I found The Working Cook: Quick recipes for busy people, by Carina Cooper, in Coburg’s Little Free Library. I was lucky, because after I found this book and took it home, someone set the Little Free Library on fire, and everything was destroyed. It’s since been restored, and I need to drop by again and …
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Feb 19
Cookbook 120: Italian Moms: Spreading their art to every table
I supported Italian Moms: Spreading their art to every table on Kickstarter because it sounded so sweet. A son helping his recently widowed mother put together a cookbook of her (and some of her friends’) favourite recipes in order to remain financially independent. The book is peppered with stories about growing up in Italy, moving …
Aug 22
Cookbook 115: Curry: Fragrant dishes from India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
I bought Curry: Fragrant dishes from India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia after flipping through my sister’s copy when I was visiting her for lunch. It looked interesting, I like curries, and my sister said that the recipes she’d made from it were quite tasty. So of course I wanted to try it out. I was …
Jun 16
Cookbook 109: The Edible Garden cookbook
I bought The Australian Women’s Weekly, The Edible Garden Cookbook: Growing and cooking vegetables and herbs online from a discount store so there weren’t any reviews and I didn’t really know what I was getting. It wasn’t what I expected. I was expecting more of a book covering the preservation of produce with the occasional …
Mar 22
Cookbook 102: Best of Vegetarian
I’m sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but February and March have been really busy for me – too busy to even cook from cookbooks. There has been a big birthday party to organise, an international guest visiting, my wedding anniversary, illness, going away, and lots of other things cropping up on the …
Oct 12
Cookbook 90: Sizzle
Not quite sure where this cookbook came from. I don’t recall buying it, which doesn’t mean I didn’t, but I have a sneaking suspicion that James was interested in the stir fry nature of the recipes. This book does have a good representation of vegetarian recipes, but when I cooked from it there were only …
Sep 14
Cookbook 87: Food & Cooking of South America
Food & Cooking of South America by Jenni Fleetwood and Marina Filippelli was another of my “Hey look, a cookbook for $10” purchases. And like some of the other purchases of this type that I have made, this one wasn’t a good choice for me. Many of the recipes in the book are of food …
Aug 11
Cookbook 84: Cooking for compliments
I can only assume that Scott’s mother bought this book second hand somewhere due to nostalgia, and then gave it to Scott when he moved out, so he’d have a cookbook that she really loved. Cooking for compliments by Ruth Morgan was published in 1968, it’s lovely full of UK Imperial measurements and is surprisingly …
May 26
Cookbook 77: Share My Plate
I bought Share My Plate from the Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre one Sydney Road Street Party, as I thought it would be cool to support a great cause and to have more recipes from around the world. This book is written by people who use the Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre, whether for communal meals, or …
May 18
Cookbook 76: Margaret Fulton’s Italian Cookbook
I have a vague memory of buying this cookbook, it’s certainly mine, as it has my name written very carefully inside in my teenaged script. It’s also very much a second hand purchase, probably from the Daylesford Bookbarn, where I would spend my allowance on second hand cookbooks whenever we went there for a picnic. …
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