Ella Risbridger invites you into her kitchen and shares her favourite recipes that slip neatly and effortlessly into regular rotation. This is a book of things that are worth it: dishes that deliver even when you don''t have an abundance of time or energy. There are weeknight dinners like Cumin Lamb Noodle Ragu and Cure-All One-Pan Beans, or kitchen counter meals like Spring Onion Cornbread and Green Chickpea Quesadillas. Ella also gives plenty of options for roasting a chicken, hosting elegant and stress-free gatherings, and a failsafe cookie formula for all occasions and emergencies. These are recipes for life, dishes that beg to be cooked on repeat and shortcuts for making the week ahead feel special instead of overwhelming. Make them work with whatever you have at home, fit them around your life and cook them so often that you (almost) forget where they came from. The Kitchen Book will improve your life on a small but daily basis by elevating the things you eat - mostly dinner, often snacks, sometimes lunch - with only slightly more effort. With big flavours, new ideas and classic feelings, it meets you exactly where you are, wherever you need it to find you.

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Ella Risbridger is a writer and journalist from London. With bylines in the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Vogue & many others, her books span from cookery to picture books, poetry to essay collections. Her best-selling debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), won Cookbook of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards, and was named a book of the year in multiple publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sunday Times, New York Times, Daily Mail and Washington Post. She was described by the Times as "the most talented writer of a generation", which is nice. Ella is also the creator of You Get In Love And Then...?, a best-selling newsletter with thousands of paid subscribers; an amateur painter, potter, and candlestick maker; and the part-owner of one very fat orange cat.

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

**'A modern classic'**Nicola Lamb

'Everything about this book is worth it. Frankly, even if you never ever cook, this book is worth it. I love it' Nigella Lawson

'My favourite cookbook ever. Useful, ingenious, alive to every pleasure. Passionately recommended' India Knight, Sunday Times

'This book is utter magic. I have folded down so many pages: I love the recipes, I love the writing. Her best book yet' Dolly Alderton

'Everything I want from a cookery book' Olivia Potts, Spectator

Home cooking but make it gorgeous. Make it the thing that improves your day. Make it beautiful, useful and delicious. Make your life just, like, 10% better.

No-knife potato curry, cumin lamb ragù, turmeric satay salmon, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; breakfast bars, rhubarb and custard, sticky lemon cake, and one-bowl cannelés. This is cooking for real life - the kinds of recipes you will actually make and actually love.

There are plenty of ideas to get you through the week with minimal faff and maximum reward, whether you're at your lowest ebb or striving for elegance:

• The big list: how to stock the fridge, freezer, spice drawer and more
• On the sofa: sticky-crispy Korean tofu, pistachio chilli, pumpkin and raisin roasted rice
• At the kitchen counter: brown butter cornbread, herby mango salad, green chickpea quesadillas
• For a gathering: sheet-pan leek latkes, pig cheek and queen bean burritos, smoky rosemary palomas
• With a tablecloth: asparagus fritters, miso mushroom ragù, smoky tea chocolate pots
• For the week ahead: bread and butter, cure-all one-pan beans, pink onions, caramelised garlic
• On the floor: carbonara rice, fish finger and smoked sweetcorn tacos, sausage and rocket gnocchi Roasting a chicken. Planning for the week ahead. Throwing a party (for three or thirty or more). Baking fail-safe cookies (for when failure to have cookies really isn't an option). The Kitchen Book is your source of wisdom for the 4pm what's-for-dinner panic, and the definitive answer to 'Maybe just toast and an early night?'

These are recipes that will stick with you for life.