As our gardens and markets wake up from their winter sleep, it is time to relish the plant bounty around us. Vegetable-forward cookery has never tasted better, and these four books are a great resource of dishes fit to grace a vegetable feast.
For the long Easter weekend, fire up the oven, grab the spices and the mixing bowls, and try your hand at a new bake. This collection includes a sweetly spiced Easter Tea Ring, a beautifully layered Italian Easter pie, La Pastiera, a Neopolitan Easter Cake and traditional Ukrainian paska.
Curated collections from ckbk's editors
Chef Clare Coghill runs Café Cùil on the Isle of Skye. She is a native, born and bred on the Scottish island, where her family have run a hotel for more than 100 years. Skye is blessed with ane exceptional range of seasonal local produce, and at Café Cùil, Clare and here team make the most of this, including foraging for wild ingredients which grow locally. If you have never tried a wild gorse flapjack (or latte) you don’t know what you are missing.
‘The first thing to understand is that baking requires technique, attention to detail, and respect for processes. Talking about confectionery, small details make a huge difference in the final result.’ Luciana Corrêa
Pastry chef Luciana Corrêa has scoured ckbk’s collection of baking titles for top tips from experienced bakers to help you reliably achieve the best results with your cakes. Read below for her 15 key tips for cake making, and watch out for more culinary tips in future articles in this series.
With Saint Patrick's Day approaching on Tuesday 17 March, there’s every excuse to lean into the generous, comforting cooking of Ireland. It’s a cuisine that knows how to turn humble ingredients into something worth celebrating: potatoes, cabbage, butter, good bread and perhaps a splash of something warming in the glass. Just the sort of food that feels right while the weather still has a bite to it—and the kind that invites everyone to gather round the table and stay a while.
Congratulations to food writer Maria Kalenska on the publication of her brand new book Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook. We are thrilled to have it added to ckbk simultaneous with publication. An ambitious and heartfelt project, the book’s recipes tell the stories of their creators, and are arranged into sections reflecting Odesan life—eg. On a Sunny Morning: Breakfasts and Bites, and From the Garden: Fermenting, Pickling and Preserving.
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