Cookbooks

This stunning cookbook aims to transform you, no matter your experience, into an expert home baker. Featuring over 90 fool-proof, classic baking recipes, with both sweet and savoury staples and plenty of seasonal favourites, discover the joy of baking like a professional but from the comfort of your own home kitchen.

From simple classics, such as Victoria Sponge, a Rustic Country Loaf or American Chocolate Chip Cookies, to the more challenging Millefeuille, Babka Loaf or Savoury Croissants, you will even find recipes for all the jams and marmalades you need to complement your creations. Perfect your Christmas Pudding, Mince Pies and other festive favourites with the sumptuous Christmas chapter, or recreate Bread Ahead's most beloved sweet treat with a chapter dedicated to their infamous filled Doughnuts.

Whatever your skill level, Bread Ahead: The Expert Home Baker will be your go-to baking bible, with all the information you need to know when it comes to good, classic baking.

Easy to prepare, quick to cook, and using readily available ingredients, this book is not only the go-to cookbook for new and established vegans, but also for home cooks looking for effortless ways to bring plant-based meals into their kitchens.

From the author of 15 Minute Vegan, Five Ingredient Vegan showcases simple yet exciting recipes using five ingredients or fewer. It's perfect for vegans and non-vegans alike looking for effortless ways to introduce plant-based meals into their everyday cooking.

Katy Beskow is the expert on making easy meals for home cooks – even if you're not confident in the kitchen or with vegan cooking. Using ingredients available from your local supermarket and with a list of larder essentials, plus helpful tips throughout, you'll have everything you need to fill food with taste and texture.
 
With 100 recipes covering Basics (Baba ganoush, 3-ingredient beer bread, Citrus tabbouleh, Green apple salsa), Soups (Lemony super greens, Country lentil pottage, Spicy noodle soup, Pantry minestrone), Lunches (Santorini tomato fritters, Welsh rarebit stuffed potatoes, Spicy bean and avocado wraps, Spinach pancakes), Suppers (Baked aubergine with dukkah, Roasted cherry tomato risotto, Pumpkin and sage macaroni, Pear and butterbean traybake), and Sweets (Carrot cake porridge, Zesty bread and butter pudding, Coconut panna cotta, Blood orange granita), you too can get maximum flavour with minimal fuss – all with just five ingredients.

Get more plants on your plate, with 60 veggie-friendly air fryer recipes.

Elevate your most-loved vegetables with this foolproof kitchen gadget. Whether you’re cooking for the family or need to easily cater for a vegetarian guest, Foolproof Veggie Air Fryer reveals just how simple it is to create satisfying dishes in little time and with zero fuss.

From snacks to light bites, sides to mains, and even sweet treats, within this book you’ll find a huge variety of quick and straightforward meals that make the most of this must-have appliance. With step-by-step instructions and a photo for every recipe, packing flavour and texture into these inventive vegetarian and vegan dishes is effortless. 

Whether you’re a vegetarian or flexitarian or just looking to cut down on meat, you’ll find plenty of options for tasty, practical veggie dishes for every lifestyle in Foolproof Veggie One-Pot.

Celebrate the essence and simplicity of one-pot cooking with everything from creamy pastas and risottos to fragrant curries and stir-fries, with 60 delicious and modern vegetarian recipes that are full of flavour. In this handy book, naturally vegan recipes and ingredient swaps for vegan options are noted throughout.

The Foolproof series celebrates the simple ways to cook, eat and enjoy different dishes and techniques, and offers amazing new ways to elevate classics, as well revealing new sure-to-be favourites

A New Way to Bake uncovers a brief history of baking before setting out the Plantry, where the main ingredients and their functionalities are explained. Full of delicious bakes, from Apple Pie to Banana Bread, to Lamingtons and Tiramisu, there are sweet treats for any occasion.

Recipes are broken down into digestible steps, with explanations as to why steps are important, and tips along the way too. Plus, there are even QR codes to help navigate through the recipes.

Written in an informative yet approachable style, A New Way to Bake is a comprehensive guide that arms readers with a new outlook and tools to bake a better future.

Best-selling author and professional chef Claire Thomson offers up her best 70 recipes with pulses as star of the show, revealing just how simple it is to create delicious one-pan meals that all of the family will love. Beans, chickpeas and lentils are so versatile – you can roast, bake, fry, stew them, or make salads, soups, dips and snacks from them and reap the rewards of their nutritious goodness.

They are full to bursting with protein and fibre, iron, potassium and folate and are loved the world over. Drawing inspiration from across the globe, Claire showcases recipes that will inspire you to choose pulses as your budget-friendly midweek go-to ingredient.

