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Putting food on the table quickly and economically doesn't mean compromising on quality. This guide demonstrates how to adapt Hugh's approach to suit growing families, busy singles, and couples. It covers breakfast, baking, lunchboxes, quick suppers, healthy snacks, and weekend cooking for the week ahead. Hugh makes no assumptions about your shopping habits or cooking knowledge, whether you can differentiate between a swede and a turnip, or know how to prepare various cuts of meat and types of fish. He offers easy, confidence-inspiring methods to explore new ingredients and reimagine familiar staples like rice, potatoes, beans, and bread. The aim is to entice you toward a better food life, with a collection of recipes designed to become your favorites and those of your friends and family. The hope is that the dishes you enjoy will influence your cooking style, boosting your confidence and sparking fresh ideas. Ultimately, the goal is for cooking simple, delicious meals with the best seasonal ingredients to become second nature and a daily priority, not just an occasional endeavor.

The central aim is to make vegetables delicious and irresistible, offering easy, family-friendly recipes that encourage daily consumption of veggies. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's previous work became the UK's best-selling vegetable cookbook, inspiring many to prioritize vegetables in their cooking. In this eagerly awaited follow-up, Hugh presents more enticing recipes while emphasizing that plant foods should dominate our kitchens. He sets aside cheese, butter, cream, eggs, and refined sugars, focusing instead on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, spices, and cold-pressed oils. This approach showcases the potential of natural, unprocessed plant foods as the foundation for healthy meals. The recipes are straightforward, foolproof, and delicious, with most being gluten-free and many requiring just 20 minutes or less of hands-on time. Dishes like Roast squash and chickpeas with spicy apricot sauce, Blackened cauliflower with pecans and tahini, and Spiced beetroot, radicchio, and orange traybake highlight how easy it is to incorporate versatile and plentiful vegetables into your diet, making them the cornerstone of nutritious meals.

Winner of Best Cookbook at the Observer Food Monthly AwardsWhy don't we eat more veg? They're healthy, cost-effective and, above all, delicious. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall believes that it is time to put this to rights, as he explains in this brilliant new book.He's come up with an abundance of veg-tastic recipes, including a warm salad of grilled courgettes, lemon, garlic, mint and mozzarella, a winter giant couscous salad with herbs and walnuts, radishes with butter and salt, lemony guacamole, linguine with mint and almond pesto and cherry tomatoes, baby carrot risotto, new potato gnocchi, a summer stir-fry with green veg, ginger, garlic and sesame, a winter stir-fry with Brussels sprouts, shiitake mushrooms and five-spice, a cheesy tomato tart, a spring onion gallette, roast jacket chips with merguez spices and spiced yoghurt, curried bubble and squeak, scrambled eggs and asparagus with lemon, tomato gazpacho, pea and parsley soup, roast squash wedges, baba ganoush, beetroot houmous, spinach pasties and barbecued corn on the cob. With over 200 recipes and vibrant photography from Simon Wheeler, River Cottage Veg Every Day is a timely eulogy to the glorious green stuff.