NEW KITCHEN BASICS

Most of us buy the same ingredients week in, week out - and with them we cook the same old recipes. Claire Thomson wants you to ditch the weary chicken stir-fry, spag bol and fish pie. Instead she takes 10 favourite supermarket ingredients and applies her expertise, imagination and knowledge of flavour combinations to reinvent mealtime. With sections on chicken, tomatoes, eggs, cheese, minced meat, pasta, potatoes, salad, lemon and chocolate, each chapter covers the basics before offering recipes that are lively, entertaining, tasty, and new.