An attempt to at least one recipe from every cook book I own.
A good watermelon is hard to find around these parts, and I saw that Riverford had some small watermelons available, I knew I had to have some. I was immediately reminded of a recipe I had made some years earlier, from Sean Brock’s Heritage book.…
I like Nigel Slater’s recipes. They’re invariably uncomplicated, straightforward and tasty. I have a good few of his books, so for this meal I opted for Eat: The Little Book of Fast Food. The inside cover describes this book as: Just straightforward, delicious cooking.For the…
I have no recollection whatsoever of buying Blue Ginger, but I clearly did. Flicking through it, it’s easy to see why I picked it up – it’s packed full of delicious-sounding Asian-style recipes. Published in 2004, it’s sat forgotten on a bookshelf for many years…
Yotam Ottolenghi is well represented in my cookery library; I have a good few of his books. In fact I think I have all but one of them. For some reason I never got around to buying Plenty. I should probably do something about that.…
Hugh’s Three Good Things takes a very simple premise – make a dish using just three ingredients – and produces a large array of very tasty looking recipes. Of course, the three ingredients thing is a bit of a cheat – pretty much all the…
Sue wanted biscuits. In fact she demanded biscuits. She even went out as far as digging out the cookery book and leaving it open in the kitchen with a post-it note stuck on the page saying Make these with a large arrow pointing to the…
I was looking for a recipe to make use of some chicken I had. I found quite a few things that I liked the sound of, but there always seemed to be a key ingredient that I didn’t have to hand. Then I picked up…
It’s a Bank Holiday weekend. We’re in lockdown. Some baking is in order. I scan the shelf for a suitable cook book. We need comfort food, and who better to provide that than Nigella. I pull out my copy of How to be a Domestic…