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Christmas Quickies Cookbook with Chef Mel Alafaci.Wouldn't it be nice to have a stress-free Christmas and Festive Season?Let Chef Mel help you have the most relaxing and delicious festive season ever with her clever collection of show-stopping festive meals. Most of these can be prepared in advance, leaving you free on the big day to enjoy special moments with your family and friends...instead of working hard and stressing in your kitchen.Chef Mel's recipes are clever, versatile and delicious. She has even written a leftover cookbook, which is included in the back of this cookbook. Get ready to have some fun and learn some incredible 'cheffy' skills along the way.The collection of recipes will cover everything you need so that you have this festive season and future festive seasons covered. Breads, crackers, starters, mains, desserts, baking and leftovers. These are quick and easy recipes, perfect for lazy but delicious Christmas and festive season feasts.You'll also enjoy cooking again because she shares all her tips, tricks and hacks to take every shortcut possible so you have more time to relax and enjoy the round of applause when your guests and family taste your cooking.Happy CookingChef Mel

This book is a fantastic reference book for aspiring chefs and home foodies. With these tried-and-tested recipes, you can level up your cheffy skills to amazing new heights and transform your cooking knowledge quickly and easily. The recipes are simple, easy, and effective, helping you achieve the success you want and deserve.With over 228 pages and 180+ recipes, you will use this book to become the best, most confident cook or chef you can be. And have fun along the way!This book is perfect for people who want to increase their cooking skills and learn to be more cheffy. This is the most comprehensive cookbook that covers fundamental cheffy skills to make you a better home chef. The book covers everything from bread, pastries, basic sauces, advanced sauces, plating and presentation, starters, mains, desserts and everything in between. You will also learn salads, pasta, gnocchi skills and more. Your confidence and skill levels will increase dramatically as you work through the various recipes and information. The recipes are written in a way that will help you understand why and how a technique is beneficial. It will also give you all the tricks, hacks and shortcuts to ensure your kitchen time is more efficient. These are quick and easy but very cheffy recipes. You will gain confidence and become unstoppable in the kitchen. Have fun, gain confidence, and have a reference book for years. And who better to teach you than a professional chef who has been a cooking school teacher for over 28 years? Her superpower is teaching and making complex dishes easy and successful. Enjoy, and make delicious discoveries along the way. Your friends, family and loved ones will notice a difference immediately...and so will you.Perfect for absolute beginners, intermediate or advanced foodies...and everyone in between. Buy this book for yourself or your loved ones, and you'll live happily ever after in the kitchen. You'll become the confident, cheffy foodie you have always wanted to be.Chef Mel Alafaci has been a professional chef since 1992. Her passion for cooking, eating, and teaching is unwavering.Her intoxicating enthusiasm, authenticity and unique culinary lingo will have you hungry to ¿ex your muscles in the kitchen.Mel is brilliant at adding humour, shortcuts, and tricks to tedious tasks that can kill one's passion for cooking.Mel has designed, tried, and tested every recipe and is proud to share them with you. As a cooking school teacher and founder of two cooking schools in her career, she is the founder of Gecko Culinary Adventures in Durban and Vanilla Zulu Cooking School in Brisbane and has had years to fine-tune her teaching style. You are in good hands!You will learn your way through bread, sauces, pastries, starters, mains, desserts, and more. With this cookbook by your side, you will never look back, and best of all, you'll have so much delicious fun along the way.Happy CookingChef Mel

This book is simply perfect for you or a loved one if you want a reliable set of authentic Italian recipes for weeknight meals, dinner parties...or any time at all.This collection of my favourite Italian recipes has been tried and tested at the cooking school and at my dinner table for many years. Italian food is not complicated, but it is honest, sophisticated, and authentic. Italian food somehow brings families, friends, and moments together.Over 60+ inspirational and versatile recipes you can use for many years. Some of these are authentic Alafaci family recipes passed down through the generations, and some are recipes I have found or created on my many trips to Italy or Italian restaurants. I can't wait for you to become a confident cook and treat your friends and family to delicious Italian cuisine for their next weeknight meal...or a dinner party or celebration.I hope you will love these recipes as much as I have enjoyed cooking them and eating them over the years.I will teach you some of the basics, such as breadmaking, pasta, and gnocchi-making skills, with delicious traditional and new ideas for your Italian-inspired table.I also have a YOUTUBE channel dedicated to some of these recipes, so type in the name of the dish and Chef Mel The Happy Chef on YouTube, and I should pop up!Happy CookingChef Mel