• SULibraries on October 18, 2025

  641.5 S655c (LOU)

Notes about Recipes in this book

• Potato bacon cheddar breakfast bake

  • averythingcooks on October 14, 2023

    This is a pretty straightforward & very hearty frittata (or as he calls it...breakfast bake). I used a skin-on red potato in place of a russet and as I always worry about underdone potatoes, I gave them a quick steam as a head start. I also added diced red pepper for at least 1 veg in the pan. With homemade chili sauce spooned over and toast + a little salad on the side, this was a good "eggs for dinner" choice.

• Baby spinach and bacon with spicy pickled red onions and feta

  • averythingcooks on June 03, 2023

    This was a very tasty salad with some great add ins (ie see the title :). The recipe for pickled red onions given here has also appeared in other titles by Smith & happens to be my gold standard version of pickled onions. The dressing is a nice sharp/sweet combo with red wine vinegar, mustard, brown sugar & a bit of the rendered bacon fat in addition to extra virgin olive oil. This will be made again.

• Spicy orange-poached salmon with ginger soy marmalade

  • tmjellicoe on October 07, 2024

    Very flavourful and easy to put together. The recipe halved well. I do not have shallow bowls for serving (like the picture) so we just had the salmon on the plate with no extra broth and I believe the shallow bowl with broth would be even better.

• Roasted cherry tomato penne with Italian sausage and fresh basil

  • averythingcooks on June 03, 2023

    Throwing a cast iron pan full of grape tomatoes, onions, whole garlic cloves, torn basil and chunks of sausage into a hot oven and ending up with a delicious pasta sauce (easily scaled up or down) makes me feel like a genius. Served over penne or farfalle and with extra basil & a shower of parmesan to finish, this is a household favourite.

• Molasses rum grilled pork tenderloin with grilled green and red onions

  • averythingcooks on June 03, 2023

    I for sure thought we would love this based on molasses, spiced rum, grainy mustard and my Caribbean Splash hot sauce (pineapple & Scotch bonnet based) but somehow the flavours got lost and didn't really pop. It just seemed a bit sweet. Unlikely to repeat.

• Chewy chocolate chip cookies

  • averythingcooks on November 10, 2022

    This recipe has LOTS of brown sugar + the instruction to not overbake them (ie EXACTLY 12 minutes). Okay, but when asked to scoop the dough using a "small spoon" to get 18 cookies, I was looking at the bowl doubtfully. I weighed the dough & divided it by 18...the result was that my dough balls needed to be 58 g each - uhh "small spoon"?? I went with 40'ish g cookies (got 26 and they are plenty big for us) and baked for 10 minutes... & I'm pretty sure that was too much. They were good early on but very worried they will be like rocks in a day or 2 :(