Delicious – More Please

By Valli Little

ABC Books (RRP: $39.99)

Delicious magazine’s food editor has noticed that more people are sourcing their food at farmers’ markets and paying more attention to fresh seasonal produce, so she has assembled a recipe book that captures the flavours of the four individual seasons.

Some of my friends attend master classes in order to learn how to include more exotic ingredients into their cooking repertoire, but this follow-up to last year’s Delicious cookbook saves me the time and expense.  Each of the 120 dishes is beautifully photographed, instructions are straightforward and every season has a menu planner for three course meals to impress your friends and relatives.

Summer delights include a melon and blue cheese salad with citrus dressing, Greek lamb meatball salad, mango and coconut trifle and a mouth-watering raspberry and white chocolate mousse.

The dishes get hotter in autumn with a fiery hummus, spicy bean soup, spicy chicken salad in wonton cups, Moroccan pasta and lamb and apricot tagine washed down with a mulled cider.

Winter features Spanish roast chicken with quince sauce, duck and pineapple red curry and some lethal desserts such as lemon curd profiteroles, Moroccan apple pies with rose custard and rhubarb and strawberry crumble with custard.

Basil lemonade introduces spring and all the picnic foods such as pea felafel, salmon croquettes, basil, tomato and goat’s cheese roulade, chicken pesto pies and lavender friands.

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