May 04
After my previous dissatisfaction, though I did rate it highly, with an Ottolenghi’s cookbook, I thought I’d try again, and this time picked Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love. This was a success. I made four dishes, including a decadent and amazing dessert, and the recipes weren’t incredibly complicated or difficult. This book I do recommend, …
May 04
Who doesn’t love Adam Liaw, his happy face, wonderful recipes and kindness towards his guests on TV? I certainly love him and love trying out his recipes, because they are generally great and reliable. The less guesswork for me, the better. Adam Liaw’s Tonight’s Dinner 2 is the sequel to his Tonight’s Dinner, a cookbook …
Apr 14
After hearing many people rave about Hetty McKinnon and her cookbooks, I bought To Asia with Love hoping it would be a great addition to my collection. It is an interesting cookbook, with some things I want to still try and one recipe that I don’t think I’ll ever eat again, though Nigel wants to …
Apr 11
Oh my god, I don’t generally gush straight up about the cookbook that I cooked from but Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen by Durkhanai Ayubi and Farida Ayubi is amazing. This is not just a cookbook, it’s an insight into Afghanistan, family, making a new home, and more. The recipes are grouped …
Oct 31
So there was an email from a bookstore (Booktopia) about things including cookbooks, and one of the ones that I saw was Ethopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa by Yohanis Gebreyesus (with Jeff Koehler). I LOVE Ethiopian food and was super excited to find a cookbook full of Ethiopian recipes, so I …
Sep 28
It’s hard to go past a good bread cookbook, and frustratingly with the constantly reducing number of bookshops in Melbourne, it’s hard to browse bread cookbooks to know if they are good or not (or have the types of bread I want to cook). Thankfully this online purchase of Simply Bread by The Australian Women’s …
Aug 13
You may not be aware of Zaleha Kadir Olpin’s UK Masterchef episode where the “judges” told her that her chicken rendang wasn’t sufficiently crispy enough, and was a mistake for her dish. They were clearly wrong, and anyone who knows anything about Malaysian food wanted to smack those judges upside the head. Zaleha Kadir Olpin’s …
Jul 15
A few years and a few employers ago, I worked near a little Korean restaurant in the CBD, and I went there often enough that the owner would greet me personally and do everything he could to make sure that my lunch friends and I could find somewhere to sit (including moving other patrons). And …
Jan 07
The Jewelled Kitchen by Bethany Kehdy is a stunningly beautiful cookbook. I bought it because it looked so beautiful and I was intrigued by the recipes inside. Sadly, despite it being beautiful, the recipes did not work for me the way I hoped and it was a tiny bit disappointing. I think that as I …
Jan 02
I have problems with a book styling itself as The Complete Asian Cookbook: indonesia malaysia & singapore (by Charmaine Solomon) because that’s not all of Asia, even if it is a part of Asia whose food I really enjoy. Oddly enough there are twice as many recipes for Indonesia than there are for Malaysia and …
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