Happy Cooking: Easy Uplifting Meals and Comforting Treats

by Candice Brown

Overview

Great British Bake Off winner and Comfort author Candice Brown shares the essential recipes that see her through life as she lives with anxiety and depression. 

Make your kitchen your happy place

Cooking has always been about more than the finished dish for Candice Brown. It's about the whole process and what that process can do for your mind, as well as your tummy. Happy Cooking, her second book, is packed with simple and delicious recipes to bring a little warmth back into those grey days when it all feels a bit too much. Here you'll find your favorite bakes to bring a smile to your face, quick pick-me-ups for the busy weekdays, therapeutic recipes to keep your hands busy, and hearty dishes that take care of themselves as well as you. These are recipes to live for, to get out of bed for, to eat under the duvet, and to share with the ones you love. Includes metric measures. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529108330
Publisher:	Penguin Random House UK
Publication date:	10/01/2021
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Candice Brown is the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2016. Born in North London, Candice grew up in the pubs that her parents ran - and that she famously immortalized in gingerbread for her most talked about showstopper – always chipping in when needed, be it pulling pints or mopping floors. With her degree in Sport, PE and Community Studies, Candice was a secondary school teacher when she applied for GBBO and managed to juggle planning her fabulous bakes and filming the show with teaching lively teenagers. Candice is currently taking a break from teaching to explore new adventures in flour.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Quick pick-me-ups 12

Simple comforts 48

Keep-your-hands-busy cooking 82

Food that takes care of itself (and you) 134

Nostalgia food 158

Say it with cake 198

Notes 240

Index 248

Acknowledgements 254

Editorial Reviews

09/06/2021

From the start of this bubbly book, Great British Bake Off winner Brown (Comfort) is frank about her mental health struggles: “I cook not only because I want to, but because I need to. Cooking is a saviour for me.” Here she shares the joy of cooking in the form of dozens of hearty, comfort food recipes straight from her kitchen and heart. Featured throughout are British classics like beer-battered fish and chips with tartar sauce, roast lamb, and cherry and almond spotted dick. There are plenty of carb-heavy indulgences to bury one’s feelings in, including pesto gnocchi gratin, and brown butter macaroni and cheese (“the ultimate comfort food”). Brown devotes a section to dishes that require a slow cooker—such as chocolate and caramel chia rice pudding, and smoky bean chili—and includes alternate steps for home cooks who prefer to use a stovetop instead. Her judgment-free tone (“please make sure you enjoy a huge slice,” she says of one cake) and helpful side notes are sure to lift home cooks’ spirits as much as the recipes themselves. “This book doesn’t aim for perfect,” Brown writes. “It aims for deliciousness.” Readers will be pleased to learn these tasty offerings deliver exactly that. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"Her judgment-free tone . . . and helpful side notes are sure to lift home cooks spirits’ as much as the recipes themselves. ‘This book doesn’t aim for perfect,’ Brown writes. ‘It aims for deliciousness.’ Readers will be pleased to learn these tasty offerings deliver exactly that." — Publishers Weekly

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