The Ice Kitchen: Fast Fresh Food for Family & Freezer by Shivi Ramoutar - Non Fiction - Hardback

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780008385118
Publisher: HarperCollins
Age Range: Adult

Overview
The Ice Kitchen by Shivi Ramoutar is a smart, practical cookbook built around one brilliantly simple idea: cook once, eat twice. Every recipe is designed so half can be enjoyed fresh while the rest is frozen and recooked straight from the freezer, with zero flavour lost. Perfect for busy families, meal preppers and anyone wanting to cut food waste, save money and reclaim precious time in the kitchen, this hardback guide turns your freezer into your greatest culinary asset.

About the Book
Shivi Ramoutar built her reputation on vibrant, contemporary Caribbean cooking, and in The Ice Kitchen she channels that same inventive spirit into solving one of modern life's biggest kitchen headaches: how to eat well without spending hours cooking every single day. The book is structured around a clever "cook once, eat twice" philosophy, splitting each recipe so that one portion is ready to enjoy immediately while the other is filed away in the freezer for a future meal, recooked straight from frozen with no loss of flavour or texture.

Alongside full recipes, Ramoutar introduces a toolkit of freezer-friendly techniques, including freezer filing systems to keep your freezer organised and waste-free, ice cube butters for instant flavour hits, "salvation sauces" that rescue quick weeknight meals, and her signature no-cook Ice Kitchen Jam. The result is a cookbook that is as much about method and mindset as it is about individual dishes, teaching readers how to shop, batch-cook and store smarter so that healthy, home-cooked food is always within reach, even on the busiest days.

Praised by fellow food writer Rukmini Iyer, the book has become a go-to reference for families juggling budgets and time pressures.

Key Benefits

• Every recipe designed to split between an instant meal and a freezer-ready portion
• Practical freezer-filing system to reduce food waste and save money
• Clever extras like ice cube butters, salvation sauces and no-cook jam
• Ideal for busy families, meal preppers and budget-conscious cooks
• Written by a respected TV chef with a fresh, contemporary style
• Beautifully produced brand new hardback, perfect for gifting

About the Author
Shivi Ramoutar is a Trinidadian-born food writer, cookbook author and TV chef celebrated for her contemporary take on Caribbean cooking. Raised in Trinidad before moving via New York to the UK, she has appeared as a resident chef on ITV's Garraway's Good Stuff and Martin and Roman's Weekend Best, and is a regular guest on BBC's Saturday Kitchen. Her books include Caribbean Modern, The Ice Kitchen and Cook Clever, each reflecting her passion for bold flavour, practicality and family-friendly cooking.

Why You'll Love This Cookbook
If you're tired of choosing between quick meals and good food, The Ice Kitchen offers a genuinely useful, freezer-smart solution. It's inventive, budget-friendly and packed with real techniques you'll actually use.

Please Note: Cover shown is the UK edition; ISBN and format are as listed for this UK print edition.