Notes about Recipes in this book

• Potato and wild garlic flat breads with fried eggs and olive oil

  • Hansyhobs on March 30, 2022

    This dough was incredibly sticky and I ended up using a lot more flour than the recipe stated. The flatbreads ended up tasting quite dry as a result. Toasted, slathering in butter, and serving with fried eggs was still a tasty lunch.

  • Hansyhobs on March 18, 2024

    Made these again, the dough is so hard to work with. Extremely sticky. I kneaded these in my KA mixer for a good few mins but I wonder if kneading them more would develop more gluten and make them easier to handle. I will probably avoid making them again even though they do taste nice, I just don't know if it's worth the effort and mess.

• Buckwheat and oat granola

  • e_ballad on March 29, 2019

    This is quite a sweet granola. We needed to cook it longer than specified in the recipe to dry it out (not that I suspect it will last very long at the rate my kiddo is devouring it!).

• Rhubarb, blood orange, toasted almonds, honey and yoghurt

  • Hansyhobs on March 28, 2022

    Nice breakfast, I squeezed all the juice from the cut orange peel into the bowl of fruit so not to waste anything

• Elderflower cordial

  • Hansyhobs on March 23, 2022

    Not keen on the addition of honey

• Grilled squid with broad beans, mint, lemon and agretti

  • Hansyhobs on May 06, 2023

    This was ok, a bit bland but at least it was easy to put together. The shop didn't have enough squid so I added king prawns as well and cooked them the same way as the squid

• A kind of minestrone soup

  • e_ballad on September 08, 2019

    A perfectly serviceable minestrone-style soup, but nothing to raise it beyond the usual.

• Roast chicken, parsley and mustard pie

  • e_ballad on July 21, 2021

    I would recommend cooking the leeks with the butter, then adding the flour, as adding them with the stock resulted in them remaining on the firm side in the end product. It was a perfectly good recipe, but I expect that it won’t be especially memorable with so many other excellent chicken pie recipes available.

• Crab with rhubarb, chilli, yoghurt and fennel seed

  • Hansyhobs on March 23, 2022

    This tastes incredible. I made this for lunch and wow I cannot wait to make it again. I used the 50/50 white and brown crab packets you get easily in the supermarket and I think that worked fine. The sweet, spicy syrup ties everything together so nicely

  • Pamsy on May 04, 2025

    Worth trying as the crab is not cooked.

• Ceviche with rhubarb, lemon and chilli

  • Hansyhobs on March 25, 2022

    Easy and tasty, you could really taste the rhubarb in the fish

• Roast artichokes with garlic, sage, hazelnuts and lemon and fennel mayo

  • Hansyhobs on May 30, 2022

    Made a bit of a cock-up trying to prepare the artichoke (my first time) but this turned out so delicious.

• Roast cauliflower with buckwheat, thyme and truffle oil

  • e_ballad on February 12, 2021

    Roasted cauliflower atop a cauliflower purée. Perfectly fine but entirely forgettable.

• Roast bream with artichokes, onions, smoked bacon and thyme

  • grindabod on February 23, 2020

    I always forget how delicious bream can be. This recipe is all about the pure flavours of really good ingredients and it's barely any work to prepare. I added some carrots to roast as I had them lying around.

• Roast purple sprouting broccoli with anchovy, cream, chilli and Parmesan

  • Hansyhobs on March 25, 2022

    The sauce is so good!!

• Chocolate, fudge and smoked salt cookies

  • e_ballad on August 16, 2020

    A very ‘adult’ biscuit, these are more ‘to go with a coffee for supper’ than ‘a moreish afternoon snack with a cuppa’. Be warned, these spread a lot! I’ve some in the freezer too, so I’ll report back on if this helps with this.