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From: Melbourne, VIC Australia

Joined: December 27th, 2009

About me: I've been cooking for over thirty years, and I can remember the days before EVO, couscous and (ghasp!) microwaves. My cookbook collection reflects this personal and national gastronomic history. My own cooking has actually got simpler over the years, and I can do much of my repertoire without looking at a recipe. But I still love collecting cookbooks, although these days I'm a bit over food porn with great big colour photos - I really prefer food writing to recipes.

Favorite cookbook: The Cook's Companion

Salmon with macaroni from A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III

Simple but delicious. Poaching the fish in 600 ml of cream (that's two bottles), which is then poured over the fish and pasta, sounds richer than it is. This is partly due to the dill in the crumb topping. I... read more >

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The Flavour Thesaurus

By Niki Segnit
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 2010

You can't rush the cooking of this. I have made this with a tin of cherry tomatoes as per the recipe, and with a tin of chopped tomatoes. I prefer the latter, the resulting stew is thicker.

Anything to use some rosemary, the one herb we really grow successfully!

NB I cannot give the page number, I'm using the Kindle edition.

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