Oct 06
This isn’t my cookbook, it belongs to James who loves Claire Saffitz (which is fair, because she’s lovely), and so he was excited when Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence was published and bought a copy of it. The recipes all look amazing, the photography is beautiful and sound like something you …
Aug 02
Nadiya’s Everyday Baking by Nadiya Hussain, winner of the sixth season of the Great British Bakeoff, is an ode to the oven and all the delicious foods that can be baked. It covers both savoury and sweet recipes from snacks through to main dishes. When I bought this I thought it would be just the …
Nov 02
Of course you all know B Dylan Hollis right? You’ve seen his videos on TikTok or YouTube and you’ve laughed along with his double (or single) entendres while he cooks a recipe he’s found in some antique book store or that has been shared with him by friends. And it made perfect sense that after …
Aug 26
A new (well it was when I bought it) cookbook by Silvia Colloca? Of course I was going to buy The Italian Home Cook: The 100 recipes you need to know, as soon as I could. I find Silvia Colloca’s recipes great, and her TV shows and stories fascinating. I also wish I could look …
Jun 01
I’ve loved Margaret Fulton since I found some of her themed cookbooks cheap at a newsagent or book store when I was in year 12. I’ve cooked from her Indian, casserole, quick meals, and Italian cookbooks. It was a sad day in 2019 when she passed away at the grand age of 94, as she …
Dec 20
On biscuits and cakes
Apr 07
So I bought this Chocolate by Olga Jones from the amazing Karen Wyld who had closed her bookshop and was selling all her remaining stock. It’s a very pretty book and on one of my favourite topics, so of course I bought it. The two recipes I made were perfect, and the double choc biscuits …
Jan 20
Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca was a Christmas gift to me from Scott. We’d watched her TV show when it was on SBS and marvelled at how thin she stayed while eating such glorious food. The cookbook is a collection of recipes, and really gorgeous photos, from the Marche, Abruzzo and Molise provinces in …
Jan 03
I’m not entirely sure where Have your bake & eat it by Casual Cooking came from. It was a book I cooked from in 2019 and then lost all the photos (and almost all the memories of) from, so I cooked from it again. It’s out of print now (the link above is an ebay …
Jul 05
It was the start of lock down (a million years ago) and there was concern about everyone who had a book launch around this time because suddenly there were no events, and how would people know about all these great books. One of the books launched was Now for Something Sweet by the Monday Morning …
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