Notes about Recipes in this book

• Bewedged: baked whole wheat pita wedges with Parmesan and rosemary

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Not bad

• Chic to be Greek dip: lemon-dill white-bean hummus topped with chopped veggies and feta cheese

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Good but much of the flavour is in the garnish

• Let it bean: bean salad

  • Delys77 on June 05, 2012

    Great little salad!. This is great the next day and carries very well so it works well for weekday lunches or a picnic. The flavours are nice and balanced, and the vinaigrette does the benefit from the slight hit of sugar and the brief simmer.

• The chicken coup: chicken salad with pecans and cranberries in a creamy orange dressing

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    The dressing is quite nice and the combination of textures was great. Nice and simple to put together in advance.

• Chop 'til you drop: Oriental chopped chicken salad with peanut dressing

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Good but a bit of a bitter taste

• The three mushketeers: three mushroom soup

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Simple but quite good. They say not to crisp the bacon, which seems to make sense, but you should slice it super small since you don't want to end up with chunks of soft bacon in your soup. Would also be better if it was pureed more.

• The squash court: Butternut squash soup with orange and ginger

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Way to much orange

• Shanks for the memories: smoky ham and split-pea soup with lentils

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Delicious

• Melancauli baby: curried cauliflower soup with Swiss cheese and wild rice

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Left out the Swiss as it seemed odd with the curry, and I still found the curry powder totally overpowered all the flavours in the soup. Not a winner.

• Oinkers away: navy bean and turkey bacon soup

  • Zosia on February 23, 2018

    The turkey bacon is unrecognizable as turkey bacon in this recipe and gives this very basic soup a rich, smoky flavour.

• Chowdy doody: smoky roasted chicken and corn chowder

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Good, super hearty and filling

• Salmon and garfunkel: creamy salmon and corn chowder with dill

  • pattwilson on November 09, 2014

    Love this with chicken as well

• Sealed with a quiche: broccoli and roasted red pepper quiche with a brown rice crust

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    This is not a quiche it is much closer to a frittata in a rice crust. Overall a very interesting dish with great ideas but you need to up he flavour, perhaps with chili flakes and a bit of pesto. Make sure you chop the broccoli super fine so it cooks through.

• Pizza for the upper crust: grilled Margherita pizza

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Very nice with the whole wheat dough. 1/4 pizza is quite filling

• Hakuna frittata: vegetable and herb frittata with feta cheese

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Nice flavour, you skipped the mushrooms to avoid making it watery, but it might actually work well if you cook the onions thoroughly

• Tuskinny chicken: a hearty one-pot Italian dinner

  • Delys77 on August 31, 2012

    Pg. 80 This makes a lovely little chicken braise. I made a few small modifications to the ingredients and the technique, which likely increased the calories a little but also made for a much tastier dish. I used skin on bone in thighs, which I rendered in the braiser for a few minutes. I poured off most of the fat that accumulated and proceeded to brown the aromatics and mushrooms. When the recipe calls for 20 minutes covered I actually popped it into a 400 degree oven to avoid the chicken skin getting soggy. Then I cooked uncovered in the oven for about 10 minutes. The result was crisp chicken, with flavourful and very healthy sauce. the whole thing took about an hour end to end and was popular with Spencer.

• The better butter chicken

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Good but not outstanding, would like to compare the calories on a regular Butter Chicken recipe

• Jamaican me hungry: Caribbean jerk-style chicken

  • Zosia on June 04, 2019

    I made the marinade in the blender to save some time and set some of it aside to baste the chicken with while it grilled. The chicken was very flavourful but not very hot - I suspect my jalapenos may have been on the mild side - but that was fine with us. As suggested, I served it with the tropical salsa (from Buoy meets grill recipe). It was a great combination.

• Dilly beloved: baked chicken breasts with maple, mustard, lemon and dill

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    The combination of dill with the sweet maple syrup is a bit different but not unsuccessful. Very simple and relatively quick.

  • nztoni on December 30, 2013

    http://www.food.com/recipe/dilly-beloved-chicken-bake-181311

• Chicken pandemoniyum: chicken and wild-rice skillet meal with grated Parmesan

  • Delys77 on September 07, 2023

    I used a general brown and wild rice blend so there was no flavour packet but I replaced this with some herbes de provence and truffle powder combined with some stock paste and it worked very well. The rice took much longer to cook, over an hour, but the results were very nice. I increased by 50% and it fed four hungry fellows.

• Bird on a wire: Greek chicken skewers with a cucumber-dill sauce

  • Zosia on July 03, 2017

    An easy way to add a lot of flavour to chicken breasts. I used mint (the recommended substitute for dill) in the yogurt sauce.

• Stick 'em up: lemon and basil marinated, grilled shrimp skewers

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    The flavour of the shrimp is very nice, a good combo of tang and sweetness without being too cloying.

• Buoy meets grill: grilled tuna steaks with tropical fruit salsa

  • Zosia on June 04, 2019

    This review is for the tropical fruit salsa which I served with the book's Jerk chicken. It was sweet and tangy, and savoury as well and complemented the chicken. I omitted the sugar and added the zest from the lime.

• Skewer always on my mind: lime and cilantro marinated salmon skewers

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    The seasoning is nice and tangy and compliments the salmon very well. Cook less than directed as it was a little over done.

  • Zosia on May 31, 2019

    This was a lively, citrusy marinade that was very good with the salmon. I left my fish as fillets and ignored the cook time given.

• Hook, line and simple: easy broiled salmon with creamy dill sauce

  • Delys77 on March 06, 2017

    For us this dish was far far too sweet. We couldn't even finish it.

• Awe, shucks: seared sea scallops with Alfredo sauce and bacon

  • meaghan1986 on April 08, 2017

    Used a whole jar of alfredo sauce and added some noodles! Delicious Pasta Dish

• Jellystone pork: grilled pork tenderloin with a tangy apple jelly and Dijon mustard sauce

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    The sauce was nice and the pork was nice and juicy (150 f) but I only roasted for about 27 minutes convection.

• Beijing beauty: Asian-glazed, grilled pork tenderloin

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    I broiled instead of grilling and basted a bit more quickly than they said, plus I used more basting liquid. Overall quite good

  • Zosia on January 20, 2018

    The Asian-inspired bbq sauce had a nice balance of sweetness and tang and went really well with the pork. It's not grilling season here yet so I browned the meat in a grill pan and finished it in the oven. I basted the tenderloins with the sauce as soon as they went in to the oven. I'll definitely make this again.

• Cowabunga beef burgers

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Just a burger really

• Mr. Bean: steamed green beans tossed with lemon, honey mustard and bacon

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    The individual flavours are good but they don't mesh super well

• Mashed fauxtatoes: creamy whipped cauliflower "potatoes"

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Interesting but not very flavourful

• Goody two chews: cranberry and peanut butter granola clusters

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Good but taste a little synthetic

• Poppy love: light and lemony poppy seed bread

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Flavourless

• Loaf potion #9: cranberry-orange loaf with zucchini, carrots and walnuts

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Quite good, but make sure you cook enough to set the centre

• Girl-guy cookies: a thin and chewy cross between a peanut butter cookie and gingersnap

  • Delys77 on April 25, 2012

    Very good, nice and chewy.