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Cookery Book Club October - Good Food/any Supermarket Mag and a Food Blog of your choice

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Pantah630 · 26/09/2013 12:42

New thread for Cookery Book Club. Any Supermarket magazine or Good Food (probably Delicious or Olive as well) of your choice and a Food Blog of choice. There were links to some good blogs on Septembers thread...think I'm going with Skint Foodie and Good Food magazine

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LovingKent · 21/10/2013 14:36

Hehe Pantah Grin. Glad the lamb shanks turned out well.

Thanks for the warning about the sweetness of the chicken Nolda. Funnily enough I bought stem ginger to use in this recipe Ginger muffins and am planning to use it up in the chicken!

I also have earmarked this one to try.

Ginger oat cookies

Rice vinegar is used in Chinese and Japanese food. Will try and remember to look up some recipes later.

Nolda · 21/10/2013 16:17

ELR, the cheesecake recipe looks good. My DH loves a yummy cheesecake so will definitely give it s go, thank you.

ScienceRocks · 21/10/2013 19:41

I use stem ginger in stir fries sometimes. It also works remarkably well chopped up and used in salmon en croute.

HuevosRancheros · 22/10/2013 09:03

Nolda, check out the Cookery Book Club month when we did Every Grain of Rice... everything I make seems to have Chinkiang vinegar in it, which is a rice vinegar :)

HuevosRancheros · 22/10/2013 09:07

Oh, and last week when I was half way through making a ginger cake and then discovered I didn't have enough ground ginger (and the local Co-op that we walked to didn't have any, either, Grrrrrr), I finely chopped (though processed to a paste would have been better) some stem ginger and it was lovely :)
In fact, I am permanently changing the recipe to include it, it made it even more moist. Yum

glorious · 22/10/2013 10:45

Hello all, I've been rubbish. We got back from holiday then DD had awful jetlag, we catered for a party for 50 then all got an awful cold. Then the washing machine broke. Sigh. DD still ill and sleep is dreadful.

What's up for November?

Nolda · 22/10/2013 18:17

Oo, maybe I'll have to get the Every Grain of Rice book. I'm only cooking at the weekend at the moment due to our house move going awry and having to stay in a travelodge during the week. We move into our new house next Thursday and I'm looking forward to giving my new kitchen a workout!

Nolda · 22/10/2013 18:21

Glorious, sorry to hear of your tribulations. Not sure what's up for November. Are we doing Nigella's Christmas book for December?

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Pantah630 · 22/10/2013 21:19

Welcome back glorious sorry you've had woes this month.

Have no idea what we're doing for November, tiger are you out there??
Yes I think Nigella Christmas for December and another Christmas book? I have Hairy Bikers 12 Days of Christmas, Delia's Christmas and WI Complete Christmas to pick from, WHY all?

Fancy a fish book for November, have HFW Fish anyone have any other ideas?

Crikey, loads of questions, sorry.

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maniacbug · 23/10/2013 09:40

Seems like October has not been great so far for quite a few... Hope the rest of the year is better for you, pregnant, glorious and Nolda - good luck with the house move!

About November, fish sounds good to me + also wondering, would anyone be interested in making some jams/pickles/relishes/liqueurs? (Thinking Christmas presents: two birds/one stone...)

I have the following and use them all regularly but would like to do more things from them that I haven't tried yet:

River Cottage Handbook No.2 Preserves (Pam Corbin)
Jams, Preserves & Chutneys (Marguerite Patten)
Salt Sugar Smoke (Diana Henry)

And these two, which I've not used that much yet:

Making Wines, Liqueurs & Cordials (Beshlie Grimes, what a great name!)
Jam, Jelly, Relish (Ghillie James)

There are also recipes in books we've already done, e.g. pickled lemons etc. in Jerusalem and mango chutney etc. in the curry books. I'll probably be doing quite a bit of pickling and preserving in Nov anyway so no worries if it doesn't suit - just an idea!

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Pantah630 · 23/10/2013 11:41

Sounds good to me maniac I have the RC handbook and an old penguin jam making one, no idea of the title as am at work. There are some foodie gifts in this months Good Food mag as well.

Maybe RC Fish, this should be available at libraries (pete I have a copy so Xch library edition should still be there) and a pick your own preserve/foodie gift recipe from whatever sources you have available. Sure those of us with books would be happy to c&p recipes of any successful ones.

Must dig out the preserved lemon recipe as I'm down to the last two from a bought jar now!

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glorious · 23/10/2013 11:58

That sounds great, I have RC fish and don't use it enough. And very rarely make preserves but enjoy it when I do.

glorious · 23/10/2013 11:59

oh and thanks maniacbug and pantah Thanks

ELR · 23/10/2013 15:05

This sounds like a plan guys! Must admit I've been a little slack this month but have earmarked the toffee apple mini doughnuts from this months goodfood mag.

Haven't got the fish book but will get from the library will also peruse my many books for preserve and pickle recipes!

December is def nigella Christmas and I think we said a traditional one like Delia. Anyone remember?
Can't remember who linked to the flapjacks with cranberry and toffee but made them and they were quite nice, so thanks.

pregnantpause · 23/10/2013 15:46

I too made the cranberry and toffee flapjacks- the oaty part was a bit thick for me, but I really liked the topping.

I've got rc fish, so am up for that. And I made my first jam last week, so am interested in a good book for jam/preserving.

ScienceRocks · 25/10/2013 08:52

Could we do a bread book next month please? Maybe choose one of paul Hollywood, Dan Lepard or James Morton. With winter drawing in, baking might be nicer than fish.

Like the preserving idea though.

ScienceRocks · 25/10/2013 08:53

Finally looked through my Sainsburys magazine and have pulled out a few recipes to try. Last month's was very uninspiring.

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Pantah630 · 25/10/2013 10:45

We did Dan Lepard last month Science but I don't see why you can't do one instead of a Fish one.

DS1 keeps eying up the peaches in couvosier in Sainsburys so I bought some peaches and now need a recipe to make him some for Christmas. Anyone have a good one?

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ELR · 25/10/2013 13:26

pantah I seem to remember watching a nigella tv episode where she made bottled peaches they looked delish.

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Pantah630 · 25/10/2013 15:55

Thanks elr sounds very good! I've found this recipe for the boy so will give it a go and try and get some more peaches from the market tomorrow for Nigellas.

We had friends for dinner last night and I made a shawarma with lamb shoulder, mejadra, tzatziki and a tomato/cucumber salad. It went down well, just a bit of mejadra and salad leftover, which I had for lunch at work today. Which was lucky as I only remembered it needed over 4hours in the morning so had to dig out my oven manual so I could set the timer!! Jerusalem is definitely my favourite cookbook so far.

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Nolda · 26/10/2013 17:41

Mary Berry's scrumpy beef casserole with parsley and horseradish dumplings from Sainsbury's Magazine is currently in the oven. Smells good!

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Pantah630 · 27/10/2013 07:27

How was it nolda?

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Nolda · 27/10/2013 07:42

It was delicious. I made some plain dumplings as well for the children but only DS liked them. DH doesn't do dumplings so I had to eat three Blush. I usually put Guinness in a beef stew but will change to cider now as it was much nicer. I have to confess that I had to google what gravy browning was. Could't find any at the shop so put a bit of marmite in with the cider.