Notes about Recipes in this book

• Maple walnuts

  • wyndle on April 06, 2026

    The timing was way off for me, barely caught them before burning. Current recipe calls for 27-30 min, I would check regularly at the 15 min mark or even earlier depending on your oven’s personality. Addictively good, but directions are off.

• Garlic + thyme chicken, butter bean + sun-dried tomato with lemon + thyme vinaigrette

  • wyndle on March 29, 2026

    This was a “medium build” salad and was much more manageable than the long build Thai Me Up salad. I love the dressing with this one and just used a bit of that to marinate the chicken. I also butterflied the breast for a faster cook. Great, punchy flavors, but with anchovies, sun dried tomatoes and Parmesan, watch the salt. I did a warm version with wilted spinach with the leftovers.

• The GOAT with the SP green goddess dressing

  • wyndle on April 06, 2026

    Hits all the salty/sweet notes and relatively easy to put together if dressing, onions, and walnuts are done. I streamlined by adding the chicken to the potatoes in the oven rather than dirtying another dish, but may have missed out on some caramelization. I again have issues with some of the directions. In this case, how the cut the sweet potatoes in step three. Just say “cut into 1 cm pieces” in the ingredients list and we can take a look at the image if we want more direction.

• Thai me up with Thai peanut dressing

  • wyndle on March 29, 2026

    We enjoyed the flavor and concept of this one, but the effort to outcome ratio wasn’t worth the effort. This was my first cook from the book and it took me awhile to get used to how the directions are written. It is a pet peeve when they don’t add the prep to the ingredient list. In this case, if you’re directing me to stem, rinse and dry the kale, why not also have me shred it in that moment? Needless to say, the recipe did not feel efficient.