Something a bit different for you today. I’m super excited to announce the launch of my first ever eCOOKBOOK that I’m releasing out into the wide world for FREE. Yes, a 97 page cookbook packed with 65 simple [5 ingredients | 10 minutes] recipes all ready to download NOW.
Why the FREE e-cookbook?
Over the past year I’ve been writing a series of recipes that have only 5 ingredients and take 10 minutes to prepare. They’ve been published in a number of locations. I thought it would be useful to have these recipes all together in the one handy e-book that you can keep on your laptop or computer at work as an at-your-fingertips reference for when you need inspiration for what to cook for dinner.
click HERE to download your FREE pdf copy of my new e-cookbook
If you find my e-cookbook useful, I’d really appreciate it if you share the love and forward it to your family and friends. Or better yet – send them the link to stonesoup (www.thestonesoup.com) so they can download their own copy and discover the wonderful world of food blogging themselves.
And if you haven’t yet done so, why not subscribe to stonesoup by email to receive your free updates published twice a week.
7 ways my [5 ingredients | 10 minutes] recipes can HELP YOU
1. less time in the kitchen
10 minutes cooking leaves more time for the activities and people you love.
2. less time shopping
With only 5 ingredients in each recipe, you’ll find your shopping lists are shorter and more manageable. You won’t need to spend as much time out hunting and gathering.
3. eating more fresh, healthy food
Everyone knows that home cooked food tends to be better for you. With the focus on fresh ingredients, my 5 ingredients recipes make it easy.
4. more pleasure & enjoyment
Cooking can be a great way to relax and unwind. Spending 10 minutes using one of my minimalist recipes will help you gain more pleasure and enjoyment from dinner time.
5. save money
If dinner only takes 10 minutes to prepare, you’ll be more likely to cook for yourself than take the expensive dial-a-dinner option.
6. less stress
Long ingredient lists and complicated methods can lead to much stress and kitchen confusion. Minimalist home cooking keeps things as simple and stress-free as possible.
7. more kitchen confidence
If you’re new to cooking, starting with minimalist recipes will help you get some great simple dishes under your belt and give you the confidence to tackle anything.
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A big THANKYOU to everyone who helped spread the word about my new FREE e-cookbook. It’s still available to download, or if you are interested in a proper paper copy, head on over to my blurb store… but be warned paper is expensive. The price does not contain any markup – it’s purely blurb’s cost to produce. Enjoy.
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Congratulations on putting out this gem of an eBook. The quality is truly pristine! Fantastic photography, easy-to-understand layout, and very tempting recipes from appetizers to deserts and everything in between.
From one food-lover to another, I must say that I am impressed with the sheer simplicity you’ve been able to achieve. I often spend hours in the kitchen creating, inventing, experimenting, but there’s also something to be said about having some quick, easy, low-ingredient solutions for those times when spending an hour just won’t do.
Please keep up the good work, and I look forward to seeing and especially tasting your future creations. I read your eBook from cover to cover in record time, but I will certainly go back and re-read the recipes I wish to try out soon. In the mean time, I will definitely be taking your page 97 suggestions to heart. I will be passing this along to a number of people, and I will be subscribing to get future updates.
Cheers,
Atley Jonas
Kofu, Japan
Hiya Jules – yes I did stock up on Jamon. Quite a bit actually :- ) The range of single origin chocolate and cocoa powders from Cacao Sampaka also blew me away and took up a fair amount of space in my empty-on-the-way-to-Barcelona-but-chockers-on-the-way-back-bag too. Cheeses, smoked paprikas and vinegar took up the rest of my cabin space – along with a few kilos of different types of Botifarra! Bacalao, anchovies and sardines are pretty popular up here so I drew the line at packing those in as well, I just have to accept that I need to pay 3-4 times the price for the same item.
I had also organised to do a ham tasting with Jamonismo – many hams and styles, pig feed and regions in one evening, but it is something I would recommend to anyone going to Barcelona, they just need to know in advance a range of what you would like for the evening (given it is not all on their menu). Thanks for the tip off on their vacuum packing – the guys were extremely helpful and it made for an entertaining evening with pretty much a game of charades being acted out when they did not know the word in English and I could not work the word in Spanish….
By the way a print version of the e-book would be great (adding to other comments above) – and a practical gift for those people who live on toast and cereal if they don’t go out for dinner or can’t work out how to cook for one.
Simple and delicious – this is the kind of cooking that brings me back to life I like after a long day at work. Thanks for the great recipes, beautiful photos, and attractive layout!
