“Oh my goodness. You have so many cookbooks. Do you cook from them all?” This is the question asked by most people who are perplexed by the size of my collection. In fact the IKEA shelf that I purchased specifically to house them is now full and there are books overflowing onto the floor. Most of the books that end up on the floor are far too obese for the lean wooden shelves (Ripailles – yes, I am talking about you). Quite often I purchase a cookbook for its potential. This is the possibility of creating something that will satisfy my greedy appetite. If I only get one ‘great recipe’ out of a cookbook, then I consider it worth its value, at the very least. I…
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Lamb Chops stuffed with Feta Cheese
3 CommentsI own so many cookbooks. I think the floor under the shelf is bending from the weight of it. There are thousands of recipes sitting inside these gems calling out to me. “Make me, try me, love me”. You see, one of the main reasons why I started this blog was because I felt I wasn’t cooking from them enough, (and food blogging is a fantastic hobby). I find that there are many, many recipes that I have never heard of, nor ever eaten. I am too much of an adventurous eater to just stick to one type of cuisine and not try anything else. There is no better comfort of knowing that I have the freedom to choose a recipe based on the whim of whatever I am craving, from wherever it…
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Thai Kangaroo Salad – What is Australia’s national dish?
2 CommentsIt was Australia Day a week ago. For a longtime I’d been wanting to cook and present one of Australia’s National Dishes to the blog. However, I was having a hard time selecting one, or actually, I don’t know if I had even found one that didn’t have its origins from elsewhere. Pizzaboy and I came up with a few possiblities: Meat Pie & Sauce Shepherds Pie Fish’n’Chips Pavlova Sticky Date Pudding Lamingtons Masterchef runner-up Poh Ling Yeow suggests that it may be Salt & Pepper Squid. I don’t think she was too far off. You see, Australia is culturally multi-layered, built by many years of immigration from around the world. Almost all of the…
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