef Kitchen Bible is the perfect gift for them.
Creativity, hard work, and lots of fun—that’s what it takes to cook like a master. Beloved television competition show MasterChef Junior fosters all of this within each of its pint-size home cooks, and what they whip up is truly impressive. This book aims to give any aspiring young chef the tools he or she needs to hone essential cooking skills, with 100 recipes inspired by dishes that the contestants served in the first five seasons, as well as timeless techniques, tips, and advice. With this book, anyone can become an excellent cook.
Sweeten Any Occasion with Bold, Unforgettable Desserts From Brown Butter Ghee Shortbread Cookies to Pomegranate Curd Brownies, these decadently spiced, versatile recipes are a joy to make and share. Drawing inspiration from her Indian-American upbringing and experience on MasterChef, Hetal Vasavada infuses every creation with the flavors of her heritage. The results are remarkable treats like Mango Lassi French Macarons and Ginger–Chai Chocolate Pot de Crème. Whip up a batch of small sweets (mithai) like Sesame Seed Brittle and Bourbon Biscuits, or impress guests with a fantastic breakfast like Banana Custard Brioche Donuts. The Gulab Jamun Cake, inspired by the quintessential Indian dough-balls soaked in spiced syrup, is the perfect showstopper for any gathering. Simple techniques and smart shortcuts make it easy to create familiar flavors or experiment with new ones. With delectable ingredients like ginger, cardamom, saffron, fennel and rose, every bite is worth celebrating.
From passionate home cook to Australia's most popular food blogger, Lorraine Elliott has her cake and eats it too – and she's never been happier. Lorraine Elliott has long been a food enthusiast who believes cakes belong in an art gallery. Not so long ago she decided to ditch her day job as a highly paid media strategist to cook, eat and write – even though she's not quite Nigella. Now her fabulous food blog Not Quite Nigella is the go-to internet destination for hundreds of thousands of foodies from around the world. This is the story behind that journey. With her irresistible humour and optimism, Lorraine reveals the pitfalls, triumphs and challenges of becoming a full-time food blogger, and shares the best of her new-found wisdom: the secret to winning a man's heart through food, the key to baking perfect macarons, tips on hosting unforgettable dinner parties, and how to create a successful blog. More than a celebration of food, Not Quite Nigella is the inspiring and delightful story of how one woman set about turning a dream into a reality.
As cooks, whether that be in a professional or home kitchen, there is one goal that many of us are trying to achieve right now: to cook more sustainably, to waste less and to have a lighter footprint on our environment. To cook greener. A big step in achieving this is for us all to make the step towards a more vegetable-led diet, and this book is packed with a comprehensive selection of vegetarian recipes, including a large number which are suitable for vegans. Accessible and simple, yet utterly delicious, the 100 recipes within these pages will delight home cooks and embody the MasterChef philosophy of 'ordinary people cooking extraordinary food'. Whether it's a quick and simple dinner using whatever you might have at hand or a weekend feast to show off your MasterChef skills, there is something for even the hungriest of carnivores in these pages. With contributions from 10 MasterChef champions from around the world, recipes include: Smashed broad bean and peas on sourdough with goat's cheese, dukkah and mint Puy lentil salad with charred tenderstem broccoli and miso dressing Aubergine schnitzel with fennel, chilli and yoghurt coleslaw Mushroom and lentil lasagne ... and many more. Each and every recipe will be complemented with a stunning photograph, and a beautiful, fresh book design will ensure this is something that everyone, from meat-lovers to vegans, want to have on their shelves.
The winner of MasterChef season 5 shares her food philosophy, weaving nostalgia into recipes that bring both comfort and dazzle to the table. The number-one prime-time summer program on FOX, MasterChef, is a nationwide competition to find the best home cook in the country. The judges are some of cooking’s biggest stars—award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay, restaurateur and winemaker Joe Bastianich, and acclaimed chef Graham Elliot. The prize? A chance to win $250,000—and a cookbook deal. This book celebrates the food of Season 5 winner, Courtney Lapresi. Courtney came out as a firecracker, blowing the judges away time and again with her skills and confidence. She is a home cook who knows how to make decadence approachable, and that’s exactly what she’s done here. The book showcases the dishes that propelled Courtney to victory, such as her flawless honey cake with berry coulis and vanilla whipped cream; duck breast with sumac, faro, and morels; and her family recipe for pizza. The recipes are introduced by headnotes that offer anecdotes about Courtney’s childhood and insights into how she became the dazzling winner of MasterChef Season 5. The book will be a delight for home cooks and MasterChef fans everywhere. “Courtney Lapresi cooks and dances to her own beat and as this book proves, it makes the food world a better place to live. Simple, elegant, and most importantly, delicious!”—Graham Elliot, MasterChef judge