Chanced upon your site, and this is an amazingly kind discovery! Thank you for sharing your book with the world, and food should always be easy and fun to try out :) Love the pictures that go along with the recipes!
Thank you sooo much! I love it!
this is absolutely brilliant
i love the 5 ingredient concept
i personally get put off by recipes that have so many ingredients
definitely won’t be whinging when i try out these new recipes
and great laksa recipe, i’m from singapore myself. good to see that you’ve recommended using singapore noodles in many of the recipes.
i prefer angel hair pasta because i like how light it tastes so i’ll be using this instead
egg noodles can be pretty filling in my opinion!
thanks for this!!
looking forward to more recipes from your side.
cheers!
oh and your recipes reminded me of this blog i follow
http://www.101cookbooks.com/index.html
not sure if you know it but thought you might like the link!
Thank you!
A minimalist cookbook! This is my dream cookbook!
Your free cookbook was fantastic! The recipes were wonderfula nd the photography excellent! I am spouting the link around to all my friends.
Great stuff here!! I, as a student residing outstation, appreciate this cookbook a lot. Saves time, saves money!!! Bravo!
Thank you so much for this ebook! I love it.
hi jules (gloss)! thanks so much. love your recipes and photography.
Thanks so much for this cookbook! Cooking for one can be someone dismal – now I have no excuse to exist solely on cottage cheese, tomatoes, and packaged miso soup.
Wow, what a beautiful free e-book and so useful to have too. Thank you! I’ll definitely be letting people know about it.
Hi! I found your book via reddit!
My wife and I got married less than a year ago. We’ve been committed to making fresh healthy dinners at home, with the goal of developing a core set of ingredients. Your cookbook looks just up our alley! I would definitely consider buying a paper copy to give to friends and family who don’t cook. Do you, by chance, have a list of “core ingredients” + spices/herbs that one could obtain on a regular basis and cook a maximal amount of different meals with? That is an ongoing project of mine and I’ll keep it in mind when reading the cookbook :)
Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Jules Clancy,
just went thru “Stone Soup” – you are a trip !! :))
Bill
Thank you so much for this! : ) I love your 5/10 recipes, and the layout of a single page per recipe-and-picture is great!
blaine
there’s a list of minimalist pantry essentials at the back of the book you might find interesting. am planning to write about spices soon as well.
alex
i wrote a post last year about how to get excited when you’re cooking for one – you might enjoy it http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2009/11/secret-single-behaviour-how-to-get-excited-about-cooking-for-one/
su
thanks for the 101 cookbooks link – am already a big fan!
and I’ve setup the book so anyone can buy a hardcopy on blurb – will put the link in the post above
Lovely e-book! I really enjoyed reading it! ;)
I have already wrote about it in my blog.
Congrats from Paris,
Grace
Thank you very much for this wonderfull ebook.
I found it this morning and i this evening i will try the first rezetps at home :-)
Greetings form Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Finn
Great book. Can’t wait to try out some of the recipes and I love the minimalist 5 ingredient approach and the other information in the book. I know you said you hate to get your picture taken, but seriously, get a photographer to take a good pic and put it in your book. The self photo doesn’t do it for you; you’re way more professional than that. I’ll be checking back for an update!
Good luck and thanks!
Great job! The book looks fantastic – and just what we need in our house after a glorious week in the States with dreadful food! All I want is fresh easy food – I may start at one end and get to the other!
Thank-you for sharing such a great cookbook.I have downloaded it and it will now go on my kindle so it will always be at my finger tips.Now it’s just a matter of which recipe to try first.
Hmmmm all for spending less time in the kitchen and that is why I eat raw!
No cooking and some brilliant recipes. Just yesterday made a raw pesto with fresh coriandar, fresh basil, garlic, pecans, lemon juice – in the blender and hey presto it was done and delish!
Thanks so much for doing this! The recipes look amazing and I have most of the ingredients on hand for almost all of them! Keep up the good work. I will definitely be sharing this with friends and family…and directing them to your amazing site!
I was referred here through Frugal Babe’s blog. I love this idea! It suits me perfectly. I can’t think of anything better than 5 ingredients and 10 minutes. And it’s so beautifully designed too.
Do you have a tip jar or donation link anywhere?
Thanks!
Can I just say that, as someone with disabilities that make cooking a nightmare at times, this book is an actual godsend?
Thank you for sharing this with all of us. A Minimalist kitchen is born in my house.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this cookbook–just followed the link from Frugal Babe’s blog–and I’m so glad I did. The recipes sound and look delicious! Can’t wait to read more of your blog!!
Thanks for sharing your recipes!
