On
flight back to Mordor, Virgin Australia much better food then Etihad
on way over , second flight is on Etihad, so ho hum
Cookbooks
– I've a mixed attitude to them, because I cook a lot, I'm usually
in receipt of one or two for birthday or Christmas, generally they
end up in a charity shop later that year…. I tend to skim through
them and if I like quite a few I will Post-It note them and keep the
book a while
Firstly
I love the pictures in cookbooks, one of the reason I've put no
pictures in this blog, is I'm rubbish at taking photos and my food is
never as pretty. I do occasionally take pictures in restaurants for
Facebook, but they are never great!
When
I want a recipe, I Google it and browse the first 3 or 4 and blend,
so I tend not to use many actual real books.
Exceptions:
Comfort and Spice Niamh Shields – just fantastic, so it in a shop
in Cork, scanned through it, saw loads of good recipes (I followed
her recipe for Blas – bread from Waterford and I'm not great at
bread) my missus bought me it for Christmas.
My
first proper cookbook was Delia's complete cookery, used it so much,
it eventually got weevils from old flour and it was crawling, so I
had to bin it, learnt all the standard techniques and classics from
that
On
food and cooking – Harold McGee – not really a cookbook, but has
helped me learn the why of cooking, not just the how. It can be hard
going, but I've learned so much and makes me want to cook loads of
ingredients I want to use or use in new ways
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