Contents
Cover
Title Page
Introduction
Store Cupboard
Hearty lentil and onion soup
Artichoke salad
Haricot bean and tuna salad
Perfect mushrooms on toast
Spiced baked eggs
Spiced beans and corn salsa toppings for baked potatoes
Thai chickpea and mushroom curry
Tarka dahl
Poached eggs with bacon lentils
Instant dips
Huevos rancheros
Smoked salmon and chive fish cakes
Spaghetti with anchovies, garlic and chilli
Fusilli with tuna, capers and cream
Tinned-tomato pasta
Tagliatelle with bacon, peas and mint
Chicken and bacon pilaf
Bacon and potato gratin
Baked mushroom risotto
Tomato and rosemary risotto with meatballs
Spiced lamb pittas
Lamb meatballs
Chocolate, toffee and peanut squares
Easy lemon cake
Orange torte
Orange and almond cake
Gluten-free chocolate and orange polenta cake
Chocolate mousse
Oreo chocolate fudge sundae
Toffee peanut sundae
Chocolate marshmallow biscuit cake
Fruit sundae with strawberry coulis
Raspberry coconut pudding
Coconut and cardamom pannacotta
Vanilla buttercream squares
Ginger squares with lime frosting
Fast and Fabulous
Parsnip soup with porcini oil
Speedy chicken noodle soup
Five-minute pea soup
Chickpea and aubergine salad
Fattoush
Spicy prawns with feta and watermelon
Roasted vegetable couscous
Zac’s omelette wraps
Zac’s omelette wraps (cont.)
Mushroom and Gruyère tart
Tomato and goat’s cheese tart
Piadine
Piadine (cont.)
Quesadillas
Fusilli with courgettes and lemon
Spiced prawns, tomatoes and chickpeas
Quick prawn korma
Battered prawn stir-fry
Thai mussels
Scallops mornay
Thai steamed fish
Chicken stir-fry
Chicken paillard with creamy cucumber and courgettes
Chicken skewers with carrot and apple salad
Pan-fried chicken with mango salsa
Chicken noodle stir-fry
Pan-fried duck breasts with redcurrant jelly sauce
Lamb chops with parsley and mint sauce
Pork stir-fry
Pork chops with sage and apple
Garam masala pork with yoghurt
Maple black pepper pork chops
Seared beef salad
Stir-fried steak with kale
Spiced apples and pears
Baked peaches with honey and pecans
Coconut macaroon meringue
Banoffee pancakes
Quick blueberry trifles
Chocolate mascarpone mousse
Baked white chocolate vanilla custards
Quick fruit brûlée
Five Ingredients or Less
Sweet potato and Gruyère tortilla
Penne with smoked trout
Conchiglie with spinach, blue cheese and pine nuts
Penne with broad beans and asparagus
Fusilli with fried onions and olives
Fish baked with potatoes
Fish en papillote, three ways
Fish en papillote
Mackerel with chorizo
Fennel baked fish
Spicy squid salad
Salmon with capers and dill
Spanish mussels
Very fast red prawn curry
Yoghurt masala fish
Sesame-crusted chicken
Chicken livers with onions
Chicken, parsnip and potato bake
Tarragon chicken
Spiced fried chicken
Rack of lamb
Sumac lamb chops
Honey mustard pork chops
Fried potatoes with cabbage and chorizo
Flavoured butters for steak
Apple fool
Hot buttered plum pudding
Lemon posset
Cardamom and orange semifreddo
Yoghurt, apricot and pistachio pots
Chocolate zabaglione
Rhubarb and ginger meringues
Chocolate mousse cake
Strawberry and nectarine tart
Pear and cinnamon tart
Chocolate and banana tart
One Pot
Minestrone
Carrot, ginger and coconut soup
Red lentil soup
Cauliflower soup
Smoked sausage, bean and root vegetable soup
Asparagus and goat’s cheese risotto
Kale and bean stew
Mediterranean pasta
Fish stew
Fish chowder
Easy paella
Spring vegetable roast chicken
Chicken open-pot roast
Chicken and chorizo with rice
Chicken and couscous tagine
Chicken biryani
Pot-roast duck legs with onions and root vegetables