Review: Beautiful Breads and Fabulous Fillings
Beautiful Breads and Fabulous Fillings
by Margaux Sky, published by Rutledge Hill Press, £11.79
When I started looking for sandwich books over a year ago - trying to find quick, easy, healthy recipes for that midday meal I'm otherwise so prone to skip - there was Paulette Mitchell's Vegetarian Sandwiches and that's about it. Now there's an explosion of panini books wherever you look. One particular sandwich book stands out though, and that's Beautiful Breads and Fabulous Fillings by Margaux Sky, since it starts at the beginning of the sandwich - the bread - and walks you forward through sauces to fillings and sides. Like many glossy food books it has its share of recipes that seem too complicated for an average person to put together in the timeframe I'd like - the Turkey and Wild Rice Sandwich Loaf looks great but involves having a batch of raw bread dough available, 45 minutes baking, 30 minutes cooling, plus the prep, for example - but there are enough on-the-fly productions to make this book worthwhile. See the Garden Patch with Creamy Candied Carrot Sauce (best assembled on Maple Merlot Bread) or Chicken Salad in Minty Yogurt Sauce on Brown Harvest Bread. Lunch as a meal is so often overlooked by cookbookery that it's lovely to see it get the royal treatment here, and the pictures alone tempt you to go above and beyond the usual Weetabix-and-toast that some of us at Shiny get up to after the second week of working from home. 3.5/5. [GT]
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