Date registered: 03/01/2016
Mar 02
Garlic Feast by Janice Sutton was gifted to us by Scott’s parents, who had it autographed by Janice Sutton. It won Australian Cookbook of the year last year (I think) and is full of recipes using garlic. Some of the recipes are easier than others, paticularly in relation to accessing certain types of garlic. 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 …
Jan 02
I backed Rich Evans’s BBQ Secrets: Summer BBQ Guide on Kickstarter because it’s always great to have new ideas for making BBQs more interesting, and we’ve already incorporated one of the recipes (the corn below) into how we cook BBQs permanently. There are more recipes in here I want to try (except for the seafood, …
Jan 02
So I’ve been busy, too busy to cook regularly and too busy to blog about what I have cooked. My new years resolution for 2017 is to cook more and to blog about it quicker, though this might require me to be less busy. We’ll see how it goes. And Happy New Year for 2017. …
Nov 01
I ended up with The Crazy Dumplings Cookbook by Amanda Roberts when I backed her second volume of dumpling recipes on Kickstarter. I like dumplings a lot, and I was intrigued by the idea that you really can fill dumplings with almost everything and they still taste amazing. Naturally I went with the non-standard dumpling …
Jul 10
So I promised my sister that I’d make her a birthday feast at a time that worked for both of us, as a gift to her. This weekend was the weekend in which we did it. Jacinta’s (my sister) task was to select recipes that she wanted from my cookbooks. As you can guess, this …
Jul 10
The Australian Women’s Weekly middle eastern (not sure why they went with lower case for a place name, but who am I to ask such questions) was the book I cooked for when I had a friend visiting and the vegetarian who lives with us was away for the weekend. I was going to cook …
Jul 10
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 …
Jun 19
So it’s been AGES since I’ve last cooked something for this blog, mostly because I’ve been incredibly wrapped up in studies and attempting to have a life while studying (which I think was a silly idea). I’m in my mid year break now, so I plan to cook and enjoy the food. This book, The …
Mar 14
I bought The Dumpling Sisters cookbook: Over 100 favourite recipes from a family kitchen after I got a $50 Dymocks gift voucher from my work after completing 5 years of service. I liked that it was written by two Chinese, New Zealand women (who according to the bio over at Fishpond (link above) are incredibly …
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