Week In Week Out

This is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill recipe book. Think country cottage, stately manor, traditional British food of the countryside. Week In Week Out has 52 sections from Simon Hopkinson's column in The Independent. Each section is accompanied by relevant, mouth-watering recipes.

The stories are heart warming and move us through the seasons. Starting with Spring, Simon focuses on a specific seasonal ingredient, such as scallops or tomatoes.

Again, with all recipe books I have to try something. Well, for the first time I made chicken liver pate (all on my own!!) and my potato gnocchi with basil and garlic cream are now a firm family favourite - not bad when you consider my family is hubby and two children under 6!.

The recipes may not always be for the faint hearted considering some of the ingredients such as ox tongue, however, they are recipeswe should keep cooking so as not to lose focus on our food heritage.

(NB ratings are not relevant here but book is excellent so all are 5's)