For The Love of Food

In this mouth-watering collection of inspired and delicious dishes, renowned chef Denis Cotter takes vegetarian cooking to a new level.

These recipes are designed to complement busy modern-day life and include ideas for mid-week bowl dishes and simple snacks as well as summer barbecue recipes and mouth-watering salads and risottos.

Denis is famous for his inventive approach and this collection will inspire cooks everywhere, no matter what your taste or skill level. For the Love of Food is an essential cookbook for vegetarians but will also appeal to non-vegetarians who enjoy flavour-packed food and new combinations. Full of simple and satisfying solutions, this is a book that you will turn to everyday.

Recipes include:

Orecchiette with broad beans & baby courgettes

Mussaman curry of new potatoes, chickpeas & green beans with cucumber & coriander salsa

Pumpkin stew with fennel, leeks & borlotti beans

Chocolate olive oil mousse with salt & chilli sesame praline and cherry salsa

Rhubarb & strawberry trifle with prosecco, orange mascarpone & pistachio-lemon praline

The best cheese on toast in the world

Maple & chilli roasted beetroot with wild rice, pecans, bitter greens & orange yoghurt

Broad bean & ricotta stuffed braised artichoke with citrus yoghurt and beetroot pastry

Saffron-braised squash with aubergine, pine nut & spinach stuffing and lentil-goat's cheese sauce

Reviews

‘For the Love of Food, is full of colour, flavour and nutritional goodness, making his recipes ideal for committed vegetarians celebrating National Vegetarian Week and for those simply wanting ideas for Meat Free Mondays…His approach is a year-round celebration of vibrant, seasonal and fresh produce, based on the philosophy that our meals should not only be healthy and delicious, but cooked with love and appreciation.’ – Top Sante

About the author

Denis Cotter was born and raised in Macroom, Co. Cork. After working in a bank for several years, he moved to London where he cut his culinary teeth. After a year spent living and working in New Zealand he returned to Ireland and, in 1993, established the now world-renowned Café Paradiso.