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Rick Stein From Venice to Istanbul published 30 Jul 2015

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Rick Stein launched his new cookbook in July and the TV series has begun on BBC2.

From the majestic and magical Venice, to Greece and then the Black Sea coast; from Croatian and Albanian flavours – to Turkey and beyond – we join Rick to savour the cuisine of the Eastern Mediterranean in 100 recipes in his new book and wonderful TV series.

Recipes include;

  • mezze spread of baba ghanoush
  • pide bread
  • keftedes
  • garlic shrimps with soft polenta
  • Dalmatian fresh fig tart
  • veal stiffado and kotopita
  • chicken pie
  • stuffed peppers and tomatoes
  • souvlaki
  • chicken jufka and kokoretsi
  • Lepur Comlek
  • pasticada
  • goat stew with peas and lamb peka
  • Tave Kosi
  • seafood risotto
  • tiramisu
  • gnocchi
  • spider crab

TV Rick Stein From Venice to Istanbul episode guide in Radio Times

Episode One Venice and Symi

Episode Two Ravenna and Croatia

Episode Three Croatia Ston and Albania

Episode Four: Northern Greece, Preveza and Messolonghi

To see more about the new Rick Stein cookbook check Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul

Rick Stein @Rick_Stein Mexico and California TV and Book September 2017

Some links for the latest healthy cooking ideas:

Cookbook store for all types of books on cooking

Some new approaches to healthy eating:

Lorraine Pascal Eating Well Made Easy published 27 August 2015
Simply Nigella Feel Good Food published 8 Oct 2015
Jamie Oliver Everyday super food

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Ottolenghli’s Meditteranean Island Feast More 4 series 2 guide Nov 2013

Ottolenghli’s Meditteranean Island Feast More 4 series 2

A new series from the wonderful cuisine of Yotam Ottolenghi visiting Corsica, Mallorca, Crete and Sardinia.

 



 

Read about the  excellent cookbook : Ottolenghi The Cookbook and see all the books Yotam has developed

The new series will consist of four one hour episodes and Yotam is travelling around the beautiful Mediterranean islands of Sardinia, Corsica, Mallorca and Crete where he cooks up his own take on mouth-watering local dishes.

And as many will know and understand it is essential that we study the history and island people to get a grasp of how the very speacil and localised cuisine has developed.

So Yotam explores how invasions and trading from East and West through the years has been the reason for the varieties of unique food served on the islands today.

Ottolenghi (ottolenghi) on Twitter

Corsica 1/4 : Chef Yotam Ottolenghi continues his culinary journey as he visits four of the Mediterranean’s most beautiful islands, including Sardinia, Majorca and Crete. He begins on the French island of Corsica, where he discovers how its lush green landscape flavours the food, from cheese to honey, and meets its most celebrated chefs. He also prepares recipes including roasted fish with aromatic Corsican olive oil, Swiss chard and herb tart with local cheeses, honey and apricot trifle with walnuts and lavender, chestnut cake and a rich veal stew.

Majorca 2/4 : Chef Yotam Ottolenghi travels to Majorca, the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands. He leaves the busy beaches behind as he heads inland in search of local cuisine and discovers a larder of local ingredients including roast suckling pig, tomatoes sweetened on the vine and oranges. He prepares a feast of Spanish and Moorish origin, featuring salt-crusted fish with fennel, a sweet and salty salad of caramelised oranges with goat’s cheese and a dessert of apricots, almonds and raisins. He also discovers ruby red prawns in the coastal town of Soller, which become the key ingredient in his deconstructed paella.

 

Watch the previous series Ottolenghi’s Meditteranean Feast again:

Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feast 1 Morocco TV series and recipe guides on Channel 4 Yotam Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feast episode 2 Istanbul 3 March 2013 TV series and recipes

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feast episode 3 Tunisia 10 Mar 2013 TV series and recipes

Yotam Ottolenghi recipes Jerusalem

 

 


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Gino D’Acampo An Italian in Mexico on UKTV Food Channel

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Watch Gino on ITV and on UKTV Food Channel

ITV – Gino’s Italian Escape




UKTV – An Italian in Mexico

Recipes include:

For more recipes see, Gino D’Acampo An Italian returns to Mexico

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Gino D’Acampo Sept 2013 Gino’s Italian Escape TV series and cookbook £5

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Gino D’Acampo Gino’s Italian Escape TV series and cookbook

Appearing on loose women, Friday morning – Gino has Gino’s Italian Escape book one now £5 published 14 September 2013, Gino’s Italian Escape with Gino returning to his home in Naples and touring southern Italy to reveal amazing Italian food secrets .

