I’m not laying any claim to owning low-fat Indian cooking by Shezad Husain. This is not to say it’s a bad book, just that I don’t think I’d buy a book on the amount of fat contained in the recipes. To me, some food is lean, some food is not, and there is no judgement …
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Mar 27
Cookbook 70: Vegetable Bible
This week I cooked from Vegetable Bible: From the Earth to the table (now out of print – link not recommended for purchases). The recipes were tasty, but required a knowledge of cooking to work successfully. There were a few times in the recipes I made where I wondered why an ingredient was listed (turned …
Mar 19
Cookbook 69: Best of New Idea Cooking
This cookbook is old. I think it might have come from my grandmother’s collection, or perhaps my mother’s. It dates from the late 70s to early 80s, there isn’t a date inside to indicate exactly when it was published, but it was a whole $2.95 at the time for 200 recipes. The Best of New …
Feb 28
Cookbook 66: Best Ever Indian Cookbook
The Best Ever Indian Cookbook by Mridula Baljekar, Rafi Fernandex, Shehzad Husain and Manisha Kanani was a gift to Scott at Christmas from his parents who know he likes cooking with me, and that he enjoys cooking dishes from the subcontinent. As there were only 4 of us for dinner this night, I cooked two …
Jan 27
Cookbook 63: the round-the-world cookbook
I bought this cookbook second hand, from my favourite second hand bookshop in Australia, the Daylesford Book Barn (best place to be on a cold winter’s day). The round-the-world cookbook by Myra Waldo was written in conjunction with Pam American World Airlines (when they were a going concern), and published in the 1950/60s. My copy …
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 …
Nov 04
Cookbook 55: Classic Indian: Easy, delicious and authentic recipes
This recipe book is Classic Indian: Easy, delicious and authentic recipes, with a forward by Rafi Fernandez (out of print). I didn’t find the recipes delicious or as a result overly authentic. They used all the right spices, but still somehow managed to make food that was quite dull, so they either used the right …
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 …
Sep 10
Cookbook 49: Ottolenghi The Cookbook
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 …
Jul 06
Cookbook 45: A Taste of Morocco: From Harira Soup to Chicken Kdra
I invited some friends over for dinner and planned to cook a Moroccan feast for them, discovering moments before I was to go to the shops to buy ingredients that I had actually cooked from that book, but the note had fallen off the front. I quickly went through my cookbooks and found another book, …
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