The 101 recipes in this volume are all short and simple with easy-to-follow steps, using readily available ingredients and are accompanied by a full-colour photograph of the finished dish. Whether you choose sausage and potato bake, pork and tarragon meat

2008-09-25 Another Good recipe book

Of all the regular Good Food books, I think this will be the most used due to having quite a few nice looking pasta dishes (by regular I mean the books which are focused on main courses & starters, not dessert books). The chicken tarragon went down very well when my gf made it for her family 1 time, but the salmon & mushrooms with tagliatelle wasn't as tasty as it looked (Not even in the same league as Gino D'Acampo's pasta bow ties with salmon, peas & shallots yet it ended up costing more).

I'm thinking of making the spicy sausage with pasta next as that looks rather nice. As I said in a review on One Pot Dishes, this series seems to have a bit of a problem which is that it lacks any real heart or soul since there is no real input from those who made the contributions (I noticed in one book that some of the recipes were from Anthony Worrall Thompson, yet there was no sign of him on any of the pages except the credits).

Perhaps I should have got into cooking on one of these books, as maybe then it wouldn't be such a big niggle, but since I was inspired by watching Gordon Ramsay & his book Fast Food was my first ever cook book, I liked that his food showed his passion for what he does, yet here there's very little character.

Anyway, I think this deserves an 8 out of 10 as it has good ideas & recipes, it's just a pity that the book is all steak and no sizzle (sometimes literally).