The TV series Gino’s Italian Escape, is broadcast 13 September at 8 pm on ITV where Olive trees, cherry picking and the remarkable Italian scenery all add up to a visual treat.

There are six shows each of 30 minutes.

The new series 2014 is just starting… Gino’s Italian Escape series 2

Book Two

Cooking outside the Colosseum in Rome, a visit to the Amalfi coast and Alberobello in Puglia all wonderful experiences.

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Gino is remembering just what Italy has in terms of food and cooking and says it is time for us in the UK to get real. Time to see what real Italian cooking is, not our version of what we think or are told it is. We know what Gino means, when he asks us to get really into authentic Italian cooking – when we visit Italy we experience it for ourselves.

Get a look at Gino’s Twitter

Watch the show while episodes are still on iplayer

Read about the episodes at Radio Times

Recipes:

Episodes:

 

What about all the parma ham and other authentic foods we try to bring home with us?

In the cookbook Gino captures the flavours, smells and tastes of his homeland in over 100 deliciously simple recipes. We see Pizza, pasta and antipasti dishes, Gino’s classics with a twist such as Honey & Rosemary Lamb Cutlets and Limoncello Mousse.

Gino was born in Torre del Greco, Naples, in southern Italy, and has inherited his grandfather’s love of cooking. He studied at the Luigi de Medici Catering College.

We all know Gino from TV, most particularly the spicy show with Melanie Sykes in Let’s Do Lunch with Gino and Mel, and as a resident chef on ITV’s This Morning.

I just LOVE Italy – so looking forward to this show!!

Also watching Gino on UKTV An Italian in Mexico

Gino in Mexico


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Rick Stein’s India In search of the perfect curry – new cookbook recipes and video player links

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Rick Stein’s India is the new excellent text on curries, written as only Rick can.
Subtitled – In Search of the perfect curry – Recipes from my Indian Odyssey.

Rick Stein sums up all that is special and sumptuous about curries and the Indian recipes he has encountered on his Indian curry Odyssey in this new and beautifully produced curry guide and cookbook. A journey through this exciting and colourful country, it is a sensual and stimulating experience.

We all love a good Curry – some just with onion and chicken, others with creamy sauce and crispy duck…. The variety of possibilities are almost endless  but Rick has – in his unique style – made sense of the complex world that is the Indian Curry.
So what is a good curry? Is it the aroma, the look, or the combination of all these with an expectation of a satisfying meal, that helps us forget about our problems and lifts us to a higher level.

To quote Rick :
‘Whenever I hear the word curry, I’m filled with a longing for spicy hot food with the fragrance of cumin, cloves and cinnamon. I see deep red colours from lots of Kashmiri chilli’s, tinged with a suggestion of yellow from turmeric. I think of the tandoor oven and slightly scorched naan shining with ghee and garlic. A bowl of dark dal, a green chutney of coriander and mint and a plate with a few sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and sliced onions. When Indians talk of food, they talk about their life. To understand this country you need to understand curry.’

In this adventure Rick discovers 120 recipes by visiting home cooks, street vendors and having had what must have been the experience of a lifetime.

Readers of this book if based in the UK or Ireland will have a concept of curry based on visits to various take away food houses. Perhaps Indian, Thai or Chinese. The first thing Rick helps us with is to see curry from the perspective of the Indian people.

It is not the same as we understand it, a curry is something that can refer to almost any food from the Indian subcontinent.

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So where do we start? Rick sets out a number of food types in the book:

  • Dhaba
  • Sabzi
  • Macchi
  • Murgh
  • Gosht
  • Meetha

By visiting various cities Rick samples curries of all types.

  • Punjab – Lamb curry
  • Mumbai – Pau bhaji
  • Amritsar – Butter chicken
  • Pondicherry – Prawn currry
  • Kolkata – Eggs in coconut masala
  • Jaipur – Tandoori dish

Follow the TV series on BBC player and see India in all its colourful glory.

And yes Rick does discover  his favourite curry recipe.

Recipes: please visit the BBC Food website –

Watch red button clips from the episodes

Watch clips from each episode and episode guide

See cookbook reviews and cost information at Rick Stein’s India.

