Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 12, Spice

Theme: Spice Recipe: Spiced red lentils with cucumber yoghurt From: Ottolenghi’s Plenty Do you ever have those instances when you have a very firm idea of a dish in your head? You know the ingredients you want, you know what the texture should be like, and you know what it should taste like. It sends [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Fortnight 4, Love

Theme: Love 1st Recipe: Braised beef brisket with chilli and tamarind sauce Cookbook: Blue Ginger 2nd Recipe: Pecan Chai Pie on Cashew Crust Cookbook: Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen The theme for this week’s Cookbook Challenge is “love”. Love, love, love. I’m very fortunate in love – I’m married to my best friend and the love [...]

Meal to Share: Moroccan

Hello, and welcome! Celeste from Travelling in Mary Janes, Penny from Addictive and Consuming, and I have joined forces to cook a 3 course meal, with each person taking on a different course. We’ll have different themes each month, and our theme for this month is tasty, tasty Moroccan. But before I tell you what [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 47, Italian

Recipe: A really good spaghetti bolognese From: Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries The theme for the Cookbook Challenge this week is “Italian”, and after a lot of hunting through my cookbooks, I decided to make bolognese. Normally I don’t follow a recipe for bolognese, but for the purposes of the Cookbook Challenge, I decided I [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 44, Chinese

Recipe: Sticky Asian Pork Belly From: Donna Hay Simple Essentials: Lamb, Beef and Pork It’s Chinese week for the Cookbook Challenge, and I didn’t have a plan for this week. What?! How did that happen? Being Chinese, I should have had a TON of ideas. Maybe I had too many options and was paralysed by [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 37, Hearty

Recipe: Beef Provencale From: Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe Cookery Course The theme for this week’s Cookbook Challenge is hearty, and to paraphrase Ange: almost everything I’m cooking at the moment could be classified as hearty. It’s this damned weather – why oh why when Alastair and I left Wellington didn’t we move to a tropical country? [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 35, Spanish

Hola! Welcome, welcome! Come in, take a seat, and get comfy. I would feed you all if I could, but unfortunately because technology hasn’t quite progressed to that point, you’ll just have to read all about the following lunch, and wish you had been there! The theme for this week’s Cookbook Challenge is Spanish, and [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 33, Seafood

Recipe: Sardine TagraFrom: Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Escapes Occasionally I’ve made things for this blog that seemed like a good idea at the time. And then afterwards, I’ve thought, “What on EARTH was I thinking??” See recent examples: hand pulled noodles, xiao long bao, ladybird cupcakes, to name just a few. I suspect this recipe will [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 24, Chocolate

Recipe: Spicy chocolate cookiesFrom: The Golden Book of Chocolate Second recipe: Mexican chicken moleFrom: The Golden Book of Chocolate We’re on week 24 of the Cookbook Challenge and the theme this week is chocolate. I decided to crack open a book that Bro gave me a while ago – the Golden Book of Chocolate – [...]

Spiced aubergine stew

I received Nigel Slater’s Tender for my birthday in December – and it has quickly become one of my favourite cookbooks. Every time I read a bit of it, it makes me want to eat and grow vegetables! The book is set out alphabetically, with each chapter dealing with a different vegetable in the garden [...]

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