Most Popular Books by Sara Lewis

Ice creams and iced desserts make ideal sweet treats at any time of the year. From a simple scoop in a cone to refreshing sorbets and tangy granitas, this book contains everything you need to know to create delicious ice creams in your own home, with any kind of ice cream machine. An informative introduction contains the history of ice cream and ice cream machines, a guide to equipment and ingredients, and step-by-step techniques such as layering, rippling and marbling. More than 80 stunning recipes range from classic ice creams, sorbets and water ices to innovative modern variations. Choose from Cookies and Cream Ice Cream, Triple Chocolate Terrine, Banana Gelato, Raspberry Sherbet, or Cinnamon Ricotta Ice with Toasted Granola. Illustrated with more than 550 stunning photographs, this book shows how fun, easy and satisfying it is to make tasty ice cream at home.

The Superfood Kitchen provides 50 healthy recipes that are packed with superfoods for the thoughtful cook.

This book is specifically designed to help parents through their child's feeding and dietary needs with confidence and assurance. It is packed with stimulating, tempting step-by-step recipes that are guaranteed to solve food rejection problems and encourage eating habits that will stand them in good stead through to adulthood. The book is divided into sections, with ideas for lunchtime meals, vegetarian dishes, quick teas, bread and toast snacks, simple puddings, and cakes and bakes that a toddler can help to prepare. It solves problems, answers questions and provides an invaluable recipe source in one accessible and reliable volume.

Slow cookers are very cheap to run, environmentally friendly and incredibly versatile - everyone should have one! The Complete Slow Cooker will guide you through a fantastic selection of dishes you can make with a slow cooker, helping you to understand how to get the most out of this essential cooking tool. Discover how to make soups, stews, pies, puddings, risottos, fondues, preserves, terrines, drinks and a host of desserts and cakes. There is also advice on adapting your own recipes, adjusting cooking times and making the most out of forgotten cuts of meat and other economical ingredients.

This essential recipe book tells you everything you need to know about breadmaking and shows you just how easy shaping and baking your own bread can be.Step-by-step instructions and expert advice help you master the basic techniques for mixing, shaping and baking your dough, and from there you can begin exploring over 70 mouthwatering recipes ranging from savoury breads - such as the traditional Granary Loaf and Feta and Spinach Twists - to sweet bakes like classic Crumpets and Croissants, as well as the more adventurous Gingered Fig and Orange Bread. Bread also contains special recipe sections on gluten-free and yeast-free breads to suit every aspiring baker.Whether you are looking to create the perfect loaf by hand or machine, this book's easy-to-follow format and top tips help you achieve the most delicious bakes every time.

The opening section of this expert book - First Foods - covers the critical areas of weaning, first tastes and feeding babies. As well as recipes, there is advice on equipment, hygiene, food preparation, maintaining a balanced diet, and introducing and phasing out different foodstuffs. The second section - Food for Toddlers - is packed with healthy but tempting dishes and treats for toddlers. The third section - Family Meals - is the perfect planner for busy parents, introducing the author's unique 'three-way stretch' treatment, with simple instructions on how to produce a healthy baby purée, a fun toddler meal and a satisfying dish for parents simultaneously.

Forget tinned baby food forever with this clear, colourful introduction to your baby's first foods. With over 80 exciting, delicious recipes for babies and toddlers, Feeding your Baby makes weaning easy and provides your new-born with the essential nutrients needed to get the best start in life. From Butternut Squash Purée and Apricot Millet Fool to Chicken Casserole and Easy Peasy Lasagne, the tasty meals in this book are guaranteed to tempt your child's taste buds and help teach them to enjoy a wide range of tastes and textures. Includes menu planners for children aged 6 months to 3 years, essential information on when and how to introduce your child to solids, and advice on feeding fussy eaters and reducing the risk of allergies.

The Soup Bar hails the very best in nutritious recipes that pack a real taste punch. It salutes the new wave of mineral-filled bone broths, soups made of all things green, and bowls bursting with cooling, tasty fruit soups. Try a ladleful of vitality-boosting Creamy Parsnip & Cashew Soup, feed the soul with a Beef Bone Broth, or refresh your system with Cleansing Chicken & Celery Broth. This book includes expert information, from creating your own stocks to perfect choices for wholesome and tasty sides and garnishes.