          

 

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Atul’s Curries Of The World Atul Kochhar curry recipes

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Atul’s Curries Of The World Atul Kochhar due 14 March 2013  -Don’t miss it!

A new book from Atul Kochhar is an important event. This is Atul’s first book for a number of years. In Atul’s curries of the world, we are treated to the curries of his native India, also the curries of Asia, Africa, America, Europe and the UK.

If you love the enigmatic nature of spices, then this is a book for all spice lovers. Curry has been popular in the UK for so long and around the world, it remains one of the world’s most popular dishes and here Atul’s presents us with a serious collection of mouth-watering dishes. The exploration takes in 100 recipes + and we see mild to hot curries, visiting different continents. Meat, fish and vegetable curries from the corners of the earth.

Book details:

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Absolute Press (14 Mar 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1906650799
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906650797
  • Product Dimensions: 26 x 21.5 x 2 cm

Read more about Atul’s wonderful approach to curry cuisine at Amazon – Atul’s Curries Of The World

Atul Kochhar is one of the finest Indian chefs in the country, renowned for the vibrancy of his food and the subtlety of his spice mixes. Benares is his signature restaurant in London. He was one of the first two Indian chefs to be awarded a Michelin star and he has become the recognisable face of Indian cuisine on television. His innovative take on food has taken him through two whole series of the BBC’s Great British Menu and continue to win him an admiring public through regular TV appearances, including regular stints on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen.

New Year with Atul in Benares

Recipes:

  • Bengali Lobster curry
  • Chicken Tikka pie
  • Coconut fish curry
  • Grilled red bream with spice rub
  • Kashmiri curry

On BBC the curry recipes from Atul

Atul Kochhar’s restaurants:

Read reviews of The Hairy Bikers’ Great Curries cook book 

See also blog with recipe links –  The Hairy Bikers’ Great Curries cook book review recipes


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The Fabulous Baker Brothers Series 2 ep1 Blackpool ep2 London ep3 Exmouth More 4 recipes

New series of the Fabulous Baker Brothers Series 2 More 4 starts 19 Feb 2013 at 9.00pm on More4 and More4 HD, (sky 236 and 138). Six episodes.

In this the second series of the cookery show presented by the Fabulous Baker Brothers, Tom and Henry Herbert.

Butcher and chef Henry Herbert and his brother Tom, who runs a bakery next to his sibling’s shop in Gloucestershire. In this series, the Fabulous Baker Brothers, Tom and Henry Herbert try their hand at designing local dishes for cafés, bakeries and restaurants across the UK.

The new book to accompany the series is published 28 Feb  2013, read more about The Fabulous Baker Brothers: Glorious British Grub.

 

Episode One: Blackpool and the Mermaid Café – Tuesday 19/2/2013

Tom and Henry, a baker and a butcher from the West Country lads, baker and butcher via their Morris Minor van travel the UK to assist struggling businesses.

The boys begin the adventure in Blackpool at the Mermaid Café where the owners Len and Babs are feeling the pinch in the current economic downturn.  The boys attempt to modernise the menu and create a new item for the menu by putting three dishes to the public for a taste test.

Watch the Fabulous Baker Brothers Series 2 episode 1 Blackpool

recipe links:

 

Episode Two: The Tower of London – Tuesday 26/2/2013

In the second episode of series two, Tom and Henry Herbert help the owners of the Kitchen @ Tower, a café-restaurant near the Tower of London, as they struggle to keep up with other local businesses. This sees the brothers develop three dishes to the public for a taste test in order to select one for the menu at Kitchen  @ Tower.

Recipes:

Watch the Fabulous Baker Brothers Series 2 episode 2 London

 

Episode Three: Exmouth – The Beacon Vaults – Tuesday 5/3/2013

In  the third episode Tom and Henry Herbert are in Exmouth, Devon, to help the owners of the Beacon Vaults café, create a new signature dish using locally-inspired flavours.

The brothers three ideas are:

 

Episode Four: Stratford-upon-Avon – Haslam’s Deli – Tuesday 12/3/2013

The boys are in Stratford-upon-Avon at Haslam’s Deli Café:

Recipes:

  • slow-roasted pulled pork wrapped in crispy filo pastry, called Shakespeare’s codpiece
  • a beef sandwich – a pan-fried spelt bread sandwich of marinated beef brisket, served with onion marmalade and local cheese
  • Juliet’s fool – a decadent raspberry and chocolate cream fool and a sugary biscuit

The Deli Café wishes to increase the number of customers and Henry and Tom seek to help and allow the public to have their vote.

