Anyone who knows Dot Tadman, knows she is quite a force to be reckoned with. Neither her cancer diagnosis, setbacks in her treatment, nor the many challenges of seeing this book through to completion could bring her down.

The dozens of recipes within the book, as well as the stunning artwork that adorns every page, have all been lovingly donated by people far and wide - including patients and staff at the ANCHOR Unit......

• Soups and Starters
• Accompaniments
• Main Courses
• Desserts Recipes
• Baking Recipes
• Conversion table
• Artists details
• Index

• 3 - Foreword
• 4 - Thank you to Artists
• 5 - Contents
• 6 - Friends of ANCHOR Information
• 7 - Acknowledgements

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For a simple, tasty starter serve asparagus with soft boiled eggs. A marriage made in heaven! Ingredients (serves 2). Firstly trim the asparagus, removing the woody part of the stalk and any tough outer layers and trim to uniform length. Place the eggs in a pan of boiling water and boil for 4-5 minutes until soft. In a separate large saucepan, fill with water; add salt and bring to a rolling boil......

Fry onion in a little vegetable oil and add the pancetta and cook slowly until crispy (this will release all the flavour from the pancetta). Add the mussels, garlic and cider. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for around 6-7 minutes until most of the cider has evaporated and the mussels are open......

I love this soup, it is so easy and you can interchange the crab won tons with any other type, or even just leftover roasts or fish or veggies.

Roughly mix spring onions, garlic, ginger and tarragon with the crab pâté, and season with salt and pepper. Place large teaspoonfuls of the crab mixture in the centre of each wonton skin. Beat the egg in a small bowl......

1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tin of tuna, drained
1 tin of tomatoes
1 small carton of double cream
1 small packet of penne pasta

Heat the olive oil in a pan and gently sauté the garlic. Add the tin of tomatoes, and also the tuna and stir well. Simmer gently......

4 oz each butter and sugar
1 oz honey
1 banana mashed
5 oz self-raising flour
3 tspn cocoa

Cream butter and Suger. Beat in honey and then beat in eggs one at a time. Beat in banana. Sift flour and cocoa and......

250g sugar
125g butter
2 eggs
1 tin condensed tomato soup
220g plain flour

Put the butter and sugar in a large bowl and using an electric whisk cream the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs......

75g margarine
3 tbsp syrup
225g milk chocolate/white chocolate
225g digestive biscuits, crushed
1 small box maltesers, crushed

Melt margarine, syrup and chocolate. Add biscuits and most of the maltesers. Press into a swiss roll tin and when cold cover with......