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Category Archive for 'Cookery'

Weekend Cooking

Posted in Books, Cookery, Food on Mar 20th, 2010

Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs.
This week I’m writing about chocolate – or more precisely Green and Black’s Chocolate Recipes.  On the front cover:
Chocolate makes otherwise normal people melt into strange [...]

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Weekend Cooking

Posted in Cookery, Weekend Cooking on Mar 13th, 2010

Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. For more information, see the welcome post.
Salmon and Broccoli Fishcakes, or how to make a mess in the kitchen.
Simply steam the salmon in the microwave [...]

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Weekend Cooking – French Cookbooks

Posted in Books, Cookery, Food, Non-fiction, Weekend Cooking on Mar 6th, 2010

Last week for my Weekend Cooking post I wrote about Italian cookbooks, so this week I thought I’d stay on the Continent and write about my French cookbooks. I only have four – two over 20 years old and two more recent. Three are by British food writers and one by a French woman writer.
The [...]

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Weekend Cooking – Family Recipes

Posted in Cookery, Food, Personal, Weekend Cooking on Feb 27th, 2010

I’ve been watching BBC 1’s series The Hairy Bikers – Mums Know Best, which has made me think about my family’s recipes. I have my Mum’s recipe book. She didn’t really need recipes as much of what she cooked was by instinct. Even though the recipes give quantities in pounds and ounces she didn’t use [...]

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Weekend Cooking: Italian Cookbooks

Posted in Books, Cookery, Food, Weekend Cooking on Feb 21st, 2010

Weekend Cooking is hosted by Beth Fish Reads. It’s open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs.  For more information, see the welcome post.
I love Italian food. I have a few books such as Jamie’s Italy, [...]

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Weekend Cooking: Soup

Posted in Cookery, Food on Feb 6th, 2010

Weekend Cooking is hosted by Beth Fish Reads. It’s open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs.  For more information, see the welcome post.
One of my favourite cookery books is The Soup Bible and I’ve made, [...]

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Hot!

Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, Cookery, Food, Nigella Lawson on Jun 25th, 2009

Now that summer is here (in the northern hemisphere, anyway), what is the most “Summery” book you can think of? The one that captures the essence of summer for you?
(I’m not asking for you to list your ideal “beach reading,” you understand, but the book that you can read at any time of year but [...]

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Weekly Geeks – What’s Cookin’?

Posted in Books, Cookery on Apr 16th, 2009

What shall we cook today? It seems that for most of us, a bit of our book obsession would carry over to the cookbook genre, so this week for Weekly Geeks, let’s talk cookbooks!
I’ve been collecting cookbooks for many years now.  I have all sorts – Italian, Chinese, Thai, Indian, French, Vegetarian, Diet, Low [...]

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Sunday Salon

Posted in Books, Cookery, Jamie Oliver, Sunday Salon on Nov 30th, 2008

Reading today so far has been Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled. I’m only at the beginning of this and this morning I read about metre: “Poetry is organised.” I am comforted by Stephen’s words in his chapter How To Read This Book – the three Golden Rules are (and I paraphrase) read poems as [...]

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Chocolate Please!

Posted in Cookery, Food, Nigella Lawson, Soup's On on Jul 7th, 2008

 I first thought of writing about Nigella Lawson’s How To Eat when I joined the Soup’s On! Challenge as it’s one of her books that I have used a lot. It’s a long book – over 500 pages, nearly all covered in words, with just a few pages of photos. I love just dipping into it and reading for [...]

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