What a fabulous book. From the first flick through of the digital version, I knew this was a book that would inspire. Gorgeous photography and simple, mouthwatering recipes, there are very appetising new twists on not just fish but vegetables and salads. Very inspiring and lovely to look at, I'm glad to have it in my library and in my kitchen.

I received a temporary digital copy of this book from Netgalley for an honest review.

This was a wonderful cookbook with beautiful pictures. While there are some recipes that you may have to hunt around for the ingredients, I think this was a delightful collection that I might have to buy.

This is one of those cookbooks that makes fish interesting and there's quite a few good photos in it. There's more to fish than just fish fingers and this book shows that in a good way.

Pratt has written an enjoyable fish cookbook. I enjoyed all the side dishes that accompany fish. It's a well written easy to follow cook book.

I really liked this book, as a vegan I obviously wont be including the fish, diary or meat elements into the recepies but i found some good basic ideas that i could put my own spin on and use as a foundation for some new vegan recepies. I have various other books by Jo Pratt so i was already a fan of hers before reading this new book. I highly recommend it having said that no all recepies will be to everyone’s taste, but there is something for everyone’s diet in the book. Thank you for the ARC.

This book, which is all about fish, caught my eye since I am an avid fish lover. It did not disappoint! I assumed that I would come across the regular menu of fish with new ideas sprinkled in. Wow was I wrong! It is page after page of unique recipes, with photos,and a nice variety of different fish. I have tried two recipes so far and both were delicious and fairly easy! Hopefully others will pick up this book, I surely recommend it!

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This is perhaps best described as a "fish-centric" cook book. There are some purely vegetarian dishes interspersed among the fish. There's also a flexible option for many of the recipes - either alternative fish or vegetarian twists.

I confess that I didn't take to this book at first. I was bemused by the veggie dishes. The recipes seemed rather cheffy in their ingredient lists. Reading through some recipes I was concerned that powerful flavours might overwhelm the fish. Determined to give it a fair go, I've taken it to Brittany with me where there's an abundance of fresh fish. So far I've enjoyed an adapted version of the smoky bean and monkfish stew and am set to cook the fried sardine, courgette and caper linguine. All is going well so far, though I wish I'd brought more of my store cupboard ingredients with me.

About those fresh fish. I can't imagine walking into an English supermarket and seeing glistening monkfish tails piled up. The author is very good however about suggesting alternative fish and indeed substitutes for harder to find ingredients.

Photography is glorious and very arty. There's a photo of each finished dish, important to many.

It would have been great to have lists of recipes at the start of each section.

As someone who doesn't eat meat, my diet can tend to look pretty boring (there's only so much grilled cheese you can eat, you know?) So, I was excited to find a cookbook that's dedicated to pescatarians (since I do eat fish). This was a gorgeous book with lots of stunning pictures of delicious foods. However, most of the recipes seemed really complicated to me (as someone who doesn't have a whole lot of cooking experience), so there weren't a lot of recipes that seemed doable. Also, most of the ingredients aren't something that basic cooks will have at home. However, for someone who can easily whip up difficult recipes, there are plenty of yummy-sounding dishes to prepare. I was definitely left drooling over the Moroccan tomato and bread soup, the speedy prawn paella, and the roast squash, beetroot, and chickpea salad - all of which seemed like recipes I might actually be able to replicate. With a great blend of different cuisines from all over the world, I'll certainly be recommending this cookbook to my fellow pescatarians.

This beautiful, fish-centric cookbook is full of pretty photographs, and in addition to the recipes it also provides good technical advice on selecting and working with fresh fish. The artsy, highly off-center photo croppings are visually attractive, but occasionally I found myself wishing for a more informative shot--or indeed any shot at all in some of the methods sections on filleting, etc., precisely where photos would have been most useful. There are many solid recipes in here, but too few that jumped out as especially tempting to try. My reaction to most things was more along the lines of "sure, I wouldn't mind eating that" than "wow, I want to cook that immediately." Some of the non-fish recipes look great but are so basic most people won't need another recipe for them (charred asparagus, pasta puttanesca, etc.). The occasional term would have benefited from conversion to American English (I needed the photo to identify tenderheart as broccolini).

4.5 Stars

There is a real Scandi-feel to this book, partly because it’s very fish-based but also the minimalist photos give it that quality -it must be the marble bench-tops and scattered ice. It’s beautiful!

As the Introduction says: “A totally plant-based diet is good for the environment, good for your body [and] good for your bank account”, but some of us find the transition to that kind of diet too difficult. This book makes the job easier, creating fish-based recipes with completely vegetarian alternatives that are creative and tasty.

Highlights for me are:

Hot smoked salmon pâté. It’s amazing - super-tasty, quick, healthy and protein-rich because it uses salmon as well as cream cheese and yoghurt. I preferred this with the Cucumber, Caper and Lemon salad (later in the book) than the one suggested alongside the recipe;
Goats cheese and potato salad with pear marmalade. Salty, slightly sweet and delicious.
Chilli-baked feta with watermelon salad. Listed under the starters but this is good for a main.
Aromatic gin and cucumber-cured salmon. Essentially gravadlax. There is a great tip mentioned at the bottom of the page here – i.e. to freeze the fish for 24 hours after purchasing it to ensure that any nasties are done away with before preparing the fish.
Slow-roasted sweet potato with feta, pomegranate and pistachio. Not ground-breaking but a new way of doing an old dish.
Crab, asparagus and lemon risotto. Just yum!

