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Ainsley’s Mediterranean Cookbook

Delicious, easy recipes that celebrate the best of the Med.  All the recipes from Ainsley's brand-new ITV1 10-part series.

Ainsley Harriott is nothing short of a cookery legend; a pioneer in quick and easy home cooking, he has hosted some of the UK's most popular culinary series. His love of food and people, together with his natural curiosity and accessible recipes, make him a much-loved British TV personality. Recent popular ITV shows include Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen, Ainsley Mediterranean Cookbook, Ainsley's Food We Love and now Ainsley's Good Mood Food.

Travel the Med without leaving your kitchen. 
 
Join national treasure Ainsley Harriott on his culinary journey through the Mediterranean discovering the very best recipes to cook back home. 
 
 Ainsley’s Mediterranean Cookbook includes all the recipes from his major 10-part ITV1 series. Journeying through Spain, Sardinia, Morocco, Corsica and Jordan, Ainsley shows how easy and enjoyable it can be to make fresh, healthy, delicious meals. 
 
From simple salads and dips to everyday favourites like pasta and risottos, satisfying meats, flavoursome vegetarian mains and light fish dishes, Ainsleys’s recipes are perfect for a relaxed gathering of family and friends or hassle-free midweek meal. 
 
Recipes include: 
Corsican mint omelette 
Moroccan vegetable and sesame seed parcels 
Courgette, lemon and pecorino spaghetti 
Butternut squash and sweet potato tagine 
Nutty pearl couscous with feta and dates 
Aromatic fish pilaf 
Pasta shells with sausage, tomato and fennel sauce 
Hazelnut and chocolate cake 
Orange and cinnamon hot chocolate

Delicious feelgood cooking from the sunshine islands. All the recipes from the major ITV series

Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen

Primetime cookery tie-in from one of our most popular and trusted TV cookery icons, following recent ITV travel cookery successes, Gino’s Italian Escape (117k TCM) and James Martin’s French Adventure (63k TCM)

"I can't recommend this book highly enough. Never pretentious, always fun, it reflects Ainsley Harriott's persona wonderfully." The Telegraph on Saturday 
 
The stunning official tie-in to Ainsley’s major ITV1 show includes all the recipes from the series. 
 
Join the nation’s favourite TV cook on his food adventure. Ainsley Harriott is going back to his roots to uncover the best-kept secrets and simple dishes of Caribbean home cooking in this ultimate feel-good cookbook. 
 
Among the brand-new, mouthwatering recipes that are featured on the show, there will be over 80 dishes inspired by the diverse culture and the rich food heritage of these much-loved islands. 
 
You’ll find light dishes and snacks such as Crab and chilli cornbread muffins and Chickpea and plantain patties; flavoursome main meals including Grilled chicken roti wrap with mango dressing and Grilled lamb cutlets with green herb yoghurt; not forgetting indulgent desserts and cocktails including White chocolate, rum and raspberry crème brulee and Lazy man’s long island iced tea. 
 
This stunning cookbook will bring exciting new meals to your family table and transport you to the real Caribbean in your own kitchen.

The Feel-Good Cookbook

150 simple, healthy and delicious recipes from one of Britain’s all time favourite chefs

Taps into the TV chef's cooking philosophy of pleasure, enjoyment and fun, and will appeal to advanced cooks confident in using their own poetic licence

This is a collection of mouthwatering dishes that are nutritious, tasty and easy to prepare... The book is arranged in no-nonsense chapters and there are plenty of vegetarian options. Who could ask for more?

Stylishly presented, beautifully shot and with amazing recipes that seeem incredibly easy to pull off, this cookery book makes you feel good before you've even got the oven gloves on

Combines healthy food with jargon-free recipes

One of the nation's all-time favourite television chefs, Ainsley Harriott has become a much-loved face on our screens as the presenter of Ready Steady Cook and several other series. His recipe books have sold a total of 2 million copies worldwide and include Ainsley's Barbecue Bible, Meals in Minutes, Low-fat Meals in Minutes, Big Cook Out and the Friends and Family Cookbook. Ainsley lives in London with his wife and children.

Following the success of his most recent Friends and Family Cookbook, Ainsley is turning his culinary attention to feel-good cookery food that makes you feel great. 
 
Capturing Ainsley's enthusiasm for making cooking fun, The Feel-Good Cookbook brings us food that is good for the body and the soul: healthy, tasty and easy to prepare. 
 
150 brand-new recipes make up a bible of deliciously simple recipes, essential for time-pressed cooks wanting fresh, flavoursome and nutritious food. 
 
Chapters range from Light Bites and Quick and Easy Suppers to Mid-week Meals and Substantial Salads, and features include handy menu spreads, store-cupboard essentials and a guide to sourcing ingredients.

Ainsley Harriott's Friends & Family Cookbook

of 230 recipes that are easy to make at home, for entertaining friends and family.

Ainsley Harriott is a best-selling BBC author and has sold over a million copies of his books to date. 
 
