Annabel Langbein Shares the Love

Annabel Langbein Shares the Love

New Zealand’s favourite cookbook author and publisher has all your cold-weather cravings covered with her new autumn and winter go-to guide Annabel Langbein A Free Range Life: Share the Love.

The fourth installment in Annabel’s series of seasonal publications, Share the Love brings together more than 120 soul-warming eating ideas, including everything from cosy brunches and hearty oven bakes to zesty winter salads and easy Asian dinners.

“Whether it's a simple pot of soup or an elaborate multi-course dinner, cooking gives
us the chance to share the love,” says Annabel.

“I wanted to show that winter food doesn’t have to be bland and stodgy. It’s all about keeping your tastebuds tempted with creative combinations of tastes and textures drawn from a global pantry of flavours.”

A whole chapter is devoted to make-ahead meals that’ll wow your friends at your next potluck dinner party (see annabel-langbein.com for details of Annabel’s Share the Love Potluck competition, which could win you a trip for two to Wanaka), another focuses on family friendly sausage recipes, and a third suggests innovative bento lunchbox ideas.

For the sweet-toothed, there’s a decadent collection of best-ever chocolate baking, some sublime citrus desserts and Annabel’s favourite autumn preserves.

Famous for her clever cooking tips, Annabel offers advice for adapting all your winter favourites for the slow-cooker, and a handy survival guide for that oh-no moment when you realise you don’t have the right size cake tin.

A six-week meal planner delivers simple solutions for weeknight meals, while Annabel also provides menu suggestions for every occasion, including a vegetarian feast, gluten-free guests and entertaining on a shoestring.

This inspiring new recipe collection is backed up by shopping lists, gardening charts and bonus cooking tips and tricks on Annabel’s website at annabel-langbein.com. 

Annabel Langbein A Free Range Life: Share the Love (Annabel Langbein Media, RRP $24.95) is available at supermarkets, Paper Plus, the Warehouse and good bookstores from 18 April 2016 and makes a great Mother’s Day gift or treat for yourself. 

About the author:

Over more than 20 years, Annabel has written and published 22 cookbooks and starred
in and co-produced three seasons of her award-winning TV series Annabel Langbein
The Free Range Cook. It’s Annabel’s mission to get people into the kitchen to create simple, healthy meals to share with family and friends. Her lighthearted, down-to-earth approach, no-fail recipes and clever kitchen tips have earned her a passionate international following.

Annabel’s books have won numerous international awards, been translated into multiple languages and sold more than two million copies throughout Europe, North America and Australasia. Her TV series has screened in more than 90 countries around the world and is currently screening in the United States on the Public Television network (the US equivalent of the BBC and home to quality programming such as Downton Abbey).
In February 2016 she won the People’s Choice Award for Best Home Chef in a TV Series
at the US-based Taste Awards.  

A foundation member of the Sustainability Council of New Zealand and named by the
NZ Beekeepers’ Association as the official ambassador for New Zealand bees, Annabel
is uniquely qualified as a flag-bearer for the international sustainability movement,
having spent her early life living off the land, cooking over an open fire, trapping possums in the Ureweras and jumping out of helicopters to recover live deer (you can read more of Annabel’s story at http://www.annabel-langbein.com/annabel/about/).

Annabel grows much of her family’s fresh produce in extensive organic gardens on the shores of scenic Lake Wanaka, where Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook is filmed.