Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Eating With My Fingers is a book about finding joy in ordinary things, and about making ordinary things, like food, a source of comfort and delight. It isn't pretentious or complicated, or a book that claims to have all the answers. It is HowTo Eat's plumper and more down-to-earth little sister: Eating With My Fingers doesn't lick its fingers for the camera, but for the sheer joy of eating every last scrap. Ella Risbridger started cooking because she needed some point of stability in a world that was slipping away from her. As someone with an anxiety disorder, she started writing about cooking because she thought other people might benefit from knowing that they aren't alone in how they feel, aiming to make their lives just a little better and brighter.
Ella brings her simple and delicious recipes to life with honest anecdotes and thoughtful reflections. Recipes include rebound lasagne; this too shall pass pie; homecoming risotto; and midnight chicken. These are recipes that belong to everyone: easy, careful and adaptable. Good food ought to make you feel better about the world and your place in it, and this is what this book does. It's about mindfulness, and thoughtfulness, and about understanding yourself and everything around you.
Synopsis
Recipes that unlock the life-changing happiness of cooking
Roast tomato and garlic soup, uplifting Chilli and lemon spaghetti, Crispy lemon sardines, Beginner's chicken curry, and the filthiest Salted-caramel butter brownies: these are some of the recipes that saved Ella Risbridger's life - and they might just change your life, too.
For Ella, the world had become overwhelming: sounds were too loud, colours were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up - and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet, and made her want to be alive. She wrote up the recipe for 'Midnight Chicken' on her blog, and was overwhelmed by the response. And so this book was born.
Every one of the 100 recipes is easy and delicious - and each has a story to tell. Written with wit and wisdom, the book is steeped in Ella's anecdotes and reflections from her own life, and illustrated with exquisite watercolour illustrations. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.
Synopsis
'A moving testimonial to the redemptive power of cooking. Risbridger knows that it offers not just solace but a map; cooking can save you. Generous, honest and uplifting. I wish I'd had this book when I was in my twenties' Diana Henry
Recipes that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking
There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken...
There was a time when, for Ella Risbridger, the world had become overwhelming. Sounds were too loud, colours were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up - and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.
Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chilli-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagne, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce. But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for: a manifesto of moments worth living for. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.
Synopsis
'A moving testimonial to the redemptive power of cooking. Generous, honest and uplifting' Diana Henry
Recipes that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking
There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken...
There was a time when, for Ella Risbridger, the world had become overwhelming. Sounds were too loud, colours were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up - and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.
Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chilli-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagne, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce. But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for - a manifesto of moments worth living for. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.
'A big old massive heart exploding love story' The Times
Synopsis
A book of recipes and reflections that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking.
"A manual for living and a declaration of hope." --Nigella Lawson
There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.
There was a time when, for Ella Risbridger, the world had become overwhelming. Sounds were too loud, colors were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up--and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.
Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chili-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagna, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce.
But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for--a manifesto of moments worth living for. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.
Synopsis
A book of recipes and reflections that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking.
"Bridget Jones' self-effacing wittiness, Julia Child's companionable forgiveness and Sylvia Plath's poetic prose." --NPR
"A manual for living and a declaration of hope." --Nigella Lawson
There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.
There was a time when, for Ella Risbridger, the world had become overwhelming. Sounds were too loud, colors were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up--and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.
Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chili-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagna, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce.
But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for--a manifesto of moments worth living for. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.