Notes about Recipes in this book

• Salad Lyonnaise

  • treay on December 09, 2024

    Delicious recipe! However, when I cook it again, I won't be using the fat from the speck for the dressing. Instead, I will fry the onion in it but then I will make the dressing using fresh olive oil and add the onion and the rest of the ingredients to it. Very fast & easy to make.

• Blue cheese and green apple salad

  • treay on December 11, 2024

    Nice crunchy salad that goes really well with the blue cheese.

• Rump cap with quick chimichurri

  • treay on January 30, 2026

    This recipe is a new one for me, even though I have made chimichurri many other times. His was quick and delicious. I added 3 cherry tomatoes to the sauce as well. It was served with a classic Catalan recipe that it is basically roasted veggies but because we had small eggplants from our garden, I cooked them on a grill-pan instead. Lovely summer dinner.

• Swedish mince

  • TinkerTaylor on March 13, 2026

    Would be a delicious traditional meat pie filling (seriously!) but the Swedish flavours were definitely not strong. Served with a baked potato and no cream (didn’t feel necessary as it was already quite creamy).

  • angela_woef21 on April 04, 2026

    Mine was pale, certainly not the rich gravy look in the book. But the family rated it highly. Added an extra 250g mince and it was fine

• Pan-roasted flathead with peas, greens and bacon

  • treay on May 29, 2025

    Another delicious recipe from this book. So far everything I have made has been easy to prepare and the flavours were fantastic. The rainbow chard, (something I have never tried before because it wasn't available where we live), together with the rest of the ingredients was amazingly tasty. And the flathead fillet was yummy. A delightful combination.

• Crumbed chicken tenders with pesto mayonnaise

  • angela_woef21 on March 06, 2026

    I used 2 packs of chicken tenders (Coles). Did not increase mayonnaise quantity on chicken, but doubled the pesto mayonnaise.

• Quick duck à l'orange with Sarladaise potatoes

  • treay on December 11, 2024

    This recipe is fantastic! We ate it for dinner with a nice salad from the same cookbook, but the star of the night was the duck with the lovely orange sauce on top and also the potatoes, that were to die for..... The recipe took much longer than it said in the book, basically because it took a while to prep all the ingredients, but it was easy to make and I won't complain, because it was totally worth the trouble! Soo good!

• Quick Sri Lankan prawn curry

  • treay on May 28, 2025

    We've been eating out from the freezer and pantry this past week due to being isolated because of floods but because we had our neighbour for dinner, I made this curry, I had all ingredients at home. It was easy to make and very delicious. Will make it again for sure. I added some whiting fillets because I didn't have enough prawns. We served it with basmati rice.

• Honey mustard chicken cutlets

  • treay on August 10, 2025

    This is a delicious and easy to prepare recipe. Just cut the onions and put with the chicken in the oven for 45 minutes. The chicken thighs (I used marylands) are rolled in a mixture of olive oil, honey, mustard, vinegar and thyme. Lovely flavours.

• Whole baked fish with vadouvan butter

  • treay on February 01, 2026

    This was a very delicious meal! Once you have made the vadouvan curry mix, it is just a matter to put the fish in the oven and cook the topping while it cooks. I used a whole snapper and it was perfect. You can get the backbone out easily and then there aren't any small bones left, just some big ones on the side which are easy to remove while you're eating it. Next time I cook it, I will halve the butter and put olive oil instead, I thought it was too buttery for my liking, but then again, I prefer olive oil than butter!! Hubby thought it was lovely!

• Pasta alla Carlofortina

  • angela_woef21 on March 07, 2026

    Quick, cheap and easy!