Is there a September cookery book club?

[PenelopeClearwater]

Is there a September cook book club? I have had a look but I wasn't sure if I just wasn't looking properly.

Ooh, disproportionately excited to see this thread as Anna Jones' book has been one of my discoveries of the year. Indeed, I am just waiting for her lentils and beets with salsa verde to finish cooking so I can tuck into my lunch!

Highlights for have been the seeded popping Yorkshires, the dhal with sweet potato (and I am not normally the sweet potato's greatest fan), the beetroot curry and the lime and chipotle tacos. Oh, and the any night of the week "pizza" and the muscavado chocolate chip cookies went down well, too! On the other hand the artichoke and fennel seed paella was a BIG disappointment as I thought it was expensive to make and I found it actually unpleasant to eat.

Right, going to have to decide whether I can justify ordering the new Jamie book while chewing down on the lentil and beetroot number,

Which Anna Jones book is everyone referring to?

I'm doing the first one ( modern way to eat) as I don't yethave the new one

Same here.
I need to cook more from Modern Way To Eat (which I bought when book club did it earlier this year, despite thinking I wouldn't buy it) to prove to myself that I love Anna Jones' food, so I can buy her new one.
I'll cave and buy it before the end of the month, guaranteed

To be fair, I do like most of her food, just wish she'd tumble less

Huevos- her tumble and sloshing is nothing compared to Jamie's avos, his awesome, game changing, super, mega avos! ( translation: an avacado, in the company of an over excited ageing mockney)

It makes me shudder.
I know I should be able to see past it to appreciate the food, but I just can't

Mine books are waiting for me at the library so I'll get them Thursday.

Reporting back having made Jamie's skinny carbonara. DH liked it a lot, DDs were not keen and I am on the fence. It was definitely a lot healthier than a normal carbonara and full of good nutrients. Also quite filling. It did not really taste like a carbonara (which is fine - I just thought I'd let you know!) and, in my opionion, it was a bit too sour. Next time I'd use less lemon juice (and perhaps a bit of cream to replace some of the zero fat yoghurt ).
A modern way to cook is now in my amazon basket! Are the recipes relatively quick? JO does not have many quick dinner recipes, which on a weekday is a bit of a pain...

Thank for the review kefy, I may have a go at it.

Mwoe is great, but i wouldn't class them as easy fast weekday recipes ( not even in the weekday lunch type section) definitely worth buying though- really lovely cook book

I only have a Modern Way to Eat (the first), and whilst some recipes take longer, there are quite a few (my regulars in fact), that are quite quick to prep and make.
The pan fried tofu, noodles and red cabbage is a favourite. Quite a few bits to get ready, but all comes together quickly.

Made the cucumber satay crunch last week, very nice and quick. Though it's so heavy on the spinach and coriander it seems strange to call it a cucumber salad!! Very nice though :)

And the avocado lemon pasta was quick and easy

All off the top of my head, may have forgotten some :

Modern way to cook is organised by time taken to cook things and is mostly supposed to be pretty quick. I haven't put much to the test yet though!

MWTE is just £5.99 on kindle! I think this is going to be my next purchase.

MWTE has now downloaded and I am very impressed! Many thanks to everyone for recommending it. On the basis of glorious's advice regarding timed recipes, maybe I should get MWTC too!

I will not cave, I will not cave

I can't think of anything I want for Christmas, except for one other cook book (and that's one I had from the library earlier this year, so won't even feel "new"), so I have to save mwtc til then. I must.....

For lunch today I'm doing the kale and black sesame sushi bowl, as I have been eying it up for ages, and finally have the pomegranate in for it :)

Next week I'll be doing the charred corn, scrunched kale and sweet potato salad, as both corn and sweet potatoes arrived in my veg box this week. Not the biggest fan of sweet potatoes, but I'll give it a go.

