I bought Lonely Planet’s, Thailand from the Source: Authentic recipes from the people that know them best, from Oxfam, thinking that it would be a great cookbook. And I was somewhat disappointed. My biggest problem is that there is not one vegetarian recipe. The index says there are, but all of them contain oyster and …
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Dec 28
Cookbook 138: The Vietnamese Market Cookbook
I picked up The Vietnamese Market Cookbook by Van Tran and Anh Vu because I didn’t have a Vietnamese cookbook and I really love Vietnamese food. This cookbook didn’t disappoint. I cooked from it almost a year ago and I still remember how good the food was. A good mix of recipes, written in a …
Dec 27
Cookbook 137: Unforgettable
I have a confession. I had never heard of Paula Wolfert before I backed the kickstarter for Unforgettable: The bold flavours of Paula Wolfert’s renegade life by Emily Kaiser Thelin. My lack of knowledge is clearly my loss because Paula Wolfert lived an amazing life, loved food, and wrote about it extensively. So I’m really …
Dec 27
Cookbook 134: Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food (and revisiting cookbook 115)
I’m quite behind in writing these up, so they are not going to be in a particular order, and i may forget what I thought about recipes. 2018 has been a year, and I’ve been flat out for most of it. It’s not been bad for me personally, but it has been from stressful to …
Mar 26
Cookbook 133: The Complete Middle Eastern Cookbook
The Complete Middle Eastern Cookbook by Tess Mallos had been on my wish list for some time. When I saw it for sale for a very reasonable chance I bought it immediately. The reason it was on my wish list? It has a section on Yemeni food, a cuisine I fell in love with when …
Jan 02
Cookbook 129: The Complete Asian Cookbook: indonesia malaysia & singapore
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
Cookbook 127: The International Garlic Cookbook
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
Cookbook 126: The Crazy Dumplings Cookbook
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
A birthday feast in two courses
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
Cookbook 125: middle eastern
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 …
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