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Igamogam

Not a k!ndle user either and have metres and metes of shelveing crammed with books. There was a time I couldnt part with books but I have become more ruthless. Some I keep for sentimental reasons.O level PB copy of Wuthering Heights with all my annotations. Similarly A level copy of King Lear with a note at the back saying "A level Eng Lit has killed reading for pleasure"...which it did fore many years. I also collect first editions of a couple of children's authors. Couple of years ago OH and I did a big purge of books we could let go and now we need to do another. Seriously I don need my undergrad text books!! I am a member of a reading group and one of the group is a librarian - handy for getting multiple copies so dont need to buy! However if we have to buy, the rule is then it has to be second hand...I then donate back or sell on Ziff!t or similar we do allow kindle users in the group

DrSpendLittle

Agree on Nigel and Elizabeth for books. I love Nigel and his “let the ingredients marry” chat. He’s really nice and often tweets back when asked about recipe suggestions. Like his cooking shows too.

Felicity Cloake has a couple of intersting books out - she reviews others recipes and settles on her favourite. I really like her gu4rdian columns. I really like ‘Perfect’

The joy of cooking is a classic and has some different American recipes. You’ll need a ‘cup’ measuring set though.

Also, The Silver Spoon and I Know How To Eat, both publishd by Phaidon, are classics.

What else? Marcella Hazan, Sam and Sam Clark, Sabrina Ghayour and of course, Madhur Jaffrey.

RosaBernicia

Hovel in the Hills - for the garden and the kitchen. I think I found it via this forum... love that and the sequel, and there is a cookbook that I have but haven't tried out much. There's a plan

Igamogam

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Hovel in the Hills - for the garden and the kitchen. I think I found it via this forum... love that and the sequel, and there is a cookbook that I have but haven't tried out much. There's a plan

Hovel in the Hills. Garden in the Hills. Kitchen in the Hills...love them all! Recipes in Kitchen book I use quite often still..all adapted a bit now but their origins where in those little paperbacks:D

redofromstart

Lots of great suggestions thanks, and I own Kitchen Diaries and a few Elizabeth Davies so that's an easy place to start.

Igamogam, I have a few children's firsts - chalet school, dimsie, etc. One of the joys of the kindle for me was being able to read things like the follow ups to what Katie did (Clover and In The High Valley I think) which I could never find reasonable priced reading copies.

Rosa Bernica - hovel in the hills was the book with the title I couldn't remember, although I did remember the hot stone soup. It was all the rage on old style a few years ago and I borrowed my mother's copies.

Shirley Goode is another one who I like to read, not just as a cookbook. Jane Grigson too.


For gardening motivation I swear by Christopher Lloyd, the well tempered garden. Greenbee, I accidentally have two copies if you want one?

I saw another 'quick panic!' article about the price of tomatoes earlier, which reminded me I bought a few packs of 10p seeds at the end of the season which included tomatoes. Might be worth thinking about doing some sprouted seeds as well. Haven't done that for years.

Country living type books, I'm still stuck on Miss Read. She did a cookbook too actually, which my mum has.

Onebrokelady

I love Nigel Slaters cookery programmes whenever he does one but don't own any of his books,I do have a really old copy of Mrs Beatons Book Of Household Managment that is quite interesting though

greenbee

redofromstart wrote: »

For gardening motivation I swear by Christopher Lloyd, the well tempered garden. Greenbee, I accidentally have two copies if you want one?

Ooh... yes please Need to get going in the garden. Although not sure when I'll get it down. Currently have 5 weeks confirmed travel and another 6 planned between now and the end of April (so basically one week with a chance of being home).

RosaBernicia

I have Nigel Slaters 20 minute books, they were brilliant for figuring things I could still do when running around madly with literally not enough time for stuff that needed prep and then 40 minutes. Thanks for the reminder, I may go and look through them again to see what I can make gluten free now

redofromstart

Last night I read most of Rose Princes new English kitchen in the bath. One recipe that I want to make (beef with spring greens) and a vague enthusiasm for making some bread.

Invested in some cooking vermouth this morning, and actually bought real garlic and ginger rather than relying on pre chopped frozen. Then worked hard till my eyes and head hurt. Would have been very easy to fall into the takeaway trap but instead we had a quick curry using a paste pot served with the oven baked pilau rice with peas that remains a favourite.

Today was the monthly all of the money goes out session. I prefer it that way, no nasty surprises when you forget a mid month direct debit. The mortgage goes out too and I was going to make my usual rounding down payment only when I looked we were not far off hitting the next big number down. Reader, I raided the savings. And I looked at what I had done and it felt good. Anyway, frugal February it is

redofromstart

I spent most of today deep cleaning the kitchen and removing unnecessary things from the worktops. It's now a much nicer place to be so hopefully that will help rekindle some enthusiasm for food. I say about not stockpiling but my lack of stock control means that I have multiple bags of basmati, now safely stashed in plastic boxes. It's a good job everyone likes the oven baked rice.

I made a variation on the beef and greens dish for dinner, essentially spring greeens fine sliced and saut!ed in garlic butter with some thinly sliced frying beef from the freezer. Was v nice, even I ate it.

Nipped into Lidl for something for OH, and picked up the weekend offer olive oil. The cheese offer was a huge pack, but a good price per KG. I thought about it but I'm not that keen on it grated and frozen, it does seem to lose a bit of taste and texture by the time I use it all.