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The Lover's Cookbook

The Lover's Cookbook

Summary

Discover the perfect cookbook for impressing that special someone

This book offers a unique culinary slant on dinner à deux with fun and adventurous recipes that will help love to blossom, tease palates and arouse the senses... and make all the difference between a firecracker of an evening and a damp squib:

Something to Slurp on - get the juices flowing with a Basil Martini or a Bloody Mary with Clam Juice

Nibbles and Tit-bits - get down to some fun foreplay with Spiced Honey Almonds or Caviar Blini

Shapely Veg - get forking Asparagus with White Crab Meat or Pommes Sarladaises with Truffles

Smooth and Slippery - serve Milton's Moules or Salmon Tikka Skewers with Dill and Pomegranate Raita for a boost in the bedroom

Flesh - wrap your mouth around Pot-roast Haunch of Venison and Beef Fillet, Ceps and Marsala Sauce

The Spice of Life - get hot and spicy with Saffron Roast Chicken or Paneer Chilli

Getting Fruity - with Pineapple and Pork Curry or Poached Quince with Mascarpone and Gorgonzola Cream

Sweet Bits - down and dirty desserts, from Chocolate Chilli Fondant to Raspberry Rose Puddin'

Read on and let Milton Crawford share his secret potions of love.

'Cooking is like love: It should be entered into with abandon or not at all' Harriet van Horne

Reviews

  • The perfect Valentine’s Day gift
    Town & Country

About the author

Milton Crawford

Milton Crawford was born somewhere north of the Zambezi and west of the Rift valley in a small town in the middle of Africa. He has travelled the world in search of good liquor, fine food and game women. He is an author and journalist, and in keeping with the most honourable traditions of the writing profession, a bon viveur and lover of distinction. Author of the bestselling The Hungover Cookbook and The Drunken Cookbook, his previous books have been published under a more sober alias.
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