Creamy smoked salmon and spring vegetable pasta

This recipe is a standby favourite; it's quick to make and very, very tasty. It's adapted from the recipe for Creamy smoked salmon bucatini with dill from Slimming World's Everyday Italian cookbook. In the winter you can make it with the rather anaemic stringless beans or runner beans available in the grocery store and it will still be nice.

Creamy smoked salmon and spring vegetable pasta
(free on EE)
(serves 2)

Potato salad

As spring approaches summer, the need for potato salad to go with Quorn burgers etc. grows until finally I must give in. Here's a potato salad that is fairly light on the syns but still provides the required potato salady-ness. It's not vegetarian, but falls into the everything-is-better-with-bacon category. ;-)

Potato Salad 
(1/2 syn per portion on EE)
(serves 2 as a side dish)

Book review: Extra Easy Meals in Minutes (SW)

This is the latest and greatest Slimming World recipe book, available to members only or, at vastly inflated prices, to anyone who cares to buy one on eBay. It professes to keep you on track with your slimming, whilst providing delicious, speedy recipes for brilliant cooks and complete beginners alike. Does it live up to this promise?

I actually really like this book. I've read online that many group members don't like it, but have been unable to find out why exactly. Maybe some of the recipes seem a little strange or fancy to some people? I don't know. It's true that it has veered away from SW-friendly versions of traditional favourites, which many of the previous books seem to focus on, and there's perhaps a bit more emphasis on fresh herbs, spices, etc. which might not be to everyone's taste. I've enjoyed all the recipes I've tried so far, and have still got plenty more marked to try in the future, which to my mind makes it excellent value at £4.95. So, without further ado...