Thanks so much for this – as yet another solo cook I will be using it for sure.
Thank you for this great book! I’m looking forward to trying all the recipes in it.
Thanks for the great e-book! Your photos are wonderful. Er, and food of course :)
victoria
no i don’t have a tip jar – planning to release a new e-cookbook for sale in october though so people can support by buying the book then.
Thank you! I’m excited to try out the food!
Wow, fantastic work!
You know, you really should consider hiring someone to turn this into an iPhone app. It wouldn’t really cost you much if you did it via Odesk.com. I’d gladly pay €5+ for this book as an app, even though I have the free PDF. Absolutely serious about that, and the format of your cooking is ideal for apps. There is an awesome recipe app on the app store called “4 ingredients” that I use almost exclusively when shopping ( it’s nice to just pop by the grocery store on the way home without a shopping list and just open up the app). However, with your focus on natural foods, a stone soup app would replace it.
/Mattias
Found you through Zen Family Habits. Very happy to have discovered this, and can’t wait to try these recipes out!
Dear Jules, an absolute winner, thank you very much. I will spread the word. Oh, and use your recipes and tips. Even more important :-)
This is the best thing I’ve found on the internet in a looooong time! Thank you so much for sharing it. I will certainly distribute!
I’m a transitioning minimalist and just moved in on my own… I inherited my mothers Kitchen and since I’m Indian… it’s a lot of stuff… Your writings really helped me find focus there.. Thank You..
and the Ebook is lovely ! Best of Luck.
This is wonderful ebook – beautifully produced and thoughtfully written. It never ceases to astonish me how generous people are with their time and knowledge – all this for free? Many thanks indeed.
LOVELY cookbook. And yes, I am delighted to help spread the word … even though I am now anxious to get down to the kitchen!
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing your genius with ingredients and photography!
Such a lovely book I want to try out all the recipes. I love food, but I really hate shopping, so this is perfect. Thanks so much for sharing it for free – I am passing the word around all my friends.
What a lovely cookbook! It was a delight to browse through and I will be trying many of the recipes this week. Here’s to good, fresh, simple eating! :)
oh…my…god…love it, thank you!!! I’d just reached the point where I’d started to hate cooking with a passion, and Fruit Loops were looking like the most appealing meal I could pull off when you shared this awesome cookbook with us – seriously loving simple, wonderful, oh-so-yummy food again!!!
Jules, wondering if you have this e-book available through print on demand. I want to buy a printed version. Love your book but don’t want to print it out myself!
Might be another revenue stream for you. Thank you.
Neal
hey neal –
yes I’ve made a print on demand version available though blurb – there’s a link at the end of the post above. It’s pretty expensive though so I haven’t added any markup – it’s just blurb’s cost to produce.
carrie
so so glad I’ve saved you from fruit loops – I used to work for kellogg and they were one of my least favourite products
mattias
thanks for the iphone app suggestion – will look into it. in the mean time – I’ve put a copy of my book as a pdf onto ibooks and it looks really great (if I do say so myself) and you can use the ibooks search to find things quickly. need to get you away from 4 ingredients ;)
I downloaded your new e-book last week and couldn’t decide which recipe I wanted to try first so I decided to go with a spanish theme and do mini versions for hubby and I for a tapas night. It turned out wonderfully!
The white bean and parmesan puree is absolutely delish and so so easy to make! Field mushies with fetta and olive dressing was tasty- it ticked all the boxes for a good tapas plate- warm mushies tick, cheese tick and a drizzle of the olive dressing was the perfect compliment to tie it all together!
I adapted the couscous with tuna and cherry tomato sauce to just the sauce part and it was so simple and yummy that it left me wondering why I had never thought of it before. My only mishap was slightly burning the chorizzo in the chorizzo with chickpeas and tomato, but it still tasted good and was probably a good lesson for me in not trying to cook too many things at one time :)
Now dessert was not so spanish themed- we tried the mini baileys cheesecakes which are very creamy and decadent and of course the fresh dates with blue cheese.
Was very very yummy, Jul. All the recipes were easy and I can’t wait to try some of the soups in this cold weather!
xoxo
Awesome book with beautiful (and appropriate serving size) photos of the final products! I definitely favor books with photos, even if my meal doesn’t turn out quite the same! I will be trying many of the meals in the upcoming months. I plan to take a copy of this book while we are away on vacation for 3 weeks. One additional asset to recipes with 5 ingredients is not needing to buy a whole bunch of items that you may not use again. My greatest fear though, is complete rebellion from my 8 and 10 year old boys. Nonetheless, we cook on!
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