I don’t know about you, but our bookshelf is overflowing with cookbooks (ok to be fair it’s primarily overflowing with Records).
Anyway, there’s a certain amount of guilt involved when I buy a new cookbook because I know there’s books and books with uncooked recipes at home. I’ve read all my cookbooks but I could probably cook for the rest of my life with the recipes I have sitting on the shelves.
I want to try out the recipes, but when we have guests I most of the time prefer to cook something I’ve done before because I’m more relaxed and this means I actually spend more time with our guests. Working close to 100% I don’t just cook something new on a Wednesday, foremost because my cookbooks are at home ( most of them ) and I am in the office.
This is why myself and few girlfriends started Monday Classes. Once a month we meet to cook from our cookbooks. We try new recipes and techniques, we drink and chat and sometimes we even knit.
Here I will share impressions and let you know which recipes and books are worth buying and trying.
We started in January with the Ottolenghi. This was on the menu:
Bittersweet salad (Plenty page 162) and green pancakes with lime butter (Plenty page 150). For dessert we had an apple crumble.
The salad looks lovely and tastes nice and bitter. The rose water gives it a nice unexpected twist.
The green pancakes are proper comfort food perfect for a weekday dinner or a light summer dinner eaten on the balcony after a long and sunny day. The lime butter that goes with is is delicious and I will use it for other dishes as well. It’s actually worth having a pot stored in the refrigerator…
I don’t know about you, but our bookshelf is overflowing with cookbooks (ok to be fair it’s primarily overflowing with Records).
Anyway, there’s a certain amount of guilt involved when I buy a new cookbook because I know there’s books and books with uncooked recipes at home. I’ve read all my cookbooks but I could probably cook for the rest of my life with the recipes I have sitting on the shelves.
I want to try out the recipes, but when we have guests I most of the time prefer to cook something I’ve done before because I’m more relaxed and this means I actually spend more time with our guests. Working close to 100% I don’t just cook something new on a Wednesday, foremost because my cookbooks are at home ( most of them ) and I am in the office.
This is why myself and few girlfriends started Monday Classes. Once a month we meet to cook from our cookbooks. We try new recipes and techniques, we drink and chat and sometimes we even knit.
Here I will share impressions and let you know which recipes and books are worth buying and trying.
We started in January with the Ottolenghi. This was on the menu:
Bittersweet salad (Plenty page 162) and green pancakes with lime butter (Plenty page 150). For dessert we had an apple crumble.
The salad looks lovely and tastes nice and bitter. The rose water gives it a nice unexpected twist.
The green pancakes are proper comfort food perfect for a weekday dinner or a light summer dinner eaten on the balcony after a long and sunny day. The lime butter that goes with is is delicious and I will use it for other dishes as well. It’s actually worth having a pot stored in the refrigerator…
A very good looking light dinner .