Small Pleasures
Joyful Recipes for Difficult Times
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"Ryan Riley's recipes deliver bold flavour and deep comfort: this is a book that nourishes both body and soul." - Nigella Lawson
Whether you're recovering from an illness, or running low on mood, time, energy, money or headspace, Ryan Riley has the easy and delicious recipes to minimise the work and maximise the flavour and perk yourself up.
No matter how you're feeling, do something enjoyable for yourself and beat the January blues with Ryan Riley's small pleasures: simple, delicious bites packed full of Life Kitchen's signature flavours to revive your love of food. These are recipes high in flavour for low times, to nourish and heal, with the added bonus of using ingredients that are naturally gut-friendly.
This is Ryan's manifesto to feeling better and falling back in love with food: first you have recipes for comfort, for when eating is a chore but these recipes are the first steps in the roadmap to feeling more yourself; then comes restoration, with recipes to reawaken your senses; and the final chapter, pleasure, is all about indulgence, a love letter to yourself as you return to the world.
Take some time for self-care in the kitchen with these simple and surprising recipes - new favourites that you didn't know you were searching for. These are can-do recipes for when you feel like you can't. From marmite jacket potatoes or 5-ingredient miso tomato sauce to green herbs and 'nduja frittata and gochujang, ginger and avocado toast, the 80+ simple recipes are all easily scalable, so no matter your mood or appetite, there is something in these pages to help you rediscover the joy of food. These are small pleasures with big flavours.
About this Author
Ryan Riley is the founder of Life Kitchen, which immediately gained support from the public, press and celebrities nationally, and he has gone on to run his signature cookery classes for people living with cancer across the country - including collaborations at River Cottage, Daylesford and the Jamie Oliver Cookery School. He is also an established food writer and stylist who has worked for print publications such as Sainsbury's Magazine, Waitrose Food and BBC Good Food. In 2019, Ryan opened the Life Kitchen Cookery School in his home town of Sunderland. Life Kitchen is his first cookbook.
@lifekitchen / @ryanrileyy
Reviews
"As ever, Ryan Riley's recipes deliver bold flavour and deep comfort: this is a book that nourishes both body and soul." --Nigella Lawson
"Small Pleasures is actually a huge pleasure. It's a gorgeous book that jumps up at you, hugs you, and kisses you on both cheeks. Brilliantly simple recipes and full of Ryan Riley's infectious love for life and food. Joyful." --Russell Norman
"This is a book of total comfort. No-hassle, delicious, time-saving recipes with Ryan's signature flavours - spot on!" --Tom Kerridge
"This wonderful joyous collection of recipes has an elemental appreciation of the power food can have on us all when cooked with love. Whatever life brings to your table, there is kindness in every turn of the page. I enjoyed this book immensely. Well done Ryan, your mam would be enormously proud." --Si King
"A blissful blast of big, bold flavours, with recipes that nourish both belly and soul." --Tom Parker Bowles
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