When I heard that Silvia Colloca’s Simple Italian – The Essentials of Italian Home Cooking was available, and I had a credit on my Booktopia account, I bought this immediately. I absolutely adored her Made in Italy and I wanted to have more of that magic and discovery. Goodness I was disappointed. And those are …
Tag: vegetables
Apr 13
Rewriting another recipe – Lamb racks with potatoes and cherry tomatoes
So I found some lamb racks going cheaply and looked for a recipe that was simple (given my household has the plague currently) and tasty. I was cooking for 3, because only the three meat-eaters were at home. This recipe should be pretty easy to scale. The recipe below is inspired by this one by …
Mar 24
Rewriting a recipe – Slow Cooker Pot Roast
I made this recipe (Slow Cooker Pot Roast by Nagi) last night and it didn’t work for me. The first reason it didn’t work was that my slow cooker wasn’t big enough to fit in the potatoes after putting in the meat and the sauce liquid. The second is that my slow cooker really struggled …
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 …
Jun 19
Cookbook 123: The Spice Routes: More stories and recipes from the World Food Cafe
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 …
Feb 10
Cookbook 118: Masterclass step-by-step
I’m back and cooking, though I am behind updating this blog. This time I cooked from The Australian Women’s Weekly Masterclass Step-by-step. The selling point of this book (it was bought for me) is that it is to help you cooking simple restaurant food at home. Most recipes in the book have additional pages with …
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 28
Cookbook 110: Vegie Food: from vegies on the side to the main event
My sister kindly gave me this book recently, she found it at a second-hand shop going cheaply and she thought I’d like the recipes in it. She wasn’t wrong, Vegie Food: from vegies on the side to the main event, is full of great recipes. It’s also out of print so probably generally hard to …
Jan 26
Cookbook 101: Steam Cooking
We got Steam Cooking: 100 delicious and healthy food recipes for all steamers by Jenny Stacey forever and ever ago. I cooked one dish from it once, but never really touched it again, and the recipes I made from this this time reminded me why. Because we were eating with 2 vegetarians I steamed some …
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