With a pie for every occasion and a tart for every season, 200 Pies & Tarts will teach you how to bake all of your favorites at home - just like mom used to make. Including sweet classics like French Apple Flan and more savory dishes like Stilton & Leek Tarts, this book will transform your kitchen into a first class pie shop and fill your home with the unbeatable aroma of freshly baked treats. Chapters on meat pies and hearty main dish tarts will make mealtime dining with your family a real treat. Finish off any dinner with a slice of fresh-out-of-the-oven pie and make sure that entertaining is simple by taking the guesswork out of making pastry and crusts from scratch. Each recipe is accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions and a full-page color photograph to ensure perfect results every time.

This stylish and beautiful book shows how easy it is to make all kinds of sorbets.

Make fish an exciting dish with one of these delicious recipes from around the world. From Salt and Pepper Squid and Japanese Sushi Cones to traditional Spanish Paella and Fisherman's Pie, "Fish" contains over 80 mouth watering classic and contemporary recipes. Learn everything you need to know to cook great-tasting fish, from buying to cleaning, gutting to filleting, plus simple preparation techniques that will guarantee success every time. Step-by-step photography, clear instructions and professional tips make cooking fish and seafood easy, and with delectable accompaniments such as Lemon and Caper Mash, Chunky Chips and Tartare Sauce, fish will be everyone's favourite.

Kick-start your day with fruit and seed layered smoothie bowls to nutrition-packed bars and balls.

Ice Cool opens with a history of ice cream, from its days as a dessert for the rich and famous in Europe, to the mass popularity of ice cream today. A comprehensive reference section then shows how easy it is to make ice cream at home. Find out about specialist equipment, as well as key ingredients. Explore all the essential techniques involved in making, freezing, decorating and serving ice cream. The recipes range from refreshing sorbets, water ices and granitas to rich vanilla, chocolate and coffee ice creams; and from fruit and nut ice creams to ideas for cream-free and low-fat ices. Every recipe has illustrated step-by-step instructions for making by hand or machine and includes cook's tips on flavorings, toppings and serving ideas. With over 55 irresistible and beautifully photographed recipes and the practical know-how to make them work perfectly, Ice Cool deserves a place on every kitchen bookshelf.

200 Chicken Recipes combines 200 classic and contemporary dishes for every occasion. With a range of hot and cold recipes from the classic Club sandwich or Vietnamese Noodle Salad to barbecued chicken and the traditional old-fashioned roast, the book is ideal for people cooking at all levels. Presented in a handy format with color photographs and easy-to-follow recipes 200 Chicken Recipes is great value for money.

Happy Healthy Baby Cookbook offers 200 tempting ideas and recipes for simple baby purees, purees for the older baby and delicious finger foods, presented in an easy-to-follow fully illustrated chart form.

A collection of 200 recipes from first purees to family meals. The first section concentrates on ages 3-12 months; the second on the toddler years; and the third features three-way guides for feeding the family - baby, toddler and adults - from the same basic recipes, without cooking three separate meals.

The dissertation argues that the Tibetan concept of resilience is more an active process than a personality attribute. Seeing emotions as impermanent and changing, Tibetans living in exile are reticent to dwell on distress, which seems only to stagnate or prolong suffering. Rather than processing the details of traumatic events, members of this community attempt to transform distress through cultural practices that emphasize compassion and impermanence. Many forms of coping in Dharamsala work to create a greater sense of spaciousness, openness and flexibility within the mind--qualities associated with resilience and wellbeing. In practicing flexibility, the durability of negative emotions is diminished, such that the encoding of trauma is derailed and disrupted. The contribution I make involves using a "resilience imaginary" as a fruitful site for pushing the boundaries of how we understand human freedom and agency.

ALS. In a melancholy frame of mind following three severe illnesses, Lewis writes of hoping to see her friends once more, her failure to pass her exams, and the story behind the name of the town in which she is convalescing.