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River Cottage Fruit & Veg
£16.40£28.50 (-42%)
This deliciously nutritious package contains both River Cottage Veg Every Day! and River Cottage Fruit Every Day! in a smaller, flexible format and with bright, zesty covers. With more than 400 recipes, together they show you how to get more fruit and veg into your life, the River Cottage way. The veg-tastic recipes include a warm salad of grilled courgettes, lemon, garlic, mint and mozzarella, spelt salad with squash and fennel, herby, peanutty, noodly salad, north African squash and chickpea stew, baby carrot risotto, kale and mushroom lasagne, cheesy tomato tart, spring onion gallette, asparagus pizza, beetroot and walnut houmous, spinach pasties and barbecued corn on the cob. And the irresistibly fruity recipes include roast chicken with pomegranate, slow-roast lamb shoulder with spiced apricot sauce, venison stew with damsons, toad-in-the-hole with apples, roast bacon and figs, fried fish with pineapple salsa, parsnip and apple cakes, damson and walnut praline sundae, chocolate pear cake and salted chocolate lime mousse. It’s time to refresh and revitalise your cooking, and pack in more of that vibrant natural goodness every day!
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Additional information
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (19 Jun. 2014) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| ISBN-10 | 1408859300 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1408859308 |
| Dimensions | 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm |
by Essbee
I bought this for a mere £5. I looked at it at a supermarket and it was double that at £10 and the outer wrapper was torn.When I got home I looked at Amazon and it was full RRP at £20. A couple of weeks later it was reduced to £5 and it only took me an instant to click to buy.
The recipes are great. So far I’ve made a couple of soups and some of the quick meals. I can particularly recommend the mushroom soup. Simple but oh so tasty. I made a batch of the base stock and used it for other soups during the following couple of weeks.
Very easy to follow, good pictures, I’ve not made anything from the fruit recipes yet as I have been travelling but if they are on par with the veg book then I will be in for a treat.
by Fire Fox
A steal at just four quid (plus p&p) for the pair from an Amazon seller.
I have devoured ‘Veg Every Day’, choosing it over eating breakfast and lunch! Love the way it is laid out: not by season as with many vegetable cookbooks, but by meal type as often seen in meat and fish cookbooks. Sections entitled ‘comfort foods & feasts’, ‘hefty soups’ and ‘store cupboard suppers’ make it crystal clear this is not a collection of side dish recipes.
Also love HFW’s lengthy chapter and book introductions. It feels like he wrote ‘Fruit & Veg’ out of passion not because he was paid: they focus on food and food politics not HFW or his career.
My only tiny niggle is that the paperback covers are not laminated so will likely end up food splattered as I cook up a storm!
‘Fruit Every Day’ is just as mouthwatering and, pleasingly, many of the recipes have no added sugar nor fatty dairy. In fact there are more savoury salads, salsas, meat and seafood dishes than sweet treats.
Unlike ‘Veg Every Day’, ‘Fruit Every Day’ is grouped by family: ideal since much of the fruit I buy is yellow-stickered or a seasonal impulse purchase. The section on citrus fruits is the least inspiring, but I am excited to use berries and stone fruits with fish or in spring salads.
by Samkd
Purchased for my daughter who is a vegitarian and studying nutrition. She loved them so that probably says it all.
by D. M. Morton
Good recipes and useful to have on the shelf. Some things a little harder to make than usual – don’t have most of the ingredients in my store cupboard so need to shop for each recipe spcecifically. But that would change with time possibly.
by floorpie
Was given this as a wedding present and have since bought it for others. I don’t use ‘Fruit’ as often but ‘Veg’ is my absolute favourite recipe book. I do eat meat but only about once or twice a week and this is a great book for changing the way you think about cooking with vegetables. I particularly like the tapas/small plates section, his easy risotto recipes and the dahl.
Unlike other famous chefs, I find Hugh’s recipes easy to follow. He keeps it simple, doesn’t use huge lists of ingredients you’re not going to have, keeps it to one page with great photography of each dish, and I think almost anyone could make most of these. I hugely recommend getting this book.
by Sandra E
Great price; great books – what more can you ask?
by Amy
Absolutely love this book, so much so that I have purchased it numerous times as gifts for friends and family. Beautiful photographs that inspire beautiful meals. These books have revolutionised the meals I make my family and I’ve used vegetables that I would never previously have purchased from the supermarket!
by Janine Routley
Fantastic set of books. I’ve only had these books for a few days and have already cooked a few recipes from each one. You don’t need to be a vegetarian to want to cook and eat the recipes in the Veg book. The images in the books are great and the recipes are easy to follow and don’t include any ‘strange’ ingredients that would be hard to find in the local supermarket.