InaPickle getting out of a pickle!

InaPickle

OK, so start again in as few a words as possible:

1) Not buying boots. Don't really have the cash, and am worried that the heel won't give so I'll end up not wearing them. Logic not love at work here.

2) The expensive shoes to which I alluded elsewhere no longer have my size in, so I am going to have to try to be very tricky to get a pair frrom another source at such a good price. Grr! I really need them for work as well!

3) Have been very good and bought yet another birthday present for a friend in the Sales: a top from Monsoon cost £8.40 when it should have been £28. Bargain!

Will leave it there as I'm sure it will crash if I try to write more!

InaPickle

Bargains galore: had lunch out with a friend today and popped by Tesco where I found a cookbook 'Simple to Sensational' by Jun Tanaka down from £14.99 to 99p! :j OK, so I shouldn't have bought it, but that's amazing value! :T

taxi73

Course you should've bought it as it will help you cook.
Right deciscion on the boots.

InaPickle

taxi73 wrote: »

Course you should've bought it as it will help you cook.
Right deciscion on the boots.

To be fair, I've been flicking through it all evening and there are some top recipies in it. I'm particularly glad to see one for bread & butter pudding, which everyone on the Old Stylee board seems to be thinking is the best thing for using up slightly old bread since...well, you know what I mean.

Note to self: that's two cookbooks in about as many months: no more (although maybe if another one goes down to 99p!).

ruby_eskimo

I love cook books, it's the first section i head to when in waterstones!

InaPickle

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

I love cook books, it's the first section i head to when in waterstones!

I think everyone does, but I have enough for the number of recipies I use out of them, TBH. I need to use the ones I have more and buy less. No more now, unless they are such stupidly good value (like the ones I already have) that I can't say no. And even then, I will try.

edinburgher

I'm perhaps something of a freak in that I only got my first cookbook this Christmas (well, technically it's a food encyclopaedia with some recipes ) I agree that good quality cookbooks are always going to be good value, but the internet is a wonderful source of copyright free recipes (well, you can use them for free) and in a lot of ways good basic cooking skills are always preferable to fancy books. After all, why try doing a Heston when you can barely pull off a Delia? :rotfl:

Top bargain, but watch out for cookbook creep (GF and I managed to go from 0-6 cookbooks this Christmas, God knows how many we'll have by the time we're 30+!) {Visions of having to rent a property with an extra bedroom just for coffee table cookbooks....}

InaPickle

edinburgher wrote: »

Top bargain, but watch out for cookbook creep (GF and I managed to go from 0-6 cookbooks this Christmas, God knows how many we'll have by the time we're 30+!) {Visions of having to rent a property with an extra bedroom just for coffee table cookbooks....}

Exactly! I've got about ten, which have taken quite a while to get here (including a few presents), but that's more than enough: I have neither the time nnor the space to have a vain cookbook collection, and I haven't made anywhere near enough recipies out of them to justify buying more. I bought the Wagamama one as it was a style of food I don't really have any books for (and it's very quick which will be good once I'm working full-time and living alone), and the 99p bargain was, well, 99p, but other than that, I have to cook at least 10 recipies out of each book to justify having bought it as my new aim.

Having said that, I wouldn't mind Escoffier's. In French! :rotfl:But no, that will be some sort of food !!!!!! luxury purchase in years to come.

InaPickle

P.S. Looks like I'm going to have a very expensive end to the month. Ouch! Will tell you all later.

edinburgher

Having said that, I wouldn't mind Escoffier's. In French!

I'm enjoying my copy of the Larousse Gastronomique at the mo - not in French, but it might as well be, it's so full of redundant hyperbole and food pr0n Now that I think about it, the perfect book for me!