Posh Toast

Toast: the ultimate fast food. Everyone loves toast. And now it's the piping-hot new food trend. Posh Toast features every toast recipe you could ever need: Breakfast Toasts including Eggs Royale, Chocolate Spread & Cream Cheese, Lox & Cream Cheese Lunch Toasts including Mozzarella & Kale Pesto, Avocado, Tahini & Toasted Chickpeas, Mint & Walnut Baba Ganoush Snacks & Canape Toasts including Mini Croque Monsieurs, Swedish Prawns, Tuna Tartare Supper Toasts including Posh Beans, Spiced Potted Crab, Warm Hummus and Spiced Lamb With over 70 recipes, each with a gorgeous photo, plus a guide to bread basics and toasting, this is the ultimate cookbook for toast addicts, expert chefs and novices alike. It's toast. And it's posh. It's Posh Toast.

"Tara Stiles shows you how to have fun makeing your own rules in the kitchen. You'll begin by breaking free of the labels, judgements, restrictions, and stresses of having to eat a certain way-letting go of the binge-and-purge, punishment -and-reward, diet-and-fail cycles."--

The ultimate canvas for sweet and savory culinary creativity. 50 seasonal recipes that reimagine the "bread and butter" of cuisine with simple ingredients in surprising ways. Easy enough for breakfast, yet suitable for brunch, lunch, dinner and even dessert, the possibilities of heaping beautiful seasonal ingredients on bread are limitless. Organized by season, Toast features 50 recipes from savory to sweet that unleash the power of fresh ingredients and simple techniques guaranteed to impress and satisfy any kitchen audience on any occasion. Award-winning food writer Raquel Pelzel's relatable and accessible recipes span generations and cultures, and shatter expectations of what this humble favorite can be. Broiled or char-grilled, pan-fried or deep-fried, a good slice of bread is the ultimate platform to showcase your culinary skills. Toast will teach you to simply and effectively wow friends and family with creative, delicious combinations of ingredients from summer tomato salad, or pickled shrimp and avocado, to roasted squash and molten cheese, poached egg and fried pancetta, or even s'mores. So much more than just bread and butter, toast is experiencing a global renaissance. Professional chefs are seizing on the creative potential of a beautiful canvas of bread and delivering sophisticated culinary masterpieces that showcase their own brilliant palettes. Toast invites home cooks to join the ranks of renowned chefs in their experiments and even brings some of their recipes to life with contributions by 8 celebrity chefs including Hugh Acheson, Deb Perelman (The Smitten Kitchen), Fergus Henderson (St. John) and more. As simple or as sophisticated as you want it to be, yet always comforting and nourishing, Toast is perfect for those looking for seasonal, market-inspired recipes, or gourmet treats presented in an approachable manner. With something for every palate and occasion, this is the ideal book for new and seasoned cooks alike as well as everyone from college students and recent graduates to newlyweds and empty nesters. Artisanal toast is a hit in the media with features on Today, GMA, and NPR, and on the pages of The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Guardian, and Bon Appétit.

Eggs are a kitchen basic. Most people buy them, and use them as a stand-by: a quick omelet or scrambled eggs. Posh Eggs makes the humble egg the star of the show, with over 70 recipes that make a meal out of this easy ingredient. From hearty dishes like Mediterranean red pepper eggs with tahini yogurt, to healthy salads like Quail's eggs, beet, and tarragon, you'll never again be stuck for a quick and original idea at mealtimes. With a guide to the basics of cooking eggs, plus a photo for every single recipe, this is the ultimate gifty cookbook or self-purchase for egg addicts, expert chefs, and novices alike.

Jekka McVicar's passion for herbs has evolved over 40 years. In this, her first cookery book, 'queen of herbs' Jekka offers over 250 original recipes using simple garden herbs, along with tips for growing and maintaining them. Herbs have long been a part of British culinary history, yet few people utilise them to their full potential. Incredibly versatile, not only do herbs impart flavour, aroma and texture to dishes, they are extremely beneficial to our health. Much more than a cookbook, Jekka's Herb Kitchen features 50 herbs with a chapter and recipes devoted to each - Jekka's huge knowledge of each herb's history, cultivation and medicinal and culinary uses is unsurpassed. Her recipes are simple and economical - she shows how herbs can transform a cheap cut of meat, enliven a pasta sauce, and even add delight to desserts. She also offers suggestions for how best to combine herbs and what parts to use, gives ideas for using up a glut of a specific herb, and advises on how to preserve your herbs for the winter months. Moreover, this volume is a family affair - many of Jekka's recipes are inspired by her grandmother and mother, and the stunning illustrations are by Jekka's daughter, Hannah McVicar. With colour photographs throughout, this is a unique and beautiful volume from the UK's foremost authority on herbs.

A fresh, fun, easy, cookbook, filled with color photographs, that reveals all the delectable things you can do with toast, one of today’s hottest culinary trends. The recipes serve as a flavor profile building blocks, making Better on Toast a great introductory cooking guide, too! Whether she’s frantically preparing for an impromptu gathering with friends, looking for an energy boost before the gym, or home alone staring into the fridge for a midnight snack, Jill Donenfeld turns to one dish that always satisfies—Toast. Tartine, open-faced sandwich, smørbrød—whatever you call it, it’s that single slice of perfect bread stacked high with fresh, flavorful toppings. Better on Toast features delicious, quick, easy-to-follow recipes for toasts with every possible topping—from hot to cold and savory to sweet. Anyone can make delicious toasts, no matter his or her level of experience or kitchen size. Whether you use thick-cut French bread, slices of whole wheat, or her gluten-free bread recipe, Jill puts emphasis on flavor, using quality, wholesome ingredients to make each recipe stand out. With Better on Toast, you can enjoy these elegant yet simple meals anytime and for any occasion, using classic ingredients in new ways and playing with interesting ingredients you’ve always wondered about. Try: Smoked Trout & Grapefruit Toast Edamame Basil Toast Chickpeas and Chorizo Toast Rosemary Caper Tuna Salad Toast Grilled Radicchio and Apple Buttermilk Toast Carrot Butter and Halloumi Toast Maple Pear Bread Pudding

Every day there are mouths to feed and meals to cook and yet of course this is often just one in a very long list of tasks that also need to be accomplished and so it's no surprise that the perennial question 'What's for dinner?' causes our stress levels to rise. Thankfully, Quick + Simple = Delicious provides a very intelligent solution as it proves that if you use just add together a few simple ingredients (plus a few store-cupboard essentials like oil and flour etc) and throw in a little know-how, the result is delicious food with maximum flavour and minimum fuss: sourdough + tomatoes + olives + garlic + chicken = Sicilian chicken traybake pastry case + vanilla ice cream + peaches + raspberries = peach melba tart. This book is guaranteed to make your meals tastier and your life easier. There are recipes for dinners, desserts and lunches and brunches, all the ingredients are presented visually so you can see what you need at a glance and the cooking instructions are as simple as 1, 2, 3. It's amazing when being a maths whizz comes this easy!