Eurydice's Bookshelf
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Halve the fish sauce or it's very salty. Nice with celery in place of bamboo shoots too.
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Simple, healthy, one of my favourite ways to cook a steak
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Have never found this book any help.
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A lot of these recipes are based on European or Asian traditional dishes but with a zany Australian twist, sometimes using "bush tucker" ingredients. Ian Parmenter took advice from the National Heart Foundation of Australia so the recipes are healthy as well as tasty. The recipe names are very whimsical which can be annoying. I prefer "Consuming passions ; the complete collection" which covers the first 3 series of the TV show and includes many of the recipes in this book.
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This book may look unprepossessing, and no dishes are illustrated. However one of the authors is the owner of Café di Stasio, a very popular Italian restaurant in Melbourne. The recipes are simple and great. I use it over and over while other books about pasta languish on the shelf. It came in a boxed set with a CD of opera arias. Most of the recipes are linked to regions of Italy as well as to opera in various ways.
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An Australian cookery bible of its time, this book preserves all the old traditional favourite recipes from the days when asparagus and pineapple usually came out of tins, and "cheese" usually meant Cheddar. Simultaneously it's a time capsule of the late 1960's, from the fondues and Hawaiian themed parties to the wide range of intricate canapés. A whole chapter given just to Pavlovas - of course!
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Healthy eating can be fun! Some great quick and easy meals here.
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Great variety of meals from some of my favourite cuisines. Beautifully presented with lots of illustrations of dishes and processes. Several favourite recipes in here too. Hope it gets indexed soon!
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This was surprisingly quick and easy, and I'll never need to grumble again how the premade pastes seem to be mostly salt and/or sugar. I used only a small fraction of the chilli and paprika suggested, so as to let the other beautifully fragrant Thai flavours come into their own. I substituted ginger for the galangal, but there's no real flavour substitute for kaffir - though I used leaves, not rind.
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So delicious if you use the red curry paste recipe from the same book.
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The best tomato sauce for pizza
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Pretty good. I prefer the crusts left on though.
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Quite tasty, and less than half the suggested cayenne pepper was plenty.
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I prefer the yogurt and the tomato to be in two separate side dishes for curry
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Sorry Jamie. This is forgettable!
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One of the recipes I turn to most often when I haven't planned anything. Easy and adaptable.
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Easy, quick, quite nice, fairly bland and I recommend going easy on the dried tarragon and thyme or it's a bit bitter.
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My favourite banana bread so far. Maybe it's the rum and sultanas :)
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Possibly the best gingerbread recipe? When I made it I had no golden syrup so left it out, but I don't think it mattered. The lemon icing is great with it too..
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Great comfort food. next time add some dried mushroom
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If an Australian kitchen could have only one book, this would be my vote for it.
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Good recipe if you have chicken and pumpkin to use
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Jamie and lamb do it well again
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I think Jamie is especially good at lamb - the best leg roasts and shank recipes I've tried
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Borlotti beans to me