Having shifted from a high sugar and sedentary lifestyle to healthy eating and regular exercise 3 months ago I was beginning to need to move beyond steamed fish and vegetables, good as they are. This book has offered me inspiration and ways to use ingredients such as lentils, beans and quinoa that I was not so confident with, and in fact offers far more that 200 recipes as many of them have alternatives. I am gluten intolerant but most of these recipes are either naturally gluten free or very easy to adapt.
The book is split usefully into sections on Breakfast & Brunch, Starters & Light Bites, Soups & Stews, Fish & Seafood, Meat & Poultry, Vegetarian and And to Finish... It opens with a useful section on nutrition and the value of high fibre slow energy releasing foods, the importance of 'little and often' before the recipes each nicely illustrated with a full colour plate and well laid out ingredients list and recipe, with alternatives at the end. Usefully, for storecupboard ingredients that might be harder to get hold of, such as harissa and thai curry paste, McAuley gives the recipe for making them from scratch. However, most of the recipes are for four people, and I have a family of three with very different nutritional needs and dividing the ingredients by four is difficult in some cases. Still, this is definately my favourite of the Hamlyn 200 recipe series so far.
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