Another pre-holiday cookbook, the weekend before I was scheduled to fly out of the country for a weekend, so really not the best time to be planning elaborate meals. To challenge myself even further, I picked Yotam Ottolenghi’s Ottolenghi The Cookbook, a book I’d ordered online a couple of years ago after finding out it …
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Sep 10
Cookbook 48: The bon appétit fast easy fresh cookbook
A long time ago, before I went on holidays, and before the rush to be ready for holidays, say farewell to people, and pack… I cooked from Barbara Fairchild’s The bon appétit fast easy fresh cookbook (I’m not sure what should be capitalised or not). The food was delicious, but the recipes were very US …
Jul 20
Cookbook 47: Cookery The Australian Way (4th Ed)
My version of Cookery The Australian Way (CAW) comes courtesy of my 9th grade Home Economics class (best class ever – cooking at school!!). This version was written by Shirley Cameron, Suzanne Russell and Winifred Williams. Pinknantucket Press has a beautiful article from Shirley Cameron on her reflections of creating each of the 8 editions …
Apr 08
Cookbook 36: Secrets of the Beechworth Bakery
The Secrets of the Beechworth Bakery by Tom O’Toole with Lowell Tarling and Matthew McLaurin book styles itself as both a cookbook and a self help book. In fact Dymocks (the link above) has the book in their “Biographies and Autobiographies” when they have it in stock. This book has been superseded by “MORE Secrets …
Jan 31
Cookbook 27: Curry Bible
So I decided to make some curries, and good curries they were from the Curry Bible (or as it probably should have been called the Curry Gita). Sadly this book is out of print, which explains why I got it so cheaply (though technically it should increase in price the rarer it is, but that’s …
Nov 09
Cookbook 17: The Essential Rice Cookbook
I bought this book on sale at a bookshop which has downsized and only now has one store that I am aware of. I bought it because the word “rice” is the biggest word in the title, and rice is one of my biggest comfort foods. The idea of having an entire book of comfort …
Oct 28
Cookbook 16: The New PWMU Cookbook
Ah the PWMU Cookbook revised by Lorna Connor, I can imagine that many Uniting Church families have one of these tucked away somewhere, of one of the many different editions. Mine is the third (revised) edition, and I think we’re now up to the fifth edition. The one thing about this book is that you …
Oct 19
Cook Book 14: Moorish: Flavours from Mecca to Marrakech
The food was plentiful and delicious and everyone ate their fill, and then some. There were some tricky moments, which I’ll record in the notes, but otherwise this book was great. The recipes of Moorish: Flavours from Mecca to Marrakech by Greg and Lucy Malouf (again sadly out of print). A combination of food from …
Sep 17
Cookbook 11: a month in Marrakesh
This weekend’s book was Andy Harris’s book a month in Marrakesh, which was less successful from my end. The starter we had was fantastic, the rest of the meal I was less than impressed with. This was not the cook book’s fault, more that my taste and the flavours in the dishes I selected were …
Sep 12
Cookbook 10: Meals in Minutes
As I was rather busy this weekend I thought I’d try The Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook, Meals in Minutes. This cookbook belongs to Scott, and so by virtue of our relationship, ends up being mine and one that must be cooked from – well that’s my excuse. The recipes are relatively straight forward, rely on …
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