Morning noon and night by Julie Clark and Marc Weir, Phantom House Books, 2010 Floriditas is a Wellington institution and one of my favourite restaurants. There are so many things to love about this restaurant. For many years I have been making two Floriditas favourites at home, both of which are listed on their website. … Continue reading Morning, noon and night
Slow food cookbook, Australian Gourmet Traveller Collector’s Edition, 2011 I am sometimes given Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine by a friend, and I always enjoy it. This special issue promised 387 gorgeous ideas to warm your kitchen. I expect that is why I bought it. So why did I never cook a recipe from it? I … Continue reading Slow food cookbook
Kitchen, recipes from the heart of the home, by Nigella Lawson, Chatto and Windus, 2010. I have five Nigella Lawson cooking books. I use everyone of them regularly, except this one. I wonder why? Perhaps because by the time I was given this book I already had too many cookbooks? Never mind why, March is … Continue reading Nigella’s Kitchen
Jamie’s Italy by Jamie Oliver. Michael Joseph, 2005; Jamie’s Great Britain by Jamie Oliver. Michael Joseph, 2011. I bought Jamie’s Great Britain because I enjoyed the television series and I am interested in British food. It’s my heritage, and British classics cooked well are always good. I like the idea of adapting classic dinners with … Continue reading The Naked Chef at home and abroad
The naked chef by Jamie Oliver. Michael Joseph, 1999; Jamie at home by Jamie Oliver. Michael Joseph, 2007. It’s been a while, but I am back on the job. I decided to return to an old favourite and ended up test-driving the three Jamie Oliver books on my shelves and one I borrowed from a … Continue reading The Naked Chef at Home
As you may know, we left Bologna a little earlier than planned and in some haste. I had written this blog but not published it. As it turned out, the last meal I cooked in our Italian kitchen was my favourite – risotto. I can’t leave Italy without saying something about risotto, even though it … Continue reading Risotto
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