Notes about Recipes in this book

• One-pot lemon poppyseed cake

  • e_ballad on November 07, 2017

    A lovely cake if your preference errs towards the not-too-sweet. If you have a sweet tooth, don’t forego the icing.

• Shakshuka eggs

  • e_ballad on September 03, 2016

    This was incredibly tasty... but not quite as fantastic as Ottolenghi's version.

• Pumpkin, date and orange scones

  • e_ballad on August 31, 2020

    Excellent scones. Tender & tasty.

• Spicy bean and chorizo soup

  • JoD on September 15, 2016

    This is a delicious soup. We will make this again lots and lots.

• Caramel sultana cake

  • JoD on September 15, 2016

    A very easy cake that is delicious.

  • lou_weez on March 26, 2021

    Quick and easy to make. Really lovely and subtle caramel flavour comes through with the addition of dark muscovado. I used a mix of sultanas and dried cherries.

• Chicken tagine with pumpkin and chickpeas

  • e_ballad on October 07, 2018

    Very tasty, with very little hands-on effort. Uses the book’s “Ras el hanout” recipe.

• Terracotta tomato sauce

  • lou_weez on June 10, 2021

    Halved the recipe which gave me 4 cups of sauce. Easy, tasty sauce which I used to make the prawn puttanesca from the same book.

• Prawn puttanesca

  • lou_weez on June 10, 2021

    Hot, sweet and salty = YUM!

• Toscano chicken bake

  • Kiwisaver on May 05, 2016

    I save a huge amount of time and used a can of Watties chopped tomatoes with onion and garlic - was good

• Pad Thai

  • e_ballad on September 14, 2016

    Tasty noodles, but in no way, shape or form resembling any pad Thai I've ever had. Still on my search for the penultimate pad Thai recipe...

• Slow-cooker Bolognaise

  • mjrr on July 26, 2015

    Really not sure about throwing everything in to the slow cooker and not cooking down the onions and other vegetables first. The awful smell of oxidised onions throughout the house as it cooked for eight hours! Next time I'll soffrito the vegetables first for flavour.

  • e_ballad on June 08, 2024

    I don’t make this comment lightly, as I adore Annabel’s recipes usually, but this was truly horrible. I cut the onion very finely (based on @mjrr’s note), but they’re still raw. The wine hasn’t cooked off at all. It tastes like cornflour. DO NOT MAKE!

• Speedy mac cheese

  • JoD on September 22, 2015

    This is an easy tasty mid-week dinner. I used smoked kahawai instead of ham and left out the nutmeg. I also used broccoli instead of cauli as that is what I had in the fridge. I liked how the macaroni & broccoli cook in the milk however it did stick to the bottom of the pot, so I'd make sure I stirred the pasta a couple of times during the cooking next time. This will be a recipe we have again.

  • e_ballad on September 12, 2016

    Granted, it was incredibly quick to make, but we actually found this to be quite bland, despite using a sharp cheddar cheese. We couldn't particularly detect the nutmeg, so may benefit from increasing the amount.

• Puffy naan bread

  • e_ballad on July 10, 2017

    "Puffy" is an understatement. I stretched them out as thin as I could & they puffed up like rolls. Very tasty, but not what I was expecting - they looked quite different from the accompanying photograph too. Maybe I just had super-active yeast!