Cookbooks by Nicola Galloway
Thank you for your interest in my cookbooks. Over the last 18 years, I have written 5 cookbooks, including:
- The Homemade Table (2022) – Seasonal recipes, preserves & sourdough
- Homegrown Kitchen (2017) – Everyday recipes for eating well
- Feeding Little Tummies (2011) – out of print, details below
- Cooking for your Child (2006) – Healthy recipes from first foods to toddler meals (out of print)
- Alive! – Food for Health & Vitality (2004) (out of print)
The Homemade Table cookbook
The Homemade Table – Seasonal Recipes, Preserves & Sourdough – is a book of two parts, the first section contains seasonal recipes focusing on fresh produce. Chapters include; Breakfasts, Vegetables & Soups, Dinner, and Baking & Desserts. These are my favourite recipes I make for my family and friends throughout the year.
In the second part of the book, I share my extensive knowledge and recipes for making homemade staples such as sourdough bread, preserves, ferments, and dairy products. In these chapters, I share my ‘master recipes’ for sourdough bread, multi-purpose dough, pickles, and sauerkraut, with multiple variations for each. These staples form the backbone of my kitchen. Drawing on 20 years of experience teaching cooking, my aim is to simplify these more complex techniques for the home kitchen.
The Homemade Table is a complete guide to home cooking, one that you can return to again and again for planning meals, or to master a new cooking technique. My signature detailed recipes include many variations and, where possible, substitutions for gluten and dairy-free options. Along with troubleshooting for sourdough bread, preserves and ferments from the most frequent questions asked at my cooking workshops. The book concludes with a detailed chapter on stocking the pantry and staple recipes such as cooking legumes and homemade gluten-free flour mix.
The Homemade Table is a home kitchen tome including over 170 recipes. It is an all-in-one cookbook!
*Read reviews, feedback, and FAQ for The Homemade Table HERE.
A few extras to accompany the book:
- Three bonus sourdough recipes using the ‘master recipes’ as a base. More details and download the pdf here.
- I have created a series of short videos of shaping and baking the Rustic Sourdough Bread here.
- Purchase my favourite Lined Bannetons (bread-rising baskets) – available in two different shapes.
- After many requests, I have my Fresh Sourdough Starter available to purchase. I only send this out in the cooler months so it is healthy and vibrant when it arrives at your home.
*The Homemade Table was shortlisted for the 2023 NZ Booklovers Awards – Best Lifestyle Book. I shared more about this on Instagram and Facebook.
Homegrown Kitchen cookbook
My fourth award-winning* cookbook – Homegrown Kitchen – Everyday Recipes for Eating Well – is a culmination of 18 years of studying, researching, and teaching others how to cook and eat well. I sincerely hope that it will find a place in your kitchen, splattered with food, littered with page markers and handwritten jottings in the margin, just like my own favourite cookbooks. It is an insight into how I cook and the reasons behind the techniques I use. The recipes are a combination of notes from my sell-out cooking workshops around Aotearoa New Zealand interwoven with everyday meals I prepare for my family. It is essentially my kitchen wrapped up in the pages of a book.
*Homegrown Kitchen cookbook was chosen as the 2018 New Zealand winner of the Easy Home Recipes section of The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. It was also shortlisted for Best Cookbook Design in the PANZ 2018 Book Design Awards, and received a Highly Commended for Best Cookbook in the 2019 NZ Food Media Awards (where this Homegrown Kitchen website won best NZ Food Website).
“Nicola Galloway’s Homegrown Kitchen is a rare delight: an elegantly produced, thoughtful, and beautifully illustrated companion for any cook or gardener who wants to live well without depriving themselves of any of the good things in life. It’s comprehensive without being preachy, offering sensible nutritional advice, healthy and hearty recipes, and the benefit of 18 years of wholefoods experience. Oh, and it’s gorgeous in every sense of the word. I’m glad she’s taken this long to produce it; the wait was definitely worth it.”
Lynda Hallinan, NZ Gardener editor-at-large.
*Please note, Homegrown Kitchen is currently out of print, please register interest in a reprint by clicking the button below.
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Feeding Little Tummies – Healthy recipes from first foods to toddler meals.
Please note: Feeding Little Tummies cookbook is now out of print.
Babies’ first foods lay the foundations of future eating habits, so a healthy start can establish healthy patterns for a lifetime. Beginning with the first taste of solid food at around six months old, Feeding Little Tummies includes dozens of healthy, easy recipes that will inspire New Zealand parents, grandparents, and caregivers to create nourishing, appealing meals and snacks for the children they care for.
Written by a qualified chef, and mother, Feeding Little Tummies includes:
– More than 100 simple recipes and dozens of variations
– An introduction outlining the basics of nutrition
– Separate sections on first foods, breakfasts, snacks and lunches, family dinners, desserts, and drinks
– Advice on allergies and food intolerances
– Finger food and meal ideas for Baby Led Weaning (BLW)
– Nutrition suggestions for when children are feeling under the weather
– Tips, suggestions, and nutritional information throughout
Feeding Little Tummies was originally published as Cooking for your Child (2006). This updated edition (2011), is clearly laid out for busy parents and illustrated throughout, is an inspiring resource and an ideal gift for new parents.
FEEDBACK
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