Join Katie Stewart in the kitchen and learn from a well-seasoned chef’s personal recipe archive. Her approach is straightforward yet thoughtful, simple yet impressive. With over 450 recipes—including everything from smoked salmon to teabreads to fresh cream fudge—this all-encompassing cookbook will guide you through nearly every culinary situation the amateur chef could encounter.

Here is the very best of the best! A superb collection of Katie Stewart's favourite recipes for everyday meals and special occasions, including appetising soups, imaginative salads, delicious ways of preparing meat and poultry, and unusual sweet pickled fruits and desserts. Every recipe has been tested and they are all practical and straightforward - the hallmark that makes Katie Stewart the writer both experienced cooks and beginners turn to time and time again.

To help you follow the recipes with confidence, each section contains invaluable cookery hints and secrets gleaned from years of experience and a real understanding of food. And the cross-referenced Good Ideas index features suggestions for dishes to serve at dinner parties, barbecues, picnics and buffets as well as family meals - an indispensable aid to planning menus.

"Katie's recipes are always practical and interesting and this is a collection of her best ones. It is a model of clarity, and the general hints and tips peppered throughout are very useful... I have no hesitation in recommending it to you"
DELIA SMITH

"What makes it different from so many others are the little 'How to do better' sections... the book is packed with such hints, together with a sumptuous variety of recipes - not all of them complicated or expensive or difficult by a long way - many beautifully illustrated"
DAILY MAIL

"Fresh, inviting, stylish recipes in a bumper collection"
WOMAN AND HOME

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