Happy Hour Snacks

Happy Hour Snacks is a go-to guide to simple, delicious food to share in the looser, lazier and louder comfort of your own home.

Containing 80 moreish recipes, this cookbook is about making bites with less utensils, more shortcuts, and with a drink in hand.

Learn how to shuck oysters, make an easy fresh pasta and graze on great-tasting dishes such as Lazy man'oushe, 'Nduja with super honey and Kimchi garlic bread. Chapters are split into snack cravings: You're a bit salty (salt), The spice and smoke show (spice and smoke), How good is acid? (zest and tang), Cheese sleaze (cheese) and Afters.

Pick your level of time commitment ('quickie', 'minor investment' or 'go the distance') and pour up the drink pairing. This is about making bites with less utensils, more shortcuts and a drink in hand.

Bec Vrana Dickinson trained at Leith's School of Food & Wine and has worked in food styling, photography and writing in New York, London and Sydney, including recipe development for HelloFresh.