I have maybe 100 cook books and I cook out of 6 of them. My mission this year is to cook out of a different one each week.

It’s not often a relatively new cook book joins my collection and sails straight to the top of the charts but I loveeeeee this book. I love how she has menu plans, I love her approach to entertaining and I love the recipes.

You can tell Skye is smart, her recipes are carefully tested and succinctly written (definitely not always the case). They are out and out crowd pleasers and my kind of cooking.

I’ve cooked lots of things out of this book but on Mother’s day on Sunday I made my two favourites - Aphrodites Chicken (ultimately chicken roasted on boulangerie potatoes but a greater sum of it’s parts) and her mustardy creamy leeks.

10/10 will make again and again and both in my repertoire of go to dishes when special people come around for lunch and dinner.

Next up……Staglioni by Olivia Cavalli