I decided, thanks to a mild weekend, that I would bake. Summer in Melbourne has been quite mild, so it’s been easier to cook than not. And since my sister had kindly given me The Australian Women’s Weekly All-time Favourites, I decided to give these recipes a try. As you’d expect from the Australian Women’s …
Tag: chocolate
Nov 15
Cookbook 117: Eat With Love
I haven’t been blogging much recently or cooking for that matter, because I’ve been sick. Treatment is over now, and I’m about to go to India for a wedding (and a cooking lesson). Once I get back in early December I hope to return us all to our regular program. So… a while ago I …
Apr 19
Cookbook 104: The Australian Women’s Weekly One Pot: Low-fuss food for busy people
One Pot: Low-fuss food for busy people was a birthday gift to myself, because AWW cookbooks are good, and one pot recipes in the colder months are the best invention ever. Scott wanted to make a bourguignon recipe, and I remembered that this book had one with lamb shanks, so we went with that. It …
Dec 14
Cookbook 96: 4 Ingredients
This isn’t my cookbook. 4 Ingredients by Kim McCosker and Rachael Bermingham isn’t a book I was all that interested in cooking from either, as the whole idea of cooking with only 4 ingredients wasn’t particularly appealing. I understand that this book is aimed at people who have little experience with cooking and/or who are …
Nov 30
Cookbook 94: Chocolate
I’ve been saving up Chocolate by Trish Deseine for a day when baking lots of chocolate was an excellent idea, and what better time than just before Scott’s birthday? This book is a range of chocolate recipes, from relatively simple biscuits (see Shortbread below), sauces, spreads, cakes and more. The instructions in the book are …
Apr 13
Cookbook 71: The Australian Heritage Cookbook
I bought The Australian Heritage Cookbook: A collection of recipes and memories from Australian kitchens by Joy Hayes second hand – possibly sight unseen from an online book store. I was looking for books with certain types of Australian recipes – either Golden Syrup dumplings, or jams and chutneys with Australian available ingredients. This book …
Nov 21
Cookbook 56: Comfort Food: Recipes to soothe, cheer, reassure and indulge
I bought Comfort Food: Recipes to sooth, cheer, reassure and indulge some years ago, and mostly because it has a stuck on velveteen texture on the cover, and books that feel good as well as sound good are hard to put down. This book is odd though. If I feel like comfort food should be …
Oct 20
Cookbook 52: the cook’s companion
This time I cooked from the much loved, and epic, the cook’s companion by stephanie alexandre, touted as “The complete book of ingredients and recipes for the Australian kitchen”. It’s a great book, it is incredibly thorough and lists far more recipes than I’ll likely ever cook in my entire life. It is aimed at …
Oct 18
Cookbook 51: Cakes & Slices Cookbook
This week I cooked from one of my favourite cake cookbooks, the Australian Women’s Weekly, Cakes and Slices Cookbook (available second hand in places if you look for it). I wanted to steal my mother’s copy of this book when I moved out of home I loved it so much, but she wouldn’t let me. …
Apr 06
Cookbook 35: The Australian Women’s Weekly Family Favourites
It sits there looking at me, a beautiful picture on the cover of this book, The Australian Women’s Weekly Family Favourites, of macaroni and cheese with olives. I’m all for macaroni and cheese, but want mine without olives because I’m not a fan. But I did not buy this book for the macaroni and cheese …
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