As fans of his Meals in Minutes titles already know, Ainsley is the chef who really understands the sort of food most of us want to make at home. Now he's back with his Friends and Family Cookbook, the ultimate reference book to reflect the way we cook and eat today. 
 
The book covers everything from planning what to eat for the week ahead and shopping, to timing a Sunday lunch and organising a supper party. 
 
Ainsley's Friends and Family Cookbook also contains step-by-step sequences to make particular techniques even more straightforward, lots of alternatives for everyday recipes like pizza and pasta and plenty of low-fat dishes if you are watching what you eat. 
 
The book contains over 230 brand new delicious recipes all using readily available ingredients, and with each one illustrated to encourage you to have a go, it is an essential addition to any kitchen shelf.

Ainsley's Ultimate Barbecue Bible

Ainsely Harriott's ultimate bbq recipes – eating alfresco will never be the same again

Ainsley Harriott is one of the nation's all-time favourite television chefs and is also a best-selling BBC author. Barbecue Bible was an instant hit when it was released in 1997 and it continues to top the chart for barbecue books every summer. 
 
This edition of the classic title has been redesigned with a fresh contemporary look, and some of the best recipes from Ainsley's Big Cook Out have been added to turn this into the Ultimate Barbecue Bible. 
 
 It will appeal to all Ainsley fans as well as anyone looking for a definitive collection of barbecue recipes. 
 
 The cookbook is packed with mouth-watering dishes inspired by flavours from around the world, including a host of sensational salsas, marinades, barbecue breads and summertime drinks to complete your menu. 
 
 Ainsley's Ultimate Barbecue Bible also contains revised barbecue information, practical cooking tips and themed menus to help you sizzle your way to the ultimate open air feast.

Ainsley Harriott's Gourmet Express 2

One of the nation's all-time favourite television chefs, Ainsley Harriott has become a much-loved face on our screens as the presenter of Ready Steady Cook and several other series. His recipe books have sold a total of 2 million copies worldwide and include the Feel-Good Cookbook, Ainsley's Barbecue Bible, Meals in Minutes, Low-fat Meals in Minutes, All New Meals in Minutes, Big Cook Out, the Friends and Family Cookbook and Just Five Ingredients.

Following on from the success of the first Gourmet Express book, Ainsley is back with a new collection of simple and sensational dishes that are designed for those who love good food, but dont have time to follow long and complicated recipes.    Whether you need fresh ideas for family meals, or are having friends round for an informal supper, there are recipes here to suit every occasion. For a quick and delicious weekend brunch how about trying Ainsleys Pancetta Hash Browns? Or get the morning off to a healthy start with a Pineapple and Coconut Smoothie. Starters include Crispy Noodle-wrapped Prawns with Rice-wine Dipping Sauce and the delicious Hot Bloody Mary Soup. For the main course, Ainsley has a whole host of suggestions from Fresh Charred Tuna Steak with Salsa Verde, to the warming Clares Winter-vegetable Cobbler. And for the perfect end to a fabulous menu, Ainsleys ideas include scrumptious desserts such as Six-minute Soft-centred Chocolate Puddings and Cranberry and Pomegranate Jellies.    Complete with over 40 stunning full-colour photographs, Gourmet Express 2 is guaranteed to show that you too can produce fabulous food without spending hours in the kitchen.

The Top 100 Recipes from Ready, Steady, Cook!

What does Ready Steady Cook mean to you? For some it means red tomatoes and green peppers, for others frenzied cooking and lively banter. Above all it stands for delicious, mouthwatering food that can be created in twenty minutes. Introduced by chef and presenter, Ainsley Harriott, this book contains 100 of the shows best recipes, tried and tested by its regular contenders - Ross Burden, James Martin, Nick Nairn, Paul Rankin, Tony Tobin, Brian Turner, Phil Vickery, Lesley Waters, Kevin Woodford, Antony Worrall Thompson - and, of course, Ainsley himself.    Packed with healthy, delicious recipes, this easy-to-follow book reflects the energy and freshness of the show. It is divided into nine sections: Starters, Soups, Snack and Light Bites, Accompaniments, Vegetarian, Fish and Shellfish, Poultry and Game, Meat and Desserts. The chefs are also highly successful in their own right and many have published their own titles. All appear regularly in Good Food Magazine.

Just Five Ingredients

Fast, flavoursome food using no more than five ingredients - Ainsley Harriott at his best

Offers simple, creative, and inspired dishes.

Ainsley Harriott is one of the nation's favourite television chefs and one of the most charismatic. He is the much-loved presenter of Ready Steady Cook, a programme that has run for 20 series all over the world. Loved for his infectious enthusiasm for quick, simple but inventive recipes, Ainsley's books include the best-selling Meals in Minutes, Low Fat Meals in Minutes, Ainsley's Barbecue Bible, Big Cook Out and the Friends and Family Cookbook. Ainsley has also created a hugely successful range of food products. He lives in London with his wife and children.

Ainsley Harriott is the master of fast, flavoursome and fabulous food and he has created a collection of mouth-watering recipes that use a maximum of five ingredients, perfect for the time-short, budget-conscious cook. 
 
