This is the book to reach for when you want a reliable, beautiful cake recipe. For when you want to make a winner of a pie, muffin, dessert, slow-cooked lamb, panna cotta or tart. For when you want to feed a group a big delicious curry that you can rely on to taste fantastic (with tips and recipes for bright sides and crunchy things to step it up a few levels). Like your essential family recipe card box, just a lot prettier and beautifully photographed.

Forever Recipes will be your "go-to" cookbook – both special and helpful. It will inspire weeknight dinners and weekend gatherings with fresh takes and variations on country classics and make every reader feel comfortable and capable as they cook along with me in warm, colorful country kitchens. It will be your "security blanket" in the kitchen – because in it, you know you'll always find what you want and it will always work and taste and look great.

This is a book you will write on, that you'll hand down, that you'll buy for the new cooks in your life and the experienced cooks who want all their favorite recipes in the one place. This is a book that will live on kitchen shelves, be passed around families and friendship groups and used and loved for years.