Notes about Recipes in this book

• Warm salad of chickpeas, chilli, feta & garlic

  • Tommelise on August 02, 2011

    My favorite recipe with chickpeas. I use a lot of red onions, and a lot of feta. Its a lovely, slightly sweet, and spicy dish when served warm. If there is any left, the children eat it for lunch at school the next day.

• Sautéed duck livers with fenugreek & chilli on potato & coriander salad

  • Tommelise on September 26, 2011

    If you like liver do try out this recipe. I only wish that I could find duck liver, it is almost impossible here. You can substitute with chicken liver, but be careful to reduce the cooking time and hold back some liquid. The combination of the spicy liver and the salad is very good. Oh - forgot to add - we always leave the sesame oil out - as I am strongly allergic to it.

• Baked haddock with tomatoes, saffron & wine on mash

  • Tommelise on September 26, 2011

    We dont cook fish often, and when we do it has to be simple. This recipe is perfect. It is very simple, but the flavours are very good.

• Blackened salmon with citrus labne

  • Tommelise on September 26, 2011

    The herbs make this dish - we sometimes use fresh herbs and it works out fine. The combination of the blackened fish, and the fresh and clean tasting yoghurt is very god.

• Roast chicken & sweet potatoes with olive & basil sauce

  • Tommelise on September 26, 2011

    We made this dish twice, but it is just not for us. We did not like the combination of basil and soy sauce -and found it a shame to blend the basil.

• Molly's lemon roast chicken

  • Tommelise on September 26, 2011

    This is a okay dish, but nothing special. It is very like several others dishes we have tried. When we make the dish, we use haft ordinary potatoes and half sweet potatoes.

  • sharifah on January 11, 2012

    Excellent dish! We love the sweet sour combo

• Beef pesto

  • CamillaC on September 27, 2014

    This is a great recipe especially the beetroot chard salad and the sauce for that is effectively a delicious (and quick) mayo

• Thai-style salad of lamb & peanuts with lime dressing

  • Tommelise on September 26, 2011

    I admit - we are not good at cooking thai food, so whether this is authentic or not, is not for us to tell. However we like the dish very much, it has a very good balance of crunchy peanuts, meat, spice, citrus and herbs. I sometimes make the dish with leftover meat, it is not as good as the original, but still very good.

• Braised fennel with cumin & ginger

  • Tommelise on September 26, 2011

    Its been a while since we cooked this recipe, but I remember that I really liked the flavours, I just thought there was far too much liquid in the dish for my liking.

• Caramelised peaches

  • Tommelise on September 26, 2011

    My husband always cooks this recipe when peaches are plenty. He serves the peaches over vanilla ice cream with a little of the liquid. It is very simple and quite lovely recipe., and a lot better than poached peaches in my opinion