The Kitchen Book

The new cookbook from award-winning writer Ella Risbridger, which promises to make your life pointlessly, deliciously, ten per cent more lovely.

Ella Risbridger invites you into her kitchen and shares her favourite recipes that slip neatly and effortlessly into regular rotation. This is a book of things that are worth it: dishes that deliver even when you don't have an abundance of time or energy. There are weeknight dinners like Cumin Lamb Noodle Ragu and Cure-All One-Pan Beans, or kitchen counter meals like Spring Onion Cornbread and Green Chickpea Quesadillas. Ella also gives plenty of options for roasting a chicken, hosting elegant and stress-free gatherings, and a failsafe cookie formula for all occasions and emergencies.

These are recipes for life, dishes that beg to be cooked on repeat and shortcuts for making the week ahead feel special instead of overwhelming. Make them work with whatever you have at home, fit them around your life and cook them so often that you (almost) forget where they came from.

The Kitchen Book will improve your life on a small but daily basis by elevating the things you eat – mostly dinner, often snacks, sometimes lunch – with only slightly more effort. With big flavours, new ideas and classic feelings, it meets you exactly where you are, wherever you need it to find you.