I have too many cookbooks, and I come back to this one very often. It's crammed with delicious, original and doable recipes. In fact, the recipes are not always exact pacific recipes but rather the author's approach of creating modern recipes with typical pacific flavours. Simply the titles of some recipes should convince you: "Prawns with chili mango sauce", "coconut passion cake", "grilled scallop salad with citrus chili dressing", "kokoda: coconut ceviche", "lemongrass and chili risotto", "duck and mango salad" etc. Langbein's recipes are very convincing and never intimidating to make. Her salad dressings are incredible. Of note: there are plenty of nice photographs about the pacific in the book. In short, a strongly recommended book!
Annabel has a trademark style throughout her many cookbooks - simple, easy to prepare food that is big on flavour and uses easy to source ingredients as well as giving many options within the one recipe. For example a duck recipe can be substituted with fish.
This book has a wonderful laid back Pacific vibe and is packed with extra information and an excellent section at the back for great side dishes. While not truly recipes from the Pacific Islands this book draws huge inspiration from the region with a fresh modern twist and healthy recipes with wonderful clean, light, fresh flavours.
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