 

Episode Five: The Cotswolds – The Chestnut Tree – Bourton-on-the-Water  -Tuesday 19/3/2013

Tom and Henry are in the Chestnut Tree, Bourton-on-the-Water

recipes:

  • a fish pate from tea-smoked trout
  • a Tory cobbler
  • pear lovelies

 

 

Previous Fabulous Baker Brothers scrapbooks with recipe links and video clips

Read about the Fabulous Baker Brothers cookbooks in the UK:

In the USA: The Fabulous Baker Brothers: Glorious British Grub and The Fabulous Baker Brothers.

In Canada: The Fabulous Baker Brothers (Hardback) and The Fabulous Baker Brothers: Glorious British Grub


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James Martin’s United Cakes of America program all episodes + recipes 24 Feb 2013

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James Martin’s United Cakes of America Good Food channel started – 24 Feb 2013

A new series on the Good Food channel HD 247 -Sky and 260 Virgin where James Martin gets to combine his love of food, cooking, the USA and driving.

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Sweet – 8 Oct 2015 by James Martin

Jamie Oliver Everyday super food published 27 August 2015
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There are 15 episodes where James visits Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Harlem, Connecticut, Hartford, Boston, Massachusetts and Salem.

There is no book for the USA series, however James does have a desserts cookbook, see James Martin’s cookbooks for all his books.

Episode 1: Virginia

James begins in Virginia on his American cake adventure, with classic apple pie visiting a family run bakery that makes pies for presidents and a New Orleans king cake in a southern style bakery in Arlington.

Recipes: apple crumble cake and cinnamon and cream cheese bake.

Episiode 2: Washington DC and Maryland

Next Washington DC for cupcakes and Baltimore to the state dessert of Maryland, a 10-layer, fudge topped, Smith Island cake.

Recipes: cupcakes and chestnut and chocolate cake

Episode 3: Baltimore

Baltimore and the Pimlico cake to Maryland countryside for the peach cake.

Recipes: coffee and rum cake with meringue mushrooms and peach tart

Episode 4: Pennsylvania

Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Amish country. Sampling shoofly pie and twisting Pretzels.

Recipes: treacle pie with a rock salt crumble top and pretzels with ice cream.

Episode 5: Philadelphia

Philadelphia, to taste American treats then the infamous pumpple cake, a cake baked with pies inside.

Recipes: lemon curd butterfly buns, and fire and ice cake

Episode 6: Philadelphia and Brooklyn

Philadelphia and butter cake and key lime pies.

Recipes: fig and butter cake and  lime snow eggs with granola

Episode 7: Manhattan and Brooklyn

The bakery made famous by the TV show Sex and the City and a mobile bakery.

Recipes: instant strawberry gateaux and cornflake cookies.

Episode 8: Manhattan

New York Cheesecake and baked Alaska.

Recipes: cheesecake and baked Alaska.

Episode 9: Brooklyn

Brooklyn and whoopie pies followed by red velvet cake.

Recipes: whoopie pies and chocolate cola cake.

Episode 10: Harlem and Connecticut

Harlem for carrot cake.  Glastonbury in Connecticut, a blueberry farm which is over 100 years old and blueberry muffins.

Recipes: carrot cake and toasted blueberry muffin

Episode 11: Connecticut

A diner, for a pancake breakfast then a strawberry shortcake.

Recipes: bacon waffles with maple syrup and strawberry shortbread

Episode 12: Hartford

Connecticut for a Jewish holiday honey cake and the chocolate chip cookie.

Recipes: spiced oatmeal and treacle cake and chocolate chip biscotti biscuits.

Episode 13: Boston

Boston to a hotel to study Boston cream pie and then the chocolate brownie.

Recipes: chocolate and coffee meringue cake and chocolate brownie with homemade marshmallow.

Episode 14: Massachussetts

A distillery for rum making and then a boozy rum cake. A visit to a BBQ joint for southern pecan pie.

Recipes: an orange, cherry and kirsch pound cake and banana, pecan and maple syrup cake.

Episode 15: Salem

Salem and donuts.

Recipes: doughnuts and bourbon croissant butter pudding.

Other ides:

Pumpkin pasta with rosemary

James Martin Cake recipes

Read more at the Good Food James Martin’s United Cakes of America.

