Notes about Recipes in this book

• Tomato, corn, and avocado salsa

  • GiselleMarie on August 21, 2022

    Very easy and good. I served this like a salad with grilled salmon and a potato dish. I thought the lack of oil would make it boring but it was actually pretty good as is.

• Summer squash and red quinoa salad with walnuts

  • hillsboroks on September 22, 2021

    This turned out delicious and was a good way to use up some of the numerous zucchini and summer squash the garden is pumping out. I made salad several hours before dinner and let it sit in the refrigerator to let the flavors meld. It was much better when served than when I tasted it right away. My husband loved this. The recipe is quite generous in their estimate of how many this will serve. I made a half recipe and it easily would serve 4 as a side dish.

  • dinnermints on August 10, 2023

    Love this method for preparing summer squash! Be sure to rinse off the salt as much as possible. I increased the quinoa to 1.5 cups, squash to 1.5 lbs and added cooked kernels from three ears of corn. And 3 cups cooked black beans. For the dressing, I ended up using 5 tablespoons olive oil, 3.5 tablespoons sherry vinegar, 1/2 ounce Parmesan cheese, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 1.5 to 2 teaspoons lemons zest, 1 tsp salt. Sprinkle the toasted walnuts on top rather than mixing them into the salad, shaved Parmesan on top as well. Preserved lemon would’ve been nice in there but didn’t have time to fiddle with it.

• Chicken with herb-roasted tomatoes and pan sauce

  • adelina on March 05, 2017

    Really enjoyed the flavors of the fresh tomato sauce with the chicken. Everyone in the family loved it.

  • hillsboroks on September 22, 2021

    Flavor is layered upon flavor in this dish and it is all wonderful. I made a half recipe using 2 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs and they cooked perfectly using the times in the recipe. I also realized I could do this using only one frying pan just by being extra careful to always leave a hot pad on the hot handle to remind me not to grab it bare-handed. The tomato sauce is amazing. We found ourselves dipping pieces of baguette into it until it was all gone.

• Cherry-bourbon pie

  • stef on March 02, 2019

    Made this filling for my pie. Very nice flavour but instead of crumble top, made a lattice .

• Zucchini with potatoes and thyme

  • twoyolks on August 09, 2012

    As written, the recipe doesn't really work. The potatoes will not cook completely through in the times stated. That said, the flavors were very nice together and it would work quite well if the potatoes were par-cooked.