Good Things To Eat

Good Things to Eat is just that: great food that focuses on the ever-popular ingredients and types of recipes that home cooks turn to again and again; the dishes that make everyone go 'yum!' From risottos, stews, gratins and things on toast to lamb, fruit, pasta, pies, squashes and puds, Lucas opens up scrumptious new possibilities for the kinds of flavours people already know and love.

Lucas weaves together his recipes with personal memories, inspiration, gentle advice and the odd joke. His warm, unhurried writing and layman's understanding of what needs explaining and what doesn't, plus his usage of ingredients that people can easily get hold of, ensure he will inspired everyone to make uncomplicated, tasty food no matter how practised they are in the kitchen.

Recipes include:
Crab, fennel and celery leaf salad
Mackerel salad with green beans and capers
Slow-cooked lamb with butterbeans
Cucumber and cantaloupe salad
Five-spice butternut soup
Little pumpkin and pecan tarts
Fig, feta and mint salad
White bean and lemon soup
A whole baked brill
Chilled cucumber soup
Leek and mascarpone risotto
Roast pork with pears
Roast chicken with its juices
Parsnip gratin
Beef stew with pickled walnuts
A big bowl of meatballs
Rack of lamb with lentils and mint
Duck with cherry sauce
Spiced blackberry cheesecake
Raspberry and mint sorbet
Amaretto ice cream
Plum and anise crumble
Rhubarb, ginger and almond sponge
A go-with-anything cake (and things to go with it)
The 123 cocktail