Notes about Recipes in this book

• Butternut squash, garlic and cilantro soup

  • pholoppo on November 21, 2022

    Great if you're looking for something quick and easy to make on a cold day (assuming that the butternut squash is already peeled and cut). For me, the ratio of stock to squash was completely off and the soup came out very brothy. I'm going to try make with 1:1 liquid:vegetable next time.

• Whole roast pigeon, with peaches, turnips and sage

  • catwoman153 on March 12, 2020

    Thinking I'll try this with Cornish game hen...

• Tomato tart

  • sdutton on September 25, 2018

    I made this tonight using frozen puff pastry and Beefsteak summer tomatoes. Otherwise I followed the directions exactly as written. This was so wonderful. I think one of the key players was the sweet flavor of the very fresh basil from my garden with the other of course being beautiful end of summer field grown tomatoes. Going to the farm tomorrow hoping find more fresh tomatoes so I can make this again before the season ends. Five stars.

• Pissaladière

  • meggan on July 05, 2021

    Used this recipe loosely. The puff pastry makes it easy.

• Apple cake

  • Indio32 on October 28, 2021

    Complete disaster. Have only ever made 3 cakes so just starting my baking journey. Followed the recipe to the letter but thought that 300g of flour but only 1 egg and some butter wouldn't be enough to produce a batter. I was right! it produced a dry crumble mix. So as not to waste the ingredients I added another egg and added enough milk to produce a (thick) batter. Also would have preferred the recipe to have given a weight for the apples as I was using one of the suggested types Bramley's. It called for 3 but I ended up using only 1 due to there size. I don't like to be defeated so will probably try this again with the amended 150 grams of flour but not for a while.