From Turkish Lentil Tomato Soup and Pasta e Fagioli to Pork Belly with Butter Beans and Sage, One Pan Beans is a practical and dynamic source of kitchen inspiration.

From banana and almond pancakes to gnocchi and spinach pasta, Fauda-Role's lip-smacking tasty cookbook showcases a wealth of plant-based cuisine that can be cooked in just one pot.

The Foolproof series celebrates the simple ways to cook, eat and enjoy different dishes and techniques, and offers amazing new ways to elevate classics, as well revealing new sure-to-be favourites. 

Bringing together classic dishes and fresh recipe ideas, One-Pot Vegan teaches you how to cook over 80 vegan meals in just one pot.

From weeknight essentials to gatherings and celebrations, there's something for every occasion. Start your day with Banana and Almond Pancakes, try your hand at a speedy Gnocchi and Spinach Pasta, ready in just 15 minutes and cook up a rather impressive Dried Tomato Risotto. Filled with inspiration for simple, healthy, delicious vegan meals, One-Pot Vegan contains a wide variety of ingenious recipes, perfect for any night of the week.

If you are time-poor, stuck in a food rut or simply hate doing the dishes, One-Pot Vegan is the book for you.

With over 30 shapes for rolled, filled and extruded pasta, plus over 40 recipes for fillings and sauces, this is the ultimate cookbook for any pasta lover.

The Pasta Man is back, and this time he's going BIGGER and BETTER. In Pasta Masterclass, Instagram-sensation Mateo Zielonka reveals how you too can make his eye-catching, delicious creations. With "how to" sections guiding you through every shape, including recipes for his famous coloured doughs, step-by-step photos and QR codes linking to videos on every pasta shape included in the book, he then offers over 40 delicious recipes in which to fill or coat your creations.

Illustrated with stunning photography and video content, let yourself be guided by a master and enjoy the meditative process of making beautiful pasta.

Gone are the days when peanut butter was just spread on white-bread sandwiches – not that there’s anything wrong with that! 

With more that 60 surprising and scrumptious recipes, Peanut Butter: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Midnight has a peanut butter match for any hour of the day. Learn how to make (or buy) the best peanut butter before launching into creative toast toppings or a PB&J breakfast parfait. Take it to the next level with smoky barbecue tacos and espresso martinis. And finish things off with guilt-free peanut butter treats: yoghurt pops for the kids, salted caramel cheesecake for the big kids, and even dog biscuits for the most important member of the family.

Whether you like your peanut butter smooth or crunchy, sweet or savoury, or straight from the jar, this book is the essential companion for all peanut butter nutters.

A few years ago, at his rural home in the Welsh countryside, Gaz Oakley planted a kitchen garden with the aim of utilising plants to their full potential. Inspired by his thriving veg and fruit plot, the 100 vibrant and versatile recipes within this book celebrate the bountiful produce nature has to offer. 

Focusing on accessible ingredients like carrots, beetroot, cabbage, onions, tomatoes, apples and pears, Gaz has created a medley of seasonal, delicious dishes that showcase these crops at their best. With recipes including Strawberry and Lavender Welsh Cakes for a spin on a classic, savoury Stuffed Harissa Onions, and gorgeous Tomato, Thyme and Almond Upside Down Cake, there is something for every season and every taste.

With Gaz Oakley’s fantastic alternatives to the traditional turkey and trimmings, you can enjoy delicious plant-based recipes throughout the holiday season.

Gaz talks you through the menus and the planning, from Christmas breakfast through to show-stopping lunches with the likes of Cauliflower Wellington, Slow-roasted Mushroom Fillet, Festive Nut Roast Wreath, or the perfect Thanksgiving centrepiece Pumpkin Mac and Cheese. And these are all rounded off with spectacular dairy-free puds, including boozy Tiramisu and Crème Brûlée Tartlets. And it’s not just about the big celebrations: Gaz offers ideas for delicious leftovers, including the Ultimate Christmas Burger, as well as classics such as Bubble & Squeak Patties.

Packed with ideas and inspiration, Plants Only Holidays offers fresh and flavoursome vegan dishes perfect for the festive table.

Plentiful is a Jamaican cookbook with a vegan twist. In this first-of-its-kind book, Denai pays homage to flavours and authentic dishes from her Jamaican roots whilst firmly planting them within a modern-day context. From her convenient Callaloo Pesto Pasta to her comforting Roasted Garlic Spring Onion Mash with 'Oxtail' Gravy, the recipes are approachable, engaging and downright delicious. Jamaican food is often misrepresented, simplified and reduced to being really spicy – and MEAT heavy. Denai is a Jamaican chef who loves to make vegan food and in Plentiful she debunks this taboo about Jamaican food – with this book, she shows how exciting, diverse, and vibrant vegan flavours and Jamaican food truly are.

