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Category Archive for 'Cookery'

Weekend Cooking – Watercress Soup

Posted in Cookery, Food, Soup on Jul 4th, 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. It’s been hot and sunny here all last week, but today it’s been raining on and off all [...]

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Weekend Cooking – Bread

Posted in Cookery, Food, Weekend Cooking, Weekly Events on Jun 19th, 2010

Bread is one of my favourite foods. I’ve been baking my own bread for about 4 years now, using a breadmaker. I’ve tried making it by hand but all that kneading just defeats me and it is so much easier with a machine. It is very simple – you just put all the ingredients in [...]

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Weekend Cooking

Posted in Cookery, Weekend Cooking on Apr 3rd, 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. As it’s Easter my contribution this week is Simnel Cake. This recipe is from Marguerite Patten’s Everyday Cook Book in Colour, which was first published in 1968. It [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Hot!

Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, Cookery, Food 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 [...]

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