I wanted to try the Five-Spiced, tea-smoked salmon but haven’t been brave enough yet.

The “time taken“ feature on each recipe is so useful because you can easily decide what you have time for. I stayed clear of any recipes that were going to take longer than one hour of prep because I simply don’t have the patience. From another practical perspective, it is also great to see that both metric and imperial measurements are listed.

This book surpassed the Part Time Vegetarian book I read last year by a different author but with a similar concept. It is cleaner and to me has more recipes I feel comfortable using.

The recipes aren’t all suitable for those who are gluten intolerant but they are easily adaptable and there are plenty of starters that can be adapted to main dishes that contain no flour, pasta or pastry.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Quarto Publishing Group - White Lion Publishing and Jo Pratt for a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

OK, I will be the first to admit, I don't care for sea food... but this book was more than just fish, as I first assumed. It had some wonderful vegetable dishes in there, too. Those I was really super impressed with and will be trying one of them tonight. I even saw some new ingredients that sounded interesting to me, such as I had no clue what "harissa" was but I do now. Always good to learn about new ingredients and new recipes.

It almost makes me want to try some fish dishes. Yes, I know that they are probably healthy, so I should try to incorporate them into my family's diet. This book might just convince even me! I was very impressed with the pictures of the recipes and I will be trying them.

I felt this was a great addition to my cookbooks. Time to start trying some new recipes and a new way of healthy eating. Can't wait to try!

I was drawn to this book because I am trying to become more comfortable cooking with seafood, and trying to add more healthy seafood dishes to our diet. This book is pretty adventurous for me, but it definitely accomplishes it's goals. Filled with terrific recipes from various parts of the world, this cookbook offers lots of great dishes that include fish that you won't have seen in a ton of other books. There are lots of pictures for inspiration, although there is not a picture of each completed dish, which is something I personally prefer--but there are a lot of beautiful pictures. There are a lot of tips and "flexible" options--the author offers suggestions for making various recipes vegetarian, or for using other fish, and lets you know what to expect if you make her suggested changes. There is a terrific section at the back that I found especially helpful that talks about buying seafood, cooking with seafood, etc. The seasoned cook probably won't need it, but I needed it and was very glad it was there. I found it well written and educational. The recipes themselves do not include nutritional information, which I personally found a little disappointing, but I suspect would be challenging as you can change the fish you use in each recipe which would change the nutritional values. The recipes themselves are divided into four sections: Snacks and Small Plates; Broths, Soups and Curries; Mains and Sharing; and Salads and Sides. Overall, I thought this book is an excellent addition to the collection of any Pescatarian or anyone just looking to add a little more adventurous seafood cooking to their repertoire.

If you love fish read this book. After just a browse through all the recipes and information contained within I love it. The photographs make me want to head into the kitchen and prepare fish for lunch/dinner or even breakfast.

I do enjoy fish and vegetarian food way more than meat so this book is perfect for me. There are 75 recipes in the book and after reading through them I know that I will enjoy 74 (I don't like squid in any shape or size so that recipe is off my list).

I received a digital ARC of this book to review and I'm now buying a hard copy for myself.

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This original cookbook shows you how to delicous and healthy recipes with a large variety of fish fillet,whole fish and seafood. An excellent source of omega 3.
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A simply amazing cook book for fish and seafood. The recipes are simple, bursting with flavour and so easy to follow.

I'm not a huge lover of fish or seafood but this book has me excited about it and I will certainly be experimenting lots over the coming weeks. There are also some fantastic recipes for side dishes, sauces and salads in the book.

I couldn't write a review on this book without mentioning the stunning photography, it really is amazing. I stared at some of those plates for well over five minutes, they look fantastic.

My friends can expect an invitation to my house very soon so I can show off some of these recipes.

Although I received an advance digital copy of this book in return for an honest review (thank you to the Publisher and Netgalley) I will definitely still be going out and buying a hard copy of this book for my library.

Can I just mention the pretty cover?

As for the cookbook. My fave part was "fish preparation", I love how the author went step by step, teaching a lot of things that are important but not everybody knows. I believe the cookbook should have started with this chapter because not everybody looks at the contents and this way it's very easily missed.

I marked several recipes to try them later. Funnily all of them are vegetarian, not pescetarian. Which is a bit funny. I cannot wait to try the spring onion and carrot bhajis, it looks delicious!

However, I did not feel that the cookbook was well balanced. Too many recipes with mackerels and pretty often I kept thinking that something was missing in the recipe. I got a bit "oily" vibe from this cookbook.

Some recipes were pretty hard; I had no idea how I would do it. And some were so easy that I had no idea why you would feel the need to put them in a cookbook. Especially the salad part, a recipe for tomato salad of tomato, onion, lemon/oil/salt/black pepper and basil leaves is pointless.

Delicious recipes all types of fish for all levels of chefs.Gorgeous pictures a pleasure to look at .I will be gifting fish loving friends with this beautiful book .#netgalley #quartobooks,

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I found this book OK, but I honestly was hoping for so much more!
Some recipes were easy to do, some sounded so complicated!
There was also background information about fish and other seafood, which was quite educational I must say.
Overall 3/5 because I just hoped there would so much more in that book!