In this beautiful new compendium, best-selling New Zealand cookbook author Annabel Langbein gathers more than 650 of her best-ever savoury recipes. Packed with clever cooking tips, variations and springboard recipes demonstrating key techniques, it's a lifetime of cooking and eating inspiration and an essential kitchen handbook for today's busy lives.

Bursting with tender and funny anecdotes and gorgeous recipes, Bella is Annabel Langbein's must-read memoir. For the first time, Annabel Langbein, New Zealand's most popular cookbook author, writes about her remarkable life and how food has shaped it, highlighting some of the recipes that have resonated most strongly with her over the years. From her childhood fascination with cooking to a teenage flirtation as a Maoist hippie, to possum trapping and living off the land as a hunter and forager, to travelling and starting her own croissant business in Brazil, Annabel's life has always been centred on food and nature. Out of this came an obsession with creating cookbooks, introducing a generation of cooks to her simple recipes for delicious, stylish meals. Annabel has lived a huge and varied life, and she writes vividly about her many adventures. From throughout this rich life in food she has chosen 60 key recipes, created with her signature style and flair that make cooking easy for everyone, sharing them in this beautifully photographed book.

Annabel Langbein is on a mission to get people into the kitchen with fun, no-stress recipes. Her down-to-earth approach to cooking is both practical and inspiring. Starting with the freshest seasonal ingredients, she shows how easy it is to cook sensational food in a simple, natural way. This book takes you on a journey through the food process from sourcing and growing produce to creating your own mouthwatering menus - all against a backdrop of stunning New Zealand landscapes and the natural lifestyle Annabel enjoys at her lakeside cabin. This is a very appealing, pared-back approach to food that celebrates a spirit of resoucefulness and the ability to enjoy whatever is in season at its very best.

Take time out of your busy schedule to savour lifes simple pleasures - the sweetness of a fresh-picked berry, the crunch of a carrot straight from the earth, and the joy to be found in cooking with love for family and friends. Annabel stays true to her philosophy that natural ingredients need little in the way of preparation.

In this superb new book, best-selling New Zealand cookbook author Annabel Langbein shares hundreds of her favourite and most popular recipes for all things sweet. Featuring everything from nostalgic baking classics to modern vegan desserts, plus tried-and-true tips for perfect results every time and 'springboard' recipes that allow you to add your own creativity, it's the only book you'll ever need to bring a little sweetness to your life. The second volume in her beautiful ESSENTIAL duo, it is not just a recipe book - it's a lifetime of baking inspiration. "In this book I have sought to bring you the best of everything I know and love from the sweet kitchen," says Annabel. "I've cooked all my life, but I don't have time for fancy techniques, hard-to-find ingredients or long-winded procedures. On these pages you'll find classic recipes made simpler, indulgent recipes tweaked to be lighter and healthier, loads of exciting brand-new recipes, plus an encyclopaedia of tips and tricks that I've gathered over the years." With both metric and imperial measurements for use worldwide, ESSENTIAL Annabel Langbein - Sweet Treats for Every Occasion contains something for everyone, with recipes to suit all lifestyles, appetites and dietary needs, and separate indexes to help you identify the many gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian and vegan recipes.

The new edition of THE BEST OF ANNABEL LANGBEIN - GREAT FOOD FOR BUSY LIVES contains more than 100 additional pages of recipes and is the essential kitchen handbook for modern living. Annabel is renowned for her down-to-earth, no fuss, delicious recipes that are quick and easy to make. The 600-plus recipes in this book are accessible and innovative and will inspire cooks of all abilities with the confidence to make them. The book covers everything from breakfast and brunch, appetizers, soups and salads to desserts, baking and preserves. Things can sometimes go wrong in the kitchen but Annabel's down-to-earth approach draws on a lifetime of cooking skills to demystify the processes and inspire confidence in her readers.

Looking for cooking inspiration and new ideas that don't require a lot of time or fuss in the kitchen? You will find them in this, the essential kitchen handbook for today's busy lives. The book's 12 chapters cover everything from breakfast and brunch, appetisers, soups and salads through to main course meats, poultry, seafood and vegetarian dishes, as well as desserts, baking and preserves. Annabel's down-to-earth approach draws on a lifetime of cooking skills to demystify cooking processes and inspire kitchen confidence. Throughout the book you will find helpful menu plans and time-saving, success-assuring tips. Annabel's quick, easy guides to preparation, ingredients, menu planning and nutrition make this an indispensable cooking bible.--Amazon.com.