bunyip

Any spiralizer fans out there?
Silly gimmicky things IMO. Though one would probably be easier than a mandolin slicer where very finely sliced zucchini, for example, is called for.

Comment by bunyip November 2018 permalink
A New Book of Middle Eastern Food vs A Book of Middle Eastern Food
The New Book is really the same book, just updated slightly - go ahead and buy it.

Comment by bunyip November 2018 permalink
Your Santa list
I've just got mine early! The Christmas Chronicles by my favourite food writer Nigel Slater.

Comment by bunyip October 2017 permalink
Cooking in a vacation rental
There's been a lot of discussion about this in The Guardian lately! Seems it's a problem all over the world. Tell me about it! There is never a decent knife. There's usually a microwave but there may well be no microwaveable jugs or …

Comment by bunyip August 2017 permalink
cooking NYT vs EatYourBooks
I'm an EYB member and I find it very useful both for tracking down recipes that I know I've got somewhere (doesn't help with older, unindexed books) and for general inspiration, say if somebody has given me a bag of some fruit I don&#…

Comment by bunyip July 2017 permalink
Best cookbook for beans?
I could not live without my pressure cookers - I have two, a 6 litre and a 4.5. They are excellent for beans and chickpeas, you can cook a quantity then freeze for later instead of using cans.

Comment by bunyip June 2017 permalink
Best cookbook for beans?
I can recommend Grains by Molly Brown. It has lots of recipes for beans and lentils. I started cooking more beans and lentils a few years ago in an effort to lower my bad cholesterol. It worked, and I actually enjoy the food!

Comment by bunyip June 2017 permalink
Tiny Tech Note
Thanks from me, too!

Comment by bunyip March 2016 permalink
What new kitchen gear do you hope to get this holiday?
The Alligator just does very small dice, looks very like yours. The Progressive has interchangeable grids and does bigger dice in two sizes, and slices about 1.5mm thick. I also have a mandoline (and one of those protective gloves!), and a rotary ch…

Comment by bunyip December 2015 permalink
What new kitchen gear do you hope to get this holiday?
Funny, I gave up on the box grater in favour of a selection of Microplanes! If you want kitchen kit, you've really got to buy it yourself unless you can specify the exact make and model. Anyway, going to the shop is fun in itself. My latest g…

Comment by bunyip December 2015 permalink
Battle of the (taste) Buds
I am trying to visualise a 7.5 kg pork shoulder - that's a pretty big pig! If you cooked it three different ways, I presume that means it was cut into three pieces. My word, unless you were cooking for a crowd you must have had pork coming out…

Comment by bunyip January 2015 permalink
Next challenge?
I do have Off The Shelf, it's very useful. I believe she's becoming available in US editions. Apart from Julia Child my most owned in compatible editions would be Rose Levy Berenbaum's Cake Bible and Pie and Pastry Bible (but I'…

Comment by bunyip January 2015 permalink
Next challenge?
There are two problems with American cookbooks. The major one is measurements. It's not that they use imperial, it's that they use Fanny Farmer, which with many ingredients just cannot be converted from volume to weight. You can wing it wi…

Comment by bunyip December 2014 permalink
Best-of-the-year cookbook lists for 2014
I always start with the butcher and proceed to plan from there. Main meals really depend on what they've got. I do sometimes get a fancy for something in particular, but you've got to be flexible - if I want oxtail there won't be any,…

Comment by bunyip December 2014 permalink
Next challenge?
Yotam Ottolenghi seems to be taking over the known universe at the moment. Personally I think he's over-rated, but I do own Plenty and Jerusalem. I have some of his other recipes courtesy of The Guardian.

Comment by bunyip December 2014 permalink
New York Times recipe index, beta available
There is a problem with induction. I have gas hotplates, but for various reasons have acquired a portable induction hotplate. Thirty years ago I bought a set of Swiss Spring saucepans, expensive but a lifetime investment. However, un they don't…

Comment by bunyip December 2014 permalink
What makes a cookbook a clunker and what do you do with them?
If an otherwise dud book has just one good recipe, it occurs to me that one could transcribe it (in my case to the recipe app on my iPad) and then dispose of the book. I haven't actually done this, of course.

Comment by bunyip December 2014 permalink
17,000 reviews - by end of November 2014?
Never had a stand mixer? Good heavens! When I got married - in 1977 - my father presented me with a Sunbeam Mixmaster without being asked, as Mum had had one since she got married. That and her Krups balance scales were as essential as the oven, she…

Comment by bunyip November 2014 permalink
17,000 reviews - by end of November 2014?
While on the subject of kitchen equipment, I have just bought a Magimix Patissier Multifunction. This looks like a food processor, has the same footprint, but has attachments and extra bowls which means it also performs as a stand mixer and blender.…

Comment by bunyip October 2014 permalink
17,000 reviews - by end of November 2014?
A lot of those reviews aren't really reviews within the meaning of the act, just listings. That said, I am making an effort to catch up.

Comment by bunyip October 2014 permalink
How do you sort your cookbooks?
I have a bookcase just outside the kitchen with books I use regularly, and another big bookcase in the family room which is for general reference books but which nowadays principally houses culinary reference and history, as well as recipe books tha…

Comment by bunyip April 2014 permalink
Marcella Hazan
I've never cooked tripe but I've eaten it and it can indeed be delicious. It's a bit like tofu, not intrinsically very interesting but can be combined with all sorts of yummy ingredients. It has a bad reputation from the traditional E…

Comment by bunyip November 2013 permalink
Marcella Hazan
I have always considered her Essentials the only Italian cookbook you really need to have. Furthermore, as a cookbook it is a model of the instructional type regardless of cuisine. Here is another tribute http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/w…

Comment by bunyip September 2013 permalink
New challenge for September
I'm all in favour of using Solomon's book which, since she is an Australian, is readily available. I have her Complete Vegetarian Cookbook which is wonderful and is actually in two sections, European and Asian.

Comment by bunyip August 2013 permalink
New challenge for September
Can I put in for a book that is available internationally. Jerusalem certainly qualifies, besides which I have a copy. It's no good having a Chinese, vegetarian or whatever book if it's only published in the US. It will be hard for the res…

Comment by bunyip August 2013 permalink
Measurements
It was indeed Fanny Farmer back in the 1890s. She wasn't a trained cook herself and she wanted people with little training and limited equipment to have certainty that the recipes would turn out the same every time. Her system caught on, but wa…

Comment by bunyip July 2013 permalink
Measurements
I think you give the publishers too much credit for precision. In a recipe like that, what's 13.41ml between friends? Or 8.94ml in this case. You may be right about the books being originally written for the US market, as no Oz cookbook would …

Comment by bunyip July 2013 permalink
Measurements
The question is not where is Stone living but where was the book published. I think he almost certainly means an Australian cup if other ingredients are given in grams, something quite unknown in the US. FYI, an Australian cup is 250ml, in the UK …

Comment by bunyip July 2013 permalink
Connecting book editions
I second that - I'd never noticed either. This seems to be my day for showing myself up as a techno-dummy!

Comment by bunyip June 2013 permalink
Ebooks - Cookbooks?
Of course, use the Tags field! Why didn't I think of that? I'll get on to it ASAP.

Comment by bunyip June 2013 permalink

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