OldHag - how was the lentil/beetroot/salsa verde? Sounds like my kind of thing, yet it isn't on my 'to make' list - makes me realise I really haven't had a proper look through this book yet

Huevos, look away now:
I have caved in and bought MWTC too. This time a proper hard copy... The temptation of timed healthy recipes was too much to bear!
On a train to Birmingham today so having a look thought my kindle MWTE book to decide on the next recipe to try.

Dont say we didn't warn you, this book club is expensive!!

I'm not even asking for NOPI for Christmas, which frankly has surprised me.
Mind you, that's based on Amazon reviews, I dare say one of you lot will rave about it soon, and that'll be it, all my resolve gone

Well, I'm very sorry to say, as I was really looking forward to it, that I didn't like the kale, black sesame and sushi bowl :(
I just didn't like the dressing; orange and pomegranate, imo, don't go with kale and nori. And the soy didn't work with the juices either, imo.

There are some lovely rice bowls on 101 cookbooks that I make regularly, I will stick with those for now.

And seeing as I've mentioned 101, can I heartily recommend to you these onigiri? A bit of a faff to get the rice to stick together once you've added the mung beans, but that miso/almond butter "slather" is so amazing. I could happily eat them everyday :)

Glad I found you all, that was a long break :). Off to see if I bought Anna Jones on kindle, i have a sneaking suspicion I did. MiI has been in use a lot throughout the summer, we can't get enough of the Coconut Fish Curry.

Can anyone recommend a very mild but still tasty veg curry and chicken curry that will multiply up well please. Taking Cubs camping on Brownsea next weekend and I need to get these made next week to reheat once there. Thanks in advance.

Pantah- the cauliflower curry in mii is beautiful and very mild- I can't see why adding chicken would do anything to detriment that.

Huevos- it's a Shane about the rice bowl- I'd really fancied it too- I won't bother now.

I'm planning the lime and black bean tortilla with crunch salad tomorrow. I'll report back

Cooking clearly that's just my opinion, please don't be put off, you might like those flavour combinations :)
As a rice bowl, it was good, I like the bite that the edamame added.

I would make a similar bowl again, but:

I would omit the pomegranate
I would do a different dressing. As I said unthread I'm a bit obsessed with Heidi Swanson's onigiri, the paste she puts on them is amazing, far better than it sounds. So I would make a dressing based on that: 1 teaspoon of brown miso, 1 teaspoon almond butter, mixed together and thinned to a dressing consistency with water. It would work well with all the flavours imo :)

We had the nachos from MWTC last night. I really liked them . The cashew cream was a bit runny imo but I loved the crispy kale. It managed to seem treaty and full of veg both at once.

Lemon roasted feta and traffic light tomatoes from mwte - very nice. Obviously more suited to a warm day, but I had a lot of tomatoes left on my vine.

Hello!

No name changing from me, and I'm a stalwart of the MN cookbook club

I haven't got into Anna Jones and resisted Made In India because I'm Indian and prefer my mum's Punjabi recipes to Gujarati food, but I do have the new Jamie and love the look of the recipes. In fact, I have a couple bookmarked for this week so I will report back.

I actually find his handfuls and megas quite reassuring given his rather odd - "I've been given the Liz Hurley a la Shane Warne treatment" - appearance on the front cover...

Yay, Science, you're back

Seeing as you mention Punjabi cooking... DD apparently has a Punjabi curry at school, which she loves! All I know is that it is a quorn curry (so presumably a veggie version of a chicken curry) and has chickpeas in it. Are there any predominant spices/flavours/textures that would make it particularly "Punjabi"? Thought I'd try to make her something similar at home :)

Charred corn, sweet potato and scrunched kale salad here yesterday, from mwte. Very nice, potatoes had good flavours, and I'm not really a sweet potato fan. Next time I would grill the corn as it took ages on a griddle.

May do the lentil/beet/salsa verde today if I have time

Huevos, my mum's curries generally use the proportions of 1tsp salt to half teaspoon each chilli, garlic, ginger, turmeric and cumin (I'd use these proportions to a tin of tomatoes, a sliced onion plus a pack of quorn). Chick pea curries often have tamarind in. Not sure that has helped!