Cookbooks
I’ve written four award-winning cookbooks: Alice’s Food A-Z to help kids get curious about food, In Praise of Veg to help households fall in love with vegetables and Better Cooking to help build cooking confidence. Cookbook number 4 – Salad for Days helps give every cook the tools to make friends with salad.
NEW! OUT NOW
Salad for Days
Salad for Days is both a seasonal reference guide and a daily roster to boost your repertoire, packed with inspiration. There’s 80 different dressings, one for each of the salads. Not sure what salad dressing mood you’re in? I’ve got you, with choose-your-salad-mood options. Spicy and funky, zippy and zesty, rich and creamy, bright and light AND bonus crunchy bits to match your salad mood.
But wait, there’s more! One you’ve picked your mood, what’s the weather like? This book has your decision making covered with the Warmer Days and Cooler Days sections.
Feeling like something refreshing and cooling on a warmer day? Try the Relaxed Chopped Salad, or the Gado Gado Platter with pantry satay sauce.
For warming and grounding on cooler days, try the Calamari and Shell Pasta Salad, classics like a Frisée or Carrot & Wild Rice Salad with Marmalade Dressing. That marmalade dressing is going to rock your world!
This is a pesco book but there’s always substitutions. Check the index in the back of the book once you know what you have in the fridge to use up and you’ll be riffing your way to a delicious salad in no time.
MORNING TEA AND BOOK SIGNING – SAT NOV 23
Collins Booksellers – Ballarat on Lydiard
Join me for morning tea, a chat and book signing to celebrate the launch of Salad for Days.
Please pop in anytime during the allocated hour – I’ll be there for the whole time!
WHERE: 22 Lydiard Street North Ballarat Central, VIC 3350
WHEN: Saturday 23rd November 11am – 12pm
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Kind Words
International Best seller
Better Cooking
Let me lead you on a journey to confident, intuitive cooking — because if you already enjoy the eating part, you have everything it takes to get better at the cooking part too. This vibrant kitchen manual contains stacks of vegetable-forward recipes that you’ll want to cook on a weekly basis and handy kitchen skills and thrills, to help build the foundations for a lifetime of better cooking. With Better Cooking there’s no pressure to be a perfect cook, but everyone can aspire to be a better cook, and therein lies the fun.
To help all cooks — from beginner to experienced — become better cooks, every recipe, tip and trick acts as another stepping stone to finding joy and confidence in the kitchen. Inside, you’ll find chapters including:
- Slapdash: really outstanding stuff simply thrown together
- On Autopilot: your new go-tos for quick and easy weeknight meals
- Making the Most of It: what to do with all those leftovers
- Loosen Your Shoulders: weekend projects and entertaining
- Seriously Good Sweeties: like, seriously good
Whether you’re already a dab hand, you’re a reluctant home cook who finds cooking a bit meh, or you’re starting from ‘which way do I hold a knife?’, Better Cooking has all the inspiration, hand-holding and cheerleading you need to relax into the rhythm and truly enjoy your time in the kitchen.
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Kind Words
2021 ABIA Winner
In Praise of Veg
In Praise of Veg has been translated into six languages (and counting!) in 14 countries, winning an ABIA in Australia, a Gastronomisch gold medal in Germany, a nomination for cookbook of the year in The Netherlands and a berth as a James Beard finalist in North America.
In this comprehensive and fully illustrated kitchen companion, 50 favourite vegetable varieties are profiled, offering 150+ recipes reflective of both tradition and modernity, just as all good cooking should be. Uniquely organised by colour and filled with countless tips on flavour combinations, rule-of-thumb buying/storing/cooking methods, shortcuts, and veg wisdom from over 50 of the world’s top chefs, In Praise of Veg will help beginners and avid cooks alike turn a bag of yawns or a produce-box surprise into a knock-out meal.
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Kind Words
Children’s book
Alice’s Food A to Z
My first book for young foodies takes readers on an edible adventure; packed with delicious facts, clever cooking tips and kid-approved recipes.
Young readers will be captivated by a feast of information: from avocados to zucchini and everything in between. The aim is to inspire a love of food in kids with this tasty book that’s full of all the things you ever wanted to know about food – and also some things you probably didn’t!
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Kind Words
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