Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Happily imperfect hosting -- Maximum effect, minimum effort recipes -- Early bird breakfasts -- Bostock -- Turkish scrambled eggs -- Egg & -- salmon on rye breakfast squares -- Coffee, banana & -- oat smoothie -- St Niklas granola -- Heart-starter plum jam -- Cheat's piadina -- Crumpets with vegemite, mustard & -- parsley butter -- Choc-hazelnut milk buns -- Puffy pancake with honey & -- orange syrup -- Fresh corn polenta with baked eggs & -- smoky tomatoes -- Smoked salmon with soda bread & -- special butter -- Stay for lunch -- Halloumi, lime & -- rocket spaghetti -- Salmon & -- mustard rice paper rolls -- Store-cupboard frittata -- Fennel, walnut & -- sun-dried tomato pappardelle -- Kefalograviera, fried egg & -- rocket rolls -- Pea risoni with parmesan & -- pepper -- Spaghetti pangrattato -- Fennel, ginger & -- tomato braise -- Clafoutis, or cheat's quiche -- Prawn omelette with oyster sauce -- Sardine rescue -- The levantine -- The virgin mary -- Sardines with spaghetti, currants & -- mint -- The scandi -- French mushroom, kale & -- polenta soup -- Prawn saganaki -- Ginger, red lentil & -- tomato soup -- Tagliatelle with lemon cream, pine nuts & -- broad beans -- Flatbread omelette with lime & -- tomato salsa -- Here's one i prepared earlier -- Chard & -- cheese tart with poppy-seed pastry -- Stuffed peppers with feta & -- beans -- Fuss-free salmon burgers -- Salmon & -- fennel pie -- Turmeric fried fish with noodles -- Pierogi russki -- Slow-roasted tomato pappardelle with olive tapenade -- Marinated tofu with soy beans & -- pickled cabbage -- Crispy-skin fish with rosemary & -- anchovy cream -- Palermo peppers on toast -- Roast mushroom cannelloni -- Persian new year soup -- Shiitake & -- bok choy noodle soup with pickled eggs.

Vegetable & -- green olive tagine -- Smoky eggplant parmigiana -- Tofu larb -- Cauliflower rarebit -- Summer eggplant curry -- Mushrooms, white beans & -- radicchio with soft polenta -- Salads for all -- Roasted & -- raw vegetable salad with zhug -- Thai celeriac salad with peanuts & -- dried shrimp -- Carrot, feta, olive & -- lentil salad -- Cauliflower salad with sherried currants, capers & -- mint -- Glass noodle salad with prawns & -- pink grapefruit -- Mograbieh salad with toasted nuts -- Mozzarella salad with spring veg & -- lemon-infused oil -- Potato salad with samphire & -- lemon -- Chickpea salad with cuban mojo -- Corn-cob salad with masala butter & -- coconut sambol -- Punched cucumber salad -- Mozzarella salad with broccoli, anchovies & -- olives -- Warm goat's cheese salad with grapes & -- walnuts -- Bring back afternoon tea -- Passionfruit curd meringue cake -- Peach-leaf vanilla slice -- Rhubarb syrup crumb cake -- Cherry ricotta bundt cake -- Chocolate celebration cake -- Citrus mascarpone layer cake -- Apricot, pistachio & -- rosewater coronet -- Pistachio louise cake -- Bienenstich tray cake -- Mandarin & -- honey madeleines -- Moroccan chocolate & -- almond surprise biscuits -- Sticky pumpkin gingerbread -- Seeded oat, dark chocolate & -- barberry cookies -- Crowded house -- Crab & -- nasturtium sandwiches -- Chilli beans with lime leaves & -- avocado salsa -- Limey corny salmon bake -- Mexican winter soup -- Egg salan -- Sri lankan butternut & -- cashew curry with beetroot sambol -- Hot-smoked salmon with pea-green salad -- Poke-bowl buffet -- Falafel wraps -- Old-fashioned vegetable pasties -- Glass potatoes -- Pudding club -- Apricot cobbler -- Salted caramel 'crack' -- Marmalade baklava -- Plumble -- Roasted thyme peaches -- Gingernut ice-cream sandwiches.

Snowball sundaes -- Toffee & -- orange panna cotta -- Mango, coconut & -- passionfruit pudding -- Hibiscus brownies -- The happy hour -- Bagna freddo with tarragon & -- pink pepper -- Cacio e pepe gougères -- Lucky-dip padrón peppers with strained yoghurt -- Potted prawns -- Cheese & -- caraway baked olives -- Fennel & -- pecorino gluten-free crackers -- Baked camembert with witlof & -- walnuts -- Salt-baked celeriac -- Artichokes with tarragon aioli -- Lentil pâté -- Upside-down saffron labneh plate -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Copyright.