Category Archives: Cookery books

cooking show

By Alice | Published: March 25, 2009

Have you seen the Tamra Davis Cooking Show? More episodes here. Since I saw it mentioned by Simple Lovely I too now am addicted. I love the relaxed presenting style and healthy food. The locations are amazing and it is intriguing that this is the same Tamra Davis who is a director and married to Mike D of the Beastie Boys.

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Moro cookbook

By Alice | Published: July 15, 2008

Moro

I am really enjoying the Moro cookbook. I dilly dallied about buying it as I have never been to the restaurant and it has quite a few meat recipes in it. However after tasting the Rosewater and Cardamom ice cream that my sister made from one of their recipes I had to buy it.

You can see I have book marked all the recipes I am going to try, about 20 so far. Purple, blue, or white markers mean recipes to try out on a normal occasion, and red markers mean a special occasion only as it is too fatty, sugary, or expensive for a normal day. But as you can see there are no red markers! Unheard of for a cookery book! It is all good relatively wholesome, and reasonably priced fare. I think this is where being a semi-vegetarian pays off as the vegetarian food from this part of the world (Spain, North Africa, and Eastern Mediterranean) is of the chick pea/bulgar wheat/yoghurt variety. The pictures and layout is lovely too making it great to read.

Fatayerpage

Insidemoro

This evening I made the Fatayer – butternut squash, pine nuts, and feta within a flatbread parcel. And I must say they were excellent; it is a great recipe. I am certainly going to make this again. Please excuse the rather strange half eaten photo of it but it was dinner time and we were hungry :)

Fatayer

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Cookbook of 2007

By Alice | Published: November 26, 2007

Bookmarks

There is one area that I am organised. Cookbooks. I have my so-not-nerdy sticky label system to keep track of what I want to cook ;) Blue means recipes to try out for everyday cooking – so relatively healthy and not too expensive ingredients. Red is for red-alert for special occasions – so if I need to make someone a birthday cake these are the bookmarks I turn to.

SO, as a major cookbook fan, what was my favourite cookbook of 2007?

Nigella Express.

People seem to get very divided over Nigella Lawson but I will stand up and say that her latest book is very good. I much preferred it to Domestic Goddess. That is because this was much more up my street – less pats of butter and full cream and a bit more lemon juice and vegetables. It suits a busy lifestyle, as the recipes really are great for a weeknight dinner; they only have a handful of ingredients and really are quick (which is the point of the book). Interesting everyday cooking.

I have cooked a good many of the recipes and these four recipes have already entered the canon of often-cooked recipes:

Mustard Caper Sauce for Broccoli
Potato and Mushroom Gratin
Linguine with Lemon, Garlic and Thyme Mushrooms
Goujons of Sole

Which is pretty good going. Most importantly it has given me a good bit of inspiration to mess about myself.

Bayleaf

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