Yesssss it’s Friday again! Have a lovely one everyone. And here are some things to read/cook/share over the weekend too. How good/weird is that jelly video!? Sx
Ps – last week we were invited to Sydney’s The Grounds of Alexandria (pictured above and below) for the opening of an exhibition of photographs celebrating farming families all over Australia. We were proud subjects of some of the photos and it was seriously such a great event. Thank you Beerenberg for initiating and supporting this whole project and including us! All funds raised on the night went to charities that support farming families. Read more here, the photos and stories are all terrific.
The Friday List
The poetry of jelly in motion.
11 cakes that only need one bowl. Yes.
These green beans with almond pesto are definately going to show up at our table sometime this weekend.
I’ve always been a big fan of English cook and food writer Prue Leith but can’t agree with her when she said last week that modern cookbooks are obselete, more about design than the food. And it seems I’m not alone…read what these chefs have to say about too. Yay, lets stand up for beautiful books!
How I’d love to go to this workshop in Ireland.
Loved this peek into the kitchen of one of my favourite food writers, Miss Foodwise.
Darjeeling Dreams is such a beautiful place to hang out.
Nordic oven pancake – this is so totally up my alley. I’ll be making this one very soon, maybe not with the berries which we must wait some months for here in Orange but perhaps some lovely orange segments or poached rhubarb for now.
Blood orange and cinnamon lassi? Alright then…And ps. geez this looks lovely.
I think sometimes the sheer volume of cookbooks that people accumulate makes it hard to find the recipe you want at the time, which drives people to the internet to look for recipes – one of my friends has started using Eat Your Books as a solution to this – a convenient way of indexing her very large cookbook collection! The internet is also handy for reviews about how well a recipe works. But I like cooking with my actual cookbooks – though I’ve become choosy about which ones I keep – they are the ones that I cook from all the time, trust the recipes, and are generally an excellent reference that offer more than just the recipes eg teaching you techniques and skills. Things like Stephanie Alexander’s Cooks Companion, which I use all the time (and which doesn’t have any pictures or fancy design elements – so a case against Prue Leith’s argument about a book without pictures not selling – although maybe that is no longer considered ‘modern’…) I also prefer real books for cooking with the kids, as you need to keep referring back to the recipe all the time, and they really benefit from the pictures/illustrations.