Make It Easy Cookbook by Jane Lovett

In Make It Easy cookbook, Jane Lovett offers more than 100 delicious recipes that emphasise getting much of the work done ahead of time, so that by the time your guests arrive you can enjoy their company rather than worry about what you should be doing in the kitchen.

Dishes range from baked Vietnamese sea bass to slow-roast shoulder of lamb boulangere, and parmesan-baked fennel to ginger creams with pistachio brittle, these foolproof recipes have been tested and perfected by the author.

This is also a great little go-to for mid-week dinners as a lot of the ingredients can be found in your supermarket, but resulting in some pretty-sounding dishes. Jane even manages to make salad sound appealing.

Jane is an experienced cook who runs cookery demonstrations from her home and around the country. She writes a regular food column in a regional newspaper as well as a regular contributor to various publications. Having trained at the Cordon Bleu in London, she has worked at Leiths Good For and taught at Leiths School of Food & Wine.

www.janelovett.com

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Slow fried lemon and oregano potatoes

We made this easy peasy recipe from Jane's cookbook. I must say it was more simple that I imagined, and very delicious.

OK, so I had some help in the kitchen, but if a novice like him can do it, it should be a doddle

Buttery potatoes on the way

We decided to add some bacon to it, just because, but the recipe was easy to follow, ingredients were not too 'out there' and it tasted so good, we wish we had made more. We had our potato side with salmon, which was a perfect weekday meal. I will be trying out some more extravagant dishes for sure, as they all seem achievable in terms of time, and if the potatoes are anything to go by, simple ingredients can go a long way in flavour! 

Add the spinach at the end for a slight wilt - it looked rather like the photo in the book.

Ta-da! Yum.