We have an extensive back order catalogue of titles on offer. This list actually only includes books that are currently in print.
We do have a strictly limited number of some older books available - if theres an older book that you've been looking for feel free to email us and ask, you never know your luck.
What could be more inviting than the aroma of fresh home baking. Welcome and delight your family with cakes and biscuits made from scratch at home. The 100 (or more) recipes in this bopok, are Alison 'tried and true' favourites and are sure to please!
Author: Alison Holst
Publisher: Hyndman Publishing Ltd
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A mouth-watering collection of Simon & Alison's favourite muffins and slices. One hundred fantastic recipes (and many tempting pictures) covering all the most popular muffin (sweet, savoury and 'healthy') recipes for their incredibly popular 'little' muffin books PLUS a tempting selection of slice recipes - from the nostalgic "my Grandma used to make that" to modern cafe favourites.
Novice or expert baker, your bound to find something to tempt your tastebuds and pick up something new from the many tips and pinters for perfect muffins and slices every time!
Author/s: Simon & Alison Holst
Published by Hyndman Publishing Ltd
Size: 215mm (w) x 270mm (h)
This indispensable book combines the three best selling "Twenty Minute" titles (Finger Food & Starters, Quick & Easy Meals, and Desserts & After Dinner Treats).It Provides simple suggestions for nibbles to serve with drinks, after-work, meals in minutes, spur-of-the-moment entertaining, and senseational desserts or sweet treats to round off an evening.
Everyone who owns a slow cooker knows you can use it to make tender and delicious stews or casseroles, but this book offers so much more as well....It will show you how to widen your horizonss and provide tasty ideas for almost any occasion!
From fresh tomato juice to creme brulee and upside down cake - you'll be amazed what you can make. It covers: 'Roasts', from moist whole chicken to tender pork shoulder, delicious soups, fragrant curries, side dishes like rice, baked potatoes and dumplings, family favourites like meatloaf and lasagne to the ultimate comfort foods, super easy macaroni cheese.
Authors: Simon & Alison Holst
New larger format (175x175mm). This may be a little book, but it's packed with over 40 ideas for simple and delicious desserts and treats to enjoy with tea or coffee. All photographed in full colour it's bound to get your mouth watering!
Publisher: Hyndman Publishing Ltd.
Stuck for interesting (and QUICK) ideas for starters and snacks - this could be the book for you!
NEW LARGER FORMAT(175x175mm) - 20 Minute Meals is the perfect book for any busy cook. It's full of easy recipes that can be prepared in around 20 minutes. The book is small enough to pop in your bag to take shopping with you so you won't even have to write a list.
The perfect sized diary to fit in your purse, featuring 18 of Simon & Alison's recipes with photographs.The essential diary for everyone who loves cooking.
Spiral Bound, size 120mm x 170mm
Author/s: Simon and Alison Holst
Best Baking' is a collection of Alison's most popular baking recipes, which Simon and Alison have made as simple as possible.
Discover the joys of breadmaking with Alison & Simon Holst's Bread Book. Use it to make healthy & delicious breads at home. All recipes have easy-to-follow instructions for making bread by hand, as well as with a bread machine. Over 70 000 copies sold!
Author/s: Simon & Alison HolstPublisher: Hyndman Publishing Ltd.
Softcover - 64 pages ? Size 210 x 145 mm ISBN 1-877168-03-3 ? Colour Photos
Packed with loads of tried & true Christmas favourites.....From traditional baking to Christmas goodies and gifts!
Step By Step contains detailed step by step instructions for a wide range of recipes, and is ideal (a great gift) for beginner cooks of all ages.
It's back! Alison's Ultimate Collection is back in print. This huge book is packed with more than 1200 of Alison's favourite recipes and plenty of pictures to boot. It's extremely popular and makes a great gift.
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd
Summer is often the time for putting together tasty treats for visitors of larger gatherings. Alison?s bulk food range has some great products that you can include and this book will give you even more ideas on how to use and enjoy her quality products.
Publisher: Alison Holst
Baby Food and Beyond is a gorgeous, fun book, full of wonderful, delicious recipes and practical tips and ideas for feeding babies and toddlers.
