Monday Morning Cooking Club: The Food, the Stories, the Sisterhood by Merelyn Frank Chalmers

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    • Categories: Appetizers / starters; Side dish; Snacks; Polish; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: brown onions; potatoes; plain flour
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  • matthew_2f5qwu on February 27, 2026

    The pastilla recipe “sausages” keep almost forever in the refrigerator wrapped in parchment and foil. When served with a salty cheese like a blue, it is a divine appetizer.

Notes about Recipes in this book

  • Sophie's orange cake

    • Melanie on March 29, 2016

      Smells amazing when baking but found that thick orange icing was required to give the orange flavour once baked. Great cake for morning / afternoon tea.

  • Nice's date slice

    • e_ballad on December 06, 2020

      Really really sweet, a little too much for our liking.

  • Ginger cake

    • cookgoalie on March 11, 2016

      Stunning looking cake. Made with pears and walnuts. I feel like oil leaves it a liitle lacking in flavour to match the look, although this may just be personal taste. I am not a fan of oil in cakes. Definitely worth another make so will try a) butter b) oil with pinch salt and/ or c) some ginger in syrup

  • Israeli couscous soup

    • Melanie on October 18, 2014

      Simple and tasty week night dish, easy to prepare while doing other things too. Good mix of flavours although I found that the tomato was stronger than anticipated. Reheated well for second night.

    • e_ballad on July 15, 2017

      Very easy & incredibly quick to put together, but nothing too exciting.

  • Carrot cake

    • Melanie on June 14, 2015

      Great cake, I loved the flavour and the texture of both the cake and icing. A huge cake that definitely feeds an army.

    • e_ballad on February 09, 2021

      An excellent carrot cake, however, Ruth Pretty’s recipe remains the gold standard.

  • Turmeric-roasted potatoes

    • e_ballad on November 28, 2021

      Ridiculously simple but incredibly tasty.

  • Myrtle's dahl

    • Melanie on March 29, 2016

      Tasty and very easy to have bubbling on the stove. Made 1.5 x batch which was enough for 5 decent lunch serves. Used tinned tomato as a substitute for the tomato paste and fresh tomatoes.

  • Beetroot and chickpea salad

    • e_ballad on May 01, 2019

      This recipe serves 16, with difficulty adapting to a smaller quantity due to the components of the dressing. Overall, we found this salad to be too sweet, resulting from the aforementioned dressing. There are much tastier beetroot salad recipes available.

  • Chicken and barley soup

    • Melanie on March 25, 2016

      Made using homemade stock. Also started by browning chicken thighs in the pan before cooking through as part of the soup. Tasty enough and healthy.

    • e_ballad on March 08, 2021

      This is wholly dependent on the quality of the stock. I didn’t use the suggested recipe from the book. Very hearty.

  • Kugelhopf

    • debkellie on July 12, 2013

      Really easy and delicious. The chocolate layer ends up being a bit "heavy" in texture, and would maybe benefit from lightening up with a couple of additional egg whites so the texture matches across the cake.. but the contrast in textures is OK.

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  • ISBN 10 073229780X
  • ISBN 13 9780732297800
  • Published Mar 01 2013
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 272
  • Language English
  • Countries Australia
  • Publisher Harper Collins Australia
  • Imprint HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Publishers Text

In 2006, a group of Jewish women began meeting every Monday morning. They cooked, ate, drank endless cups of tea and - often heatedly - discussed the merits of different recipes. After just a few weekly meetings, the Monday Morning Cooking Club was born. Five years and hundreds of dishes later, six members of the sisterhood handpicked their favourite recipes to go into their book - the result is a generous, rich and inspiring cookbook featuring the best, most treasured recipes from a culturally diverse community. Each recipe begins with a short story of the cook and their history of the dish, and these stories, interwoven with amazing recipes, take the reader on a heartwarming and delicious journey through a community who finds a deep connection through food and the memory of generations that have gone before.