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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Forgotten Skills of Cooking: The time-honoured ways are the best - over 700 recipes show you why

By Darina Allen
Kyle Cathie - 2009

oh wow, this cookbook is amazing. Working to help preserve old techniques of cooking and to teach them to a new generation, this book is superb. its encyclopediac knowledge falls into both camps as a book to fantasise over and to actualy cook from. For those not in the know Darina runs the ballymaloe cookery school in ireland, so this author walks the walk along with talking the talk.