The Complete Vegetable Cookbook by James Strawbridge

The Complete Vegetable Cookbook by James Strawbridge showcases more than 60 vegetables, season by season; exploring each plant’s unique characteristics, different varieties, and how best to prepare produce in your kitchen. An advocate of zero-waste cooking, James also shares how you can make use of all that’s edible from root to bloom with ideas on preserving and storing.

Whether you are looking to include more veg in your diet, moving to a vegan or meat-free lifestyle, or looking for some flavour inspiration for your dishes, this is a vegetarian cookbook with a difference – giving you the confidence and knowledge to safely prepare and cook the edible parts of seasonal vegetables.

• Covers more than 60 vegetables organised by seasonality
• Over 135 delicious vegetarian recipes for you to enjoy – including main meals, light lunches and sides
• Detailed information on plant varieties with annotated photographs displaying the edible parts on each vegetable
• Learn the best way to prepare, store and preserve your favourite veg
• Handy zero-waste top tips and practical tricks throughout to make your vegetables last longer
• Sustainable leftover solutions, from stocks and drying techniques to pickling, fermenting and roasting

Rustle up one of James’ family favourites – a warming fennel gratin for a cosy autumn evening meal; watercress, pear, and walnut tart; or even cucumber peel gin, and discover how the humble vegetable can deliver utmost flavour all year round.

James Strawbridge is a Cornish chef, food photographer and writer. As a chef James creates recipes and develops new products for food brands. Plus as a photographer James shoots and styles the recipes he’s developed for social media, websites and his books. James works with a range of food clients across the southwest delivering innovative content from his home studio. He is passionate about cooking seasonally with local produce.

James is co-author of DK’s Practical Self-Sufficiency which since 2010 has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide. James’s media profile received a boost when he made a guest appearance on his father’s hit TV show Escape to the Chateau, which had viewers “swooning” over “hunky tattooed” James.

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