Book Club | In The Kitchen

Nostrana

Bri DiMattina

Nostrana means homegrown, ours; growing food with the intent of sharing it. Inspired by her Italian grandparents’ vegetable garden, Bri DiMattina started her own edible pantry in her back garden and discovered the joys of bringing food from seed to table.

Flavour Kiss

Belinda McDonald

More than 150 simple keto-centric recipes full of goodness to make you smile. There’s something for everyone, from easy mid-week meals to snack-alicious tapas for entertaining, an abundant veggie section and the sassiest of sweets packed with lusciousness.

The dishes range from Spicy Peanut Butter Kimchi Noodles to Chilli Caramel Pork Belly, Greek Lamb Skewers and a summer strawberry tart to a truly fabulous keto Christmas cake.

Take your wholefood and keto cooking to another level with Bel’s help!

Sweet Enough: A Baking Book

Alison Roman

Casual, effortless, chic: These are not words you’d use to describe most desserts. But before Alison Roman made recipes so perfect that they go by one name—The Cookie, The Pasta, The Lemon Cake—she was a restaurant pastry chef who spent most of her time learning to make things the hard way. She studied flavor, technique, and precision, then distilled her knowledge to pare it all down to create dessert recipes that feel special and approachable, impressive and doable. In Sweet Enough, Alison has written the book for people who think they don’t have the time or skill to pull off dessert. Here, the desserts you want to make right away, you can make right away.Alison shows you how to make simple yet sublime sweets with her trademark casualness, like how to make jam in the oven, then turn that jam into a dessert—swirled into ice cream or folded into easy one-bowl cake batter. (Opening a jar of jam is more than fine, too.) She waxes poetic on the virtues of frozen fruit and teaches you the best way to throw your own Sundae Party. There are effortless cakes that take just minutes to get into a pan. And there are new, instant classics with a signature Alison twist, like Salted Lemon Pie, Raspberries and Sour Cream, Toasted Rice Pudding, or a Caramelised Maple Tart. Requiring little more than your own two hands and a few mixing bowls, the recipes are geared towards those without fancy equipment or specialty ingredients.Whether you’re a dedicated baker or, better yet, someone who doesn’t think they are a baker, Sweet Enough lets you finish any dinner, any party, or any car ride to a dinner party with a little something wonderful and sweet.

From Salt to Jam: Make Kitchen Magic With Sauces, Seasonings And More Flavour Sensations

Katrina Meynink

It’s flavour-powered cooking made easy: From Salt To Jam offers foolproof recipes for hardworking condiments – pastes, dressings, sauces, seasonings and jams – that unlock 100 just-plain-delicious meals for the whole family.

Cook, mum, and straight-talking kitchen superstar Katrina Meynink knows how hard it can be to get dinner on the table. The columnist for popular Australian website Good Food has mastered the art of ‘throw in a bowl and call it a meal’ wizardry.

Discover delicious hacks and time-saving tips to get off the culinary treadmill and make memorable dishes from midweek to Saturday night. Use the ultimate ranch dressing to make slow roasted spiced brisket, or perfect caramel sauce to whip up smoky no-churn ice cream. Tahini dressing powers a Middle Eastern-inspired lasagne, while olive tapenade transforms savoury French toast.

With everything from chicken salt to jalapeno jam, lemon curd to spicy harissa, this brilliant book is your guide to sauce-laden, cook-it-again success.

Strong, Sweet and Bitter: Your Guide to All Things Cocktails, Bartending and Booze from Behind the Bar

Cara Devine

Strong, Sweet and Bitter is the debut cocktail recipe book from Cara Devine, hostess of the popular YouTube series Behind the Bar.

Diving into the fundamental ‘Flavour Triangle’ of drink mixing, Strong, Sweet and Bitterreveals how flavour can help you craft a drink from just about anything on hand, from classic cocktails to their lesser-known but equally delicious counterparts.

It’s never too late to learn the basics of cocktail-making, and this guide will help even the most experienced bartenders learn how to make a base from scratch. Cara also includes loads of helpful insights, from the science of ingredients and equipment to fun facts and the history of each drink – because who doesn’t love a good story to go along with your cocktail?

Sectioned by cocktail-type, this book has a drink to match all moods and tastes.