weaponxgirl's Profile

From: norwich, england

Joined: January 7th, 2010

About me: My two great loves are books and food. I try and eat seasonal and organic food wherever possible, but on a very limited budget. My cookbook collection covers the space of three bookcases at the moment and is still growing! im also on librarything under the same name.

Favorite cookbook: anything by nigel slater!

Favorite recipe: peanut butter curry

baked pasta with aubergine from Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes: The Best of Anna Del Conte

this is a classy version of cheesy pasta bake with aubergine. this dish is a bit time consuming and did use nearly every pan in the house and every hob. really good but you do need a while to prepair it... read more >

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The Alice B.Toklas Cookbook

By Alice B. Toklas, Sir Francis Rose
Serif - 2004

This book was first published in 1954, and some of the instructions are quite sparse. This isnt the whole point of the book though, being a memoir of cooking in france. Encompassing both world wars no less. Alice was the lover of writer Gertrude stein and it feels very much like a writers book, with the recipes being very much a part of the prose of the story. This does mean that theres no clear layout of where a recipe will be. This can be frustrating but im happy to go with it as i love the writing style. I personaly love this book, but i would probably only recommend confident cooks to try the recipes as they can be hard to follow. Read it for a glimpse of a time gone by in france.