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Rick Steins Cornish Christmas BBC1 5 Dec 2012 recipes

Rick Stein’s Cornish Christmas

Two back to back episodes of the wonderful Rick Stein’s series based in Cornwall.

In this programme Rick Stein takes us on a Christmas journey in the county of Cornwall, enjoying music, food and drink from the county.

Recipes:

More information from the first broadcast in December 2010:

Rick Stein has many books and videos, he has been on TV and has authored many cook books, to read more, select the appropriate link below:

Rick Stein’s Spain: 140 New Recipes Inspired by My Journey Off the Beaten Track
Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey
My Kitchen Table: 100 Fish and Seafood Recipes
Rick Stein’s Seafood
Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Escapes
Rick Stein’s French Odyssey : Complete BBC Series [DVD]
Rick Stein’s French Odyssey
Coast to Coast: Food from the Lands & Sea Inspired by Travels Across the World
English Seafood Cookery (Cookery Library)


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Spice Trip: The Simple Way to Make Food Exciting more 4 with recipes Dec 2012

Spice Trip The Simple Way to Make Food Exciting – watch on More 4 with recipes Stevie Parle and Emma Grazette

A new series spread over six episodes, where Stevie Parle and Emma Grazette – two intrepid chefs taste black pepper in Cambodia, chillies in Mexico, cinnamon in India, cloves in Zanzibar, cumin in Turkey and nutmeg and mace in Grenada.

Stevie Parle is an amazing London chef and heads up the Dock Kitchen. He trained at the River Cafe and his first book was My Kitchen: Real Food from Near and Far (New Voices in Food) followed by Stevie Parle’s Dock Kitchen Cookbook: Real Home Cooking from Around the World.

Stevie was named Young Chef Of The Year by the Observer Food Monthly Magazine in October 2010 and now writes a weekly food column for the Saturday Telegraph Weekend.

Stevie is accompanied by chef and professional spice blender Emma Grazette who became development chef at The Spicery in Bath, supplying spices and blends to some of Britain’s top restaurants that includes The Fat Duck, Moro and Ottolenghi.

They are embarking on a vibrant, colourful and spice-filled journey around the world.

We all know that adding herbs to a dish can transform meals.  Just so adding spice is the easiest and quickest way to transform a simple dish from mundane to sensational.

Adding spice can affect our health positively, the spice of life!!

In keeping with the healthy side as well creating recipes and cooking up amazing food –  Emma concocts therapies, beauty treatments and teas using the potent spices.

The book for the series is Spice Trip: The Simple Way to Make Food Exciting.

Series 1 Episode 1 Mexico Sunday 25 Nov 2012 on More 4 at 8.00 pm

Stevie and Emma head to Oaxaca, Mexico, where chillies go back thousands of years and every local is an aficionado. See the amazing variety and lineage of chillies available.

They visit the Abastos market and view the 150 different varieties available. See chipotle and habanero chillies. Their journey takes them to meet chilli farmers who play music to their crops, a Zapotec cook with a recipe handed down from 500BC and a guardian of the nation’s best kept culinary secret, mole negro.

Recipes include:

Series 1 Episode 2 Zanzibar Sunday 2 Dec 2012 on More 4 at 8.00 pm

On to Zanzibar to rediscover the magic of cloves. Many years in the past, cloves were one of the most expensive commodities on the planet.

In this episode we see how Portuguese, Omanis, British and Indians were all involved in the spice trade and each nation’s influence on the architecture and food in Zanzibar.

Recipes include:

Series 1 Episode 3 Cambodia Sunday 9 Dec 2012 on More 4 at 8.00 pm

Black pepper is next when we visit Cambodia, where it is considered the king of spices, Stevie and Emma discover the berries of the pepper vine have much more to offer for cooking at home than people realise.

Visit Phnom Penh’s markets.

Recipes:

  • fiery chicken curry
  • green peppercorn prawns
  • delicious strawberry
  • pepper ripple ice cream

Series 1 Episode 4 Grenada Sunday 16 Dec 2012 on More 4 at 8.00 pm

In Grenada Nutmeg is on the national flag.

Recipes:

  • nutmeg roast chicken with squash and spinach
  • fiery jerk spiced pork
  • creamy buttermilk puddings
  • honey nutmeg peaches

To come episodes 5 and 6 to include – cinnamon in India and cumin in Turkey.