Barbecue Bundle
The perfect package for anyone who love to barbecue! This includes a copy or our New Zealand Barbecue Cookbook, an attractive and practical black butchers? stripe apron (with an adjustable neck strap for a perfect fit) and an incredibly useful (reusable) non-stick barbecue liner to really increase the range of foods that work on the Barbie. Individually these would usually work out to be $52.85, but for a limited time buy the set for just $45.00 (plus our usual p&p).
Bill Ward's Edible Garden is brilliant for those of you dabbling in the good life. With handy tips and ideas on creating and caring for a real cook's garden this book is a winner.
Bill Ward
Share Bill Ward's advice and tips on how to get the most from the roses in your garden.
An excellent reference to have on hand for all basic household repairs and simple maintenance. Dave's philosophy - do it once, do it right, do it yourself!
Dave Cull tips and useful advice about interior and exterior painting (and preparation for painting).
Dave Cull
Eat well without spending a fortune at the supermarket. Much more than just a collection of recipes, Alison Holst?s Dollars and Sense Cookbook offers budget-minded families and individuals alike hundreds of good value ideas on how to stretch their precious food dollars. From sound budgeting advice, tips on bulk buying, good nutrition and how to practice conservation in the kitchen, New Zealand?s most trusted cook goes on to include over 350 recipes that clearly demonstrate how easy it is to make delicious, attractively presented meals ? every day of the year. With full-colour photographs and attractive illustrations throughout, this latest reprint of Dollars and Sense remains the essential kitchen tool for every cook who enjoys making more out of less. Format: A4, 120 pagesISBN: 1-87724-683-2
Alison and Simon get many requests for recipes and books catering to special diets. Over the years the request that has come up most frequently has been for a book to help those suffering from diabetes. So, they are pleased to announce that in conjunction with Diabetes New Zealand, Simon and Alison have produced Easy Everyday Recipes for the Whole Family: The New Zealand Diabetes Cookbook.
The basic concept of the book is to provide tasty and interesting food for not only those suffering from diabetes, but which is so good the whole family will enjoy it! So, if you?re struggling to come up with interesting to cook for someone with diabetes, or, just wanting to help your family to eat well, this could be the book for you.
Who said eating well needs to be complicated or costly? In this book Simon shows that doing both in within the reach of cooks of any ability. From breakfasts to baking, it's all here - and it's Easy!
245mm x 190mm, 80 pages
Publisher: Hyndman Publishing
Author/s: Simon Holst
Dennis Greville shows that growing your own vegetables needn't be as time or energy consuming as you think! Even if you have a tiny garden (or just a few containers) he'll show you can grow enough to stretch your dollar.
Author/s Dennis Greville
A fantastic book full of quick and gorgeous meals for everyday or special occasions. Incorporates a variety of styles in recipes that you will love trying at home. Great photographs and a great price.
This collection of recipes provides lots of exciting ideas for parents faced with the dilemma of how to provide nutritious, economical - and above all tasty and tempting - meals for their young families.
Full of tips and tricks like how to get your toddler eating (more) vegetables and how to tempt the fussiest of eaters, Fast & Fun Family Food is packed full of helpful hints.
Chapters include Super Soups, Food to Go, Finger-Licking Chicken and Outdoor Parties with enticing recipes such as Mini Hot-Dogs, Alphabet Soup, Hedgehog Meatballs, Birdsnest Potatoes and many more.
Author/s: Alison Holst
144 pages, 214mm (w) x 251mm (h)
This book gives clear, easy to follow advice on everything from choosing the right tackle and fly for the job through to fishing lakes, streams and rivers.
Author: Mike Weddell
Lunches on the run! From something to eat in the office, for a picnic or a get together with friends, you'll find some interesting ideas here! From sandwiches to salads and pizza to sushi there's sure to be something to tempt your taste buds!
This book is packed full of gardening tips and ideas ranging from improving soil quality to growing organic vegetables.
Author: Denis Grevell
These new and interesting low-fat recipes turn muffins into sinless snacks. Also includes ideas for"healthy" muffin makeovers and pointers for perfect muffins everytime.
Simon Holst & Alison Holst
A snapshot of NZ's popular recipes. Packed with over 100 recipes, it features many old favourites, but also some newer, sometime more unexpected, ones. A perfect addition to any Kiwi kitchen.