Choosing recipes that burst with flavours from all around the world, television's favourite chef, Ainsley Harriott, has used his flair for creating meals in minutes by taking the simplest ingredients and creating delicious dishes with minimum fuss and expense. Using easily accessible ingredients, Ainsley's recipes include fresh salads, succulent fish and meat dishes, healthy pastas, vegetarian delights, sizzling barbecue ideas and tempting desserts; all using just five key ingredients, plus salt, pepper and oil. 
 
There'll be no more looking at an ingredients list and groaning at all the shopping and chopping you'll have to do. Ainsley has created an essential cookbook that's sure to be the only extra ingredient you'll need in your kitchen.

My Kitchen Table: 100 Great Chicken Recipes

A must-have cookbook for anyone who likes chicken

It's not often that you find a collection of mini cookbooks that inspires you with so much confidence, but My Kitchen Table's series of 100 recipes by various chefs is a classy production

Ainsley Harriott is one of the nation's favourite television chefs and one of the most charismatic. He is the much-loved presenter of Ready Steady Cook, a programme that ran for 21 series all over the world. Loved for his infectious enthusiasm for quick, simple but inventive recipes, Ainsley's books include the best-selling Meals in Minutes, Just Five Ingredients, Low Fat Meals in Minutes, Ainsley's Barbecue Bible, Big Cook Out and the Friends and Family Cookbook. Ainsley has also created a hugely successful range of food products.

If there's one chef who can create 100 chicken recipes, it is Ainsley Harriott. In his second book in the My Kitchen Table series, Ainsley showcases an incredible range of flavours, cooking styles and dishes using the nation's favourite ingredient, chicken. 
 
From an oven-baked harissa chicken with cumin sweet potatoes to chilli chicken burgers and soy-poached chicken breasts with pak choi, who knew chicken could be so exciting? 
 
This is a must-have cookbook for everybody who likes chicken.

My Kitchen Table: 100 Meals in Minutes

Easy recipes for quick meals from Ainsley Harriott

It's not often that you find a collection of mini cookbooks that inspires you with so much confidence, but My Kitchen Table's series of 100 recipes by various chefs is a classy production.

Ainsley Harriott is one of the nation's favourite television chefs and one of the most charismatic. He is the much-loved presenter of Ready Steady Cook, a programme that has run for 20 series all over the world. 
 
Loved for his infectious enthusiasm for quick, simple but inventive recipes, Ainsley's books include the best-selling Meals in Minutes, Just Five Ingredients, Low Fat Meals in Minutes, Ainsley's Barbecue Bible, Big Cook Out and the Friends and Family Cookbook. Ainsley has also created a hugely successful range of food products.

Ainsley Harriott is the hugely popular presenter of Ready, Steady Cook and author of the best-selling Meals in Minutes. In 100 Meals in Minutes, Ainsley has chosen his favourite quick, simple but flavoursome recipes to create an essential collection for the modern, time-pressed cook. 
 
From chicken recipes to pasta dishes, curries, salads and desserts, this is the cookbook that every busy person needs.

Ainsley Harriott's Low Fat Meals In Minutes

Another essential cookbook from Ainsley Harriott: low-fat and healthy recipes that won't make you feel you're making any sacrifices.

Another masterly collection of speedy recipes

With Ainsley's winning ideas, low-fat doesn't mean you have to lose out on taste

One of the nation's all-time favourite television chefs, Ainsley Harriott has become a much-loved face on our screens as the presenter of Ready Steady Cook and several other series. His recipe books have sold over 2 million copies worldwide and include the Feel-Good Cookbook, Ainsley's Barbecue Bible, Meals in Minutes, Low-fat Meals in Minutes, All New Meals in Minutes, Big Cook Out, and the Friends and Family Cookbook. Ainsley lives in London with his wife and children.

Bringing us the best in low-fat tasty food, Ainsley Harriott is the master of sensational and speedy cooking. 
 
Packed with 80 scrumptious low-fat recipes, from Jalapeno tiger-prawn ginger skewers to Peri peri pork medallions and lemon, Low Fat Meals in Minutes shows that low in fat does not mean low in taste. Features a special section on delicious and not-so-naughty puddings so you never have to miss out on dessert. 
 
With a tempting colour picture of every recipe and detailed nutritional notes, this collection of Ainsley's favourite low-fat dishes will enable you to lose weight without feeling like you're making any sacrifices.

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Easy, comforting meals to lift your spirits

Warm your cockles and lift your spirits ... 
 
Including the recipes from series 1 of Ainsley's ITV show, plus many more dishes to make you happy! 
 
Because there's no two ways about it - food can definitely raise your spirits. In this uplifting cookbook you will find comforting classics, great food for sharing, recipes for a bit of indulgence, light and healthy dishes to help you feel good from the inside out, easy one-pots that are all weeknight winners, some favourite barbecue dishes to bring sunshine to your table, and delicious desserts because - because we all need a treat now and again. 
 
Happy Cooking!

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