Easy, healthy dishes that just so happen to be plant-based. Each of the recipes in this book come with up to four health 'boosts' to meet your dietary needs: 

• ENERGY
• GUT HEALTH
• PROTEIN-PACKED
• SHAPE-UP

Eating healthy means missing out on the food you love, right? Wrong. If you’re looking for a no-nonsense way to eat well, then Proper Healthy has you covered. Calum Harris has done all the hard work for you, working with a registered dietician to create easy, plant-based dishes that come packed with up to four health benefits to boost your meals. 

Whether it’s helping your gut health, upping your protein-intake, restoring energy levels or eating lower-calorie meals, these unapologetically tasty,

hassle-free recipes are guaranteed to deliver. 

From brunches and quick eats, puds and pick-me-ups, this is a book for anyone who cares about what goes into their bodies and what food can do to their mood and energy. It’s for anyone looking to stick to a plant-based diet, or for plant-based eaters looking for healthy inspiration. 

'Calum's vegan recipes are super easy and tasty' Joe Wicks

80 fast, fresh and flavour-packed recipes!

Eager to introduce more veg to your weekly meals?Looking to eat less meat but still want protein-packed mains?
Want hearty and comforting dishes that are maximum flavour but minimum fuss?

Calum Harris is here to show you how you can feed yourself and your loved ones
hearty, healthy and delicious vegan fare in under twenty minutes – including the time
you spend chatting while you cook.

From proper pastas to creamy curries, chocolatey puddings to fluffy pancakes, this
hearty, vibrant food will appeal to everyone – whether you’re vegan full-time or
simply want to eat more plant-based meals when you can. Calum will teach you how
to quick and easy cook vegan food that is bursting with flavour with easy-to-find
ingredients that don’t cost the earth.If you’re all about indulgent sweet treats, protein-rich mains and big family favourites

to impress a crowd, Calum’s delicious recipes will keep you coming back for more.
The 20-Minute Vegan is perfect for flexitarians, students, home cooks on a budget and
anyone wanting to cook more meals that just happen to be plant-based.

A year of easy, delicious, plamt-based and allergy-friendly bakes for everyone to enjoy.

Lucy Parr is a Cordon Bleu trained mum of two and long-term vegetarian with a passion for cooking and baking. Both her daughters were diagnosed with multiple food allergies at a very young age, turning Lucy’s approach to food on its head. She started a blog, Lucy’s Friendly Foods, to record her journey back in 2012 and has now developed over 800 unique allergy-friendly recipes, some of which have been published in Free-From Food Heaven and My Family & Food Allergies. Lucy has a combined following of more than 6000 on her blog and social media, and has worked with well-known brands including Waitrose, Nomo, and Bad Brownie to create recipes. This is her first book.

150 of the best budget recipes from Katy Beskow's original 15-Minute Vegan series.

In as little as 15 minutes you can have a delicious meal on the table using readily available, budget-friendly ingredients and fuss-free cooking techniques. Thrifty Vegan starts with Katy's introduction to plant-based cooking, with advice on the equipment you need to make your cooking go faster, plus essential storecupboard ingredients and money saving tips.

With 150 recipes to satisfy at any time of day, this book is not only the go-to cookbook for new and established vegans, but also for home cooks looking for effortless and wallet-friendly ways to bring plant-based meals into their kitchen. This is feel-good, effortless food by an expert in vegan cooking – nothing could be simpler and faster than the Thrifty Vegan.

You can buy a book for yourself or one for someone else. The donated books are aimed to go to low income families in and around Romsey. We will donate the books to Freedom Matters to be given out. We have partnered with Freedom Matters who focus ​on people: people are right at the heart of all they do. The projects that are ran through Freedom Matters 'encourage, enable and equip people to become 'unstuck' where they are 'stuck' and ultimately reconnect with thei purpose and find hope.' The projects include CAP (debt help), Romsey Foodbank and Community Coaching.

Simple and affordable, Tin Can Cook strips away the blinding glamour and elitism of many cookbooks and takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary ingredients.

Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe brings together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients. Beautifully designed with accompanying quirky hand-drawn illustrations, this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won’t have to look further than your local supermarket to make them.

Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas.

Jack is no stranger to rustling up dinner from a handful of tins; she relied on food banks to keep her and her young son fed through a difficult period of unemployment.