Notes about Recipes in this book

• Green olive and walnut crostini

  • robinorig on March 03, 2012

    Even better with herbed or garlic goat cheese. Simple, delicious.

• Casserole-baked halibut with leeks and carrots

  • Emily Hope on April 17, 2013

    An easy and healthy fish dish for early spring--made with some gorgeous Alaskan halibut. My fillets may have been thinner than an inch, and the dish only needed about 11 minutes in the oven. I added a splash of white wine when I put in the leeks, cooked them perhaps a bit longer than specified (they were definitely more melted down than the ones in the picture), and omitted the bay (because we didn't have any where we were staying). Served with cubed, steamed potatoes tossed warm with a lemon/parsley vinaigrette. Lovely.

  • Barb_N on February 02, 2018

    I chose this recipe b/c S.O. didn't want the smell of fish to linger. This is indeed easy and can be made very low fat. Unfortunately it was bland and I won't be making it again.

  • TrishaCP on January 27, 2022

    We thought this was great. I used dried thyme and added it when the leeks were cooking. (I adore thyme and it was subtle but beautifully flavored). The only improvement would be to add white wine to the cooking liquid (wish that I had read Emily’s note before I made this dish!!).

• Fresh fettuccine with chicken-liver sauce

  • L.Nightshade on January 18, 2012

    Mr. Nightshade made fresh pasta at my request. We love chicken livers with pasta, and we get delicious livers from our organic, free-range ranch. But this was awful. Actually, Mr. NS claimed it was OK, but when asked, couldn't cite anything I've ever cooked that was worse than this. It was kind of like a bad liver pate, tossed with pasta. Then some tomatoes were thrown in that didn't really blend with the dish. Sooo disappointing!

• Beef stir-fry with fresh and pickled ginger

  • chawkins on March 28, 2020

    Great dish, not overly gingery, could not quite discern the pickled ginger in taste and the chile garlic sauce gave it just a little kick.