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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Inspirational garden and recipes! Utterly beautiful book, filled with stunning photos and mouth watering recipes. Gives recommendations for varieties of each fruit/vegetable, particularly interesting if you grow your own. Arranged by month, and then into each fruit/vegetable. Recipes include Treviso Lasagne
Penne with Preserved Lemon and Avocado
Rosemary and Anchocy Encrusted Lamb
Fillet of Beef with Rocket
Baby Spinach, Pancetta and Roasted Almond Salad
Asparagus Pasta with Lemon
Mint and Pea... more info
extra veg inspiration As a compulsive cook book buyer/collector/hoarder this was too good to miss, based on previous reviews I went ahead and bought this book and was not at all disappointed.
Some recipes are familiar and therefore comforting and others provide new ideas and inspiration, so much so I resorted to pilfering handfuls of lemon verbena leaves from my mother's shrub in order to try out the Verveine Sorbet recipe to much success.
This is a 'must have' cook book, the recipes are beautifully laid out and... more info
Fantastic - all-year-round use I bought this book for my mum earlier in the year, and borrowed it so many times I decided I needed a copy for myself! It's fantastically laid out (I'm in the book layout business myself, and know a good one when I see one!) Really easy to use, full of great ideas for both gluts from the garden or those buy-one-get-one-free offers from the supermarket. It's now permanently to hand in the kitchen (not one of those look through it once and put it away kind of books), each section being for the... more info
Treat with care This is a fantastic book, especially for anyone with an overabundant allotment, but not for the beginner cook. You will need to have an idea of what you are making before you start as I find some of the quantities are a bit out - for the delicious spinach tart, serves 6, she recommends making a pound of pastry (I made it fine with 8oz) and the blackcurrant cupcake icing would have iced 40 cakes, not the 11 the recipe made!
