Posts by: caity

Another example of favourite recipie books - not mine this time but my mums. She got given the Good Housekeeping recipie book 1977 edition (the year she got married) as a weddiing present. Many of the lovely recipies did we eat over the years! Then when I was 12 we got a (now sadlt departed and much missed) puppy who objected to being left on his own and got his revenge by mauling her poor recipie books including (obviously) her much loved Good Housekeeping! Many other copies were bought in the serch to replace it but favourite recipies were always missing and the book was out of print. Fast forward 15 years and I was on e-bay for something else and thought I would try my luck on that particular book. I missed out a couple of times but was rewarded by out bidding everyone (and spending a FORTUNE into the bargin!) to get my hands on the correct copy which, thanks to a plaintive email to the seller, arrived December 23rd!! Result? One amazingly happy mum who had her wedding present back and enough brownie points for baby sitting offers all year! And the look on her face on Christmas day was certainly worth every second I'd spent trying to get hold of it Sorry for the essay but it really made my mums (and my) day!

I have a great series of Australian Womans weekly cookery books which are either different countries cusines or a paticular type of cooking (cakes, bread, roasting etc) which are fab because they are paper back and small so take up less room on my (rapidly running out of room) bookcase! But to save from a burning house? Appetite by the amazing Nigel Slater without a doubt. I am now on my third copy because of favourite pages becoming almost unreadable from over use! All of his books inspire me but that one won a place in my heart by reminding me that I don't have to cook (live off toast and soup - been there done that!) but that I do it for the love of making something, I hope, delicious.