310mm x 240mm, 96 pages
Publisher: Bateman
This book is not about fad diets, it's about eating sensibly and cutting down on fat, all while showing good, healthy food does not need to be boring! As is typic with Simon the delicious recipes reflect a range of different styles and flavours. The hard cover and spiral binding complete the user friendly package.
Author: Simon Holst
Publisher: Chanel & Stylus Publishers
Let Simon and Alison Holst show you how to really please your family by cooking some of the delicious recipes in this book!
Both mince and sausages are real comfort foods, and are incredibly popular with all age groups. As well, they are great value for money and can be used in many interesting and exciting ways with the addition of a few humble ingredients!
Try some of Simon & Alison's suggestions for:
Quick and easy one -pan dinners
Sizzling burgers on the barbecue
Spicy curries, chillies and other ethinic treats
And many, many more...
Size: 215mm h x 270mm w, 96 pages
Always popular this beautiful set features Nancy's beautiful water colours. With 16 stardard-sized cards and 8 mini gift cards (blank to suit any occasion) the set is outstanding value for money!
For those of you interested in organizing family information and memories Nancy Tichborne's gorgeous Forget Me Not Journal will be perfect. It includes sections for birthdays, anniversaries, family trees, photographs etc as well as Nancy's beautiful artwork. This will make a sweet and thoughtful gift.
Barbecues are a real favourtie in the Holst family. They're such a brilliant way to make the most of summer's bounty and enjoy a relaxing meal with friends and family.
Size 245 x 190 mm
Size 130mm x 190mm ISBN 1-877168-34-3 ? Spiral Bound
This beautiful blank journal allows gardeners to keep a record of their plantings.
Never underestimate the power of the humble potato! Whether you buy a big bag or sack full and always keep it on hand, pick out enough potatoes for a couple of meals each time you visit the supermarket, or grow your own, you are sure to find that the potatoes you cook and serve to your family are well received. This book contains over 100 of Simon and Alison's 'tried and true' recipes that are bound to keep everyone happy.
215 x 270mm, 96 pages
Really Easy Chicken Recipes. As the name suggests it's full of really easy and tasty ideas for chicken meals.
Do you clip interesting recipes from papers and magazines, only to lose them when you want them? If so this attractive recipe organiser could be for you. Spiral bound for convenience in the kitchen it has four illustrated section dividers, and features a page of useful information including metric to imperial conversions for temeperature, size and volumes etc. and a handy pocket at the back to keep those recipes waiting to be filed.
Size: 220mm (w) x 260mm (h)
This book may be small but it is packed with interesting lunch ideas. It contains more than 150 ideas for sandwich fillings and over 60 other recipes - these are equally well suited to feeding hungry kids at home or at school. In fact "School Lunches and After School Snacks" is ideally suited to anyone (young or old) who wants to take a packed lunch to work, school, on a picnic, or even just wants something light to eat at home
Enjoy healthy, tasty salads year round with this book. From interesting side salads to complete one-dish meals this is bound to have something for you!
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This handy little book shows how versatile pasta, rice and noodle dishes can be. No wonder they're so popular! Containing over 50 recipes ranging from soups to light and healthy salads, and nasi goreng to paella, it's got just about any occasion from a quick after work family dinner to and elegant entertaining covered.
Year-round Recipes for Crockpots & Slow Cookers AND 100 Great Ways to use Slow Cookers & Crockpots together for just $45.00 (plus p&p)
If you have a crockpot or slow cooker, or are thinking of buying one, this special offer is going to get you busy in the kitchen! Together the two books contain about 200 recipes and many handy tips to help you get the most form your slow cooker.
We think these books are great value at $24.95 each, but we're delighted to offer them together for the special price of $45.00 (plus our regular 'per order' p&p).
Featuring over 1000 of Alison's most popular recipes (many from her days as a regular TV presenter), this book is fondly referred to by many cooks as their "big red bible"!
After a number of years out of print, we're delighted to once again be able to offer it again. If you've missed out in the past, or want a copy to give to a child or grandchild, here's your oppertunity!
300x210mm, 320 pages with colour photographs
Publishers: New Holland (NZ) Publishers Ltd
Very Easy Vegetarian' is a beautiful book and is packed with quick and delicious meal ideas suitable (of course) for vegetarians but also for 'meat eaters'.
