My favourite cookbook over the years has been one by Delia Smith. Follow her recipes and you can’t go rong! I have a couple by Jamie Oliver and some Oriental ones. However, I really got into googling recipes when I had some chicken breasts, pastry and vine tomatoes. I googled this and was surprised and pleased to find his Five Ingredients-Quick and Easy Food series. The additional ingredients required were some pesto sauce and haricot beans, both of which I had. The subsequent meal for a group of friends went down very well and I have since repeated that recipe and others. My wife can ‘knock’ up a sauce quite easily, (her Chinese Five Spice crumble was something else She was looking for cinnamon, but failed to take account of the other spices in the mix!)but I need to see a recipe to make a sauce and I’ve been cooking for forty years too!
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