Notes about Recipes in this book

• Sea bass with fennel and olives

  • saladdays on October 05, 2013

    A very good way to cook sea bass fillets, using greaseproof paper so that they don't stick to the tray. As they don't take long to cook I prepared and cooked the fennel, and the olive and anchovy sauce first, otherwise the fish could spoil. A great tasting combination of flavours for what can often be a bland fish.

• Lavender oat biscuits

  • London_Mummy on December 20, 2025

    This is a nice, easy recipe & I used up some lavender. They came out looking dark & rustic because I chose to use dark muscovado sugar & to size them by eye & not weight.

• Spicy lemon grass and butternut squash soup

  • London_Mummy on October 10, 2025

    I made this to use up some semi-skimmed organic cow's milk, which was about to turn sour, and some herbs which one of my sons had bought and not finished. I also had to use sweet potatoes instead of butternut squash. It came out very flavourful and was a hit with my daughter, who wrongly guessed it was butternut squash, carrot and swede and could not guess the herbs and spices.

• Sweet cicely soda bread

  • London_Mummy on October 10, 2025

    This was a quick and easy loaf, which I made to use up some milk which was turning sour. I had to substitute caraway seeds for the fresh sweet cicely, which worked fine. I used white and wholemeal spelt flour, because those were the flours which I had. It was tasty with a nice texture, perhaps a bit on the crumbly side. I would reduce the salt from 1 tsp to 0.75 tsp next time and I would take a little more time to shape the loaf nicely. If I ever get some sweet cicely leaves I make this loaf with it!

• Kavey Eats

  Our experience with these three recipes gives me a strong faith in the rest of the book and there are many, many more dishes I want to try soon.

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