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cook books

book review: franschhoek food by myrna robins

January 31, 2011

franshhoek food

I was so delighted when I was given this beautiful cook book for Christmas.  I had been eying it out a for a while. Its a collection of recipes from 18 restaurants from one of the culinary hot spots of South Africa. It tracks the development of this small Boland town over the past 25 years and [...]

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baked bananas with passion fruit and minty creme fraiche

December 1, 2010

loads of juice and flavour

This recipe is taken from ‘The 30 minute cook’ by Nigel Slater, who is one of the cook book writers I regularly refer back to, and his books are the ones that I regularly cook from. His food is real.  No wonder he called his first book ‘Real fast food’ and a later book just [...]

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perfect peanut butter cookies

July 7, 2010

I inherited the book ‘The Joy of Cooking’ by Irma Rombauer from my mother who in turn had inherited from her mother.  The book was first published in the USA in 1931 and  my copy is the 1952 edition. I have never made anything from it, but have read bits and pieces and use it more as a reference. I am [...]

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cool food for hot chics: the cookbook

May 30, 2010

I hauled this book out of my much loved  ‘library’ yesterday and find that revisiting the books  sort of helps with my cook book addiction issues. I need to be reminded that  these ones (and there are a lot) should be used a bit more before I go and buy all those others I’m desperate to acquire. When asked what I [...]

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the snowflake book of baking – out of print

January 27, 2010

 I have been on the look out for a copy of this book since I took it out of the library over a year ago. I was talking about baking last month (as you do) and the friend I was talking to mentioned they had bought a copy of this particular book at a second hand book shop in [...]

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