I backed Cooking 4 Change: 101 famous Kiwis share their favourite recipes by Dick Frizzell (with all profits going to charity) on Kickstarter. I wanted to love this book the same way I love some of the Kiwis who provided recipes (Sam Neil, Taika Waititi, Jacinda Arden, etc). It’s a great idea, get some famous …
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Jul 10
Cookbook 124: The Working Cook: Quick recipes for busy people
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 …
Feb 16
Cookbook 119: The Australian Women’s Weekly: All-time Favourites
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 …
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 …
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